Manafonistas

• Aki Takase – My Ellington (Intakt)
• Chris Abrahams – Memory Night (Room40)
• Craig Taborn – Chants (ECM)
• Brunhild & Luc Ferrari – Contes Sentimentaux (SHIIIN)
• Elliott Sharp Aggregat – Quintet (Clean Feed)
• Emptyset – Recur (Raster Noton)
• Fire! Orchestra – Exit! (Rune Grammophon)
• Gregory Porter – Liquid Spirit (BlueNote)
• Helene Labarriere – Desordre (Innacor)
• Machinefabriek & Sergio Sorrentino – Vignettes (Fratto9 Under The Sky Records) stellvertretend für alles von Machinefabrik in diesem Jahr
• Mathias Delplanque – Chutes (Baskaru)
• Mika Vainio & Joachim Nordwall – Monstrance (Touch) stellvertretend für alles von Mika in diesem Jahr
• Simon Fisher Turner – Epic Of The Everest ( Mute)
• Sons Of Kemet – Burn (Naim )
• Sotoko Fujii Ma Do – Time Stands Still (Not Two Records)
• Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld – Still Smiling (Spècula /2013)
• These New Puritans – Field Of Reeds ( PlayItAgainSam)
• Tim Hecker – Virgins (Kranky)
• Toshimaru Nakamura, Tomoyoshi Date, Ken Ikeda – Green Heights (Baskaru)
• Wayne Shorter – Without A Net (BlueNote)

AFRICA EXPRESS PRESENTS MAISON DES JEUNES.  From concerts in Lagos and Kinshasa to that remarkable train trip round Britain last summer, Africa Express has set out both to promote co-operation between African and western musicians and to constantly surprise. This new album was recorded in just one week in October in a youth club in Bamako, where young Malian musicians worked with celebrity producers. The result is a fresh, varied set that mixes ancient and modern. Moussa Traoré contributes a stately, charming blend of kora and French rap, produced by Damon Albarn; there’s a fine, soulful reworking of Salif Keita’s Yamore by 21-year-old Kankou Kouyaté; an insistent, exhilarating workout from the Yacouba Sissoko Band produced by Brian Eno; and exuberant guitar rock and desert blues from Songhoy Blues, a band from Timbuktu, where radical Islamists had attempted to ban music. Magnificent. (Robin Denselow, The Guardian)

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