Yeah I like Los Lobos but that sounds like something I might dig a lot. Thanks.

How about Wolves In The Throne Room or Nachtmystium?

It's interesting looking at this list while considering what you said about my own list, that it was the closest to yours. I mean our Top 10's aren't really similar at all, and our Top 50's only share about a dozen or so albums. And while I can find almost everything on my list - aside from Joanna Newsom, of course - somewhere in your list, I can also find almost every record that I heard and didn't like, every record I heard about[ and didn't get around to or bother to listen to, and a whole lot of stuff I've never even heard of.

But I take it as a compliment that you see similarity there. Your taste always seems very broad, very informed, and very interesting. I may have discovered more from your lists over the years than anybody else here. I'm pretty curious about your #1 and #3 picks, and I'm thinking maybe I should give your #2 choice a listen after all.

You can find his #1 here:



I'm curious too and am in the process of dling

And just in case you want to sample it rather than downloading: http://player.ecmrecords.com/baertsch

abridged version of Modul 47

After a single listen, Modul 47 is interesting and palatable, but given my listening habits, I can't say that I would spend a ton of time with the full album. Same story with Jon Hassel's 2009 album that harry was into.

Not the best cut... but it's prolly an acquired taste... it's the comibination of the "compositional" nature of the music, and the post-jazz world music influences on the "american" art of jazz... the cerebral experimentation that is "continental"... although that doesn't necessarily explain Jon Hassell. The modern minimalizing while developing new kinds of multiple sources and complexity. Hassell, Nils Pettar Molvaer, Ronin... even older Europeans like Tord Gustavsen, Tomasz Stanko etc etc... even Jon Garbarek... all take versions of Miles' cool and mix it with European "serious" composition (Miles cited Stockhausen as an influence)... and make something very appealing to me. I've compared it to the blues hitting England and becoming something different (e.g. the Rolling Stones). Certainly this kind of music can be listened to on the surface... nice "chill" music after a drugged dinner party... but can only give up its treasure after many, many listenings. But I clearly like this more than most or any on Obner and again, it may be an acquired taste not worth the effort for most... just when it's done right nothing gets into my dark little ECm heart with so much light.

I guess I should've said that I can't, or am not really willing to, give Ronin the attention it deserves even though I think it warrants the attention. It's currently a sad state of affairs as far as my listening habits go. Comes from a combo of symptoms: laziness, quasi need for instant gratification, lack of real stereo (which is really something I need to work on).

final annotated version

great fuckin list dude

Really enjoyed the write ups on your top records.

Based on this write-up, I will be checking this out. Thanks harry.

A lot of good stuff on here Harry (and a lot I need to listen to still). Barn Owl, Emeralds, and Loscil were all top ten for me last year.