Manafonistas

 

 
Gregors Platte des Jahres:
 
Scott Walker + Sunn O))): Soused
 
 
About this record lots of people wrote interesting or less wise things, I would not rather write about my record of the year other important or boring sentences, but: „Just listen to the collaboration of Scott Walker and Sunn O))), it is exciting!“ (g.m.)
 
 
02) Paul Bley: Oslo Concert
03) Damon Albarn: Everyday Robots
04) Ensemble Economique: Interval Signals
05) Charcoal Owls: Tin Roof
06) Frode Haltli: Vagabonde Blu
06) Erik Honorè: Heliographs
07) Martha Argerich / Claudio Abbado: Mozart: Klavierkonzerte 20 & 25
08) Konstantia Gourzi: Music for Piano and String Quartet
09) Anouar Brahem: Souvenance
10) Mike Cooper: Trout Steel
11) Bill Carrothers: Love and Longing
12) Leonard Cohen: Popular Problems
13) Frode Haltli: Vagabonde Blu
14) Jean-Louis Matinier / Marco Ambrosini: Inventio
15) King Creosote: From Scottland with Love
16) Neil Young: Storytone (nur Soloversion)
17) Hauschka: Abandoned City
18) Anja Lechner / Francois Couturier: Moderato Cantabile
19) Tigram Mansurian: Quasi Porlando
20) Hakon Stene: Lush Laments For Lazy Mammal
 
 
 
 

 
Michaels Platte des Jahres:
 
Sidsel Endresen / Stian Westerhus: Bonita
 
 
Listening to the duo, I forgot my standard aesthetic vocabulary, the word “postmodern“ lost any meaning. Sidsel Endresen is the most expressive female voice in modern music since Meredith Monk, and guitarist Stian Westerhus is playing with fire extending the vocabulary of his fucking old electric guitar with a grim smile on his face. (m.e.)
 
 
02) Scott Walker & Sunn O))): Soused
03) Eno/Hyde: High Life
04) Anouar Brahem: Souvenance
05) Erik Honore: Heliographs
06) Fennesz: Becs
07) Damon Albarn: Everyday’s Robots
08) Eno/Hyde: Someday World
09) Jokleba: Outland
10) Daniel Lanois: Flesh and Machine
11) Mirel Wagner: When The Cellar Children See The Light Of Day
12) Sun Kil Moon: Benji
13) Polar Bear: In Each and Everyone
14) Supersilent: Supersilent 12
15) David Sylvian: `there’s a light that enters houses with no other house in sight´
16) Hakon Stene: Lush Laments For Lazy Mammal
17) Thomas Köner: Tientos de la Nieves
18) Janek Schaefer: Lay-By Lullaby
19) Owen Pallett: In Conflict
20) King Creosote: From Scotland With Love
 

 

 
 
 

I think it was in Hamburg, but I’m not completely sure. I walked along a street. In my hand I held a black umbrella. It had a switch. If I switched it on, the umbrella started rotating, and I could fly with it. The problem was: The rotation speed was a bit too slow, so I couldn’t really start. I remembered I once had done it over the Alster, and it worked fine there. You had to run for a lift-off, but once airborne, it was an easy flight. But not this time. I tried to start a couple of times, running along the street, but the umbrella just lifted me up only one meter or so. For some reason I also ran through a toy store or something like that and left some chaos there, and after that I tried it again running along the street. It didn’t work. It became obvious to me that the umbrella had to be recharged. I wanted to walk to the house where my parents lived (apparently they were still living) because I knew there was a recharging station in front of the building. A passer-by asked me what I was doing. I told him. He said something like: „Oh, I’ve never heard of anything like this.“ I answered: „Oh, these things are not really new anymore.“ I don’t know whether I reached my parent’s house because I woke up and couldn’t stop laughing.