Manafonistas

1. Scott Walker: Bish Bosh – record of the year (4AD)
2. Thomas Köner: Novaya Zemlya (Touch)
3. Jan Bang & Erik Honore: Uncommon Deities (samadhisound)
4. Sidsel Endresen & Stian Westerhus: Didymoi Dreams (Rune Grammofon)
5. Jan Garbarek – Charlie Haden – Egberto Gismonti: Carta de Amor (ECM)
6. Eivind Aarset: Dream Logic (ECM)
7. Swans: The Seer (Young Gods)
8. Fiona Apple: The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do (Epic)
9. Burnt Friedman: Bokoboko (nonplace)
10. Chris Dooks & Machinefabriek: The Eskdalemuir Harmonium (Komino)
11. Astrid: High Blues (Rune Grammofon)
12. Lambchop: Mr. M (City Slang)

 
Other outstanding records were made / released by Eberhard Weber, Food, Arvo Pärt, Paul Buchanan, Leonard Cohen, James Yorkston, Stian Westerhus (solo), Frank Ocean, Keith Jarrett, Brian Eno, Dan Michaelson, Tindersticks, Tim Berne, Heiner Goebbels, Ivar Grydeland, Gerry Diver, Wilco, Diagrams, John Surman, Holly Herndon, Wadada Leo Smith & Louis Moholo-Moholo, Neil Young and Can (The Lost Tapes). And, last, but not least, Masabumi Kikuchi Trio with Paul Motian.

1. Magico – Carta de Amor. ECM
2. Masabumi Kikuchi – Sunrise. ECM
3. Arve Henriksen – Solidification. Rune Grammofon
4. Kris Davis – Aeriol. Cleanfeed
5. Sidsel Endresen/Stian Westerhus – Didymoi Dreams. Rune Grammofon
6. Jan Bang/Eric Honoré – Uncommon Deities. Samadhi Sound
7. Jakob Bro/Thomas Knak – Jakob Bro/Thomas Knak. Loveland
8. Alexey Kruglov and Jaak Sooäär Trio – Sea Colours. SoLyd Records
9. Boi Akih – Circles In A Square Society. Bromo
10. Tim Berne – Snakeoil. ECM
11. Steve Gadd and Friends – Live At Voce. Challenge
12. Russ Lossing – Drum Music. Sunnyside

1. J.S.Bach: Andras Schiff Das Wohltemperierte Klavier (ECM New Series)
2. Astrid: High Blues (Rune Grammofon)
3. Jan Bang & Erik Honore: Uncommon Deities (samadhisound)
4. Thomas Köner: Novaya Zemlya (Touch)
5. Thomas Stronen, Ian Ballamy: Mercurial Balm (ECM)
6. John Cage: As it is (ECM)
7. Scott Walker: Bish Bosh (4AD)
8. Eivind Aarset: Dream Logic (ECM)
9. Heiner Goebbels: Stifters Dinge (ECM)
10. Fiona Apple: The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do (Epic)
11. Frank Ocean: Channel Orange (Island)
12. Hank Jones & Charlie Haden: Come Sunday (Emarcy Records)

 
Weitere acht Hits: Brian Eno – Lux (Warp) / Dan Michaelson – Sudden Fiction (Editions) / Can – The Lost Tapes (Mute – Aip) / Peter Broderick – https://www.itstartshear.com (Cooperative Music) / Krzysztof Penderecki and Jonny Greenwood – Threnody for the victims of Hiroshima (Warner) / Bill Fay – Life is People (Dead Oceans) / Bob Dylan – Tempest (Smi Col) / Regina Spektor – What we saw from cheap seats (Sire)

1. Nik Bärtsch´s Ronin – Live (ECM)
2. Gismonti/Garbarek/Haden – Magico (ECM)
3. Keith Jarrett – Sleeper (ECM)
4. Michael Formanek – Small Places (ECM)
5. Jan Bang/Erik Honore – Uncommon Deities (samadhisound)
6. Brad Mehldau Trio – Ode (Nonesuch)
7. Louis Sclavis Atlas Trio – Sources (ECM)
8. Donald Fagen – Sunken Condos (Reprise)
9. Scott Walker – Bisch Bosch (4AD)
10. Tim Berne – Snakeoil (ECM)
11. Kurt Rosenwinkel – Star of Jupiter (Wommusic)
12. Vijay Iyer Trio – Accelerando (Act)

Hörenswert waren auch: Diagrams – Black Light / Masabumi Kikuchi Trio – Sunrise / Robert Glasper Experiment – Black Radio / Gerry Diver´s Speech Projekt / Eivind Aarset – Dream Logic / John Surman – Saltash Bells / David Sylvian – A Victim Of Stars / Kenny Wheeler Big Band – The Long Waiting / John Abercrombie – Within A Song / Jack DeJohnette – Sound Travels  …