2020: OCEAN OF SOUND

 

CONTEMPORARY/CLASSICAL/CONCRÈTE

Bertrand Chamayou - Good Night! (Erato Records)
Christine Ott - Chimères (pour ondes Martenot) (NAHAL Recordings)
Drew Whiting - In Lights Starkly Different (Innova Recordings)
Gustav Holst, London Philharmonic O. - The Planets (Edit.Futurum)
Meredith Monk & Bang On A Can All-Stars - Memory Game (Cantaloupe)
Nicholas Lens & Nick Cave - L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S (Deutsche Grammophon)
Quatuor Bozzini - Ana Sokolović - Short Stories (qb Records)
Robert Haigh - Black Sarabande (Unseen Worlds Records)
Thor & Friends - 3 & 4 (Joyful Noise Recordings)
VA - Modulation Necklace; New Music from Armenia (New Focus)

 

OCEAN OF SOUND: GURUS

David Toop - Apparition Paintings (Room40 Records)
Hans-Joachim Roedelius - Selbstportrait Wahre Liebe (Bureau B)
Harald Grosskopf - Synthesist (1980; 40th An. Ed., Bureau B)
Jon Hassell - Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Vol. Two) (Ndeya)
Laraaji - Sun Piano / Moon Piano (All Saints Records)
Roger & Brian Eno - Mixing Colours (Deutsche Grammophon)
Ruth Anderson  - Here (Arc Light Editions)
Yas-Kaz - Jomon-sho (縄文頌) (Glossy Mistake)
Yumiko Morioka - Resonance (1987/Re. Métron Records)
VA - Deutsche Elektronische Musik 4 [1971-83] (Soul Jazz Records)

AMBIENT/DRONE/ELECTROACOUSTIC...

Ichiko Aoba - Windswept Adan (Hermine Records)
Mike Cooper - Astrosurfing (Mike Cooper Music)
Julianna Barwick - Healing Is a Miracle (Ninja Tune)
Lionel Marchetti - Planktos 2015-2020 (L. M.)
LOG - LOG ET3RNAL (Experiences Ltd.)
Meitei = 冥丁 - Kofū = 古風 (Kitchen. Label)
Sarah Davachi - Cantus, Descant (Late Music)
Roméo Poirier - Hotel Nota (Sferic)
Tomoko Sauvage - Fischgeist (Bohemian Drips)
William Basinski - Lamentations (Temporary Residence Ltd.)

SYNTHS/NEW AGE/POST EXOTIC/ MUZAK

Brigitte Barbu - Muzak Pour Ascenseurs en Panne (Circus Company)
Domenique Dumont - People On Sunday (Leaf)
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Mosaic of Transformation (Ghostly)
Kate NV - Room for the Moon (Rvng Intl.)
Matt Evans - New Topographics (Whatever’s Clever)
Markus Floats - Third Album (Constellation)
Memotone - Invisible Cities (Diskotopia)
Pulse Emitter - Swirlings (Hausu Mountain)
SiP - Leos Naturals (Not  Not  Fun Records)
Teleplasmiste - To Kiss Earth Goodbye (House of Mythology)

 

OTHER WORLDS/OTHERS SOUNDS
(AVANT-ETHNO/AVANT TRIBAL/RITUAL/NEO-KRAUT...)
Bhajan Bhoy - Bless Bless (Wormer Bros. Records)
Dwarfs Of East Agouza - The Green Dogs of Dahshur (Akuphone)
Gnod & João Pais Filipe - Faca De Fogo (Rocket Recordings)
Kaboom Karavan - The Log and the Leeway (Miasmah)
Mark Fell & Will Guthrie ‎- Infoldings/Diffractions (NAKID)
Mong Tong 夢東 - Mystery 秘神 (Guruguru Brain)
Naujawanan Baidar - Volume 1 & 2 (Cardinal Fuzz/Feeding Tube)
Saint Abdullah - In God’s Image (Psychic Liberation)
Staraya Derevnya - Inwards Opened the Floor (Staraya Derevnya)
Todd W. Emmert - Unintentionally Marginalized (Chocolate Monk)

ITALIAN DO IT …. BENONE (AMBIENT, DRONE, MINIMAL)

Alessandra Novaga  - I Should Have Been a Gardener (Die Schachtel)
Gigi Masin - Calypso (Apollo Records)
Giovanni Di Domenico - Isasolo! (Canti Magnetici)
Laura Agnusdei - Laurisilva (The Wormhole)
Netherworld - Algida Bellezza (Glacial Movements) 2019
Marco Dalpane - Le Città invisibili (Le Città e i morti) (Soave)
Martina Bertoni - All The Ghosts Are Gone (DL Falk)
Open To The Sea - Another Year Is Over, Let's Wait for Springtime (Midira)
Simone Gatto - Harmonic Resonance System 432 HZ (Pregnant Void)
Scosse Elettriche - Scosse Elettriche (Alma De Nieto Music)