craig

leftfield buyer/dabbling omnivore

staff picks...

My top 15 of 2007

1 BARR - Summary
2 MUSKOX - Fever Dream
3 BLACK DICE -  Load Blown
4 SANDRO PERRI - Tiny Mirrors
5 THE HIGH LLAMAS - Can Cladders
6 NO NECK BLUES BAND - Nine For Victor
7 A TASTE OF RA - Morning Of My Life
8 LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - 45:33
9 ERIC COPELAND - Hermaphrodite
10 NIFTY - A Sparrow! A Sparrow!
11 THE REVERIES - Live In Bologna
12 THE SILT - Cat's Peak
13 TRADITION - Tradition
14 VALET - Blood Is Clean
15 MICK BARR - Octis: Iohargh Wended

My top 15 reissues of 2007

1 PEKOS/YORO DIALLO - S/T
2 SUN RA - Night Of The Purple Moon
3 VARIOUS ARTISTS - Dirty Space Disco
4 VARIOUS ARTISTS - Computer Incarnations For World Peace
5 LINDSTROM - Late Night Tales
6 PRINS THOMAS - Cosmo Galactic Prism
7 CLUSTER/MOEBIUS - Reissues
8 NATHAMUNI BROTHERS - Madras 1974
9 BRENDA RAY - Walatta
10 JOHN MARTYN - BBC Live in Concert
11 G*PARK - Seismogramm
12 DAVID BYRNE - The Knee Plays
13 TERRY RILEY - Reissues
14 VARIOUS ARTISTS - Proibidao CV
15 HOLGER CZUKAY - Movies

My favourite artists are: Steely Dan, Yes, Manuel Gottsching, Fela Kuti, Black Dice, The Band, Richard Youngs, Todd Rundgren, Morton Feldman, Franco Battiato, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party

My all-time favourite album is: ARTHUR RUSSELL - World of Echo

The first album I ever bought was: MC HAMMER - Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em (cassette)

On Saturday nights, I throw down to: PAUL McCARTNEY - McCartney II

On Sunday mornings, I recover to: VAN MORRISON - Astral Weeks

The show that made me fall in love with/believe all over again in music was: The Ex at Lee's Palace 05/20/04

My favourite albums so far this year are: LARD FREE - III, BILL COSBY - Badfoot Brown And The Bunions Bradford Funeral & Marching Band, NICK LOWE - Jesus Of Cool, VAN DUREN - Are You Serious?, ERYKAH BADU - New Amerykah, Part One: 4th World War, OCRILIM - Annwn, KLUSTER - 1969-1971, AUTECHRE - Quaristice, TAPE - Luminarium, MUSKOX - Gallantries, FOUR TET - Ringer, BON IVER - For Emma, Forever Ago, REVERIES/RYAN DRIVER/ERIC CHENAUX/CASTLEMUSIC's newests...

The best show I've seen so far this year is: Drumheller at Tranzac 01/29/08

The band that should come out of retirement is: Harmonia (oh wait, they just did...)