Jon

the flash

staff picks...

My top 15 of 2007

1 TIMBER TIMBRE - Medicinals
2 WEATHER STATION - East
3 ANDRE ETHIER - On Blue Fog
4 BLACK DICE - Load Blown
5 ROBERT WYATT - Comicopera
6 PANDA BEAR - Person Pitch
7 NIFTY - A Sparrow! A Sparrow!
8 JENS LEKMAN - When Night Falls Over Kortedela
9 THE SILT - Cat's Peak
10 SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE - Shelter From The Ash
11 BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY - Ask Forgiveness EP 
12 GETATCHEW MEKURIA AND THE EX - Moa Abness
13 SANDRO PERRI - Tiny Mirrors
14 MUSKOX - Fever Dream
15 PICASTRO - Whore Luck

My top 15 reissues of 2007

1 THIS HEAT - Deceit
2 VARIOUS ARTISTS - Bearded Ladies
3 CAETANO VELOSO - A Little More Blue
4 NATHAMUNI BROTHERS - Madras 1974
5 VARIOUS ARTISTS - B-Music
6 DAVID BYRNE - The Knee Plays
7 JOHNNY 'GUITAR' WATSON - Untouchable
8 VARIOUS ARTISTS - The Very Best Of Ethiopiques
9 KAREN DALTON - Cotton Eyed Joe
10 BIM SHERMAN - Tribulation
11 PETER, MARTIN & FINCH - Drouyn
12 SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE - Reissues
13 VARIOUS ARTISTS - Art of Field Recording
14 VARIOUS ARTISTS - Proibidado C.V.
15 PEKOS/YORO DIALLO - S/T

My favourite artists are: Bjork, Radiohead, Charles Ives, Cat Power, Peter Hatch, Linda C. Smith, R. Murray Schafer, Velvet Underground, Tom Waits, Igor Stravinsky, Bela Bartok, Arnold Schoenberg, Gloria Coates, Pavement 

My all-time favourite album is: RADIOHEAD - OK Computer

The first album I ever bought was: THE SIMPSONS - Sing the Blues on cassette

On Saturday nights, I throw down to: TALKING HEADS

On Sunday mornings, I recover to: NICK DRAKE, CAT POWER

The show that made me fall in love with/believe all over again in music was: Molinari String Quartet playing R. Murray Schafer @ KWCMS in Waterloo

My favourite album so far this year is: PICASTRO - Whore Luck

The best show I've seen so far this year is: Deep Dark United w/ I Have Eaten The City @ E-Bar in Guelph OR Concertgebouw Orchestra @ the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam

The band that should come out of retirement is: Lenny Breau... but he can't!