Miguel Carvalhais’s highlights of 2009

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