2017 has turned out to be a most excellent vintage for music. This is the annual Top 50 countdown – looking at some of this year’s essential releases. As usual, I struggle and even feel guilty (silly I know!) with the releases I’ve left out. Even if I had a top 100 I would feel the same. This is Part 2 – counting down to my favourite releases of the year – both shows are streamed content only. Enjoy!
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2017 has turned out to be a most excellent vintage for music. This is the annual Top 50 countdown – looking at some of this year’s essential releases. As usual, I struggle and even feel guilty (silly I know!) with the releases I’ve left out. Even if I had a top 100 I would feel the same. This is Part 1 – both shows are streamed content only. Enjoy!
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Beyond the clouds, melancholic drones and other worldly sounds…..
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Featuring the transcendent new album from Ron S. Peno and the Superstitions, Guiding Light. It’s 10 years on since Robert Wyatt’s excellent Comicopera -he reflects on the release in a chat we had back in the day plus soaring psych country sounds of Angelica Rockne and the luscious harmonies of Mapache.
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Gail Priest is a composer from Sydney making experimental sound and electronic music that explores the interaction of the figurative and the abstract, the machinic and the organic, the sensual and the brutal. She travelled to Iceland as a part of a residency and has created a stunning collection of work called Heraclitus in Iceland. The compositions are based on field recordings in and around the industrial fishing village of Olafsfjordur – water and wind dominate but they are met head on with metal, reflecting the industrial clamour and the toughness required to survive in this harsh environment. It’s a stunning engaging collection that deserves your attention.
are far from pastoral meditations on idyllic landscapes.
