![]() Rema – Rave & Roses (Mavin Records/Jonzing World) ![]() As Branch herself wrote, “This is the shit that we want to be playing on big ass systems!” The ambling “Earthlings”, with Branch herself singing “we are not the earthlings that you know”, over producer Jeff Parker’s guitar, has rolled around my head all year like a personal anthem.ģ. Here the duo of trumpeter Jaimie Branch (RIP) and drummer Jason Nazary pushed their playful jazz/electronics/beats blend further, into a new amalgamation that has free-jazz and hip-hop-oriented grooves, the messing-around-with-gadgets style of beat scientists, a punk-rock rebellious attitude and the loud immersive qualities of dub. Anteloper – Pink Dolphins (International Anthem) Music to provoke discomfort and comfort at the same time, like life in 2022.Ģ. Music for dancefloors, nice, and with this level of humor and critical thought? This duo from Belgium – “club provocateurs”, The Guardian called them – are playful and clever over sleek sounds, dissecting language and what it does and doesn’t do for us, and the ideas, assumptions, prejudices, inherited systems. Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul – Topical Dancer (Deewee) Here are my favorite 10 albums of the year, give or take another hundred….ġ. That meant breadth at the expense of depth, or more like selective deep-diving while keeping one ear open to the ocean. ![]() ![]() In 2022 most of my writing ambitions crashed against the tides of real life, but my listening exponentially grew and accelerated. ![]()
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