And my heart and ears have selected the below mentioned gentlemen and one lady that made this year utterly fulfilled for me, listed in no particular order other than album's release date.
BJ Nilsen - The Invisible City [Touch]
Yellow Swans - - Going Places [Type]
Loscil - Endless Falls [Krenky]
Damian Valles – Bow Echoes [Resting Bell]
Rafael Anton Irisarri - Reverie [Immune]
The Sight Below - It All Falls Apart [Ghostly International]
Mains De Givre - Esther Marie [Textura]
Richard A Ingram - Consolamentum [White Box]
Talvihorros - Music in Four Movements [Hibernate]
Evan Caminiti - West Winds [Three Lobed Recordings]
Taylor Deupree - Shoals [12k]
TwinSisterMoon - Then Fell the Ashes... [Blackest Rainbow]
Celer - Panoramic Dreams Bathed In Seldomness [Basses Frequences]
Pete Swanson - Where I Was [Not On Label (Pete Swanson Self-released)]
Barn Owl - Ancestral Star [Thrill Jockey]
Philip Jeck - An Ark For The Listener [Touch]
Lee Noble - Our Star, The Sun [Moon Glyph]
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Love Is A Stream [Type] & Xela & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Love Is A Dream [Type]
Other releases worth mentioning...
Damian Valles - In The Shadow Of The Occluding Body [Audio Gourmet Netlabel]
Jannick Schou - Against A Backdrop Of Blue Hills- They Were As Beautiful As A Lullaby [Not On Label (Jannick Schou Self-released)]
Pjusk - Sval [12k]
Bas van Huizen - Plooibaars [Not On Label (Bas Van Huizen Self-released)]
Jana Winderen - Energy Field [Touch]
Rafael Anton Irisarri - Reverie [Immune]
Stray Ghost - Nothing But Death [Hidden Shoal Recordings]
Christopher Hipgrave - Slow With Pages Of Fluttering Interference [Low Point]
Max Richter - Infra [FatCat Records]
Seaworthy and Matt Rösner - Two Lakes [12k]
Coldstream - South Island [Under The Spire]
Fennesz, Daniell, Buck - Knoxville [Thrill Jockey]
Motion Sickness Of Time Travel - Seeping Through The Veil Of The Unconscious [Digitalis]
Nautic Depths - Siberian Winter [Musical Philosophy]
Marcus Fjellström - Schattenspieler [Miasmah]
Erik K Skodvin - Flare [Miasmah]
K11/Pietro Riparbelli & Philipe Petit - The Haunting Triptych [Boring Machines]
Fennesz Daniell Buck - Knoxville [Thrill Jockey]
Sohrab - A Hidden Place [Touch]
Svarte Greiner - Untitled Tour CDr [Not On Label (Svarte Greiner Self-released)]
Upward Arrows - Upward Arrows [under the spire]
Solo Andata - Ritual [Desire Path Recordings]
En - The Absent Coast [Root Strata]
Philip Jeck - An Ark For The Listener [Touch]
Mendel Kaelen - Remembering What Was Forgotten [Not On Label]
Piiptsjilling - Wurdskrieme [Experimedia]
Zeena Parkins - Between The Whiles [Table Of The Elements]
Magda Mayas - Heartland [Another Timbre]
Christine Abdelnour Sehnaoui / Magda Mayas - Teeming [Olof Bright]
Favorite pieces of music mostly played in solitude throughout the whole year.
Machinefabriek – Onkruid [Daas]
Grouper – Sick [Hold/Sick]
Damian Valles – Penumbra (Nearly There) [In The Shadow Of The Occluding Body]
The Inventors of Aircraft – The Tower [As It Is]
talkingmakesnosense/death register – Untitled 2
Xela & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Love is the End [Love Is A Dream]
Xela & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Love is the End [Love Is A Dream]
Simon Scott – She Came From The Sea [Traba]
Celer – How Dear This Ear Of Reason, Beneath The Backlit Sun [Panoramic Dreams Bathed In Seldomness]
Coldstream – Alarums [Alarums]
Talvihorros – Thoughts of Violence [Music In Four Movements]
Jannick Schou – Night [Night]
Rafael Anton Irisarri – Für Alina [Riverie]
Kleefstra-Bakker-Kleefstra – Dat It Altyd Winter Bliuwt [That It Stays Winter Forever]
Richard A Ingram – Béziers [Consolamentum]
Natural Snow Buildings – The Psychic Circle/Uchronia [The Centauri Agent (disc 2)]
TwinSisterMoon – Then Fell the Ashes [Then Fell The Ashes...]
Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words – Forget Forgive Regret [No Words]
Pete Swanson – S.O.L.A. [Where I Was]
Twells & Christensen – The Crate [Coasts]
Stray Ghost – Part 8 [Nothing, But Death ]
Philip Jeck – The All Of Water [An Ark For The Listener]
