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2017 Albums

I’ve never been inclined to compile a best of the year list before. I have, however, found some great music from other people’s lists over the last few days, so I thought I’d share the albums that I really enjoyed listening to this year (or at least the ones I remembered when writing this). I think it is good to support musicians by buying direct from them or the label, so I have included links where I have been able to find them. The list is in no particular order. 

Michael Chapman - 50 Chicago/London Underground - A Night Walking Through Mirrors Nadah El Shazly - Ahwar Anton Hunter - Article XI Bitchin Bajas - Bajas Fresh Chuck Johnson - Balsams Gunn-Truscinski Duo - Bay Head Six Organs of Admittance - Burning the Threshold Wooden Wand - Clipper Ship Les Filles de Illighadad - Eghass Malan Richard Osborn - Endless Favourite Animals - Favourite Animals Joan Shelley - Joan Shelley Tamikrest - Kidal Oneida - Live At Secret Project Robot Konstrukt with Hawkins, Spicer & Wilkinson - Lotus  Nicole Mitchell - Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds Lina Capra Vaccina - Metafisiche del suono Prana Crafter - MindStreamBlessing Entropi - Moment Frozen Anthony Pasquarosa with John Moloney - My Pharaoh, My King Four Tet - New Energy* On Fillmore - On Fillmore Richard Dawson - Peasant Rick Tomlinson - Phases of Daylight Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society - Simultonality Tonstartssbandht - Sorcerer Bill MacKay & Ryley Walker - SpiderBeetleBee Trad Gras och Stenar - Tack For Kaffet Brooklyn Raga Massive - Terry Riley In C The Weather Station - The Weather Station

* Kieran Hebden donated copies to Oxfam. At time of writing the CD is still available here.