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It should come as no surprise to any of my readers that I'm a big fan and supporter of Bruno Sanfilippo and his music. His "Auralspace" release has been in permanent rotation in my CD player for almost a year now, and I regularly return to his other works when I'm looking for something to listen to. You can understand that I was very pleased to hear about his latest release "Piano Textures 2", a follow up to 2007's "Piano Textures", which was a stunning album of inspired environments using only a processed and effected grand piano as a sound source. Now that I've had a chance to listen to it carefully, I'm pleased to report that "Piano Textures 2" continues the idea with similar beautiful results.

"Piano Textures2 i" opens the disc with a theme from the earlier "Piano Textures" release, which leads into a new meditative piece of great beauty. Employing sparse and simple melodic work over a slowly drifting pad Sanfilippo creates…

the Best and very good of 2009.
There were many albums which were good or just all right, but here's the list of the most interesting to me - from soothing ambient sounds to pure sonic bestiality and everything good in between. Still a lot to discover, so head on there! :)


Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse
Amber Asylum - Bitter River
Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs
Asphyx - Death... The Brutal Way
Astra - The Weirding
Atrium Carceri - Phrenitis
Atrocity - Let War Rage
Autopsy - Horrific Obsession
Bastard Noise - Rogue Astronaut
BLOOD I BLEED - Gods Out Of Monsters
Bone Gnawer - Feast Of Flesh
Bonesaw - Sawtopsy
Bruno Sanfilippo - Auralspace
Brutal Truth - Evolution Through Revolution
Burnt By The Sun - Heart Of Darkness
Callisto - Providence
Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
Cities Last Broadcast - The Cancelled Earth
Collapsar - Beyond The Event Horizon
Converge - Axe To Fall
Criminal Element - Guilty As Charged
David Sylvian - Manafon
David Wright & Ian Boddy - Shifting Sands
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Post-rock artists:
1) Sigur Rós
2) Explosions in the Sky
3) God Is An Astronaut
4) A Silver Mt. Zion
5) Godspeed You! Black Emperor



Neoclassic / new age / ambient artists:
I. Adorable:
1) Alexandre Desplat
2) Ludovico Einaudi
3) Paul Schwartz
5) Ashram
6) Deuter
7) Jeff Beal
8) Zbigniew Preisner
9) Yann Tiersen
10) Алексей Айги
11) Max Richter
12) Mythos
13) Philip Glass
14) Secret Garden
15) Klaus Badelt
16) Bruno Coulais


II. Very good:
17) 2002
18) Anne Dudley
19) Rondo Veneziano
20) Sylvain Chauveau
21) E.S. Posthumus
22) Globus
23) Divine Works
24) Dario Marianelli
25) Enigma
26) Enya
27) Era
28) Hans Zimmer
29) Harry Gregson-Williams
30) Jeremy Soule
31) Kevin Kern
32) Vangelis


Out of genre:
Bruno Sanfilippo
Carbon Based Lifeforms
Dust Heaven
Emma Shapplin
Flёur
Олеся
Лихолесье
Ветер воды
T.A.T.U
Vortex Involute
Lothlórien

I shut down the lines, turned over the locks, silenced the clocks, and took a vacation. That was a week ago, and now seems like last year. Meanwhile, I had to take a step back from rotations, even though the music kept spinning on my mind. Thus a month went by, and now I'm back with another installment. All that doesn't mean that I haven' been keeping busy - I was able to document an exclusive interview with none other than The Flashbulb. So make sure to point your clickers there and read!

Conversations With Benn Jordan

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Robert Logan - Grinder EP (Slowfoot)

Last year, 19 year old Robert Logan hit the UK scene with his debut album, Cognessence. It was immediately embraced by the dubstep and the dark experimental IDM communities alike. In February 2008, Logan followed up his full length with a 12" EP on the same label, Slowfoot Records. …

Bruno Sanfilippo
Ludovico Einaudi

Yea, Thank you last.fm for introducing me to the first artist linked.
And I recommend Ludovico Einaudi.
:)

It's been about a month since I posted an entry on my Rotations. I guess I wanted my Best of 2007 write up to stew a bit on a back burner. But that doesn't mean that I haven't been busy. I caught up a bit on some of the artists I missed, some that I put off because I knew they were good, and some that I discovered for the first time! Here's a set of music that has graced my ears since the New Year! Enjoy!

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Bruno Sanfilippo - Piano Textures (ad21 music)
The sequentially titled pieces in Piano Textures, by the Spanish contemporary composer, Bruno Sanfilippo, are nothing short of a gorgeous composition. Period. Simple and elegant, mesmerizing and haunting, the multi-velocity sampled 1923 Steinway shines as the most versatile instrument in the ensemble. And it shines in the hands of Sanfilippo, who received a degree as a Music Superior Professor in the Galvani Conservatory in Buenos Aires. …

hmm, i'm a bit late for being in that "rewind the year" game but here i am with my list. there are 30 ep's and 30 albums on the list without reviews but i'm gonna put short comments when i publish it on my blog (yeah, i'll have a blog very soon).


albums

01 - Stars of the Lid - and their refinement of the decline
02 - Robert Wyatt - comicopera
03 - Deadbeat - journeyman's annual [~scape]
04 - Swod - sekunden
05 - Kalabrese - rumpelzirkus
06 - Frivolous - midnight black indulgence [~scape]
07 - Touane - figura
08 - Off the Sky - the geist cycles
09 - Pole - steingarten [~scape]
10 - Fennesz + Sakamoto - cendre
11 - Chica and the Folder - under the balcony
12 - Manmade Science - one
13 - Andrea Sartori - il tagliacode
14 - Sun Electric - lost & found (1998 - 2000)
15 - Deepchord Presents Echospace - the coldest season
16 - The Beautiful Schizophonic - musicamorosa
17 - Geiom - island noise
18 - Burial - untrue
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