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Yeah, its been a long time. No, I haven't really read LJ in a number of weeks and I really can't now either. Yes, I'm writing solely because its the last day of 2007 and I have a record-geek duty to throw out my obligatory list. No, there are no descriptions this year because I couldn't find time to write them, but I'll be happy to converse on any selection. Yes, I bought a lot of albums this year.
And yes, I have made my 2007 mix which contains all of my top 10 (or reasonable facsmilies thereof) and a not indecent amount of other artists you'll find on my mega-list. Yes, I have a couple of spare copies so provided you are not xantha or the family of gatheringmoss who are already signed up I will consider chucking one your way provided you've commented to my journal within the past year (ha!).
Okay, my top 10 of 2007, which are largely reissues because (a) there were so many great reissues this year and (b) I'm almost 32 which means I guess I'm starting to become the fabled crotchedy old man that I swore I'd never be:
Baby Grandmothers - Baby Grandmothers (Subliminal Sounds)
Boredoms - Super Roots 7 (Vice)
Vashti Bunyan - Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind (Dicristina)
Colleen - Les Ondes Silencieuses (Leaf)
Toshi Ichiyanagi - Obscure Tape Music Of Japan Vol. 5: Music For Tinguely (Omega Point)
Kemialliset Ystavat - Kemialliset Ystavat (Fonal)
Maher Shalal Hash Baz - L'Autre Cap (K)
Sun Ra - The Night Of The Purple Moon (Atavistic)
V/A - Eccentric Soul: The Outskirts Of Deep City (Numero)
V/A - Keeping The Faith: 40 Years Of Northern Soul (Castle)
And that came from the following list of music I acquired this year. * indicates 2007 issue, ** indicates 2007 reissue/old.
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO - Myth Of The Love Electrique (Riot Season CD)
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO - Nam Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo (Ace Fu CD)*
Tony Allen - Afro Disco Beat (Vampi Soul 2xCD)**
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume 2 (Sire 2xCD)
Astral Social Club - Astral Social Club (VHF CD)
Kevin Ayers - BBC Sessions (Hux 2xCD)
Baby Grandmothers - Baby Grandmothers (Subliminal Sounds CD)**
Gato Barbieri - Live At Lincoln Center (Boston Jazz 2xLP)
Black Lips - Los Valientes Del Mundo Nuevo (Vice CD)*
Boredoms - Super Roots 3 (Vice CD)**
Boredoms - Super Roots 5 (Vice CD)**
Boredoms - Super Roots 6 (Vice CD)**
Boredoms - Super Roots 7 (Vice CD)**
Boredoms - Super Roots 8 (Vice CD)**
Boredoms - Super Roots 9 (Avex CD)*
Boris - Flood (Midi Creative Control CD)
Boris - Pink (Southern Lord CD)
Boris With Michio Kurihara - Rainbow (Drag City CD)*
Boris & Merzbow - Rock Dream (Southern Lord 2xCD)*
Broadcast - Haha Sound (Warp CD)
Sandy Bull - Vanguard Visionaries (Vanguard CD)**
Bunalim - Bunalim (Shadoks CD)**
Vashti Bunyan - Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind (Dicristina 2xCD)**
Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love (EMI Manhattan CD)
Christina Carter - Electrice (Kranky CD)
Charalambides - Likeness (Kranky CD)*
Euros Childs - Bore Da (Wichita CD)*
Euros Childs - Miracle Inn (Wichita CD)*
Cloudland Canyon - Silver Tongued Sisyphus (Kranky CD)*
Cluster - Zuckerzeit (Universal CD)
Philip Cohran - The Malcolm X Memorial (A Tribute In Music) (Katalyst CD)**
Colleen - Everyone Alive Wants Answers (Leaf CD)
Colleen - Les Ondes Silencieuses (Leaf CD)*
Tony Conrad - Joan Of Arc (Table Of The Elements CD)
Cornelius - Point (Matador CD)
Cornelius - Sensuous (Everloving CD)**
Karen Dalton - It's So Hard To Know Who's Gonna Love You The Best (Koch CD)
Betty Davis - Betty Davis (Light In The Attic CD)**
Betty Davis - They Say I\222m Different (Light In The Attic CD)**
Miles Davis - ESP (Columbia CD)
Miles Davis - Miles Smiles (Columbia CD)
Miles Davis - Nefertiti (Columbia CD)
Miles Davis - Sorcerer (Columbia CD)
Miles Davis - Live/Evil (Columbia 2xCD)
Miles Davis - In Concert: Live At The Philharmonic Hall (Columbia 2xCD)
Miles Davis - Dark Magus: Live At Carnegie Hall (Columbia 2xCD)
Dead Can Dance - Aion (4AD CD)
Dinosaur Jr - Without A Sound (Sire CD)
Dinosaur Jr - Ear Bleeding Country: The Best Of Dinosaur Jr (Warner Archives CD)
Double Leopards - A Hole Is True (Troubleman Unlimited CD)
Ekkehard Ehlers - Plays (Staubgold CD)
Brian Eno/John Cale - Wrong Way Up (Opal CD)
Eugenius - Oomalama (Atlantic CD)
Expo '70 - Animism (Kill Shaman CD)*
John Fahey - Legend Of Blind Joe Death (Takoma CD)
John Fahey - Death Chants, Breakdowns & Military Waltzes (Takoma CD)
John Fahey - Requia (Vanguard CD)
John Fahey - Volume 6: Days Have Gone By (Takoma CD)
John Fahey - Sea Changes & Coelacanths: A Young Person\222s Guide To John Fahey (Table Of The Elements 2xCD)
Jad & Nao - Half Alien (Sakura CD)
Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking (Hannibal CD)
Fennesz - Hotel Parallel (Editions Mego CD)**
Fennesz - Endless Summer (Editions Mego CD)**
Fennesz - Venice (Touch CD)
Focus Group - Hey, Let Loose Your Love (Ghost Box CD)
Fursaxa - Alone In The Deep Wood (Eclipse LP)*
Ghost - In Stormy Nights (Drag City CD)*
Ghost - Overture (Drag City CD/DVD)*
Davy Graham - Folk, Blues & Beyond (Fledg\222ling CD)
Larkin Grimm - The Last Tree (Secret Eye CD)
Harmonia - Live 1974 (Water CD)**
Hijiri-Kai Ensemble - Urban Music Of The Edo Period (Ocora CD)
Hubcap City (From Belgium) - Superlocalhellfreakride (Xeric CD)*
Husker Du - New Day Rising (SST CD)
Husker Du - Warehouse: Songs & Stories (Warner Bros CD)
Toshi Ichiyanagi - Opera Inspired By The Works Of Tadanori Yoko\222o (Bridge 4xCD)**
Akira Inaba - Usuakaku (Disco Mote LP)
Incredible String Band - Here Till Here Is There: An Introduction To The
Incredible String Band (Ryko CD)
Bert Jansch - Legend (Union Square CD)
Bert Jansch - The Black Swan (Drag City CD)
Jesu - Conqueror (Hydra Head CD)*
Jesu - Lifeline (Hydra Head CD)*
Oum Kalthoum - Diva Of Arab Music (Dejavu 2xCD)
Kawabata Makoto - Inui 4 (VHF CD)*
Kemialliset Ystavat - Kemialliset Ystavat (Fonal CD)*
Ali Akbar Khan & L Subramaniam - Duet (Ravi Shankar Music Circle CD)
Kuwabara Yukiko - Kuwabara Yukiko To Anata (Tiliqua CD)**
Richard Lerman - Music Of Richard Lerman 1964-1987 (EM 2xCD)**
Annea Lockwood - Early Works 1967-1982 (EM CD)**
Machinefabriek - Weleer (Lampse 2xCD)**
Machito - Ritmo Caliente (Proper 4xCD)
Maher Shalal Hash Baz - L'Autre Cap (K CD)*
Marginal Consort - Marginal Consort (Improvised Music From Japan 4xCD)*
John McLaughlin - Shakti With John McLaughlin (Columbia/Legacy CD)
Barton & Priscilla McLean - Electronic Landscapes (EM CD)
Shawn & David McMillen - Catfish (Tompkins Square CD)
Melvins - A Senile Animal (Ipecac CD)
Mouse On Mars - Radical Connector (Thrill Jockey CD)
Nina Nastasia - On Leaving (Fat Cat CD)
Joanna Newsom - Joanna Newsom & The Ys Street Band (Drag City CD)*
Matsuo Ono/Takehisa Kosugi - Roots Of Electronic Sound (Creel Pone CD-R)
John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins (Ryko CD)
Yoko Ono - Onobox (Ryko 6xCD)
Ov - Noctilucent Valleys (Soft Abuse CD)*
Oval - Process (Thrill Jockey CD)
Charlemagne Palestine & Tony Conrad - An Aural Symbiotic Mystery (Sub Rosa CD)
Panda Bear - Person Pitch (Paw Tracks CD)*
Gregorio Paniagua - Musique De La Grece Antique (Harmonia Mundi CD)
Charlie Parker - Boss Bird (Proper 4xCD)
Edith Piaf - Love & Passion (Proper 4xCD)
Choir Of Monks Of The Abbey Of St Pierre De Solesmes - Gregorian Chant: Noel (Peters LP)
Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (EMI 3xCD)**
Pizzicato Five - Made In USA (Matador CD)
Pizzicato Five - The Sound Of Music (Matador CD)
Pwdre Ser - Fulgurite (Self-Released CD)
Pwdre Ser/Midwich - The Black Lighthouse (Self-Released CD)*
Pwdre Ser - Grand Idyll (Self-Released CD)*
Eliane Radigue - CHRY-PTUS (Schoolmap 2xCD)**
Terry Riley - Music For The Gift (Elysian Fields CD)**
Terry Riley - Reed Streams (Elysian Fields CD)**
Terry Riley - Olsson III (Organ Of Corti CD)
Terry Riley - Poppy Nogood & The Phantom Band (Elysian Fields CD)**
Terry Riley - Persian Surgery Dervishes (New Tone 2xCD)
Dilip Roy - Namaskaar (Cloud Forest CD)**
Judee Sill - Judee Sill (Water CD)
Silmaril - The Voyage Of Icarus (Locust CD)**
Siloah - Siloah (Garden Of Delights CD)
Paul Simon - There Goes Rhymin' Simon (Columbia LP)
Six Organs Of Admittance - Shelter From The Ash (Drag City CD)*
Bessie Smith - The Essential Bessie Smith (Columbia/Legacy 2xCD)
Soft Machine - Middle Earth Masters (Cuneiform CD)
Sonic Youth - The Destroyed Room (DGC CD)
Sun Ra - Holiday For Soul Dance (Evidence CD)
Sun Ra - Monorails & Satellites (Evidence CD)
Sun Ra - Strange Strings (Atavistic CD)**
Sun Ra - Night Of The Purple Moon (Atavistic CD)**
Sun Ra - Disco 3000 (Art Yard 2xCD)**
Sunburned Hand Of The Man - No Magic Man (Bastet CD)
Sunburned - Z (Ecstatic Peace! CD)*
Toru Takemitsu - Reigakusha: In An Autumn Garden (Sony Japan CD)
Toru Takemitsu - Film Music By Toru Takemitsu (Victor 7xCD)
Tangerine Dream - Ricochet (Virgin LP)
Technical Space Composer' Crew - Canaxis (Revisited CD)**
Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque (DGC CD)
Tenniscoats - Totemo Aimasho (Room 40 CD)*
Tenniscoats - Tan-Tan Therapy (Hapna CD)*
Trees Community - The Christ Tree (Dark Holler 4xCD)**
Bobb Trimble - Harvest Of Dreams (Secretly Canadian CD)**
Ernest Tubb - The Texas Troubadour (Proper 4xCD)
Turid - I Retur (Silence CD)
Urge Overkill - Americruiser/Jesus Urge Superstar (Touch & Go CD)
Ventures - Live In Japan 1965 (EMI CD)
Vibracathedral Orchestra - Wisdom Thunderbolt (VHF CD)*
Stephen Vitiello - Bright & Dusty Things (New Albion CD)
Scott Walker - The Drift (4AD CD)
Wooden Shjips - Wooden Shjips (Holy Mountain 2xCD)*
Robert Wyatt - Comicopera (Domino CD)*
Neil Young - Live At Massey Hall 1971 (Reprise CD)**
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Ragged Glory (Reprise CD)
Edward M Zadja - Zadja (Creel Pone CD-R)
Sarolta Zalatnay - Sarolta Zalatnay (Finders Keepers CD)**
S/T - Valerie & Her Week Of Wonders (Finders Keepers CD)**
V/A - Add To Friends (Room 40 CD)*
V/A - La Belle Epoque: EMI's French Girls 1965-1968 (EMI CD)**
V/A - Berkeley Guitar (Tompkins Square CD)
V/A - Black Mirror: Reflections Of Global Musics (Dust-To-Digital CD)**
V/A - Cambodian Rocks 3 (Khmer Rocks CD)
V/A - Music Of China (Dejavu 2xCD)
V/A - Congotronics 2: Buzz 'N Rumble In The Urb\'n Jungle (Crammed CD/DVD)
V/A - Femmes De Paris (Anthology(s CD)
V/A - Florida Funk: Funk 45s From The Alligator State (Jazzman CD)**
V/A - Galactic Zoo Dossier #7 (Zine 2xCD)*
V/A - Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones: Experimental Musical Instruments (Ellipsis Arts CD)
V/A - The Great Koonaklaster Speaks: A John Fahey Celebration (Table Of The Elements CD)*
V/A - I Belong To This Band: 85 Years Of Sacred Harp Singing (Dust-To-Digital CD)
V/A - Traditional Sound Of Japan: Etenraku In 3 Different Modes (Columbia CD)
V/A - Library Of Congress Archive Of Folk Culture: Sacred Harp Singing (Rounder CD)
V/A - Library Of Congress Endangered Music Project: The Discoteca Collection (Ryko CD)
V/A - La Musica Della Mafia: Il Canto Di Malavita (PIAS CD)
V/A - Melodii Tuvi (Dust-To-Digital CD)**
V/A - Musical Memories (Nationaal Museum Van Speelklok Tot Pierement CD)
V/A - Old Playfellows (Cherry Red LP)
V/A - Once Upon A Time In Wigan (Barely Breaking Even CD)
V/A - Oz Days (No Label 2xCD)**
V/A - Persian Electronic Music 1966-2006 (Sub Rosa 2xCD)**
V/A - Ptolemaic Terrascope #36 (Zine CD)**
V/A - Squares Blot Out The Sun (DB CD)
V/A - Super Cool California Soul 2 (Luv 'N Haight CD)**
V/A - Sutro\222s San Francisco 1954 (Musee Mecanique CD)
V/A - Texas Funk: Black Gold From The Lone Star State 1969-1975 (Jazzman CD)
V/A - Texas Music Volume 3: Garage Bands & Psychedelia (Rhino CD)
V/A - Wire Tapper 18 (Zine CD)**
V/A - Planet Squeezebox (Ellipsis Arts 3xCD)
V/A - The Art Of Field Recording Volume 1 (Dust-To-Digital 4xCD)**
V/A - Bebop Spoken Here (Proper 4xCD)
V/A - Bosavi: Rainforest Music From Papua New Guinea (Smithsonian Folkways 3xCD)
V/A - Doughboys, Playboys & Cowboys: The Golden Years Of Western Swing (Proper 4xCD)
V/A - Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers: More From The Golden Years Of Western Swing (Proper 4xCD)
V/A - Ethiopiques Volume 14: Getatchew Mekurya (Buda Musique CD)
V/A - Music Of Indonesia Volume 15: South Sulawesi Strings (Smithsonian Folkways CD)
V/A - Keeping The Faith: 40 Years Of Northern Soul (Castle 4xCD)**
V/A - Kabuki: A Quick Clue (King 2xCD)
V/A - Kuromisu: Kabuki\222s Offstage Music (King 3xCD)*
V/A - Shomyo: Shingonshu (King CD)
V/A - Nogaku: Japanese Traditional Music (King CD)
V/A - Shakuhachi: Japanese Traditional Music (King CD)
V/A - Percussion: Japanese Traditional Music (King CD)
V/A - Bali: Gamelan Semar Pegulingan: Gamelan Of The Love God (Nonesuch CD)
V/A - Bali: Golden Rain (Nonesuch CD)
V/A - South Pacific: Island Music (Nonesuch CD)
V/A - Tahiti: The Gaugin Years: Songs & Dances (Nonesuch CD)
V/A - Love Is The Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 (Rhino 4xCD)**
Catherine Howe - What A Beautiful Place (Numero CD)**
V/A - Eccentric Soul: Twinight\222s Lunar Rotation (Numero 2xCD)**
V/A - Cult Cargo: Grand Bahama Goombay (Numero CD)**
V/A - Eccentric Soul: The Prix Label (Numero CD)**
V/A - Home Schooled: The ABCs Of Kid Soul (Numero CD)**
V/A - Eccentric Soul: The Outskirts Of Deep City (Numero CD)**
V/A - Obscure Tape Music Of Japan Volume 1: Joji Yuasa - Aoi No Ue (Omega Point CD)
V/A - Obscure Tape Music Of Japan Volume 2: Joji Yuasa & Kuniharu Akiyama - Music For Puppet Theatre Of Hitomi-Za (Omega Point CD)
V/A - Obscure Tape Music Of Japan Volume 3: Makoto Moroi & Koubou Abe - Music Drama "Akai Mayu" (A Red Cocoon) (Omega Point CD)
V/A - Obscure Tape Music Of Japan Volume 4: Joji Yuasa - Music For Theatrical Drama (Omega Point CD)
V/A - Obscure Tape Music Of Japan Volume 5: Toshi Ichiyanagi - Music For Tinguely (Omega Point CD)**
V/A - Obscure Tape Music Of Japan Volume 6: Kuniharu Akiyama - Music Of Kuniharu Akiyama I (Omega Point 2xCD)**
V/A - People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-1938 (Tompkins Square 3xCD)**
V/A - Pregnant Rainbows For Colourblind Dreamers: The Essence Of Swedish Progressive Music 1969-1975 (Premium 4xCD)**
V/A - Rembetika: Greek Music From The Underground (JSP 4xCD)
Omar Souleyman - Highway To Hassake: Folk & Pop Music Of Syria (Sublime Frequencies CD)**
Group Doueh - Guitar Music Of The Western Sahara (Sublime Frequencies LP)**
V/A - Thai Pop Spectacular (Sublime Frequencies CD)**
V/A - Molam: Thai Country Groove From Isan Volume 2 (Sublime Frequencies CD)**
V/A - Music Of Nat Pwe: Folk & Pop Sounds Of Myanmar Volume 3 (Sublime Frequencies CD)**
V/A - Ethnic Minority Music Of Southern Laos (Sublime Frequencies CD)**
V/A - Ethnic Minority Music Of North Vietnam (Sublime Frequencies CD)**
Group Inerane - Guitars From Agadez (Music Of Niger) (Sublime Frequencies LP)**
V/A - Latinamericarpet: Exploring The Vinyl Warp Of Latin American Psychedelia (Sublime Frequencies CD)**
V/A - Proibidao CV (Sublime Frequencies CD)**
V/A - Worldbeaters (Krazy World CD)
V/A - Worldbeaters Volume 2 (Krazy World CD)
V/A - Worldbeaters Volume 3 (Krazy World CD)
Pekos/Yoro Diallo - Pekos/Yoro Diallo (Yaala Yaala CD)**
Bougouni Yaalali - Bougouni Yaalali (Yaala Yaala CD)**
Daouda Dembele - Daouda Dembele (Yaala Yaala CD)**
Whew. And just to show you that my ridiculous mix title plays on Thomas Friedman's premise that the world is flat, here's a listing of the places where I acquired such albums just for the heck of it:
Amazon Mailorder
Ameoba Music (San Francisco, CA, USA)
Amoeba Music (Berkeley, CA, USA)
Aquarius Records (San Francisco, CA, USA)
Aquarius Records Mailorder
Borders (Atlanta, GA, USA)
CD Universe Mailorder
CD Warehouse (Stockbridge, GA, USA)
CD World (Dallas, TX, USA)
Criminal Records (Atlanta, GA, USA)
Dark Holler Mailorder
Dust-To-Digital Mailorder
Eclipse Records Mailorder
Ella Guru (Decatur, GA, USA)
Ernest Tubb\222s Record Shop (Nashville, TN, USA)
Forced Exposure Mailorder
Forever Young Records (Grand Prairie, TX, USA)
Fusetron Mailorder
Georgia Music Hall Of Fame (Macon, GA, USA)
Good Records (Dallas, TX, USA)
Half Price Books (Duncanville, TX, USA)
Juno Mailorder
Mimaroglu Music Mailorder
Mondo Kim's (New York, NY, USA)
Musee Mecanique (San Francisco, CA, USA)
Nationaal Museum Van Speelklok Tot Pierement (Utrecht, THE NETHERLANDS)
Other Music Mailorder
Salvation Army (Riverdale, GA, USA)
Tower Records (Shinjuku, Tokyo, JAPAN)
Tower Records (Yokohama, JAPAN)
Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN, USA)
Wax N Facts (Atlanta, GA, USA)
Whitney Museum (New York, NY, USA)
Wuxtry (Decatur, GA, USA)
Yamano Music (Ginza, Tokyo, JAPAN)
No, we haven't seen Baby-chan #2 yet although we will within the next 2 weeks (gasp). Yes, all are doing well. Yes, I have new years resolutions. No, I won't post them now. Yes, I know you're relieved.
Happy 2008 in advance - at long last, the year we've been waiting for!
And yes, I have made my 2007 mix which contains all of my top 10 (or reasonable facsmilies thereof) and a not indecent amount of other artists you'll find on my mega-list. Yes, I have a couple of spare copies so provided you are not xantha or the family of gatheringmoss who are already signed up I will consider chucking one your way provided you've commented to my journal within the past year (ha!).
Okay, my top 10 of 2007, which are largely reissues because (a) there were so many great reissues this year and (b) I'm almost 32 which means I guess I'm starting to become the fabled crotchedy old man that I swore I'd never be:
Baby Grandmothers - Baby Grandmothers (Subliminal Sounds)
Boredoms - Super Roots 7 (Vice)
Vashti Bunyan - Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind (Dicristina)
Colleen - Les Ondes Silencieuses (Leaf)
Toshi Ichiyanagi - Obscure Tape Music Of Japan Vol. 5: Music For Tinguely (Omega Point)
Kemialliset Ystavat - Kemialliset Ystavat (Fonal)
Maher Shalal Hash Baz - L'Autre Cap (K)
Sun Ra - The Night Of The Purple Moon (Atavistic)
V/A - Eccentric Soul: The Outskirts Of Deep City (Numero)
V/A - Keeping The Faith: 40 Years Of Northern Soul (Castle)
And that came from the following list of music I acquired this year. * indicates 2007 issue, ** indicates 2007 reissue/old.
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO - Myth Of The Love Electrique (Riot Season CD)
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO - Nam Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo (Ace Fu CD)*
Tony Allen - Afro Disco Beat (Vampi Soul 2xCD)**
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume 2 (Sire 2xCD)
Astral Social Club - Astral Social Club (VHF CD)
Kevin Ayers - BBC Sessions (Hux 2xCD)
Baby Grandmothers - Baby Grandmothers (Subliminal Sounds CD)**
Gato Barbieri - Live At Lincoln Center (Boston Jazz 2xLP)
Black Lips - Los Valientes Del Mundo Nuevo (Vice CD)*
Boredoms - Super Roots 3 (Vice CD)**
Boredoms - Super Roots 5 (Vice CD)**
Boredoms - Super Roots 6 (Vice CD)**
Boredoms - Super Roots 7 (Vice CD)**
Boredoms - Super Roots 8 (Vice CD)**
Boredoms - Super Roots 9 (Avex CD)*
Boris - Flood (Midi Creative Control CD)
Boris - Pink (Southern Lord CD)
Boris With Michio Kurihara - Rainbow (Drag City CD)*
Boris & Merzbow - Rock Dream (Southern Lord 2xCD)*
Broadcast - Haha Sound (Warp CD)
Sandy Bull - Vanguard Visionaries (Vanguard CD)**
Bunalim - Bunalim (Shadoks CD)**
Vashti Bunyan - Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind (Dicristina 2xCD)**
Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love (EMI Manhattan CD)
Christina Carter - Electrice (Kranky CD)
Charalambides - Likeness (Kranky CD)*
Euros Childs - Bore Da (Wichita CD)*
Euros Childs - Miracle Inn (Wichita CD)*
Cloudland Canyon - Silver Tongued Sisyphus (Kranky CD)*
Cluster - Zuckerzeit (Universal CD)
Philip Cohran - The Malcolm X Memorial (A Tribute In Music) (Katalyst CD)**
Colleen - Everyone Alive Wants Answers (Leaf CD)
Colleen - Les Ondes Silencieuses (Leaf CD)*
Tony Conrad - Joan Of Arc (Table Of The Elements CD)
Cornelius - Point (Matador CD)
Cornelius - Sensuous (Everloving CD)**
Karen Dalton - It's So Hard To Know Who's Gonna Love You The Best (Koch CD)
Betty Davis - Betty Davis (Light In The Attic CD)**
Betty Davis - They Say I\222m Different (Light In The Attic CD)**
Miles Davis - ESP (Columbia CD)
Miles Davis - Miles Smiles (Columbia CD)
Miles Davis - Nefertiti (Columbia CD)
Miles Davis - Sorcerer (Columbia CD)
Miles Davis - Live/Evil (Columbia 2xCD)
Miles Davis - In Concert: Live At The Philharmonic Hall (Columbia 2xCD)
Miles Davis - Dark Magus: Live At Carnegie Hall (Columbia 2xCD)
Dead Can Dance - Aion (4AD CD)
Dinosaur Jr - Without A Sound (Sire CD)
Dinosaur Jr - Ear Bleeding Country: The Best Of Dinosaur Jr (Warner Archives CD)
Double Leopards - A Hole Is True (Troubleman Unlimited CD)
Ekkehard Ehlers - Plays (Staubgold CD)
Brian Eno/John Cale - Wrong Way Up (Opal CD)
Eugenius - Oomalama (Atlantic CD)
Expo '70 - Animism (Kill Shaman CD)*
John Fahey - Legend Of Blind Joe Death (Takoma CD)
John Fahey - Death Chants, Breakdowns & Military Waltzes (Takoma CD)
John Fahey - Requia (Vanguard CD)
John Fahey - Volume 6: Days Have Gone By (Takoma CD)
John Fahey - Sea Changes & Coelacanths: A Young Person\222s Guide To John Fahey (Table Of The Elements 2xCD)
Jad & Nao - Half Alien (Sakura CD)
Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking (Hannibal CD)
Fennesz - Hotel Parallel (Editions Mego CD)**
Fennesz - Endless Summer (Editions Mego CD)**
Fennesz - Venice (Touch CD)
Focus Group - Hey, Let Loose Your Love (Ghost Box CD)
Fursaxa - Alone In The Deep Wood (Eclipse LP)*
Ghost - In Stormy Nights (Drag City CD)*
Ghost - Overture (Drag City CD/DVD)*
Davy Graham - Folk, Blues & Beyond (Fledg\222ling CD)
Larkin Grimm - The Last Tree (Secret Eye CD)
Harmonia - Live 1974 (Water CD)**
Hijiri-Kai Ensemble - Urban Music Of The Edo Period (Ocora CD)
Hubcap City (From Belgium) - Superlocalhellfreakride (Xeric CD)*
Husker Du - New Day Rising (SST CD)
Husker Du - Warehouse: Songs & Stories (Warner Bros CD)
Toshi Ichiyanagi - Opera Inspired By The Works Of Tadanori Yoko\222o (Bridge 4xCD)**
Akira Inaba - Usuakaku (Disco Mote LP)
Incredible String Band - Here Till Here Is There: An Introduction To The
Incredible String Band (Ryko CD)
Bert Jansch - Legend (Union Square CD)
Bert Jansch - The Black Swan (Drag City CD)
Jesu - Conqueror (Hydra Head CD)*
Jesu - Lifeline (Hydra Head CD)*
Oum Kalthoum - Diva Of Arab Music (Dejavu 2xCD)
Kawabata Makoto - Inui 4 (VHF CD)*
Kemialliset Ystavat - Kemialliset Ystavat (Fonal CD)*
Ali Akbar Khan & L Subramaniam - Duet (Ravi Shankar Music Circle CD)
Kuwabara Yukiko - Kuwabara Yukiko To Anata (Tiliqua CD)**
Richard Lerman - Music Of Richard Lerman 1964-1987 (EM 2xCD)**
Annea Lockwood - Early Works 1967-1982 (EM CD)**
Machinefabriek - Weleer (Lampse 2xCD)**
Machito - Ritmo Caliente (Proper 4xCD)
Maher Shalal Hash Baz - L'Autre Cap (K CD)*
Marginal Consort - Marginal Consort (Improvised Music From Japan 4xCD)*
John McLaughlin - Shakti With John McLaughlin (Columbia/Legacy CD)
Barton & Priscilla McLean - Electronic Landscapes (EM CD)
Shawn & David McMillen - Catfish (Tompkins Square CD)
Melvins - A Senile Animal (Ipecac CD)
Mouse On Mars - Radical Connector (Thrill Jockey CD)
Nina Nastasia - On Leaving (Fat Cat CD)
Joanna Newsom - Joanna Newsom & The Ys Street Band (Drag City CD)*
Matsuo Ono/Takehisa Kosugi - Roots Of Electronic Sound (Creel Pone CD-R)
John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins (Ryko CD)
Yoko Ono - Onobox (Ryko 6xCD)
Ov - Noctilucent Valleys (Soft Abuse CD)*
Oval - Process (Thrill Jockey CD)
Charlemagne Palestine & Tony Conrad - An Aural Symbiotic Mystery (Sub Rosa CD)
Panda Bear - Person Pitch (Paw Tracks CD)*
Gregorio Paniagua - Musique De La Grece Antique (Harmonia Mundi CD)
Charlie Parker - Boss Bird (Proper 4xCD)
Edith Piaf - Love & Passion (Proper 4xCD)
Choir Of Monks Of The Abbey Of St Pierre De Solesmes - Gregorian Chant: Noel (Peters LP)
Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (EMI 3xCD)**
Pizzicato Five - Made In USA (Matador CD)
Pizzicato Five - The Sound Of Music (Matador CD)
Pwdre Ser - Fulgurite (Self-Released CD)
Pwdre Ser/Midwich - The Black Lighthouse (Self-Released CD)*
Pwdre Ser - Grand Idyll (Self-Released CD)*
Eliane Radigue - CHRY-PTUS (Schoolmap 2xCD)**
Terry Riley - Music For The Gift (Elysian Fields CD)**
Terry Riley - Reed Streams (Elysian Fields CD)**
Terry Riley - Olsson III (Organ Of Corti CD)
Terry Riley - Poppy Nogood & The Phantom Band (Elysian Fields CD)**
Terry Riley - Persian Surgery Dervishes (New Tone 2xCD)
Dilip Roy - Namaskaar (Cloud Forest CD)**
Judee Sill - Judee Sill (Water CD)
Silmaril - The Voyage Of Icarus (Locust CD)**
Siloah - Siloah (Garden Of Delights CD)
Paul Simon - There Goes Rhymin' Simon (Columbia LP)
Six Organs Of Admittance - Shelter From The Ash (Drag City CD)*
Bessie Smith - The Essential Bessie Smith (Columbia/Legacy 2xCD)
Soft Machine - Middle Earth Masters (Cuneiform CD)
Sonic Youth - The Destroyed Room (DGC CD)
Sun Ra - Holiday For Soul Dance (Evidence CD)
Sun Ra - Monorails & Satellites (Evidence CD)
Sun Ra - Strange Strings (Atavistic CD)**
Sun Ra - Night Of The Purple Moon (Atavistic CD)**
Sun Ra - Disco 3000 (Art Yard 2xCD)**
Sunburned Hand Of The Man - No Magic Man (Bastet CD)
Sunburned - Z (Ecstatic Peace! CD)*
Toru Takemitsu - Reigakusha: In An Autumn Garden (Sony Japan CD)
Toru Takemitsu - Film Music By Toru Takemitsu (Victor 7xCD)
Tangerine Dream - Ricochet (Virgin LP)
Technical Space Composer' Crew - Canaxis (Revisited CD)**
Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque (DGC CD)
Tenniscoats - Totemo Aimasho (Room 40 CD)*
Tenniscoats - Tan-Tan Therapy (Hapna CD)*
Trees Community - The Christ Tree (Dark Holler 4xCD)**
Bobb Trimble - Harvest Of Dreams (Secretly Canadian CD)**
Ernest Tubb - The Texas Troubadour (Proper 4xCD)
Turid - I Retur (Silence CD)
Urge Overkill - Americruiser/Jesus Urge Superstar (Touch & Go CD)
Ventures - Live In Japan 1965 (EMI CD)
Vibracathedral Orchestra - Wisdom Thunderbolt (VHF CD)*
Stephen Vitiello - Bright & Dusty Things (New Albion CD)
Scott Walker - The Drift (4AD CD)
Wooden Shjips - Wooden Shjips (Holy Mountain 2xCD)*
Robert Wyatt - Comicopera (Domino CD)*
Neil Young - Live At Massey Hall 1971 (Reprise CD)**
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Ragged Glory (Reprise CD)
Edward M Zadja - Zadja (Creel Pone CD-R)
Sarolta Zalatnay - Sarolta Zalatnay (Finders Keepers CD)**
S/T - Valerie & Her Week Of Wonders (Finders Keepers CD)**
V/A - Add To Friends (Room 40 CD)*
V/A - La Belle Epoque: EMI's French Girls 1965-1968 (EMI CD)**
V/A - Berkeley Guitar (Tompkins Square CD)
V/A - Black Mirror: Reflections Of Global Musics (Dust-To-Digital CD)**
V/A - Cambodian Rocks 3 (Khmer Rocks CD)
V/A - Music Of China (Dejavu 2xCD)
V/A - Congotronics 2: Buzz 'N Rumble In The Urb\'n Jungle (Crammed CD/DVD)
V/A - Femmes De Paris (Anthology(s CD)
V/A - Florida Funk: Funk 45s From The Alligator State (Jazzman CD)**
V/A - Galactic Zoo Dossier #7 (Zine 2xCD)*
V/A - Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones: Experimental Musical Instruments (Ellipsis Arts CD)
V/A - The Great Koonaklaster Speaks: A John Fahey Celebration (Table Of The Elements CD)*
V/A - I Belong To This Band: 85 Years Of Sacred Harp Singing (Dust-To-Digital CD)
V/A - Traditional Sound Of Japan: Etenraku In 3 Different Modes (Columbia CD)
V/A - Library Of Congress Archive Of Folk Culture: Sacred Harp Singing (Rounder CD)
V/A - Library Of Congress Endangered Music Project: The Discoteca Collection (Ryko CD)
V/A - La Musica Della Mafia: Il Canto Di Malavita (PIAS CD)
V/A - Melodii Tuvi (Dust-To-Digital CD)**
V/A - Musical Memories (Nationaal Museum Van Speelklok Tot Pierement CD)
V/A - Old Playfellows (Cherry Red LP)
V/A - Once Upon A Time In Wigan (Barely Breaking Even CD)
V/A - Oz Days (No Label 2xCD)**
V/A - Persian Electronic Music 1966-2006 (Sub Rosa 2xCD)**
V/A - Ptolemaic Terrascope #36 (Zine CD)**
V/A - Squares Blot Out The Sun (DB CD)
V/A - Super Cool California Soul 2 (Luv 'N Haight CD)**
V/A - Sutro\222s San Francisco 1954 (Musee Mecanique CD)
V/A - Texas Funk: Black Gold From The Lone Star State 1969-1975 (Jazzman CD)
V/A - Texas Music Volume 3: Garage Bands & Psychedelia (Rhino CD)
V/A - Wire Tapper 18 (Zine CD)**
V/A - Planet Squeezebox (Ellipsis Arts 3xCD)
V/A - The Art Of Field Recording Volume 1 (Dust-To-Digital 4xCD)**
V/A - Bebop Spoken Here (Proper 4xCD)
V/A - Bosavi: Rainforest Music From Papua New Guinea (Smithsonian Folkways 3xCD)
V/A - Doughboys, Playboys & Cowboys: The Golden Years Of Western Swing (Proper 4xCD)
V/A - Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers: More From The Golden Years Of Western Swing (Proper 4xCD)
V/A - Ethiopiques Volume 14: Getatchew Mekurya (Buda Musique CD)
V/A - Music Of Indonesia Volume 15: South Sulawesi Strings (Smithsonian Folkways CD)
V/A - Keeping The Faith: 40 Years Of Northern Soul (Castle 4xCD)**
V/A - Kabuki: A Quick Clue (King 2xCD)
V/A - Kuromisu: Kabuki\222s Offstage Music (King 3xCD)*
V/A - Shomyo: Shingonshu (King CD)
V/A - Nogaku: Japanese Traditional Music (King CD)
V/A - Shakuhachi: Japanese Traditional Music (King CD)
V/A - Percussion: Japanese Traditional Music (King CD)
V/A - Bali: Gamelan Semar Pegulingan: Gamelan Of The Love God (Nonesuch CD)
V/A - Bali: Golden Rain (Nonesuch CD)
V/A - South Pacific: Island Music (Nonesuch CD)
V/A - Tahiti: The Gaugin Years: Songs & Dances (Nonesuch CD)
V/A - Love Is The Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 (Rhino 4xCD)**
Catherine Howe - What A Beautiful Place (Numero CD)**
V/A - Eccentric Soul: Twinight\222s Lunar Rotation (Numero 2xCD)**
V/A - Cult Cargo: Grand Bahama Goombay (Numero CD)**
V/A - Eccentric Soul: The Prix Label (Numero CD)**
V/A - Home Schooled: The ABCs Of Kid Soul (Numero CD)**
V/A - Eccentric Soul: The Outskirts Of Deep City (Numero CD)**
V/A - Obscure Tape Music Of Japan Volume 1: Joji Yuasa - Aoi No Ue (Omega Point CD)
V/A - Obscure Tape Music Of Japan Volume 2: Joji Yuasa & Kuniharu Akiyama - Music For Puppet Theatre Of Hitomi-Za (Omega Point CD)
V/A - Obscure Tape Music Of Japan Volume 3: Makoto Moroi & Koubou Abe - Music Drama "Akai Mayu" (A Red Cocoon) (Omega Point CD)
V/A - Obscure Tape Music Of Japan Volume 4: Joji Yuasa - Music For Theatrical Drama (Omega Point CD)
V/A - Obscure Tape Music Of Japan Volume 5: Toshi Ichiyanagi - Music For Tinguely (Omega Point CD)**
V/A - Obscure Tape Music Of Japan Volume 6: Kuniharu Akiyama - Music Of Kuniharu Akiyama I (Omega Point 2xCD)**
V/A - People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-1938 (Tompkins Square 3xCD)**
V/A - Pregnant Rainbows For Colourblind Dreamers: The Essence Of Swedish Progressive Music 1969-1975 (Premium 4xCD)**
V/A - Rembetika: Greek Music From The Underground (JSP 4xCD)
Omar Souleyman - Highway To Hassake: Folk & Pop Music Of Syria (Sublime Frequencies CD)**
Group Doueh - Guitar Music Of The Western Sahara (Sublime Frequencies LP)**
V/A - Thai Pop Spectacular (Sublime Frequencies CD)**
V/A - Molam: Thai Country Groove From Isan Volume 2 (Sublime Frequencies CD)**
V/A - Music Of Nat Pwe: Folk & Pop Sounds Of Myanmar Volume 3 (Sublime Frequencies CD)**
V/A - Ethnic Minority Music Of Southern Laos (Sublime Frequencies CD)**
V/A - Ethnic Minority Music Of North Vietnam (Sublime Frequencies CD)**
Group Inerane - Guitars From Agadez (Music Of Niger) (Sublime Frequencies LP)**
V/A - Latinamericarpet: Exploring The Vinyl Warp Of Latin American Psychedelia (Sublime Frequencies CD)**
V/A - Proibidao CV (Sublime Frequencies CD)**
V/A - Worldbeaters (Krazy World CD)
V/A - Worldbeaters Volume 2 (Krazy World CD)
V/A - Worldbeaters Volume 3 (Krazy World CD)
Pekos/Yoro Diallo - Pekos/Yoro Diallo (Yaala Yaala CD)**
Bougouni Yaalali - Bougouni Yaalali (Yaala Yaala CD)**
Daouda Dembele - Daouda Dembele (Yaala Yaala CD)**
Whew. And just to show you that my ridiculous mix title plays on Thomas Friedman's premise that the world is flat, here's a listing of the places where I acquired such albums just for the heck of it:
Amazon Mailorder
Ameoba Music (San Francisco, CA, USA)
Amoeba Music (Berkeley, CA, USA)
Aquarius Records (San Francisco, CA, USA)
Aquarius Records Mailorder
Borders (Atlanta, GA, USA)
CD Universe Mailorder
CD Warehouse (Stockbridge, GA, USA)
CD World (Dallas, TX, USA)
Criminal Records (Atlanta, GA, USA)
Dark Holler Mailorder
Dust-To-Digital Mailorder
Eclipse Records Mailorder
Ella Guru (Decatur, GA, USA)
Ernest Tubb\222s Record Shop (Nashville, TN, USA)
Forced Exposure Mailorder
Forever Young Records (Grand Prairie, TX, USA)
Fusetron Mailorder
Georgia Music Hall Of Fame (Macon, GA, USA)
Good Records (Dallas, TX, USA)
Half Price Books (Duncanville, TX, USA)
Juno Mailorder
Mimaroglu Music Mailorder
Mondo Kim's (New York, NY, USA)
Musee Mecanique (San Francisco, CA, USA)
Nationaal Museum Van Speelklok Tot Pierement (Utrecht, THE NETHERLANDS)
Other Music Mailorder
Salvation Army (Riverdale, GA, USA)
Tower Records (Shinjuku, Tokyo, JAPAN)
Tower Records (Yokohama, JAPAN)
Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN, USA)
Wax N Facts (Atlanta, GA, USA)
Whitney Museum (New York, NY, USA)
Wuxtry (Decatur, GA, USA)
Yamano Music (Ginza, Tokyo, JAPAN)
No, we haven't seen Baby-chan #2 yet although we will within the next 2 weeks (gasp). Yes, all are doing well. Yes, I have new years resolutions. No, I won't post them now. Yes, I know you're relieved.
Happy 2008 in advance - at long last, the year we've been waiting for!