As certain traditions would have it, a drawer, bedside table or any other such object is gradually overtaken by time, which solidifies until at last the object becomes the incarnation of a certain spirit. Thus the annual spring cleaning. Similarly, before the year goes out like a light, we shuffle through gifts, keepsakes, thoughts even - hoping to see where we stand. Here are some noteworthy tokens that I’ll be keeping with me from the past twelve months.

1.

IKUE MORI
Bhima Swarga: The Journey Of The Soul From Hell To Heaven
Tzadik

2.

ALISTAIR CROSBIE
This Quiet House (The Lonesome Age Of Mirrors - Volume One) / The Study Of Cycles (The Lonesome Age Of Mirrors - Volume Two)
Lefthand Pressings

3.

BHOB RAINEY & RALF WEHOWSKY
I Don’t Think I Can See You Tonight
Sedimental

4.

COH
Strings
Raster-Noton

5.

YAIR ETZIONY
Flawed
Spekk

6.

KEN IKEDA
Mist On The Window
Spekk

7.

GIUSEPPE IELASI & NICOLA RATTI
Bellows
Kning Disk

8.

SEBASTIEN ROUX
Revers Oust
Room 40

9.

MACHINEFABRIEK
Weleer
Lampse

10.

LISA BEILAWA
A Handful Of World
Tzadik

11.

MIDORI HIRANO
Lushrush
Noble

12.

MAILE COLBERT
Moborosi
Twenty Hertz

13.

PJUSK
Sart
12K

14.

HILDUR GUDNADOTTIR / BJ NILSEN / STILLUPPSTEYPA
Second Childhood
Quecksilber

15.

PETER WRIGHT
At Last A New Dawn
Students Of Decay

16.

STARS OF THE LID
And Their Refinement Of The Decline
Kranky

 

17.

ISLAJA
Ulual Yyy
Fonal

18.

MICHAEL SANTOS
Soft Pocket
U-Cover

19.

KAMMERFLIMMER KOLLEKTIEF
Jinx
Staubgold

20.

PIANA
Eternal Castle
Noble

 

 

THE 2007 REVIEW

David Abravanel
Eleventh Volume
Joe Muggs
themilkman

 

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