So, anyway. I didn't technically close up shop here until June. I had already listened to so many records by then. It would be a shame not to drop (at least) one more year end list. The funny thing is that I have listened to more records this year than I have in recent years. All told, I ended up listening to around 125 new releases this year. I kept pretty detailed notes about most of them. I could have easily turned that into reviews or content. I would have stopped listening to new records had I done that though. Turning my enjoyment of music into a thing was a mistake. Anyway. Here is the list. It's 40 records. A good amount of these are jazz. Just be aware. If you're looking for dope punk rock records, this probably won't be the list for you.

In alphabetical(ish) order:

Alice Sandahl - "Bright & Blue"

Alison Shearer - "View From Above"

Alvvays - "Blue Rev"

Angel Olsen - "Big Time"

Anthony Coleman & Brian Chase - "Arcades"

Barrie - "Barbara"

The Beths - "Expert In A Dying Field"

The Bogie Band & Joe Russo - "The Prophets In The City"

Camilla George - "Ibio-Ibio"

Chicago Soul Jazz Collective - "On The Way To Be Free"

Dave Gisler Trio - "See You Out There"

David Hillyard & The Rocksteady 7 - "Plague Doctor"

Georgia Harmer - "Stay In Touch

High Alpine Hut Network - "727 / 16 EP"

Jeanines - "Don’t Wait For A Sign"

Jobber - "Hell In A Cell EP"

Julieta Eugenio - "Jump"

Kate Bollinger - "Look At It In The Light"

Kit Downes, Petter Eldh, James Maddren - "Vermillion"

Kristine Leschper - "The Opening, Or Closing Of A Door"

Lisa Ullén, Elsa Bergman, & Anna Lund - "Space"

Little Low - "Reasons To Grow"

Lupe Fiasco - "Drill Music In Zion"

Marta Sanchez - "SAAM (Spanish American Art Museum)"

Mary Halvorson - "Amaryllis" / "Belladonna"

Melissa Aldana - "12 Stars"

Nectar - "No Shadow"

The New York Second - "Music At Night"

ORD - "Hemligheter På Vägen"

Otoboke Beaver - "Super Champon"

Perennial - "In The Midnight Hours"

Potsa Lotsa XL & Youjin Sung - "Gaya"

Quelle Chris - "Deathfame"

R.A.P. Ferreira - "5 To The Eye With Stars"

Renata Zeiguer - "Picnic In The Dark"

Tender Slit - "Tender Slit"

Tomberlin - "I Don't Know Who Needs To Hear This..."

Walking Cliché Sextet - "Micro-Nap"

Westbound Train - "Dedication"

Widowspeak - "The Jacket"

I've included that Spotify playlist. It has stuff from most of these records, and some other stuff. Maybe I'll throw something up in 2023? Who knows. It's what it's

Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra „Family”

We Jazz, 2023 Supersonic Orchestra zadebiutowała koncertami przed czterema laty (2019), a już na początku roku 2020 posłuchać mogliśmy pierwszej, koncertowej płyty tej grupy. W moim przekonaniu, najlepszego jazzowego wydawnictwa 2020 na świecie. OUR REVIEW IS ALSO AVAIABLE IN ENGLISH Jazzowych big bandów działa dość dużo. Wiele z nich cieszy się zasłużoną renomą. Jednak Gardowi Nilssenowi…

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"Boogie" [Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity Elastic Wave (ECM; 2022)] Por Pachi Tapiz. JazzX5 #537 [Minipodcast de jazz]

“Boogie” [Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity Elastic Wave (ECM; 2022)] Por Pachi Tapiz. JazzX5 #537 [Minipodcast de jazz]

“Boogie” Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity Elastic Wave (ECM; 2022) Gard Nilssen (batería); André Roligheten (saxos tenor, soprano y bajo, y clarinete); Petter Eldh (contrabajo) Tomajazz: © Pachi Tapiz, 2022 Escuchar Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity Elastic Wave: “Boogie” En anteriores episodios de JazzX5 / HDO / LODLMA / Maltidos Jazztardos / Tomajazz Remembers /JazzX5…

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My WVUD playlist and stream, 1/8/2024

Aaron Dooley - Jamais Vu Phét Phét Phét - Half Glass Cykada - So Divided Memnon Sa - Gaia Pharmacology (feat. Duffin) Koma Saxo & Petter Eldh - Portal Koma Raja Kirik - Act IV. Slompret Slompret Dustin Wong & Ari Liloia - Ascending Through the Bellscope (Cathode Version) Lamin Fofana - Bench Mi Mode II: Red Eye Black Hill Transmissions - Lanarkites Jaakko Eino Kalevi - Let's See How Things Go Thought Bubble - Take One Soul The Third Mind - Sally Go Round the Roses Ivan the Tolerable - New Peace Digital Phantoms - Just Go Ahead and Don't Do It Domenico Lancelotti - Erê Secret Night Gang - One and Only Candeleros - Le Quedan Dos Quantic - Where the Flowers Grow (feat. Andreya Triana) Bless the Mad - Russian Summer (feat. Edson Sean)

Petter Eldh’s latest release, Post Koma, takes the Swedish bassist and producer’s ever-evolving jazz vision to captivating new sonic landscapes. Seamlessly blending live instrumentation and sampling across 13 engrossing tracks, Eldh and collaborators like drummer Christian Lillinger and saxophonists Jonas Kull mar and Mikko Innanen craft a forward-thinking jazz album that subverts expectations.

Marie Kruttli Releases New Single “Watered” on EveryDejaVu Records

Swiss-born, Berlin pianist, producer, and songwriter Marie Kruttli has released her new single “Watered.” Out now, “Watered” is layered with eclectic synthesizers and ominous vocals that waver in between the production with an echo that reverberates with introspection about self and love. “Watered” is the first single from Marie Kruttli’s forthcoming EP Vif slated for release August 18th on EveryDejaVu Records. As an artist, Marie Kruttli’s biggest inspiration is her environment and the nature that exists around her. For her newest song, “Watered,” the fluidity of water represents universal love and the way it flows through all of us and our souls. Kruttli explains, “It represents this thing like not knowing where my soul stops and another starts.”  Born in a small Swiss-French village, Saint-Imier, Marie Krüttli has played piano since she was six years old and trained herself first in classical music and then later in jazz. Her entire life has always been immersed in music. She was born into a family of musicians and she studied at the University of Lausanne, where she got a Bachelor of Music in Jazz, specializing in jazz piano at the age of 20. She continued her studies in Lucerne, the German part of Switzerland to get her Master of Music in performance, with a concentration in jazz performance. After her studies and some time in New York, Marie moved to Berlin and went on to composing her diverse projects, from solo to septets. She worked mostly with a trio of her namesake, the Marie Krüttli trio, over the years. They performed at numerous venues and festivals all over Europe, as well as being recognized with awards such as the ZKB Jazz Prize in 2016. Marie Krüttli admires the musical work of FKA Twigs, Björk, Craig Taborn, and Petter Eldh, to name a few (in which the latter two worked on her upcoming project), as well as the work of visual artists like Basquiat, Monet, and Doris Salcedo. This variety of taste and teachings in her life shows up in her work as well, exploring electronic music more in the last five years. She juggles these sounds outside of her solo piano work, leading a jazz trio, having a duet with saxophonist Ganesh Geymeier, and more. Kruttli follows up her solo piano album, Transparence, with an EP called Vif, which is a marriage of all of these influences and the manifestation of Dragon Life, her electronic duo where she sings and produces with drummer Fabian Rösch. She explores introspective themes like love, life, nature, time and her own struggles using synthesizers to create an array of expressive, distorted, and spaced-out textures for this jazzy, experimental dream pop electronic project. Be on the lookout for Marie Kruttli’s Vif EP August 18th! Stream: https://lnkfi.re/mkwatered LINKS https://www.instagram.com/mariekruttli/ https://soundcloud.com/mariekruttli https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1LnKeeCBAlVnaaaWZ_I1ow Read the full article

Gard Nilssen’s Supersonic Orchestra - If You Listen Carefully, The Music Is Yours Full concert video Moldejazz 2019

Filmed and edited by Sigurd Ytre-Arne Recorded by Tor Breivik Mixed and mastered by Bård Ingebrigtsen Lighting by Ingrid Skanke Høsøien

Eirik Hegdal - saxophones Per ”Texas” Johansson - saxophones Kjetil Møster - saxophones Mette Rasmussen - saxophone Maciej Obara - saxophone André Roligheten - saxophones Hanna Paulsberg - saxophone Thomas Johansson - trumpet Goran Kajfes - trumpet Erik Johannessen - trombone Petter Eldh - double bass Ole Morten Vågan - double bass Ingebrigt Håker Flaten - double bass Håkon Mjåset Johansen - drums Hans Hulbækmo - drums Gard Nilssen - drums

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the trumpeter and composer jaimie branch passed away this past monday and i'll be doing a special three hour show tonight on wlur exploring many of the amazing projects she was involved in. please note we're starting an hour early at 7pm to accomodate the extra hour of programming.

no love for ned on wlur – august 19h, 2022 from 8-10pm

artist // track // album // label pernice brothers // working girls (sunlight shines) // the world won't end // ashmont full power happy hour // old mind of mine // full power happy hour // coolin' by sound holiday ghosts // in my head // holiday ghosts // pnkslm honk // lazy river blues // grand opening cassette // fuzzkill golomb // unexpected negative force // golomb // (self-released) body type // the charm // everything is dangerous but nothing's surprising // poison city dust star // too late // open up that heart // lame-o nihilist cheerleader // who's gonna hear you // riot, right? // perfect attendance rubber city rebels // paper dolls // the hollywood years, 1979-1984 // smog veil lewsberg // six hills // six hills 7" // speedy wunderground roommates // back to the sun // winnifred 7" ep // slumberland american culture // we wanna go to the movies // pure american gum // jigsaw useless users // vessels // we are all // emotional response art moore // snowy // art moore // anti q lazzarus // goodbye horses (demo 1) // goodbye horses - ep // mon amie carl didur // the great uniter (maybe next time) // maybe next time // idée fixe kyle kidd // last time // soothsayer // american dreams petter eldh, koma saxo and sofia jernberg // koma kaprifol // koma west // we jazz lloyd miller // shahin (1972 tehran, iran) // orientations // fountainavm tumi mogoros featuring andile yenana and lesego rampolokeng // where are the keys? // group theory: black music // mushroom hour half hour signe emmeluth, knedal andersen and skavhaug nergaard // artichoke and prawn starter // the a-z of microwave cookery cassette // astral spirits flock // prepare to let go // flock // strut sixpress // black indy // tape 22 // novelty the movers featuring sophie thepedi // soweto inn // the movers volume one, 1970-1976 // analog africa jenna camille and columbia nights // goodbye // golden browne // hipnott matthew e. white featuring lonnie holley // it feels like this // only in america ep // domino black thought and danger mouse featuring raekwon and kid sister // the darkest part // cheat codes // bmg pretty in pink // air // air digital single // (self-released) healing potpourri // wind // paradise // run for cover dogbreth // valley of the moon // believe this rain // phat 'n' phunky the holiday crowd // bullet train // party favours 7" // shelflife the crystal furs // dashboard // split 7" w/ pennywhistle park // emperial sugar the martial arts // bethany // getting stranger by the month - ep // last night from glasgow

Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity “Elastic Wave”

Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity “Elastic Wave”

ECM, 2022 Czwartym albumem swojej grupy Acoustic Unity, norweski perkusista Gard Nilssen debiutuje jako lider pod szyldem wytwórni ECM. W triu towarzyszą mu saksofonista i klarnecista André Roligheten oraz kontrbasista Petter Eldh. Trio spotkało się rok temu w Studios La Buisssonne we Francji, jednej ze stałych ecm-owskich lokalizacji. Na płycie znalazło się ostatecznie  jedenaście utworów, a…

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Petter Eldh feat. Richard Spaven - Goods Yard (Edition)

Drums, Richard Spaven, 2021. Flutes.

Petter Eldh - Koma Saxo - double bass, drums & 3 saxes (We Jazz Records)

Koma Saxo is a highly potent new five-piece produced by the visionary Berlin-based Swedish bassist-producer Petter Eldh. The lineup brings together five heavy jazz names on the Berlin–Nordics axis, including Eldh on bass, Christian Lillinger on drums and the frontline of three saxes: Otis Sandsjö, Jonas Kullhammar and Mikko Innanen. Despite the top-billing names, make no mistake: this is not just another "supergroup", but a real working band with their own sound and musical trajectory. In addition to scorching originals by all members of the band, Koma Saxo tackle a handful of carefully-picked and highly inspirational borrowed tunes from Finnish legends Matti Oiling, Edward Vesala and the Swedish composer Olle Adolphson. Even at their most freeform, Koma Saxo have an underlying "threat" of swinging hard. At their most peaceful, their hymns are full of genuine serenity and charisma, enabling them to never fall into easy sentimentality. Whatever the mood, Koma Saxo are like lightning in a box, yearning to be set free.

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24/6/22

bay6 - Don't Know Why

craig finn - Ram in the Thicket

petter eldh koma saxo x sofia jernberg ft. lucy railton x maria reich - koma krig

lone - Echo Paths Ebb And Flow

אורי שוחט ורועי כפרי – בוא נביא את זה

kh – looking at your pager

tigris – the boss

let’s eat grandma – two ribbons

folly tree -we’ll be allright

buttering trio – come hither

kendrick lamar - Mother I Sober (ft. Beth Gibbons)

Julian Casablancas + The Voidz - Human Sadness

let’s eat grandma - בא לך ללכת לאכול משהו? דווקא אין לי תיאבון

Another fantastic LP from We Jazz Records as they present the third album from jazz trio ENEMY, made up of bassist Petter Eldh, drummer James Maddren and pianist Kit Downes. This trio nails it! They’ve put together an album full of short songs that keep you hooked from start to finish – every second counts, with no wasted moments in sight. The tracklist is perfectly consistent, giving you a varied and dynamic listening experience.