Miguel Carvalhais’s highlights of 2009

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Records:

  • Florian Hecker, “Acid In The Style Of David Tudor”
  • Tortoise, “Beacons of Ancestorship”
  • Mika Vainio, “Black Telephone of Matter”
  • Ben Frost, “By The Throat”
  • VA, “Crónicasters”
  • This Immortal Coil, “The Dark Age Of Love”
  • Morten Riis, “Digital Sound Drawings”
  • Oriol Rosell, “EP 1”
  • The Beautiful Schizophonic, “Erotikon”
  • Cruz, Pedro Almeida, Pedro Tudela, MC, “Futurónica #1-4”
  • Molly Berg + Stephen Vitiello, “The Gorilla Variations”
  • Durán Vázquez, “Home, Sweet Home”
  • King Tubby / The Scientist, “In A Revival Dub”
  • Madjid Khaladj, “Iranian Percussions: Tombak, Daf, Dayre and Zang-e Saringoshti”
  • Stephan Mathieu, “The Key To The Kingdom”
  • Janek Schaefer / Stephan Mathieu, “Fifty Inner Spaces [for JG Ballard] / Girl”
  • Piotr Kurek, “Lectures”
  • Gintas K, “Lovely Banalities”
  • DJ Sprinkles, “Midtown 120 Blues”
  • Nana April Jun, “The Ontology Of Noise”
  • Marc Behrens, “Sleppet”
  • Nuno Aroso, “Technicolor”
  • Horace Andy & Alpha, “Two Phazed People”
  • Arturas BumÅ¡teinas, “Uniforms”
  • Robert Hampson, “Vectors”
  • Beck, “The Velvet Underground & Nico (Record Club version)”
  • Russell Haswell, “Wild Tracks”
  • Alva Noto, “Xerrox Vol. 2”
  • Morrissey, “Years Of Refusal”
  • Supersilent, “9”
  • UBERMORGEN.COM && Nussbaumer, “1001 Songs of eBay”

Comics:

  • David Mazzucchelli, “Asterios Polyp”
  • Marjane Satrapi, “Chicken with Plums”
  • Rutu Modan, “Exit Wounds”
  • Dave Gibbons and Frank Miller, “The Life & Times of Martha Washington in the Twenty-first Century”
  • Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson and Rodney Ramos , “Transmetropolitan”

Two amazing weeks:

  • Perugia
  • Ljubljana

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