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Artist
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Album
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Label
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Barry Gilbert. Friday ASA,
Fri. Jazz. Here's my list, compiled using advanced neural algorithms
used to derive the mathematically optimal rating based on purely subjective
criteria.
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Tinariwen
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Amassakoul
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Haco & Sakamoto Hiromichi
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Ash in the Rainbow
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Otis Fodder
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365 Days Project
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Saul Williams
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James Brown
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Soul On Top
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Antibalas
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Who Is This America?
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John Zorn
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Electric Masada
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Alhaca Sound System
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Inevitable
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Princess Nicotine
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Folk & Pop Music of Myanmar (Burma) Vol 1
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Asa-Chang & Junray with Koizumi Kyouko
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Senaka
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John Schaefer. Friday ASA
and others. So here are my "Top 10" favorite recordings that were
released over the last year (or last 43 years...). Wish there were a
category for most appropriate album title for the year - as that would most
certainly go to Modest Mouse.
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Hu Vibrational
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Beautiful
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(Soul Jazz)
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Jolie Holland
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Escondida
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(Anti)
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Quantic
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Mishaps Happening
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(Tru Thoughts)
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Dani Siciliano
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Likes
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(Studio K7)
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Four Tet
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Late Night Tales
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(Azuli)
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Sticks and Stones
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Shed Grace
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(Thrill Jockey)
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Lunchbox
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Anyways
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(The Agriculture)
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Amon Tobin
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Solid Steel Presents Amon Tobin
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(Ninja Tune)
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Various Artists
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Studio One Funk
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(Soul Jazz)
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Diverse
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One A.M.
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(Chocolate Industries) * from 2003
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Ornette Coleman
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Ornette on Tenor
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(Rhino) * from 1961
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The Sonics
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Here Are The Sonics!!!
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(Norton) * from 1965
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Thomas Timothy Lenk, Present
Edge host, (Sun 1pm). Good morning...
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John Cage
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From Zero
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Mode Records
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Morton Feldman
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String Quartet #2
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Mode Records
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Dan Trueman
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Machine Language
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Bridge Records
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Stephen Scott
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Sounding Landscapes
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Sam Fuqua, news director. (also does music shows). 2004
Highlights, no particular order
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David Darling & The Wulu Bunun
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Mudanin Kata
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Loretta Lynn
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Van Lear Rose
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Eivind Aarset
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Connected
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Flexkögel
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What Are Days For?
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Various Artists
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World 2004
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Re-Issues:
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Candi Staton
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Candi Staton (collected Fame recordings ’69-’73)
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Various Artists
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Eccentric Soul: The Capsoul Label
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Live Concert Moment:
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Smokey Robinson (w/Marv Tarplin)
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Tracks Of My Tears
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Paramount Theater, Denver 8/14/04
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Mary Romano. Present
Edge, (Sun.1pm). Here s my top 10 (for the last couple years since I
missed it last year..)
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Michael Gordon
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Light Is Calling
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Light Is Calling
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Arvo Part
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I am the True Vine
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I am the True Vine
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Bang On A Can
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Bang On a Can Classics
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Cheating, lying, stealing - David Lang
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Eve Beglarian
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Overstepping
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Disappearance Act and Overstepping
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Philip Kent Bimstein
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Garland Hirschi's Cows
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Little Bit abvout my cows
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Steve Reich
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Three Tales
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Dolly
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Various Artists
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Lesbian American Composer
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Portrait of Sappho - Linda Montano
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Bang On A Can
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Music For Airports
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1/1
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John Adams
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Road Movies
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Phrygian Gates
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Annea Lockwood
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Thousand Years Dreaming
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Thousand Years Dreaming
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Kevin Kowalczyk, Sleepless
Nights (12-3am) DJ. As for my top ten...
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Scissor Sisters
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Scissor Sisters
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Rufus Wainwright
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Want Two
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Bjork
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Medulla
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Snow Patrol
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Final Straw
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Magnetic Fields
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I
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Polyphonic Spree
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Together We’re Heavy
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Modest Mouse
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Good News for People Who Love Bad News
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Sam Phillips
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A Boot and A Shoe
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A Girl Called Eddy
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A Girl Called Eddy
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Morrissey
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You Are the Quarry
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Air
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Talkie Walkie
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Stereolab
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Margerine Eclipse
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E.C. Erb, Music Director (Wed. ASA
1pm). Much as I've tried to whittle it down, I think every album listed
here deserves merit.
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Tinariwen
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Amassakoul
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World Village
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Domenico + 2
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Sincerely Hot
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Luaka Bop
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Bang On A Can
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Meets Kyaw Kyaw Naing
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Cantaloupe
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Jim White
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Drill A Hole In That Substrate & Tell Me What…
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Luaka Bop
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Asylum Street Spankers
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Mercurial
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Spanks a Lot
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Jolie Holland
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Escondido
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Anti
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Gangbe Brass Band
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Whendo
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Contre Jour
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Vinicius Cantuaria
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Horse & Fish
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Bar None
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Elizabeth Cotten
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Shake Sugaree
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Smithsonian Folkways
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John Adams
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Road Movies
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Nonesuch
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Tom Waits
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Real Gone
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Anti
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Steve Earle
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The Revolution Starts…Now
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E-Squared
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Zap Mama
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Ancestry In Progress
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Luaka Bop
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Joseph M Marshall
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Lakota Way
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Makoche
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Los Mocosos
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American Us
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Six Degrees
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George L. Figgs. (Mon ASA
1pm, Musica Mundi Wed 7pm) Ten records, in no particular order, that
i enjoyed listening to in2004...
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tinariwen
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assamakoul
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tortoise
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it's all around you
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jolie holland
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escondida
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iron and wine
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our endless numbered days
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antibalas
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who is this america?
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wilco
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a ghost is born
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ojos de brujo
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bari
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juana molina
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tres cosas
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neko case
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the tigers have spoken
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giant sand
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is all over the map
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Glenn Arndt. Host of Thursday ASA (1pm) and Jazz and Beyond.
Here's a list of 9 releases from 2004 that I wanted to hear repeatedly:
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Claudia Quintet
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I, Claudia
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Cuneiform
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Phil Kline
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Zippo Songs
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Cantaloupe
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Lunchbox
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Anyways
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Agriculture
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Royal Hartigan
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Blood Drum Spirit
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Nova
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Michael Gordon
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Light is Calling
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Nonesuch
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Majmouat Abde El'Hakim
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(Self-titled)
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Postworld Industries
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Andras Schiff/Miklos Perenyi
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Beethoven: Complete Music for piano and cello
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ECM
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Munir
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Bashir
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Mesopotamia
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Enzo Avitabile and Bottari
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Save the World
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Wrasse records
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Myra Melford and the Tent
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Where Two Worlds Touch
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Arabesque
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Spring Heel Jack
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The Sweetness of the Water
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Thirsty Ear
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Rough Guide to the Music of Ethiopia
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Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd
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In What Language?
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PI Recordings
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Stephen Whitehead. Sleepless,
Restless, & ASA. Here are my top picks from music that
reached KGNU in 2004 - with bonus compilations.
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Ryuichi Sakamoto
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'Chasm'
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KAB
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Six-Fing Thing
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'Our Children'
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DogFingers
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Clouddead
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'Ten'
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Mush
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Rroselicoeur
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'Drachenhohle'
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Where Are My Records
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Cocorosie
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'La Maison De Mon Reve'
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Touch & Go
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Jolie Holland
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'Escondida'
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Anti
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Kim Hiorthoy
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'Live Shet'
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Smalltown Supersound
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Idiom Creek
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'Idiom Creek's Room From Another Music'
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Samplistic
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Fred Frith
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'Middle Of The Moment'
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ReR Megacorp
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Sonic Youth
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'Sonic Nurse'
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Geffen
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Animal Collective
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'Sung Tongs'
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FatCat
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Joanna Newsom
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"The Milk-Eyed Mender"
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Drag City
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Bonus Killer Compilations:
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Archiv 1.1
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Raster-Noton / Asphodel
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Children Of Mu
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Planet Mu
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Split Series 9-16
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FatCat
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Vor aka Karl Eggert. Jazz man about town.... Here are my favorites
from 2004 - meaning I heard them first in 2004 although they may have been
released one or two years earlier. I have a slow ear. Love and Kisses from
Your Santa,
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John Hollenbeck
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I Claudia
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Cuneiform
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Penderecki
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St. John's Passion
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Naxos
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Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario / Jordi Maso
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Piano Music
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Naxos
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Oliver Lake
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Dat Love
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Passin' Thru
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Hamid Drake / Fred Anderson
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Together Again
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Thrill Jockey
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Wu Man
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Pipa
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Naxos
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Fazil Say
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Black Earth
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Naïve
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Celia Cruz
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Mango Mangue
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Pazzaz
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Mary Lou Williams
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Conversation
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Past Perfect
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Johnny Hodges
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Rabbit's Blues
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Past Perfect
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Rob Bell. Sleepless Nights. Top Leap-Year Picks: 2004 (What A Difference A Day Makes...) -That's All
Folks!
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Born In The Flood
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Born In The Flood
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Bright Channel
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Bright Channel
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County Road X
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From Seed To Stone
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Devotchka
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How It Ends
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The Ex
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Confusion Errorist
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Lars Horntveth
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Pooka
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The Hot IQs
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An Arguement Between The Brain And Feet
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Lint
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Kandy Korn Pandemonium
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Matson Jones
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Matson Jones
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Mount Analog
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New Skin
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Munly & The Lee Lewis Harlots
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Munly & The Lee Lewis Harlots
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Orbit Service
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Twilight
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The Rosebuds
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Makeout
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Shark Quest
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Gods & Devils
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Slowly Minute
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Tomorrow World
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Sons Of Armageddon
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The Softest Touch
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Soundtrack
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The Triplets Of Belleville
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Various Artists
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Children Of Mu
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Various Artists
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Dj Blak Blok Presents... Vol. 1
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Various Artists
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P.S. 1: Public Service Records
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(Local Comp.)
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Re-Issue:
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Jean Shepherd
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Jean Shepherd And Other Foibles From 1959
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Selena. Electronic
Air and Music of One World DJ. There s so much amazing new music
coming out!!
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Way of the Mystic
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Angel Tears
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www.lovecatmusic.com
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Rare Elements
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Ustad Sultan Khan
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www.5pointsrecords.com
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Worlds Within
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Govinda
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www.intentcity.com
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Chakra Dance
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Jonathan Goldman
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www.healingsounds.com
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When Solar Fields Meets Aes Dana (Distances)
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H.U.V.A. Network
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www.ultimae.com
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In Search of a Meaningful Moment
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Shulman
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www.aleph-zero.info
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Mountain High
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Alex_Candy
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www.candyflip-records.com
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Groove Closet
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Ball of Waxx
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www.ballofwaxx.com
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Walking Through
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Kaya Project
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www.interchill.com
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Wachuma's Wave
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Byron Metcalf & Mark Seelig w/ Steve Roach
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www.spottedpeccary.com
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Zen Connection 3
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Various
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www.oneworldmusic.com.au
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elementary particles + prima material
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bluetech
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www.aleph-zero.info
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Frank Lambrick. Wednesday ASA
(1-4pm). Here's my alphabetical list of favorites for the year 2004.
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Giant Sand
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...Is All Over the Map
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Wayne Horvitz and Tucker Martine
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Mylab
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Low
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A Lifetime of Temporary Relief
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Jenny Scheinman
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Shalagaster
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Jim White
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Drill a Hole in That Substrate and Tell Me What You See
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and a couple of older ones I put a lot of miles on...
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Percy Mayfield
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Poet of the Blues
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Tortoise
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TNT,(the best live band of the year, too.)
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Duke Ellington
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Unknown Session
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Single of the Year (2-way tie for 1st)
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Magnetic Fields
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I Wish I Had An Evil Twin
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Wilco
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Handshake Drugs
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Sully Lineberger. Restless Mornings. Here's my top 10
for '04:
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RL Burnside
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A bothered Mind
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Little Axe
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Champagne & Grits
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Thee Shams
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Please Yourself
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Ozomatli
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Street Signs
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Old 97's
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Drag It Up
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The Gourds
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Blood of the Ram
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Mark Knopfler
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Shangri-La
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Black Keys
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Rubber Factory
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Wilco
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A Ghost is Born
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G Love
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The Hustle
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Jill (African Roots). Jill's top African
releases of 2004. I really wanted to put all of these releases into my top
10, but they added up to way more than 10, so I tried to break them down into
top 10 and other categories. They are all my favorite releases of 2004.
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Various Artists
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Rough Guide to the Music of Kenya
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Tinariwen
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Amassakoul
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Gangbe Brass Band
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Togbe & Whendo
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Antibalas
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Who Is This America?
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Mory Kante
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Sabou
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Boubacar Diebate
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My Family
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Malouma
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Dunya
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Keletigui Diabate
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Sandiya
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Issa Bagayogo
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Tassoumakan
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Various Artists
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Rough Guide to African Rap
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Live and Best of cd's:
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Habib Koite
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Foly!
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Oumou Sangare
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Oumou
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The Rough Guide to Manu Dibango
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Honorable mention:
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N'faly Kouyate
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Kora Grooves from West Africa
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Amayo's Fu-Arkist-Ra
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Afrobeat Disciples
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Afrika Heartbeat
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Ijinle Ilu
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Vakoka
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Introducing Vakoka
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Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca
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Ay Valeria
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Sekou Bembeya Diabate
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Guitar Fo
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Various Artists
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Sahara Lounge
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Came out too late in the year to consider:
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Nii Tettey Tetteh & the Kusun Ensemble
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Nokoko
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Various Artists
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Afrique du Nord
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Orchestra Makassy
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Legends of East Africa
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Little Fyodor. Under
the Floorboards. Sats 11pm. [ littlefyodor.com ]. Hello, If it's not too late, I would
like to submit my top ten played Under The Floorboards artists for 2004:
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C. Goff III
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C. Reider/Drone Forest
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Patrick Porter
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Ken Clinger
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Kwisp
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Farces Wanna More
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Rollerball
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Robot Mandala
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John Mars
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R. Stevie Moore
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Bill Nyerges. MSA,
Blues Legacy, African Roots, One World.
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top 3
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Joy Harjo
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Native Joy For Real
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Bobby Rush
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Folk Funk
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VA
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Sahara Lounge
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honorable mentions
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Mavis Staples
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Have A Little Faith In Me
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Slim Harpo
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Excello Anthology
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Abyssinia Infinite
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Zion Roots
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VA
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Electric Gypsyland
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Dave Alvin
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Ash Grove
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Eddie Cotton
|
Extra
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Ojos De Brujo
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Saul Williams
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Dr. John
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Tangle eye
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