2024 - The Year Politicians Looked The Other Way - an end of year list

END OF YEAR MUSIC ROUND-UP 2024

Best live performance (tied):

Limpe Fuchs at The Rose Hill Arts Hub, Brighton 13^th July

L’Anarchie Flotant at KozFest 2024

Basil Brooks (Zorch / Space Falcons) / Brian Abbott (Invisible Opera Company of Tibet) / Shankara Andy Bole / Ashenashae Farnham (Daevid Allen) / Mark Huxley (Dark Zen Kollektiev)

Top 9 live performances

Dhangsha at Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton, London 29^th June

BANTU at Spirit of Gravity, Rossi Bar, Brighton 5^th September

Mark Wastell / Steve Beresford / Sylvia Hallett / Maggie Nichols / Dirk Serries / Benedict Taylor / Colin Webster at Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton London 31^st March

Armatures at The Bee’s Mouth, Hove 23^rd June

Emily Burridge & BJ Cole at Semley Music Festival, Semley, Wiltshire 6^th July

The Glissando Guitar Orchestra at Lewes Con Club, 9^th November

Paradise 9 at Lewes Con Club, 9^th November

Mark Wastell / Bill Thompson / Dominic Lash at MOM, Canvas & Cream, Forest Hill 24^th October

Julian Lage at CHALK, Brighton 24^th November

Best “studio performance”

Entropy Zero (Brian Abbott, Andy Roid, Bob Hedger) at Visual Radio Arts

Kavus Torabi at Visual Radio Arts

Best YouTube performance

Helene Vogelsinger - any

Look Mum No Computer - Buel & Kjaer Room at This Museum Is Not Obsolete

Most Returned To album of the year (tie-break)

Normil Hawaiians – Empires Into Sand – Upset! The Rhythm

This Celestial Engine – This Celestial Engine – Discus Recordings

Top 7 “ambient” albums

Modulator ESP – Hydra Equinox  -  www.modulator-exp.co.uk

Laurel Halo – Atlas - Awe

Ah! Kosmos & Hainbach -

Ian Boddy & Dave Bessell – Polarity  -  DiN

Martin Taxt – Second Room – SOFA Recordings

Bruno Duplant – quelques instants d’eternité – Moving Furniture Records

Brighton Ambients – With Dhangsha On Our Minds  –  The Slightly Off Kilter Label

Top 3 improv/modern composition albums

Bee Reiki Trio (Beresford/Afifi/PKM) – bee Reiki – Discus Recordings

Fredrik Rasten – Lineaments – SOFA Recordings

Bill Thompson – and the sky breaks open  -  Ash International

Top 5 electronic albums

Sonic Arcana – Ecliptical Drift  -  Sonic Arcana

The Utopia Strong – The BBC Sessions – Rocket Recordings

Jah Buddha – Live at Control Voltage

Dhangsha – Broadcast Signal Intrusion – Brachliegen Tapes

Polypores – The Album I Would Have Released In An Alternate Universe  -  Moonbuilding / Castles In Space

Top 6 “rock” albums

GONG – Unending Ascending  - k-scope

Ulrika Spacek – Compact Trauma – Tough Love Records

Ozric Tentacles – Lotus Unfolding – k-scope

Thurston Moore – Flow Critical Lucidity – The Daydream Library Series

Deviant Amps – The Castle In The Sky – D Amp Recordings

Paradise 9 – Science Fiction Reality – Flicknife Records

Best event of 2024

KozFest 2024

Top 3 events of 2024

Mirror System et al at Lewes Con Club

Julian Lage at CHALK, Brighton

New Avalon Ballroom at The King Arthur, Glastonbury

My This Year’s Favourite Song of All Time Song

Karen Dalton – There’s Something On Your Mind

 

 

DISCLAIMER - Some of these records may not actually be from the current year.  I may have only heard them for the first time this year.  Anyway, I don’t care – I like them.