Hello, friends,
This dusty old blog is down to one post per year: my annual listing of the music that I have enjoyed or become excited about or found important or intriguing or otherwise got stuck in my mind or between my teeth over the last twelvemonth, and that I want to commend to you, in the hope that your own mileage as to some of it will not vary. Posting this wee beastie on New Year's Eve is semi-traditional for me at this point, and I am relieved to have made my deadline one more time, even if the piece as I present it to you is less elaborate, and the body of it less wordy, than has been my wont in the past.
For the sake of there being a Listening Listfully list for 2022, it arrives as little more than that: simply a list. Everything here is accompanied by links to Bandcamp - meaning that a small handful of items have been omitted altogether for want of a presence on that platform. I will likely try to catch up with at least some of those on Twitter, where I still maintain a presence at this writing. I have a fledgling presence on fledgling Post.News (where I am also @foolintheforest), but I was thwarted in posting this list there because Post still seemingly lacks the ability at this stage to save a draft, and its handling of Bandcamp URLs is just odd so far. We shall see where things stand next year.
There is no real organizing principle to the List this year: it is very, very roughly chronological based on release dates in 2022, but there are numerous deviations. Some items are where they are based on when they first came to my attention, some are where they are because combining them, or putting them in that spot in the sequence, just seemed a good idea at the time.
Anyway, here's the List:
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Robert Stillman - What Does It Mean to Be American?
Uncivilized - Uncivilized Plays Chico
Alexander Hawkins Mirror Canon - Break a Vase
Judd Greenstein, yMusic - Together
Dana Lyn - Aqualude
and
Dana Lyn - A Point on a Slow Curve
The Singleman Affair - 4pm Sunlight
Širom - The Liquified Throne of Simplicity
wildUp - Julius Eastman Vol. 2: Joy Boy
Antoine Berjeaut - Chromesthesia
Mary Halvorson - Amaryllis
and
Mary Halvorson - Belladonna
String Orchestra of Brooklyn - enfolding
700 Bliss [DJ Haram and Moor Mother] - Nothing to Declare
Obongjayar - Some Nights I Dream of Doors
Ficino Ensemble & Michelle O'Rourke - Folk Songs
Binker Golding - Dream Like a Dogwood Wild Boy
Binker and Moses - Feeding the Machine
JoVia Armstrong & Eunoia Society - The Antidote Suite
Janel Leppin - Ensemble Volcanic Ash
Battle Trance - Green of Winter
Travis LaPlante - Wild Tapestry
Luke Gullickson Trio - When It Used to Rain
Sélébéyone, Steve Lehman - Xaybu: The Unseen
Matt McBane, Sandbox Percussion - Bathymetry
Makaya McCraven - In These Times
Orlando Furioso - Orlando Furioso
Sophia Subbayya Vastek - In Our Softening
Danny Lubin Laden - Notes to Rest
Psychic Temple - Plays Planet Caravan
Benny Maupin & Adam Rudolph - Symphonic Tone Poem for Brother Yusef
Sudan Archives - Natural Brown Prom Queen
Imperial Valley - Imperial Valley, III
Holmes + atten Ash - Saturnian
Julie Campiche Quartet - You Matter
Loraine James - Building Something Beautiful for Me
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