Thursday, January 31, 2013

2012 Favorites by Spiritual Archives' Friends



This post is for the purpose of suggesting works worthy of being numbered among the best ones released in 2012, according to the opinion of artists who have a special connection with this blog.

Once more, in the past year, they distinguished themselves in their fields of activity: composers, musicians, improvisers, phonographers, owners of labels, art performers, highly inspired, extremely motivated to draw, create, build, spread beautiful music.
Once again, in the past year, they gave a substantial contribution of ideas, innovation, research, to the experimental music scene.

Spiritual Archives expresses sincere gratitude to these friends who have kindly sent their faves list...

...one more time.

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(Alphabetically by surname)


Ernesto Diaz-Infante



  • Morton Feldman - Crippled Symmetry: At June In Buffalo (Frozen Reeds)
  • Morton Feldman: Violin & Piano - Andreas Seidel/Steffen Schleiermacher (MDG Scene)
  • Wadada Leo Smith - Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform)
  • Wadada Leo Smith & Loius Moholo-Moholo - Ancestors (TUM Records)
  • Rodriguez - Searching for Sugar Man, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Light In The Attic/Legacy)
  • Los Lobos - Kiko Live (Shout Factory!)
  • Brian Eno - Lux (Warp Records)
  • Barbara Monk Feldman - The Northern Shore (Mode Records)
  • Cat Power - Sun (Matador Records)
  • David Byrne & St. Vincent - Love This Giant (4AD/Todo Mundo)
  • Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Here (Community Music)
  • Bill Shute & Anthony Guerra - Subtraction (Black Petal)
  • Terry Riley - Aleph (Tzadik)
  • Brian Jonestown Massacre - Aufheben ('a' Recordings)
  • Sigur Rós - Valtari (XL Recordings)
  • Santana - Shapeshifter (Starfish Records)
  • Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas (Columbia Records)
  • Bob Dylan - Tempest (Columbia Records)
  • Yoko Ono/Kim Gordon/Thurston Moore - YOKOKIMTHURSTON (Chimera Music)
  • The Swans - The Seer (Young God Records)
  • Scott Walker - Bish Bosch (4AD)
  • David Greilsammer - Baroque Conversations (Sony Classical)
  • Patti Smith - Banga (Columbia Records)
  • Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light (Fat Possum Records)


Profile and discography: here

Reviews of "Emilio" and "Civilian Life": here

Links:
Ernesto Diaz-Infante
Pax Recordings


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Andy Graydon




  • Mika Vaino, "FE3O4 - Magnetite", Touch CD
  • Jim Haynes, "Kamchatka", Contour Editions CD
  • Bernard Parmegiani, "L'Oeil écoute", Recollection GRM LP
  • Lee Gamble, "Dutch Tvashar Plumes", PAN LP
  • Michael Pollard, "Translations 01", Spectrum Spools LP
  • Pierre Schaeffer, "Le Trièdre fertile", Recollection GRM LP
  • Will Montgomery/Robert Curgenven, "Heygate/Looking for Narratives on Small Islands", Winds Measure LP
  • Jim O'Rourke - "Old News #7" and "Old News #8", Editions Mego LP
  • Various Artists, "Archaic Variations - Localization", Obs CD
  • Grouper, "Sleep (fragment)", Fillip Editions one-sided LP
  • Mouse on Mars, "Parastrophics", Monkeytown Records LP
  • Andrew Pekler, "Sentimental Favorites", Dekorder LP


Profile and discography: here

Links:
Andy Graydon

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France Jobin





Spiritual Archives top ten 2012
This top ten reflects my favourites listen in 2012, not to be confused with release date.
  • Mika Vainio - Life ( ... It Eats You Up), Editons Mego, 2011
  • Richard Chartier - Recurrence, LINE, 2012
  • Pinkcourtesyphone - Elegant & Detached, Room40, 2012
  • Steinbrüchel - Narrow, Room40, 2011
  • Keiichiro Shibuya - Soundtrack For Memories Of Origin Hiroshi Sugimoto, ATAK, 2012
  • Tetuzi Akiyama + Toshimaru Nakamura - Semi-Impressionism, Spekk, 2009
  • Sylvain Chauveau & Stephan Mathieu - Palimpsest, Schwebung, 2012
  • Yann Novak & Robert Crouch - Fata Morgana, Murmur Records, 2012
  • Steve Roden - Proximities, LINE, 2011
  • Mika Vaino - FE3O4 - Magnetite, Touch, 2012


Profile and discography: here

Links:
France Jobin / i8u

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Dale Lloyd

 



Top 20 Favorite Releases From 2012 (alphabetical by first letter): 
  • Brian Eno: Lux (Warp) CD
  • Daphne Oram: The Oram Tapes Volume One (Modern Love / Young Americans) CD x 2
  • Frédéric Nogray: Buiti Binafin [Déambulation À La Lisière Du Monde (3LEAVES) CDR
  • Giovanni Di Domenico, Arve Henriksen & Tatsuhisa Yamamoto: Distare Sonanti (and/OAR / either/OAR) CD
  • Ingenting Kollektiva: Fragments Of Night (Invisible Birds) V
  • Ingenting Kollektiva: Lost Beyond Telling (Invisible Birds) CD x 2 + DVD
  • Isle Of Sodor: Goshen (SicSic) CT
  • John Grzinich: Two Films (and/OAR) DVD
  • Katsuyoshi Kou & Satoshi Hironaka: State, State, State (Ftarri) CD
  • Le Révélateur: Horizon Fears (NNA Tapes) CT
  • Laurie Spiegel: The Expanding Universe (Unseen Worlds) CD x 2 re-issue
  • Marc Behrens: Unit (and/OAR) CD
  • Marc Namblard & Olivier Namblard: Brames, Et Autres Mouvements D’Automne (Ouïe-Dire Production) CD
  • Panabrite: The Baroque Atrium (Preservation) CD
  • Richard Garet: Silver (Observatoire) CD
  • Rolf Julius: Raining - Small Music No. 3 (Western Vinyl) CD
  • Shijingren: Liudui (Altelier Hui-Kan) DVD
  • Thomas Köner: Novaya Zemlya (Touch) CD
  • Thomas Tilly & Jean-Luc Guionnet: Stones, Air, Axioms (Circum Disc) CD
  • Violens: True (Slumberland) CD


Profile and discography: here




Catalogues: here

Links:
Dale Lloyd
and/OAR (website) (blog)

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Christopher McFall




  • Richard Garet - Areal (23five)
  • Black To Comm - Earth (De Stijl)
  • Kreng - The Box Set - Works For Abattoir Fermé 2007 2011 (Miasmah)
  • Raime - Quarter Turns Over A Living Line (Blackest Ever Black)
  • Zelienople - The World Is A House On Fire (Type Records)
  • oOoOO - Our Love Is Hurting Us (Tri Angle)
  • Aidan Baker - Lost In The Rat Maze (ConSouling Sounds)
  • Rale - I Sit By The Window And Watch Walls And Ceiling (Monorail Trespassing)
  • Rune Martinsen - Kalaallit Nunaat (Petroglyph Music)
  • Sun Glitters - Insane EP
  • Swans - The Seer (Young God Records)


Discography: here

Links:
Christopher McFall

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Yann Novak




Releases (no particular order):
  • Vladislav Delay - Kuopio - Raster-Noton
  • Richard Chartier - Recurrence - LINE
  • Stephan Mathieu + Caro Mikalef - Radioland (Panorámica) - LINE
  • Silent Servant - Negative Fascination - Hospital Productions
  • Kid606 - Lost in the Game - Tigerbeat6
  • Emiliano Romanelli - 333 Loops - Self-Released
  • Various Artists - Pina Tanzt, Tanzt Sonst Sind Wir Verloren OST - Wenders Music
  • Various Artists - Fabric 62: Dj Sneak - Fabric
  • William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops - Temporary Residence Limited
Performances (chronological i think):
  • William Basinski at Public Fiction, Los Angeles, CA
  • Lucky Dragons at Public Fiction, Los Angeles, CA
  • Steve Roden + Lawrence English at LACE, Los Angeles, CA
  • Aaron Bradford Turner + William Fowler Collins at Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
  • Dominick Fernow at LACE, Los Angeles, CA
  • András Blazsek at LACE, Los Angeles, CA
  • France Jobin at LACE, Los Angeles, CA
  • Marcus Fischer at Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
  • Robert Crouch at Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
  • Glenn Bach at Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
Exhibitions (I need to see more art this year):
  • Jeffry Mitchell - Shamrock Edelweiss Seaweed - Ambach & Rice, Los Angeles, CA
  • Steve Roden - Shells, Bells, Steps And Silences - LACE, Los Angeles, CA
  • Nayland Blake - FREE!LOVE!TOOL!BOX! - YBCA, San Francisco, CA


Discography: here




Latest releases: here


Links:

Yann Novak
Dragon's Eye Recordings

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Yui Onodera




  • Oren Ambarchi - Audience Of One (Touch)
  • Willits + Sakamoto - Ancient Future (Ghostly International)
  • Tim Hecker - Dropped Pianos (Kranky)
  • Bun / Fumitake Tamura - Bird (Commmons)
  • Various Artists - Rework: Philip Glass Remixed (The Kora Records)


Discography: here

Links:
Yui Onodera
Critical Path


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Terje Paulsen




  • D.O.R (Drouin/Olsen/Ruhlmann) - An Occupied House - CD - Caduc
  • Various Artists/Framework 250 - 2CD - Framework Radio.net
  • Christopher McFall - Epilog (recombinant) - CD - CON-V
  • Yann Novak - Paradise & Winchester - CD - Unfathomless
  • Chris Whitehead - Ravenscar - CD - Unfathomless
  • Thomas Köner - Novaya Zemlya - CD - Touch
  • Richard Garet - Silver - CD - Obs
  • D'Incise - Prairie - 2CD - Obs
  • Chris Whitehead - Gryphea - CD - Obs
  • The Tea Rockers Quintet - Ceremony - CD - EnT-T
  • ELEH - Retreat, Return, Repose - 3CD - Important Records
  • Yann Novak & Robert Crouch - Fata Morgana - CD - Murmur Records
  • Steinbrüchel + Cory Allen - Seam - CD - Quiet Design
  • Rolf Julius - Raining - CD - Small Music/Western Vinyl
  • Kane Ikin - Sublunar - CD - 12k
  • All releases on Entr'acte - Cds
  • All releases on Impulsive Habitat - Digital


Discography: here


Links:
Terje Paulsen (website) (myspace)

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Pablo Reche




  • Thomas Köner - Novaya Zemlya (Touch)
  • Michael Trommer - Edgelands (Gruenrekorder)
  • Michael Pisaro, Toshiya Tsunoda - Crosshatches (Erstwhile)
  • Jay-Dea Lopez - Systemic Collapse (Impulsive Habitat)
  • Daniel Menche - Guts (Editions Mego)
  • Tarab - Shards Of Splinters - Fragments Of Scratches / Killustiku Killud - Kriimude Killud  (Semperflorens)
  • Five Elements Music - Rishikesh (Unfathomless)
  • Richard Chartier - Recurrence (Line)
  • AMT Slavek Kwi - Psyite (Impulsive Habitat)
  • P16.D4 - Passagen (Monotype)


Profile and discography: here

Links:
Pablo Reche (blog) (myspace)

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Denis Shapovalov




  • Natasha Barret ‘Isostasie’ Cd Empreintes Digitales
  • Francis Dhomont ‘Cycle Du Son’ Cd Empreintes Digitales
  • Yves Beaupre ‘Humeur De Facteur’ Cd Empreintes Digitales
  • Arturo Parra ‘Parr(A)Cousmatique’ Cd Empreintes Digitales
  • Richard Garet ‘Areal’ Cd 23five
  • Gregory Buttner ‘Walze 1-8’ Cd Firework Edition Records
  • Eric Cordier, Seijiro Murayama ‘Nuit’ Cd Herbal
  • Jim Haynes ‘Kamchatka’ Cdr Contour Editions
  • Marc Behrens ’20 Zonen’ Cd Aufabwegen
  • Seth Nehil & Matt Marble ‘Eclipses’ Cd And/Oar
  • Francisco Meirino ‘Undetected (Untreated Recordings From On-Site Testimonies Archives)’ Cd Oto
  • Roel Meelkop ‘Secret Garden’ Cd Oto
  • Stephan Dunkelman ‘Rhizomes’ Cd Empreintes Digitales
  • Emmanuel Mieville ‘Four Wanderingsin Tropical Lands’ Cd Baskaru
  • Entrelacs ‘Underleaf’ (Michael Northam, Yannick Dauby) Cd Re-Edit Semperflorens
  • Murmer ‘Framework 1-4’ 2xcd Herbal
  • V/A - 'V-P V-F Is V-N Cs02' Tape Winds Measure
  • Toy.Bizarre & Pierre Redon ‘Saisons’ Cd Aufabwegen
  • Jason Kahn And Takefumi Naoshima ‘In A Room’ Cd Winds Measure
  • Five Elements Music ‘Rishikesh’ Cd Unfathomless






Profile and catalogues: here

Links:
Obs (website) (facebook)

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Friday, January 18, 2013

2012 Favorites







2012: another good year for the music we love.
Time to give an account.
Time to publish another "Best of the Year" list.
50 favorites, a sonic map concerning the recent past.
An incomplete map, of course: lots of releases waiting to be listened to, missed, unforgivably forgotten.
New labels launched, some other ones shut down recently, pleasant discoveries of artists and works, expectations met.
An increasing diffusion of titles in digital format is expanding the possibilities of getting them quickly but, at the same time, the number of them daily available is growing considerably.
Spiritual Archives wishes a Happy New Year to all followers and readers.
Enjoy the list (in alphabetical order).

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Ambarchi & Brinkmann - The Mortimer Trap

















Label: Black Truffle
Cat. #: BT06
Format: CD
Release date: 02/2012
Link
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Angles 8 - By Way Of Deception: Live In Ljubljana

















Label: Clean Feed
Cat. #: CF256
Format: CD
Release date: 09/2012
Link
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Anne Chris Bakker - Weerzien

















Label: Somehow Recordings
Cat. #: SR-54
Format: CD-R
Release date: 09/2012
Link

Somehow Recordings Catalogue: here
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Anthea Caddy & Thembi Soddell - Host

















Label: Room40
Cat. #: RM448
Format: CD
Release date: 03/2012

Link
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Asunder Trio - The Lamp

















Label: Kilogram Records
Cat. #: 023
Format: CD
Release date: 02/2012

Link
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Bear, Bertucci Duo - Controlled Burn

















Label: Peira
Cat. #: PM12
Format: CD-R
Release date: 05/2012

Link

Review: here
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Celer - An Immensity Merely To Save Life

















Label: Self-released
Cat. #: --
Format: File, Digital download
Release date: 01/2012 
Link

Celer's Discography: here
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Claudio Milano & Erna Franssens aka Kasjanoova - Adython

















Label: dEN Records
Cat. #: dEN004
Format: CD-R
Release date: 02/2012 
Link
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Coppice - Holes/Tract

















Label: Consumer Waste
Cat. #: cw05
Format: CD-R
Release date: 05/2012 
Link
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D.O.R - An Occupied House

















Label: caduc.
Cat. #: CA01
Format: CD-R
Release date: 02/2012 
Link
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Dale Lloyd - Taurion, Trou De Lapin

















Label: Kaon
Cat. #: fe12
Format: 3" CD-R
Release date: 02/2012 
Link

Dale Lloyd's Profile: here
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D'incise / Hennig / Kocher / Sciss - D'incise / Hennig / Kocher / Sciss

















Label: Insubordinations
Cat. #: insubcdr11
Format: File, Mp3 / FLAC
Release date: 01/2012


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Ensemble X - Ensemble X

















Label: Red Toucan
Cat. #: RT 9344
Format: CD
Release date: 05/2012
Link
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Ernesto Rodrigues / Guilherme Rodrigues / Lisa Ullén / D'incise / Cyril Bondi - Lisboa

















Label: Creative Sources
Cat. #: CS 232
Format: CD
Release date: 12/2012
Link
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Evan Parker & Agustí Fernández - The Voice Is One

















Label: NotTwo
Cat. #: MW 878-2
Format: CD
Release date: 11/2012
Link
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Evan Parker / John Edwards / Eddie Prévost - All Told - Meetings with Remarkable Saxophonists - Volume 1

















Label: Matchless Recordings
Cat. #: MRCD81
Format: CD
Release date: 04/2012
Link
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Ferran Fages - Life Best Under Your Seat

















Label: Copy For Your Records
Cat. #: CFYR014
Format: CD
Release date: 07/2012 
Link
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Fire! with Oren Ambarchi - In The Mouth - A Hand

















Label: Rune Grammofon
Cat. #: RCD2130 / RLP3130
Format: CD / 2xLP
Release date: 05/2012 
Link
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France Jobin - Valence

















Label: Line
Cat. #: LINE_054
Format: CD
Release date: 02/2012 
Link

France Jobin / i8u's Discography: here
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Good Weather For An Airstrike - Underneath The Stars

















Label: hibernate
Cat. #: hb38
Format: CD
Release date: 01/2012
Link
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Hairy Bones - Snakelust (To Kenji Nakagami)

















Label: Clean Feed
Cat. #: CF252
Format: CD
Release date: 05/2012
Link
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John Zorn - Rimbaud

















Label: Tzadik
Cat. #: 8301
Format: CD
Release date: 08/2012
Link
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Ketil Bjørnstad - Vinding's Music - Songs From The Alder Thicket

















Label: ECM
Cat. #: ECM 2170/71
Format: 2xCD
Release date: 04/2012
Link
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Ksawery Wójciński / Klaus Kugel / Paweł Postaremczak - Affinity

















Label: Multikulti Project
Cat. #: MPI019
Format: CD
Release date: 06/2012
Link
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Lawrence English - Songs Of The Living / And The Lived In

















Label: Room40
Cat. #: DRM420
Format: File, Digital download
Release date: 12/2012 
Link Link

Lawrence English's Discography: here
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Main Attrakionz - 808s & Dark Grapes II

















Label: Type Records
Cat. #: TYPE104
Format: 2xLP
Release date: 02/2012
Link

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Michael Pisaro & Toshiya Tsunoda - Crosshatches

















Label: Erstwhile
Cat. #: erstwhile 066-2
Format: 2xCD
Release date: 06/2012
Link
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Murmer - What Are The Roots That Clutch

















Label: Helen Scarsdale Agency
Cat. #: HMS022
Format: CD
Release date: 07/2012 
Link
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NON / Boyd Rice - Back To Mono

















Label: Mute
Cat. #: CDSTUMM338
Format: CD
Release date: 10/2012 
Link
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Nuno Torres / Ricardo Jacinto / Travassos / Nuno Morão - Pinkdraft 2010

















Label: Creative Sources
Cat. #: CS 231
Format: CD
Release date: 12/2012 
Link
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Ofer Bymel & Gregory Büttner - Ripsnorter

















Label: Obs
Cat. #: obs * э | instrument 031
Format: CD-R
Release date: 02/2012
Link

Obs Catalogue: here
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Oren Ambarchi - Audience Of One

















Label: Touch
Cat. #: TO:83
Format: CD
Release date: 01/2012
Link
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Parallel 41 - Parallel 41

















Label: Baskaru
Cat. #: karu:21
Format: CD + DVD
Release date: 05/2012
Link

Barbara De Dominicis' Profile: here
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Radu Malfatti - Darenootodesuka

















Label: b-boim
Cat. #: b-boim 026
Format: CD-R
Release date: 02/2012
Link

Radu Malfatti's Discography: here 
b-boim Catalogue: here
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Richard Chartier - Recurrence

















Label: Line
Cat. #: LINE_059
Format: CD
Release date: 11/2012
Link
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Robert Curgenven + Richard Chartier - Built Through

















Label: Line
Cat. #: LINE_056
Format: CD
Release date: 05/2012
Link

Robert Curgenven's Profile: here
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Robert Hampson - Répercussions

















Label: Editions Mego
Cat. #: eMEGO 132
Format: CD + 5.1 DVD
Release date: 05/2012
Link
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Stefano Pilia - Strings

















Label: Musica Moderna
Cat. #: MM001
Format: CD
Release date: 02/2012
Link
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Steve Roden - Berlin Fields

















Label: 3LEAVES
Cat. #: 3L013
Format: CD-R
Release date: 03/2012
Link

3LEAVES Catalogue: here
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Sublamp - Orphan Horns

















Label: Self-released
Cat. #: --
Format: CD-R
Release date: 11/2012
Link

Sublamp's Discography: here 
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Sven-Åke Johansson / Andrea Neumann / Axel Dörner - Große Gartenbauausstellung

















Label: Olof Bright
Cat. #: OBCD 34
Format: CD
Release date: 04/2012
Link
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Taus - Pinna

















Label: Another Timbre
Cat. #: at49
Format: CD
Release date: 02/2012
Link

Another Timbre Catalogue: here
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The Boats - Ballads Of The Research Department

















Label: 12k
Cat. #: 12k1068
Format: CD
Release date: 01/2012
Link

12k Catalogue: here
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Thomas Tilly & Jean-Luc Guionnet - Stones, Air, Axioms

















Label: Circum Disc
Cat. #: LX005
Format: CD
Release date: 2012
Link

Jean-Luc Guionnet's Discography: here 
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Tony Bevan / Joe Morris / Tony Buck / Dominic Lash - Tony-Joe Bucklash

















Label: Foghorn
Cat. #: FOGCD016
Format: CD
Release date: 05/2012
Link
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Vanessa Rossetto - Exotic Exit

















Label: Kye
Cat. #: KYE 20
Format: LP
Release date: 08/2012
Link
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Veryan Weston / Ingrid Laubrock / Hannah Marshall - Haste

















Label: Emanem
Cat. #: 5025
Format: CD
Release date: 04/2012
Link
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Vestals - Forever Falling Toward The Sky

















Label: Root Strata
Cat. #: RS77
Format: LP
Release date: 06/2012
Link
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Xavier Charles / Michel Doneda / Jean-Léon Pallandre - Gaycre (2)

















Label: Ouïe-Dire Production
Cat. #: PP1212
Format: CD
Release date: 2012
Link
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Yann Novak - Paradise & Winchester

















Label: Unfathomless
Cat. #: U14
Format: CD
Release date: 12/2012
Link

Yann Novak's Discography: here
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