Bluefat's best of 2013

Aaron Parks –– Arborescence (ECM)
Adam Rudolph / Go Organic Orchestra –– Sonic Mandala (Meta)
Akron/Family –– Sub Verses (Dead Oceans)
Aleksandra Kurzak, Sinfonia Varsovia –– Soprano (Decca)
Alexandria Silocea –– Sound Waves: Piano Works (Avie)
AM & Shawn Lee –– La Musique Numerique (Park the Van)
Ana Moura –– Desfado (Decca)
Andras Schiff –– Ludwig Van Beethoven: Diabelli-Variationen (ECM)
Anika –– 320 (Stones Throw)
Anna Prohaska, Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen –– Enchanted Forest (Archive)
Anna Von Hausswolff –– Ceremony (Other Music)
Antonio Adolfo –– Finas Misturas (AAM)
Aoife O’Donovan –– Fossils (Yep Roc)
Apple and the Three Oranges –– Free and Easy: The Complete Works 1970-1975 (Stones Throw)
Ariel Pink –– Thrash and Burn (Human Ear)
Arrica Rose & the …'s –– Lucky (Poprock)
Ásgeir –– In the Silence (One Little Indian)
Ballake Sissoko –– At Peace (Six Degrees)
Barbara & Ernie –– Prelude To (Real Gone)
Barn Owl –– V (Thrill Jockey)
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba –– Jama Ko (Out Here)
Baths –– Obsidian (Anticon)
Belle and Sebastian –– The Third Eye Centre (Matador)
Benoit Delbecq / Fred Hersch Double Trio –– Fun House (Songlines)
Big Farm (New Amsterdam)
Bill Callahan –– Dream River (Drag City)
Bill Frisell –– Big Sur (OKeh)
Bill Ryder Jones –– A Bad Wind Blows in My Heart (Domino)
Billband –– Towards Daybreak (Innova)
Bitchin Bajas –– Bitchitronics (Drag City)
Black Label Society –– Unblackened (Entertainment One)
Blue Eyed Son –– Shadows on the Son (Eenie Meenie)
Boardwalk (Stones Throw)
BodyHead –– Coming Apart (Matador)
Bombino –– Nomad (Nonesuch)
Boogarins –– As Plantas Que Curam (Other Music)
Bosnian Rainbows (Sargent House)
Brother JT –– The Svelteness of Boogietude (Thrill Jockey)
Bryan and the Haggards featuring Dr. Eugene Chadbourne –– Merles Just Want To Have Fun (Northern Spy)
C. Spencer Yeh / Okkyung Lee / Lasse Marhaug –– Wake Up Awesome (Software/Mexican Summer)
Califone –– Stitches (Dead Oceans)
Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, Steve Swallow –– Trios (ECM)
Carol Kleyn –– Return of the Silkie (Drag City)
Cate Le Bon –– Mug Museum (Turnstile)
Ceramic Dog –– Your Turn (Northern Spy)
Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon –– Soul March (Soul Chants)
Charles Evans –– Subliminal Leaps (More Is More)
Charles Lloyd, Jason Moran –– Hagar’s Song (ECM)
Charlie Poole With the Highlanders –– The Complete Paramount & Brunswick Recordings, 1929 (Tompkins Square)
Ches Smith & These Arches –– Hammered (Clean Feed)
Chet Atkins & Les Paul –– Guitar Monsters (Real Gone)
Chico Mann –– Magical Thinking (Soundway)
Choir of Queen’s College Oxford — Handel, Scarlatti: Dixit Dominus (Avie)
Chris Forsyth –– Solar Motel (Paradise of Bachelors)
Chris Potter –– The Sirens (ECM)
Chris Schlarb –– Psychic Temple II (Asthmatic Kitty)
Christian Wallumrod Ensemble –– Outstairs (ECM)
Christopher O’Riley –– O’Riley’s Liszt (Oxengale)
Chrome Hoof –– Chrome Black Gold (Cuneiform)
Cian Nugent and the Cosmos –– Born With the Caul (No Quarter) )
Clara Hill –– Walk the Distance (Tapete)
Cliff Martinez –– Only God Forgives sndtk. (Milan)
Clint Mansell –– Stoker sndtk. (Milan)
Clogs –– The Sundown Song (Brassland)
CocoRosie –– Tales of a Grass Widow (City Slang)
Colin Edwin / Jon Durant –– Burnt Relief (Alchemy)
Como Asesinar y Felipes –– Comenzara de Nuevo (Koolarrow)
Concrete Knives –– Be Your Own King (Bella Union)
Connan Mockasin –– Caramel (Because)
Corima –– Quetzalcoatl (Soleil Zeuhl)
Craig Taborn –– Chants (ECM)
Crime & the City Solution –– American Twilight (Mute)
Cross Record –– Be Good (Ba Da Bing)
Curtis Hasselbring –– Number Stations (Cuneiform)
Daedelus –– Drown Out (Anticon)
Daft Punk –– Random Access Memories (Columbia)
Daniel Bachman –– Jesus I’m a Sinner (Tompkins Square)
Daniel Hope –– Spheres (Deutsche Grammophon)
Daniel Wohl –– Corps Exquis (New Amsterdam)
Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society –– Brooklyn Babylon (New Amsterdam)
Date Palms –– The Dusted Sessions (Thrill Jockey)
Dave Holland / Craig Taborn / Kevin Eubanks / Eric Harland –– Prism (Dare2)
David Bowie –– The Next Day (Columbia)
David Buchbinder, Hilario Duran –– Walk to the Sea (Tzadik)
David Grubbs –– The Plain Where the Palace Stood (Drag City)
David Murray Infinity Quartet –– Be My Monster Love (Motema)
Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie Prince Billy –– What the Brothers Sang (Drag City )
Dean Wareham –– Emancipated Hearts (Double Feature)
Deltron 3030 –– Event 2 (Bulk/Universal)
Dennis Callaci and Simon Joyner –– New Secrets (Shrimper)
Diamond Terrifier –– The Subtle Body Wears a Shadow (Terrible)
Disappears –– Era (Kranky)
Django Voris –– Constantopolis (100m)
Dobrinka Tabakova –– String Paths (ECM)
Don & Stevie (Finders Keepers / B-Music)
Don Bikoff –– Celestial Explosion (Tompkins Square)
Dr. Stokley a.k.a. Dudley Perkins –– Dr. Stokley (Mello)
Dump –– Superpowerless / I Can Hear Music (Morr Music)
Dustin Wong –– Mediation of Ecstatic Energy (Thrill Jockey)
Dylan Ryan / Sand –– Sky Bleached (Cuneiform)
Eastman Wind Ensemble –– Stravinsky: Octet, L’Histoire du Soldat (Avie)
Eberhard Weber –– Résumé (ECM)
Eiko Ishibashi –– Imitation of Life (Drag City)
Eldar Djangirov Trio –– Breakthrough (Motema)
Eleni Karaindrou –– Concert in Athens (ECM)
Elizabeth Hainen—Les Amis: Debussy, Caplet (Avie)
Ellen Allien –– LISm (BPitch Control)
Emily Wells –– Mama (The Acoustic Recordings) (Partisan)
Emily Jane White –– Blood Lines (Important)
Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell –– Old Yellow Moon (Nonesuch)
Enrico Rava, The PM Jazz Lab –– On the Dance Floor (ECM)
Eric Copeland –– Joke in the Hole (DFA)
Etienne Charles –– Creole Soul (Culture Shock)
Father Yod and the Source Family –– The Source Family (Drag City)
Faun Fables –– Light of a Vaster Dark (Drag City)
Fol Chen –– The False Alarms (Asthmatic Kitty)
Food, Thomas Stronen, Iain Ballamy –– Mercurial Balm (ECM)
Francois Houle and Harvard Wiik –– Aves (Songlines)
Frank Fairfield / Various –– Turn Me Loose: Outsiders of 'Old-Time' Music (Tompkins Square)
Friedman & Liebezeit –– Secret Rhythms 5 (Nonplace)
Future Bible Heroes –– Partygoing (Merge)
Gary Lucas –– Cinefantastique (Northern Spy)
Gary Peacock, Marilyn Crispell –– Azure (ECM)
Gastric Band –– Party Feel (Armellodie)
George Benjamin –– Written on Skin: Duet for Piano and Orchestra (Nimbus)
Glenn Gould –– The Acoustic Orchestrations: Scriabin, Sibelius (Sony)
Giovanni Guidi Trio –– City of Broken Dreams (ECM)
Gilad Atzmon & The Orient House Ensemble –– Songs of the Metropolis (World Village)
Ghetto Bros. –– Power Fuerza (Truth & Soul)
Gloria Cheng / The Calder Quartet –– The Edge of Light: Messiaen, Saariaho (Harmonia Mundi)
Goldfrapp –– Tales of Us (Mute)
Greg Friedman –– Can’t Talk Now (Populuxe)
Gregg Kallor –– A Single Noon (Single Noon)
Guapo –– History of the Visitation (Cuneiform)
Gurf Morlix –– Finds the Present Tense (Rootball)
Hackamore Brick –– One Kiss Leads to Another (Real Gone)
Hallé Orchestra –– Elgar: The Apostles Op. 49 (Halle/Nimbus)
The Handsome Family –– Wilderness (Carrot Top)
Harry Christophers –– Haydn: Symphonies 6 & 82, Violin Concerto in G Major (Coro)
Helen Money –– Arriving Angels (Profound Lore)
Heliocentrics –– 13 Degrees of Reality (Now-Again)
Heliotropes –– A Constant Sea (Manimal Vinyl)
Hero & Leander –– Tumble (Tapete)
Herwig Zack –– Made in Germany: Bach, Hindemith, Stahmer, Reger (Avie)
Hillary Hahn –– In 27 Pieces (Deutsche Grammophon)
The Hilliard Ensemble –– Il Cor Tristo (ECM)
Howe Gelb –– The Coincidentalist (New West)
Ian Hunter & the Rant Band –– When I’m President (Slimstyle)
Iasos –– Celestial Soul Portrait (Numero)
Iggy and the Stooges –– Ready To Die (Fat Possum)
Ilaiyaraaja –– Ilectro (Finders Keepers)
Il Sogno Del Marinaio –– La Busta Gialla (Clenched Wrench)
Irmin Schmidt, Jaki Liebezeit, Jono Podmore, Burnt Friedman –– Cyclopean (Spoon/Mute)
Ironing Board Sam –– The Ninth Wonder of the World of Music (Music Maker)
I See Hawks in L.A. –– Mystery Drug (Blue Rose)
Iva Bittova (ECM)
Ivo Perelman, Matthew Shipp –– Enigma (Leo)
Ivo Perelman, Matthew Shipp, Mat Maneri –– A Violent Dose of Anything sndtk. (Leo)
Jacco Gardner –– Cabinet of Curiosities (Trouble in Mind)
Jace Clayton –– The Julius Eastman Memory Depot (New Amsterdam)
Jenny Hval –– Innocence Is Kinky (Rune Grammofon)
Jail Weddings –– Meltdown: A Declaration of Unpopular Emotion (Neurotic Yell)
Javelin –– Hi-Beams (Luaka Bop)
J Dilla –– Music From the Lost Scrolls Vol. 1 (Delicious Vinyl)
Jette von Roth –– Komische Welt (Roter Punkt)
Jimmy Jam’s Mind & Matter (Numero)
Jim Woehrle & Michael Yonkers –– Borders of My Mind (Drag City)
Joan of Arc –– Testimonium Songs (Polyvinyl)
Joe Lovano U.S. Five –– Cross Culture (Blue Note)
John Abercrombie –– 39 Steps (ECM)
John Grant –– Pale Green Ghost (Partisan)
John Medeski –– A Different Time (Okeh / Sony)
John Murry –– The Graceless Age (Evangeline)
John Parish –– Screenplay (Thrill Jockey)
John Tejada —“Anaphora” / “Bode’s Law” (Palette)
Joseph Bowie & Adam Rudolph –– Good Medicine: Ig Bo Duet (Defunkt/Meta)
Joseph Byrd –– NYC 1960-1963 (New World)
Juana Molina –– Wed 21 (Crammed Discs)
Julia Kent –– Character (Leaf)
Julia Hulsmann Quartet –– In Full View (ECM)
Julia Holter –– Loud City Song (Domino)
Julianna Barwick –– Nepenthe (Dead Oceans)
Juliette Commagere –– Human (Aeronaut)
June Tabor, Iain Ballamy, Huw Warren –– Quercus (ECM)
Jussi Reijonen –– Un (Unmusic)
The Kandinsky Effect –– Synesthesia (Cuneiform)
Karl Bartos –– Off the Record (Bureau B)
Kayhan Kalhor, Erdal Erzincan –– Kula Kulluk Yakisir Mi (Live in Bursa / 2011) (ECM 13)
Keller Quartet –– Ligeti: String Quartets / Barber: Adagio (ECM)
Ketil Bjornstad –– La Notte (ECM)
King Bullard Version –– Songs of the BOS Label (Numero)
Kneebody –– The Line (Concord)
The Knells (New Amsterdam)
The KPM Music Library –– Music for Dancefloors (Strut)
Kisses –– Kids in L.A. (Rallye)
Kris Davis –– Massive Threads (Thirsty Ear)
Laibach –– S (Mute)
Laraaji –– Two Sides of Laraaji / Essence/Universe / Celestial Music (All Saints)
Lazy –– Obsession (Moniker)
Lee Ranaldo & Dust –– Last Night on Earth (Matador)
Lena Hughes –– Queen of the Flat-Top Guitar (Tompkins Square)
Leonidas Kavakos, Enrico Pace –– Beethoven: Violin Sonatas (Decca)
Leslie West –– Still Climbing (Provogue/Mascot)
Lisa Germano –– no elephants (Badman)
Lloyd Cole, Hans-Joachim Roedelius –– Selected Studies Vol. 1 (Bureau B)
Low –– The Invisible Way (Sub Pop)
Little Women –– Lung (Aum Fidelity)
Lubomyr Melnyk –– Corollaries (Erased Tapes)
Margaret Whiting –– The Wheel of Hurt / Maggie Isn’t Margaret Anymore / Pop Country (Real Gone)
Mark Dresser Quintet –– Nourishments (Clean Feed)
Masaki Batoh –– Brain Pulse Music (Drag City)
Mason Williams –– Phonograph Record / Ear Show (Real Gone)
Matmos –– The Marriage of True Minds (Thrill Jockey)
Matthew Shipp –– Piano Sutras (Thirsty Ear)
Medicine –– To the Happy Few (Captured Tracks)
Melt-Banana –– Fetch (A-Zap)
Merle Haggard –– The Complete ‘60s Singles (Omnivore)
Metamono –– With the Compliments of Nuclear Physics (Instrumentarium)
Michele Rabbia –– Il Pergolese (ECM)
Mick Turner –– Don’t Tell the Driver (Drag City)
Mikael Jorgensen & Greg O’Keeffe (Butterscotch)
Mike Donovan –– Wot (Drag City)
Miles Davis Quintet –– Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2 (Legacy)
Mitsuko Uchida –– Schumann: G Minor Sonata, Waldszenen, Gesange der Fruhe (Decca)
Mohammed Fairouz –– Native Informant (Naxos)
Molly Drake (Squirrel Thing)
Morton Feldman –– Violin and Orchestra (ECM)
Mount Eerie –– Pre-Human Ideas (P.W. Elverum and Sun)
Mouse on Mars –– Parastrophics / Wow (Monkeytown)
Mr. Chop –– Illuminate (Now-Again)
Mr. Ho’s Orchestrotica –– Where Here Meets There (Tiki)
Myron & E –– Broadway (Stones Throw)
Myra Melford –– Life Carries Me This Way (Firehouse 12)
Mystical Weapons –– Crotesque (Northern Spy )
Naama Kates –– King for the Day (Naama Kates)
Nathan Salsburg –– Hard for To Win and Can’t Be Won (No Quarter)
Natsuki Tamura –– Dragon Nat (Libra)
The Necks –– Open (Northern Spy)
Neon Neon –– Praxis Makes Perfect (Lex)
Neotantrik –– Intervisions (Finders Keepers/B-Music)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds –– Push the Sky Away (Bad Seed)
Nick Lowe –– Quality Street (Yep Roc)
Nicolas Horvath –– Franz Liszt: Christus (Editions Hortus)
Nicolas Masson, Roberto Pianca, Emanuele Maniscalco –– Third Reel (ECM)
Nightlands –– Oak Island (Secretly Canadian)
Nils Frahm –– Spaces (Erased Tapes)
Numbers Band –– 15-60-75 –– Jimmy Bell’s Still in Town (Numbersband.com)
Otis G. Johnson –– Everything –– God Is Love '78 (Numero)
Paolo Fesu Devil Quartet –– Desertico (TA)
Patricia Barber –– Smash (Concord )
Patrick Cowley –– School Daze (Dark Entries)
Patty Duke –– Sings Songs From Valley of the Dolls / Time To Move On: Sings Folk Songs (Real Gone)
Patti Page –– From Nashville to L.A.: The Lost Columbia Masters 1963-1969 / The Complete Columbia Singles 1962-1970 (Real Gone)
Peter Jefferies –– The Last Great Challenge in a Dull World (De Stijl)
Peter Walker –– Has Anybody Seen Our Freedoms? (Delmore)
Perera Elsewhere –– Everlast (Friends of Friends)
Pop Levi –– Starlight & Wonder (Counter)
Quasi –– Mole City (Kill Rock Stars)
Quasimoto –– Yessir Whatever (Stones Throw)
Queens of the Stone Age –– Like Clockwork (Matador)
Radar Brothers –– Eight (Merge)
Rafal Bkechacz –– Chopin: Polonaises (Deutsche Grammophon)
Raffertie –– Sleep of Reason (Ninja Tune)
Ras G and the Afrikan Space Program –– Back on the Planet (Brainfeeder)
Rhys Chatham –– Harmonie du soir (Northern Spy)
Richard Pinhas –– Desolation Row (Cuneiform)
Richard Walters –– Regret Less (Beard Museum)
Robert Wyatt –– ’68 (Cuneiform)
Rodion G.A. –– The Lost Tapes (Strut)
Roedelius Schneider –– Tiden (Bureau B)
Rose Windows –– The Sun Dogs (Sub Pop)
Royal Trux –– Veterans of Disorder (Drag City)
Sao Paulo Underground –– Beija Flors Velho E Sujo (Cuneiform)
Satoko Fujii –– Gen Himmel (Libra)
Schneider TM –– Guitar Sounds (Bureau B)
Shlohmo –– Laid Out (Friends of Friends)
Sidi Toure –– Alafia (Thrill Jockey)
Sixth Station –– The Hermetic Guitar Music of a Rural Priest (Numero)
Sonny & The Sunsets –– Antenna to the Afterworld (Polyvinyl)
Sonny Smith –– 100 Records Volume 3 extended version (Polyvinyl)
So Percussion/Dan Trueman –– Neither Anvil Nor Pulley (Cantaloupe)
S.O.S. (John Surman, Alan Skidmore, Mike Osborne) –– Looking for the Next One (Cuneiform)
The Stark Reality –– Acting Thinking Feeling (Now-Again)
Stefano Battaglia Trio –– Songways (ECM)
Stefano Bollani, Hamilton de Holanda –– O Que Sera (Live at Jazz Middelheim, Antwerp / 2012) (ECM)
Stefano Scodanibbio, Quartetto Prometeo –– Reinventions (ECM)
Stephan Micus –– Panagia (ECM)
Stephane Wrembel –– Origins (Gitane)
Stravinsky Conducts Le Sacre du Printemps (Columbia)
Superhuman Happiness –– Hands (The Royal Potato Family)
Susan James –– Driving Toward the Sun (SJM)
Susanna Abbuehl –– The Gift (ECM)
Swearin –– Strange Surfing (Salinas)
Tenebrae, Nigel Short –– Gesualdo: Responsories (Archiv)
Tera Melos –– Xed Out (Sargent House)
Terje Rypdal –– Melodic Warrior (ECM)
Tigran Hamasyan –– Shadow Theater (Verve)
Tim Berne’s Snakeoil –– Shadow Man (ECM)
Timur and the Dime Museum –– X-Ray Sunsets (Art of Opera)
The Alexander String Quartet –– Bartok & Kodaly: Complete String Quartets (Foghorn)
The Bats –– Free All the Monsters (Flying Nun)
The Bryan Ferry Orchestra –– The Jazz Age (BMG)
The Callas –– Am I Vertical (Inner Ear)
The Claudia Quintet –– September (Cuneiform)
The Como Mamas –– Get an Understanding (Daptone)
The Dowland Project –– Night Sessions (ECM)
The Flaming Lips –– The Terror (Warner Bros.)
The Growlers –– Guilded Pleasures (Everloving)
The Horse's Ha –– Waterdrawn (Fluff & Gravy)
The Knife –– Shaking the Habitual (Mute)
The Melodic –– Effra Parade (Anti-)
The Pure Conjecture –– Gendres (Armellodie)
The Sadies –– Internal Sounds (Yep Roc)
The Steve Swallow Quintet –– Into the Woodwork (ECM)
Tomasz Stanko NY Quartet –– Wislawa (ECM)
Tonto’s Expanding Headband –– Zero Time (Real Gone)
Tony Joe White –– Hoodoo (Yep Roc)
Tribecastan –– New Songs From the Old Country (Evergreene)
Turnbull Green –– The Wolf in You (Daylight Curfew )
Van-anh Vanessa Vo, Kronos Quartet –– Three Mountain Pass (Innova)
Van Dyke Parks –– Songs Cycled (Bella Union)
Various –– Balkan Arts 701: Bulgarian Folk Dances (Evergreen)
Various –– Bang the Box: The (Lost) Story of AKA Dance Music Chicago 1987-88 (Still Music)
Various –– Change the Beat: The Celluloid Records Story 1979-1987 (Strut)
Various –– Cosmic Machine: French Cosmic & Electronic Avant Garde 1970-1980 (Because)
Various –– Dual Form (Stones Throw / Leaving)
Various –– Eccentric Soul: The Dynamic Label (Numero)
Various –– Eccentric Soul: The Forte Label (Numero)
Various –– Good God! Apocryphal Hymns (Numero)
Various –– Haiti Direct (Strut)
Various –– Imaginational Anthem Vol. 6: Origins of American Primitive Guitar (Tompkins Square)
Various –– Mutazione: Italian Electronic & New Wave Underground 1980-1988 (Strut)
Various –– Peru Maravilloso (Tiger’s Milk)
Various –– Purple Snow (Numero)
Various –– The Road to Jajouka (Howe)
Wadada Leo Smith –– Occupy the World (TUM)
White Hills –– So You Are…So You’ll Be (Thrill Jockey)
William Onyeaboh –– Who Is William Onyeaboh? (Luaka Bop)
William Parker –– Wood Flute Songs: Anthology / Live (Aum Fidelity)
Wire –– Change Becomes Us (Pink Flag)
Wolf Eyes –– No Answer / Lower Floors (De Stijl)
Wooden Shjips –– Back to Land (Thrill Jockey)
Wovenhand –– The Laughing Stalk (Sounds Familyre)
Wrekmeister Harmonies –– You've Always Meant So Much To Me (Thrill Jockey)
Xiu Xiu –– Nina (Graveface)
Yamantaka –– Sonic Titan (Suicide Squeeze)
Yeahwon Shin –– Lua Ya (ECM)
Yellowbirds –– Songs From The Vanished Frontier (Royal Potato Family)
Yokokimthurston (Chimera)
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band –– Take Me to the Land of Hell (Chimera)
Zsona Boros –– En Otra Parte (ECM)

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