aworks :: "new" american classical music

albums, ranked (3/27/20)

1. Mal Waldron - Left Alone [2020 Hotel 49]
2. Michael Gordon, Donald Nally, The Crossing - Michael Gordon: Anonymous Man [2020 Cantaloupe Music]
3. Sun Ra - Nuits de la Fondation Maeght, Vol. 1 [2020 Sun Ra LLC]. Ths is "out there" and I like that. Haven't yet heard Volume 2.
4. Meredith Monk, Bang On A Can All-Stars, Ashley Bathgate, Ken Thomson - Memory Game [2020 Cantaloupe Music]. See also Ashley Bathgate's  album from last year.
5. Lalo Schifrin - Bullitt (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [1968 Warner Records Inc.]. Love the movie; the soundtrack, not as much.
6. Thom Yorke -The Eraser Rmxs [2008 Thom Yorke]
7. Nicolas Jaar - Cenizas [2020 Other People]
8. Brooklyn Ryder - Healing Modes, disc 1 [2020 IN A CIRCLE RECORDS]
9. Jacaszek - Music for Film [2020 Ghostly International]
10. Tomo - lien 2014 [2020 tomo]. I think this at the bottom of the list because I didn't understand it. I should give it another try.  

albums, ranked (3/25/20)

1. Brian Eno - Ambient 4: On Land [1982 Virgin Records Ltd]. Lizard Point has some of my favorite sounds. 
2. Richard Chartier - Untitled Tapes: 1991-1993 [2012 3particles]
3. Tracy Silverman - Meditations  [2020 C21 FX / MX]
4. Julia Holter - Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [2020 Focus Features LLC]
5. Sufjan Stevens, Lowell Brams - Aporia [2020 Asthmatic Kitty Records]
6. William Stromberg - Herrmann: Garden of Evil [1998 Marco-Polo]
7. Psychic Ills - Hazed Dream [2011 Sacred Bones Records]. RIP
8. Mitch Greer - Ambient Harp Afternoon [2020 Amaryllis Recordings]
9. Gino Foti - Deep Devotion: J.S. Bach on Bass Guitar [2020 Gino Foti]. What the title says.
10. Manu Dibango - The Very Best of Manu Dibango: Afro Soul Jazz from the Original Makossa Man [2000 Soul Makossa]. Not the album I had and liked in the 1980s but RIP.

albums, ranked (3/20/20)

1. Moondog - Improvisations at a Jazz Concert [2020 Estate of Moondog]. Short but groovy.
2. Brian Eno - Ambient 4: On Land [1982 Virgin Records Ltd.]. Lizard Point still sounds great.
3. Christian Loffler - Lys [2020 Ki Records]
4. Antonio Vivaldi - Work from Home with Vivaldi [2020 UMG Recordings, Inc.]. I think Vivaldi these days rests at home rather than actually working there.
5. Drum & Lace - semi songs [2019 EverybodyHz Records]
6. Chris Forsyth, Garcia Peoples - Peoples Motel Band [2020 Chris Forsyth]
7. Broadcast - The Noise Made by People [2000 Warp Records Limited]

albums, ranked (3/13/20)

1. Four Tet - Sixteen Oceans [2020 Text Records]
2. Richard Chartier - Variable Dimensions [2020 LINE]
3. Julia Holter - Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [2020 Focus Features LLC]
4. Horse Lords - The Common Task [2020 Northern Spy]
5. James Lentini - Through Time and Place [2020 Navona]
6. Deap Lips, Deap Vally, The Flaming Lips - Deap Lips [2020 Deap Lips]
7. Oregon Symphony, Carlos Kalmar - Aspects of America: Pulitzer Edition (Live) [2020 PENTATONE]
8. Circles Around the Sun - Circles Around the Sun [2020 Royal Potato Family]
9. Jay Electronica - A Written Testimony [2020 Roc Nation, LLC]