Tim Bowness – My Hotel Year (2004)

Centrozoon – Never Trust The Way You Are (2005)

Peter Hammill – The Thin Air (2009)

Robert Wyatt – Rock Bottom (1975)

Henry Fool – s/t (2003)

Mirror – Islands (2001)

Brian Eno – Another Green World (1976)

Ian Holloway & Banks Bailey – A Brief Sojourn (2009)

Richard Youngs – Beyond The Valley Of The Ultra Hits (2009)

Coil – The Golden Hare With A Voice Of Silver (2002)

Jo Gabriel – Hunting Down The Ceremony (2010)

Andrew Chalk – Blue Eyes OF The March (2006)

Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo and Ernesto Tomasini – Canes Venatici (2008)

Matt Shoemaker – Spots In The Sun (2007)

Christian Wallumrød Ensemble -
Fabula Suite Lugano (2010)

John Abercrombie / Ralph Towner – Sargasso Sea (1976)

Jon Balke – Siwan (2009)

Morton Feldman – The Viola In My Life (2008)

Brethren Of The Free Spirit – The Wolf Also Shall Dwell With The Lamb (2008)

Les Nouvelles Polyphonies Corses With Hector Zazou – Les Nouvelles Polyphonies Corses Avec Hector Zazou (1991)

Yann Novak – The Breeze Blowing Over Us (2009)

Black 47 – Bankers And Gamblers (2010)

Laura Nyro – New York Tendaberry (lp) (1969)

Rafael Anton Irisarri – Daydreaming (lp) (2009)

Colin Potter, Phil Mouldycliff – Grey Skies On Asphalt (2010)

Miles Davis – Blue Moods (lp) (1963)

Miles Davis – E.S.P. (lp) (1965)

Andrew Chalk – Fall In The Wake Of A Flawless Landscape (lp) (2004)

Peter Gabriel – Up (2002)

Current 93 – Black Ships Ate The Sky (2006)

Klaus Schulze – Irrlicht (1972)

stephenhero – Apparition In The Woods (2009)

Marsfield – The Towering Sky (2010)

Ian Holloway & Banks Bailey – A Brief Sojourn (2009)

Eberhard Weber – Later That Evening (1982)

Joni Mitchell – Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter (1977)

Robert Fripp – Pleasure In Pieces (1978)

The Claudia Quintet – I, Claudia (2004)

Henry Threadgill Zooid – This Brings Us To, Vol. 1 (2009)

Teo Macero – Teo (1980)

Kip Hanrahan – Coup De Tete (1981)

Astor Piazzolla And The New Tango Quintet – Tango: Zero Hour / Nuevo Tango: Hora Zero (1986)

orchestramaxfieldparrish has once again been voted as part of the Top 10 Recordings of the year at textura with this years triple cd companion release of orchestramaxfieldparrish presents ÆRA – To The Last Man / Index Of Dreaming / Pæan No. 1 – The Paradise Syndrome

sincere thanks to textura for being the very special website they truly are. orchestramaxfieldparrish’s The Silent Breath Of Emptiness had made the list for 2008.

also: Brainwashed has nominated ÆRA – To The Last Man / Index Of Dreaming to the 2009 Reader’s Poll. Many thanks to all at Brainwashed for sharing the vision.

Soundbites can be heard and the entire trilogy of recordings can be found at a specially reduced rate exclusively through Faith Strange Recordings

MF’s favorite recordings (for one reason or another) in 2009 and the one’s that have been a consistent pleasure to return to:

David Sylvian – Manafon

Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society – Infernal Machines

The Hafler Trio – The Name Of Someone

Bill Nelson – Fancy Planets

Bill Nelson – The Dream Transmission Pavilion

Nils Petter Molvær – Hamada

Polwechsel & John Tilbury – Field

Nurse With Wound – The Surveillance Lounge / The Memory Surface

no-man – Mixtaped

Richard Skelton – Marking Time (lp – reissue)

PJ Harvey & John Parish – A Woman A Man Walked By

Andrew Chalk & Daisuke Suzuki – In Faxfleet Clouds Uplifted Autumn Gave Passage To Kind Nature

Rameses III – I Could Not Love You More (lp)

Nana April Jun – The Ontology of Noise

Richard Youngs – Under Stellar Stream

Tomas Phillips – Six Notes

Prince – Lotusflow3r

BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa – Man From Deep River

Ian Holloway – She Loves To See The Sky

irr. app. (ext.) – Kreiselwelle

Coil – The Angelic Conversation (1994)

Bill Nelson – Trial By Intimacy (The Book Splendours) (1984)

American Music Club – Mercury (1993)

American Music Club – San Francisco (1994)

Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society – Infernal Machines (2009)

The Matthew Herbert Big Band (Goodbye Swingtime (2003)

Thomas Feiner And Anywhen – The Opiates Revisited (2008)

Extension Ensemble – New York Presence (2004)

Barney Kessel – Kessel Plays Standards (1954)

Fred Frith – Guitar Solos (1974)

David Sylvian – Manafon (2009)

Naked City – Absinthe (1993)

Robby Aceto – Code (1996)

The Hope Blister – …Smile’s Ok (1998)

Rameses III – I Could Not Love You More (2009)

Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Signs Of Life (1987)

Stan Getz Quartet – In Poland 1960 (2008)

Johnny Smith – Walk, Don’t Run! (1958)

Yes – Close To The Edge (1972)

David Darling – Dark Wood (1993)

Andrew Chalk & Daisuke Suzuki – In Faxfleet Clouds Uplifted Autumn Gave Passage To Kind Nature (2009)

Stan Getz & Eddie Sauter – Mickey One (1962)

Sam Butera & The Witnesses – The Continental Twist (1960)

Sam Butera – The Big Horn (1961)

Sam Butera & The Witnesses – The Wildest Clan (1962)

Johnny Gregory And His Orchestra – The Avengers And Other TV Themes (1961)

Julie London – London By Night (1958)

Julie London – You’re Number Please (1959)

Julie London – Make Love To Me (1957)

Julie London – Lonely Girl (1956)