Let's get things started! Wooot!
Experimental, contemporary instrumental, noise, classical, it's all here! Why? Well I generally listen to this stuff in a way separate from most pop music (i.e. contemporary song structure, usually with vocals). Instead of focusing on genres, I am all about categorizing music on the CONTEXTS IN WHICH I UTILIZE IT.
For example:
Dance music and hiphop: For the most part, I utilize these genres as a DJ and am purging mercilessly, which is why a lot of it does not make my best-of-2011, which focuses on COHESIVE ALBUMS. Often my favourites will just get played at my gigs.
Pop music: general listening, particularly in the car.
Experimental/instrumental: I usually listehn to this stuff alone (because my wife's not too in to it,) and often with more specific focus.
I have assembled the playlist file in the post to descend from my favouritest, down.
CAITLYN'S FAVOURITE INSTRUMENTAL / EXPERIMENTAL ALBUMS OF 2011!!!!!!!!
1) Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2; Judges
2) Vladislav Delay Quartet - Debut
3) Maps And Diagrams - The Town Beneath The Sea
4) Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile - The Goat Rodeo Sessions
5) Fourcolor - As Pleat
6) Deaf Center - Owl and Splinters
7) Balam Acab - Wander Wonder
8) RxRy - A (Alpha)
9) Ø - Heijastuva
10) Kronos Quartet, Kimmo Pohjonen & Samuli Kosminen - Uniko
11) Kid Koala - Space Cadet
12) Jim O'Rourke - Old News #5
13) VA - Tasogare Live in Tokyo
14) Natural Snow Buildings - Chants Of Niflheim
15) Daniel Menche - Feral
16) Field Rotation - Regenzeit 10
17) Taylor Deupree & Marcus Fischer - In A Place Of Such Graceful Shapes
18) Cut Hands - Afro Noise 1
19) Demian Johnston & Kevin Gan Yuen - Keep Your Hands
20) Stephan Mathieu - A Static Place
21) Stephan Mathieu - Remain
22) Gianlucca Becuzzi - [In]visible Fields (2 CD)
23) Reve Steich - Stunning for 18 Miles
24) Being - Quiet Rain
25) Vampillia - Alchemic Heart
26) Bellows - Handcut
27) Valerio Tricoli & Thomas Ankersmit - Forma II
28) Loscil - Coast; Range; Arc
29) Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place
30) Earth - Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light I
AND YES, the playlist is like 6 hours long. For large works that are a single track, I have excerpted them to give a sense of what they are about.
Please listen deeply, and then go purchase your favourite releases from this list!
THIS WEEK'S TRACKS
Balam Acab - Apart
Balam Acab - Oh, Why
Being - Partical Stream
Being - Quiet Rain (The Boats Remix)
Bellows - Traccia 01
Bellows - Traccia 05
Colin Stetson - A Dream Of Water
Colin Stetson - Judges
Cut Hands - Ezili Freda
Cut Hands - Welcome To The Feast Of Trumpets
Daniel Menche - Feral One
Deaf Center - Close Forever Watching
Deaf Center - New Beginning (Tidal Darkness)
Demian Johnston & Kevin Gan Yuen - Told Outloud Indoors
Earth - Descent To The Zenith
Field Rotation - Regenzeit
Fourcolor - Carmine Fall
Fourcolor - Quiet Gray 1
Gianlucca Becuzzi - For E.A.P
Jim O'Rourke - Detain The Man To Whom
Julianna Barwick - Cloak
Julianna Barwick - Envelop
Kid Koala - Main Title Theme (Open Your Book)
Kid Koala - Recyclotron (Page 110)
Kronos Quartet, Kimmo Pohjonen & Samuli Kosminen - Uniko III. Sarma
Kronos Quartet, Kimmo Pohjonen & Samuli Kosminen - Uniko VI. Emo
Loscil - Névé
Maps and Diagrams - Lorentzen
Maps and Diagrams - Ukiyo-e
Minamo - Live In Tokyo April 11 2010
Natural Snow Buildings - Chants Of Niflheim Part II
Ø - Heijastuva
Reve Steich - Stunning for 18 Miles (excerpt)
RxRy - Elipsis
RxRy - Stag
Stephan Mathieu - Remain (excerpt)
Stephan Mathieu - Schwarzschild Radius
Taylor Deupree + Marcus Fischer - In A Place Of Such Graceful Shapes (excerpt)
Valerio Tricoli & Thomas Ankers - Zwerm Voor Tithonus
Vampillia - Sea (excerpt)
Vladislav Delay Quartet - Des Abends
Vladislav Delay Quartet - Santa Teresa
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~CPI
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