more goodness of list from the goodness of list makers

[neil haverty] aka [bruce peninsula//bruce trail//boston letter]

no order... all washed over me...
yeasayer
newsom
battles
wooden stars
iron & wine
heidi hazleton
the acorn
marissa nadler
tinariwen
timber timbre
sandro perri
the youngest

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[matt collins] aka [ninja high school (rip)//jenniferlopezknife//robocopp/&more]
1. Rabies- Test Your Might
2. Crossexamination- The Hung Jury EP
3. Holy Shit! - s/t
4. No Bullshit! vol. 2
5. Jay Reatard- I know a Place b/w Don't Let Him Come Back
6. Crossexamination/Spring Break - Awesome Party Bros. split 10"
7. The Doers- Gaiety
8. Yah Mos Def- Yah Mos Def Is A Gang
9. Iron Bitchface- We Are Trolls
10. Chris Yang- May All Yr Children Be Dragons

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[marco landini] aka [all under heaven//ghostlight//mean red spiders//bloodhoney]

MLDOOMS TOP 10 FOR 2007 (MOST LISTEND TO)

1. TOWER RECORDINGS- FOLK SCENE
2. AUGUSTBORN- S/T
3. L- HOLY LETTER
4. SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE- DARK NOONTIDE
5. BARDO POND- ON THE ELLIPSE
6. DIABEL- OST
7. IGNATZ- THEY ARE QUIET AS MICE
8. DEAD C- HARSH 70'S REALITY
9. SLEEP- HOLY MOUNTAIN
10. NEIL YOUNG- COMES A TIME

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[aaron lumley] aka [wodwos]

Here's a list of some of the records, performances, discoveries which enhanced my experience of 2007:

Wilbert de Joode's solo concert on Toronto Island at St. Andrew-by-the-Lake Church in April

Pablo Casals' performances of Bach's cello suites on vinyl

Paal Nilssen-Love and John Butcher - "Concentric"

John Butcher - "The Geometry of Sentiment"

Many, many things Mingus (especially the sextet live at Cornell in 1964)

William Parker laying it down the first night of the Interface series (and also a special mention of the masterclass given at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music)

Mats Gustafsson and Paal Nilssen-Love - "Splatter"

MV & EE Medicine Show at the Music Gallery

Kaufmann, Gratkowski, De Joode live at the Tranzac and at Somewhere There, and on their record "Palae"

Eric Chenaux and Nick Fraser playing a free-flowing, extended version of "However Wildly We Dream" at the Tranzac

Anthony Braxton's keynote speech in Guelph, then witnessing the AIMT Orchestra play his music

Brandon Valdivia's solo drum memorial to Alice Coltrane

Curtis Mayfield - "Curtis Live" and the Impressions' song "Man Oh Man"

Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch (finally finding a copy on vinyl for under $20)

Kyle Brenders - "Flows and Intensities" on cd (and seeing him really dig in to pull it off live)

Malcolm Goldstein's violin playing, music and writing

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[matt cully] aka [bruce peninsula//bruce trails//goin'steady//poor pilgrim]]

My list is in no particular order, these are albums that I (often inexplicably)
I returned to again and again in 2007. For some reason I was not as
searchingly curious and ended up passively consuming a lot of mixed
material (like a child flipping through his father's records...)

Tinariwen - Aman Iman (Water is Life)
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals
Bill Callahan - Woke on a Whaleheart
Sandro Perri - Tiny Mirrors
Group Doueh - Guitar Music from the Sahara
Iron and Wine - Shepherd's Dog
Marissa Nadler - Songs III : Bird on the Water
Timber Timbre - Medicinals
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline
Joanna Newsom - And The YS Street Band EP

Endless sources of new and old late night thoughts:

Dust to Digital
Ethiopiques
Rough Guides
Sublime Frequencies
www.awesometapesfromafrica.blogspot.com
Numero Group
Soul Jazz
The Learning Company (on the ipod, walking through snow)
Mississippi Records (Mtl.)

Special Mentions
Paul Simon - Rhythm of the Saints (1990)
Rough Guide to the Music of Mali & Guinea

Other Local Highlights :

The Silt - Cat's Peak
N!FTY - A Sparrow, A Sparrow
DD/MM/YY - Are They Masks?
Do Make Say Think - You, You are a History in Rust
deep dark united - look at/look out

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[jon shapiro] aka [13 moons//almost blue sunshine//disguises//LSD_OTB//C.O.F.O]

Kinda was out of it/broke for most of the year, so there must be tons of stuff I'm leaving out. So an attempt at making some sort of sense of it all:

first off, my fave performances, no particular order:
-Metis Yetis/Charles Balls collab @ the press, may
-Sightings at Dee's the following evening
-Thames @ Casa, June, opening for Failing Lights and Demons, both of whom were good too, but fuckin Thames.....
-Cousins of Reggae @ the Boat, opening for Mouthus, June
-Pon de Replay/Scant Intone collab in Ian's kitchen, November
-Costes @ Cinecycle, Easter weekend
-Nihilist Spasm Band @ Eclectic Electrics, playing as the sun set
-Slither, 2 nights in a row in June, Hamilton and TO both ruled hard
-Gastric @ Bummer Nights
-Dead Machines @ Rancho, august

Music, not necessarily all-new (mostly though) jams rocked seriously this year:
Orphan Fairytale Bennifer cass
Diabel cass (yeah, so I put that out, big deal IT RULES)
Drainolith and Monday Morning Erection cd-rs on Brise-cul
Ice T- Power (LP AND CASSETTE!)
Mouthus- Saw A Halo
The Peace
Selda reissue
complete Die Todliche Doris discography
Pasalymany cassettes: Metis Yeti and Death Drive
Ayal Senior's Space Cakes on Bennifer


And thats about it for now....Although I've really been diggin Body Count too...go figure