IL NUOVO GIARDINO MAGNETICO: 2023

 

 GIARDINO TOP 2023

Allargando l’orizzonte:

POP, ROCK, SONGWRITING (ALT/CLASSIC)

ELECTRONIC SPECTRUM

OCEAN OF SOUND

BLACK, JAZZ & AFRO-CENTRIC VISIONS

GLOBAL A GO-GO (AROUND THE WORLD)

DISCOPHILIA,(RARE) GROOVES & EASY LISTENING

 

GIARDINO TOP 2023

 

 Giardino Top 30 (In Ordine Alfabetico)

 

Alam Khan, Arjun K. Verma, Del Sol Quartet - The Resonance Between (AMMP) 

Anohni and the Johnsons - My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross (Secretly Canadian)

Athos - To Know Where It’s Going (Abaju! Records)

Catherine Christer Hennix - Solo for Tamburium (Blank Forms Editions)

CEL - Gegenwelt (Bureau B) Felix Kubin + Hubert Zemler

Charif Megarbane - Marzipan (Habibi Funk Records)

Chief Adjuah - Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning (Ropeadope)

 Classica Orchestra Afrobeat - Circles (Brutture Moderne)

Daniela Pes - Spira (Tanca Records)

Eddie Chacon - Sundown (Stones Throw) 

El Kontessa الكونتيسة - Nos Habet Caramel (Bilna’es)

Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed - Hits and Misses (Yep Roc)

IzangoMa - Ngo Ma (Brownswood Recordings)

Jaimie Branch - Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) (International Anthem)

Le Cri du Caire - Le Cri du Caire (Les Disques du Festival Permanent)

Luke Vibert - Machine Funk (Detuned)

Meg Baird - Furling (Drag City) 

Melanie De Biasio - Il Viaggio (Pias-Rough Trade)

Mike Cooper - Black Flamingo (Room40)

Model/Actriz - Dogsbody (True Panther)

Rian Treanor & Ocen James - Saccades (Nyege Nyege Tapes)

Robert Forster - The Candle And The Flame (Tapete Records)

Slowdive - Everything Is Alive (Dead Oceans)

Soema Montenegro - Círculo Radiante (Mais Um)

Sparklehorse - Bird Machine (Anti)

Suzanne Ciani & Jonathan Fitoussi - Golden Apples of the Sun (Obliques..)

Tiziano Tononi - Winter Counts (2CD, Felmay)

 TONN3RR3 & BIKAY3 - It's a Bomb (Born Bad Records)

 V/Z - Suono Assente (AD 93) Susumu Mukai, Valentina Magaletti

Vanishing Twin - Afternoon X (Fire Records) 

Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World (Matador)

  

 

  

 

 Giardino Top 20 Reissues & Retrospectives

 

 Ali Farka Toure - Voyageur (World Circuit)

Arthur Russell - Picture of Bunny Rabbit (Audika-Rough Trade)

 Jantra - Synthesized Sudan; Astro-Nubian Electronic Jaglara Dance...(Ostinato)

John Coltrane & Eric Dolphy - Evenings at the Village Gate [1960] (Impulse!)

 John Zorn - Masada 30th Anniversary Edition The Complete Studio Master Takes (Tzadik)

 Larry Heard - Love’s Arrival (Alleviated Records)

Mort Garson - Journey to the Moon and Beyond (Sacred Bones Records)

Oliver Nelson - Black Brown And Beautiful (Flying Dutchman, 1970; RE., BGP/Stardust)

Papa Yankson - Party Time (Marriot Promotion, 1989/REISSUE, Kalita)

Pauline Anna Strom - Echoes, Spaces, Lines (Rvng Intl./4CDBOX)

Sonic Youth - Live in Brooklyn 2011 (Silver Current Records)

Sun Ra - Hendersonia; Sun Ra Performs Fletcher Henderson (Sun Ra LLC)

 Tsuki No Wa - Ninth Elegy (360° Records, 2000/REISSUE, All Night Flight)

Walter Maioli - Il Suono Delle Api / La Vibrazione Del Cosmo (Villa Lontana Rec.)

Va - All Turned On! Motown Instrumentals 1960-1972 (Ace)

  Va - Fish & Poi: Hawaiian Independent 78rpm Discs ca.1945​-​56 (Canary Records)

Va - Jazz Dispensary: Hotel Jolie Dame (Craft Recordings)

 Va - Loma Northern Soul; Classics & Revelations 1964-1968 (Kent Soul)

Va - Written In Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos (Craft-Stax)

Va - This Is Flying Dutchman 1969-1975 (Flying Dutchman-BGP Records)

 

 

 

 

R.I.P.

From Here To Eternity † 

 Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru † (Addis Ababa, 12 Dic.1923 – Jerusalem, 26 Mar 2023) 

Harry Belafonte † (New York, 1º Marzo 1927 – New York, 25 Aprile 2023)

Burt Bacharach † (Kansas City, 12 Maggio 1928 – Los Angeles, 8 Febbraio 2023)

Wayne Shorter † (Newark, 25 Agosto 1933 – Los Angeles, 2 Marzo 2023) 

 Les McCann † (Lexington - Kentucky, 23 Settembre 1935 – 29 Dicembre 2023)

Carla Bley † (Oakland, 11 Maggio 1936 – Willow, 17 Ottobre 2023)  

Gordon Lightfoot † (Orillia, 17 Novembre 1938 – Toronto, 1º Maggio 2023)  

Charles  Gayle † (Buffalo, 28 Febbraio 1939 – New York, 5 Settembre 2023)

Tina Turner † (Brownsville, 26 Novembre 1939 – Küsnacht, 24 Maggio 2023)  

Astrud Gilberto † (Salvador de Bahia, 29 Marzo 1940 – Filadelfia, 5 Giugno 2023)

 Peter Brotzmann † (Remscheid, 6 Marzo 1941 – Wuppertal, 22 Giugno 2023)

  David Crosby † (Los Angeles, 14 Agosto 1941 – Santa Ynez, 18 Gennaio 2023)

 Alberto Radius † (Roma, 1º Giugno 1942 – San Colombano al Lambro, 16 Feb. 2023)

  Sixto Rodriguez † (Detroit, 10 Luglio 1942 – Detroit, 8 agosto 2023)

 Robbie Robertson † (Toronto, 5 Luglio 1943 – Los Angeles, 9 Agosto 2023)

 Jeff Beck † (Londra, 24 Giugno 1944 – Wadhurst, 10 Gennaio 2023)

 Jimmy Buffett † (Pascagoula, 25 Dicembre 1946 – Sag Harbor, 1º Settembre 2023)

 Tom Verlaine † (Morristown, 13 Dicembre 1949 – New York, 28 Gennaio 2023)

 Gary Rossington † (Jacksonville, 4 Dicembre 1951 – 5 Marzo 2023)

 Ryūichi Sakamoto 坂本 龍 † (Tokyo, 17 Gen. 1952 – Tokyo, 28 Marzo 2023)

 Monte Cazazza † (13 Novembre 1954 – 30 Giugno 2023)

 Ronnie S. Peno † (Boggabri, 26 Luglio 1955- Melbourne, 11 Agosto 2023)

 Shane MacGowan † (Pembury, 25 Dicembre 1957 – Dublino, 30 Novembre 2023)

 Steve Roden † (Los Angeles, 27 Aprile 1964 – Los Angeles, 6 Settembre 2023)

 Sinead O' Connor † (Dublino, 8 Dicembre 1966 – Londra, 26 Luglio 2023)

 David Jolicoeur (Trugoy the Dove) † (New York, 21 Settembre, 1968 – 12 Febbraio 2023)

 Mamadou Sanou aka Baba Commandant † (Bobo-Dioulasso, 1973 – 26 Nov., 2023)

Sara Tavares † (Lisbona, 1º Febbraio 1978 – Lisbona, 19 Novembre 2023) 

 

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2023: ROCK, POP, SONGWRITING... (CLASSIC + ALTERNATIVE)

 

(Sempre e comunque) 

PATRIMONI DELL’UMANITA’

 

Iggy Pop - Every Loser (Gold Tooth-Atlantic)

John Cale - Mercy (Domino-Double Six)

 Neil Young - Chrome Dreams + Before and After (Reprise)

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – Australian Carnage (Goliath)

Paul Simon - Seven Psalms (Owl - Legacy)

Peter Gabriel - i/o (Real World)

Pretenders - Relentless (Parlophone)

Pere Ubu -  Trouble On Big Beat Street (Cherry Red)

Robyn Hitchcock - Life After Infinity (Tiny Ghost Records)

Shirley Collins - Archangel Hill (Domino)

Yusuf/Cat Stevens - King of a Land (BMG-Dark Horse)

 

 

ROOTS HIGHWAYS, BLUES HIGHWAYS

 

(Americana, Country, Roots-Rock, Folk, Blues….)

 

Bob Martin - Seabrook (Worried Songs)

Cat Power - Sings Dylan; The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert (Domino)

Dom Flemons - Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian Folkways)

Jeffrey Martin - Thank God We Left the Garden (Fluff And Gravy)

Joe Henry - All the Eye Can See (Ear Music)

 Kassi Valazza - Kassi Valazza Knows Nothing (Fluff And Gravy Records)

Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives - Altitude (Snakefarm)

 Natalie Merchant - Keep Your Courage (Nonesuch)

Nat Myers - Yellow Peril (Easy Eye Sound)

Peter Case - Doctor Moan (Sunset Blvd Records)

Tom Ovans - The Cure (NSR Sound Recordings)

 

 

 

 

INDIE HEROES

 

Blonde Redhead - Sit Down for Dinner (Section 1 Records)

Blur - The Ballad of Darren (Parlophone-Warner Records)

Daniel Johnston - Love Lives Forever (BBC Sessions 2003-2011) (Trussed)

Drop Nineteens - Hard Light (Wharf Cat Records)

The Folk Implosion - Music for KIDS (Domino-2CD)

Guided By Voices - La La Land + Welshpool Frillies + Nowhere To Go But Up (G.B.V.)

Jad Fair & Samuel Locke Ward - Happy Hearts (Kill Rock Stars)

Jesus And Mary Chain - Sunset 666 (Fuzz Club Records)

PJ Harvey - I Inside the Old Year Dying (Partisan Records)

Robert Forster - The Candle And The Flame (Tapete Records)

Slowdive - Everything Is Alive (Dead Oceans)

Sonic Youth - Live in Brooklyn 2011 (Silver Current Records)

The Van Pelt - Artisans & Merchants (Spartan Records)

Wilco - Cousin (dBpm Records)

YoLa Tengo - This Stupid World (Matador)

 

 

 

 

ALTERNATIVE SOUP

 

(Indie Pop, Jangle Pop, Chamber Pop, Indie-Folk)

 

Being Dead - When Horses Would Run (Bayonet Records)

The Clientele - I Am Not There Anymore (Merge)

En Attendant Ana - Principia ( Trouble in Mind)

 Mac DeMarco - Some Other Ones (Captured Tracks) Instrumental

The Tubs - Dead Meat (Trouble In Mind)

RVG - Brain Worms (Fire Records)

The Small Intestines - Hide in Time (Meritorio Records)

Swansea Sound - Twentieth Century (Skep Wax)

Teenage Fanclub - Nothing Lasts Forever (Merge-Pema)

 

 

 

(Alt Song, Alt-Folk, Alt-Country)

 

DM Stith - Fata Morgana (Historical Fiction Records)

James Yorkston, Nina Persson & Second Hand Orch. - The GreatWhite Sea Eagle (Domino)

John Francis Flynn - Look Over the Wall, See the Sky (River Lea Records)

Jonathan Day - Sakura (Niimiika -Jonathan Day)

Julie Byrne - The Greater Wings (Ghostly International)

M. Ward - Supernatural Thing (Anti-)

Matt Elliott - The End Of Days (Ici D'Ailleurs)

Meg Baird - Furling (Drag City)

 Modern Nature - No Fixed Point In Space (Bella Union)

P.G. Six - Murmurs & Whispers (Drag City)

Spencer Cullum - Spencer Cullum's Coin Collection 2 (Full Time Hobby)

Sparklehorse - Bird Machine (Anti)

Sufjan Stevens - Javelin (Asthmatic Kitty)

(Art Rock, Electro-Rock, Art Pop, Avant Pop, Prog Pop, Psych Pop,..)

 

Aksak Maboul - Une Aventure De VV (Songspiel)  (Crammed Disc)

 Asher White - New Excellent Woman (Ba Da Bing!)

 American Cream - Presents (Quindi Records)

 Cornelius - 夢中夢 - Dream in Dream (Warner Music Japan)

 King Krule - Space Heavy (XL Recordings-Matador)

Monde Ufo - Vandalized Statue To Be Replaced With Shrine (Quindi)

Peter Brewis - Blowdry Colossus (Daylight Saving)

The South Hill Experiment - Moonshots + Sunstrikes (S.H.E.)

Vanishing Twin - Afternoon X (Fire Records)

The Waeve - The Waeve (Transgressive Records) 

 

 

(LOST GIRLS)

Anohni and the Johnsons - My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross (SecretlyCanadian)

Daniela Pes - Spira (Tanca-Trovarobato) Italy

Fever Ray - Radical Romantics (Rabid)

Lost Girls - Selvutsletter (Smalltown Supersound)

Maria BC - Spike Field (Sacred Bones Records)

Melanie De Biasio - Il Viaggio (Pias-Rough Trade)

Nabihah Iqbal - Dreamer (Ninja Tune)

Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter - SAVED! (Perpetual Flame Ministries)

RuthGarbus - Alive People (Orindal Records)

Seaming To - Dust Gatherers (O SingAtMe)

 

(Noise, Post-Rock, Post-Punk, Psych-Rock, Kraut)

 CEREMONY east coast. - Lovesick (Ceremony East Coast)

Italia 90 - Living Human Treasure (Brace Yourself Records)

Ghost Woman - Hindsight Is 50-50 (Full Time Hobby)

Goat - Medicine (Rocket Recordings, 2023)

Model/Actriz - Dogsbody (True Panther)

Ping Pong - Ping Pong (Raw Culture, 2023) Italy

Shame - Food for Worms (Dead Oceans)

SQÜRL - Silver Haze (Sacred Bones Records) 

Sprain - The Lamb as Effigy... (Flensen Records)

 Swans - The Beggar (Young God)

Tropical Fuck Storm - Submersive Behaviour (Joyful Noise Recordings)

Upper Wild - Jupiter (Thrill Jockey Records)

 

 

 

SAVAGE RHYTHM

 

(Garage, Punk’N’Roll, Cow-Punk, Boogie Trash, Surf, Power Pop... )

 

The Arrogants - Brainwash (Dirty Water Records)

Bang Bang Band Girl - 12 Super Duper Extraordinary Girl..(Voodoo Rhythm)

Barrence Whitfield & The Savages - Glory (Folc Records)

The Bomboras - Songs from Beyond! (MuSick Recordings)

Brian Setzer - The Devil Always Collects (Surfdog Records)

Civic - Taken By Force (ATO Records)

Daddy Long Legs - Street Sermons (Yep Roc Records)

The Men - New York City (Fuzz Club Records)

The Midnight Kings - Last Chance To Dance (Wild Honey) Italy

Thee Headcoats - Irregularis (The Great Hiatus) (Damaged Goods)

Thunder Bomber - Dangerous Pills (Nasty Brigade) Italy

 Upchuck - Bite The Hand That Feeds (Famous Class)

 

2023: ELECTRONIC SPECTRUM

 

ELECTRONIC SPECTRUM 

Generic Dance, Techno, House, Drum & Bass, NU-Disco...)

 

 Bored Lord - Name It (T4T LUV NRG – T4T013)

Call Super - Eulo Cramps (can you feel the sun – CYFUSOUL)

 Jlin - Perspective (Planet Mu – ZIQ459)

NIGELTHREETIMES - Metropolis N (Astral Black – AST046)

Pangaea - Changing Channels(Hessle Audio – HESLP005DD1)

 Pépe - Reclaim (Lapsus Records – LPS35)

 Philip D Kick - Off World Tales (Astrophonica – APHA028) Om Unit

Rrose - Please Touch (Eaux – EAUX1691)

Sofia Kourtesis - Madres (Ninja Tune – Zen292)

Va - Music For The Radical Xenomaniac Vol.1/2/3 (Amazing! – A 001/2/3)

Old School Strikes Again

 

A Man Called Adam - The Girl With A Hole In Her Heart (Other – OTHED028)

Aphex Twin - Blackbox Life Recorder 21f in a room7 F760 (Warp – WAP480)

 As One -  AsOne² (Detuned – ASG.DE041)

Boo Williams - Depths Of Life (Boo Moonman – BMMDLP2)

The Chemical Brothers - For That Beautiful Feeling (Virgin – XDUS12)

Dj Shadow - Action Adventure (Mass Appeal – MSAP154LPBK)

 The Future Sound Of London - E7 Trilogy (fsoldigital.com)

Ц-ZIQ - 1977 (Balmat – BALMAT05)

Jeff Mills - Metropolis Metropolis (Axis – AX107)

 Larry Heard - Love’s Arrival (Alleviated Records – ML-9013V, 2001/2023)

Laurent Garnier - 33 Tours Et Puis S'en Vont (COD3 QR – COD3QR33TEPSV)

Luke Vibert - Machine Funk (Detuned – ASGDE039)

 Sven Väth (Va) - What I Used to Play (3CD/Cocoon Recordings – CORCD052)

The Orb - Prism (Cooking Vinyl – COOKCD865)

Tomorrow Comes The Harvest - Evolution (Axis – AXCD059) 

X-Press 2 - Thee (Acid Jazz – AJX2734, 2023)

Va - Happy Land (..From The British Isles 92-96) (Above Board Projects – HLLPDIG1)

Va - Jon Savage’s Ambient 90s (Caroline True Records – CTRUE32CD)

7’’/10’’/12’’: SINGLES & EP

 

 Barker - Unfixed (Smalltown Supersound – STS419)

Bella Boo - Looney Talks (Studio Barnhus – BARN 086)

Bushwacka & Carl Cox  - Music Is Life (Oblong – OBL12034)

Call Super - The Doves of Discipline Mixes (Can You Feel The Sun– CYFUSOULS4)

Floorplan - We Give TheeHonor.. (Classic Music Company – CMC206D2)

Giant Swan  - Fantasy Food (Keck – KECK003)

 Jerome Hill - Crude Appraisal (Super Rhythm Trax – SRTX 040)

 Nina Kraviz - Hace Ejercicios [1xfile Single] (трип – TRP042S1)

Octo Octa - Dreams of a Dancefloor EP (T4T LUV NRG – T4T011)

Passarani Pres. David Woods - Shuffling The Cards Again (T&W Rec. – RBTW)

Peder Mannerfelt - The Benefits Of Living In A Hole (Voam – VOAM 013)

Peverelist - Pulse Modulation E​.​P (Livity Sound – LIVITY061)

Raphael Schön - Fiesta Forever (Misfit Melodies – MFM10)

GLOBAL BEATS

(Global Beats, Global Bass, Post-Club, Afro-Electro...)

 

3phaz - Ends Meet (Discrepant – SOUK011)

 Aunty Rayzor - Viral Wreckage (Hakuna Kulala – HK048)

Ayesha - Rhythm Is Memory (Kindergarten Records 2 – KINDER016)

Deena Abdelwahed - Jbal Rrsas ج​ب​ل ا​ل​ر​ص​ا​ص  (Infiné – IF1084)

El Kontessa الكونتيسة - Nos HabetCaramel (Bilna’es)

Kabeaushé - The Comming of Gaze (Hakuna Kulala)

 Nídia - 95 MINDJERES (Príncipe – PD53)

Nihiloxica - Source of Denial (Crammed Discs – CRAM314)

Rian Treanor & Ocen James - Saccades (Nyege Nyege Tapes – NNT041)

Tzusing - Green Hat (Pan – Pan 123)