Top Ten, and then some

[Glenn Bach <gbach@xxxxxxxxx>]

Here is my list.  Sparrow Orange became the soundtrack of a trip through
Big Sur I took with my fiance earlier this year .  I didn't think much
of it at first, but it worked its way in and has become a personal
classic.

1.  Sparrow Orange [Hands and Knees Music] Noise Factory
2.  Pan American  [The River Made No Sound] Kranky
3.  Tarwater  [Dwellers on the Threshold] Kitty-Yo
4.  Tiny Hairs  [Subtle Invisible Bodies] False Walls
5.  Loscil  [Submers]  Kranky
6.  Polmo Polpo  [The Science of Breath] Substractif/Alien8 Recordings
7.  Tetsu Inoue + Carl Stone  [pict.soul] Cycling '74
8.  Sigur Ros []  Fat Cat
9.  gy!be [yanqui u.x.o.] Constellation
10.  Eto Ami  [Course] CD-R

And, some Honorable Mentions, work that received heavy rotation on my
radio show (now on hiatus) or here at work as background music:

Greg Davis  [Arbor] Carpark (2001??)
Alastair Galbraith  [Long Wires in Dark Museums (vol. 1 north island)]
Emperor Jones
Mark Dresser Trio  [Aquifer] Cryptogramophone
F-100  [Demo] CD-R
The Space_Between  [The Space_Between] 482 Music (2001???)
Steve Roden [Schindler House] (not 2002, but a staple for me this year .
.. .)
The Six Parts Seven  [Things Shaped in Passing] Suicide Squeeze Records
Ghislain Poirier [il n'y a pas de sud . . .] 12K
Claudia Bonarelli  [Boredom is Counterrevolutionary] No Type (2001?)
Magali Babin  [chemin de fer] No Type
Amere3  [Trees] WHI Music
Andrey Kirichenko  [00.00 (a suite of the midnight)] Autoplate
Arco Flute Foundation  [Everything After the Bomb is Sci-Fi] Cenotaph
Audio
Mum  [finally we are no one] Fat Cat
John Kannenberg   [Aero] Stasisfield
Takagi Masakatsu  [Opus Pia] Carpark
Jeffrey Roden  [Songs for Susan] The Big Tree Music (this one was a
godsend during our recent move to a new apartment--this is one of those
desert island discs)
Nagaya Kazuya  [Resonator] Kunishima
Stars of the Lid  [Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid]  Kranky

G.

P.S.  I won't mention guilty pleasures like the new releases by Red Hot
Chili Peppers, Thievery Corporation or Underworld.  :)

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