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We published a collective best of 2011 over at the Liminal. My choices are below, plus a link to those I or someone else at the Liminal reviewed...



1. Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres My short review and interview with Matana.



2. Liturgy - Aesthethica My review.



3. Hallock Hill - The Union My review



4. Corrupted - Garten der Unbewusstheit My review



5. Grouper - Dream Loss/Alien Observer



6. Petrels - Haeligewielle My review



7. Jenny Hval - Viscera My review



8. Altar of Plagues - Mammal My review, and a mix Altar of Plagues put together for the Liminal.



9. Julia Holter - Tragedy My review



10 - Michael Chapman - The Resurrection and Revenge of the Clayton Peacock My review

11. Roly Porter - Aftertime Andrew Bowman's review
12. Gillian Welch - The Harrow and the Harvest
13. Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
14. Tim Noble - Diffaith My review
15. Andy Stott - Passed Me By/We Stay Together Andrew Bowman's review
16. Lawrence English - The Peregrine My review
17. Balam Acab - Wander/Wonder
18. Rustie - Glass Swords
19. Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
20. Asva - Presence of Absences
21. Meg Baird - Seasons on Earth
22. Juliana Barwick - The Magic Place My review
23. Pinch and Shackleton - Pinch and Shackleton
24. Mountains - Air Museum Live review by Scott McMillan
25. The Memory Band - Oh My Days

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Ekca Liena. Image by Joe Evans

Given the size of the population in and around the city, it’s relative proximity to London, the fact of an arts-dominated university and a school of art that was attended by no less than Brian Eno, it is a thing of eternal wonder to me that Winchester has such a lack of gigs and venues. Where is everyone? With all that in mind, I guess it makes some perverse kind of sense that when there is a gig, it’s hidden away beneath the floorboards of an old, tilting boozer, away from the weight of the untenanted rockeries of history that litter the rest of the city. It was arranged by Joe Evans, head of Running on Air records, a micro label based out of a front room a few minutes walk from the Hyde Tavern, and featured some of his own audio-visual work (which I ashamedly missed) and two ambient/drone acts, Venona Pers and Ekca Liena.

Read the rest over at the Liminal.

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One way not to listen to it is to focus on the notes… Instead, try to move your imagination toward the sound. It's a matter of following the sound… Follow the sound, the pitches, the colours. You have to watch them move
Donald Ayler

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Irish post-black metal band, Altar of Plagues put together a fantastic, blackened mix for The Liminal.

Listen below or you can download here.

1. Menace Ruine – This Place of Power (Alien8 Recordings)
2. Dispirit- Ixtab’s Lure (Independent)
3. Fell Voices – Untitled (Independent)
4. Blood Revolt- Dead City Stare (Profound Lore / Invictus Productions)
5. Impetuous Ritual- Convoluting Unto Despondent Anarchronism (Profound Lore)
6. Pig Destroyer- Hyperviolet (Relapse)
7. Ben Frost- Kill Shot (Bedroom Community)
8. Fovea Hex – Huge (the joy of trouble) (Die Stadt)
9. Pelican- Last Day of Winter (HydraHead)
10. Raime- We Must Hunt Under the Wreckage of Many Systems (Blackest Ever Black)
11. GreyMachine- Sweatshop (HydraHead)
12. Cloaks – Detritus Version (3BY3)
13. Abaddon Incarnate – I Will Nail You In (Sentinel)
14. Munn – In Defeat (Woodsmoke)
15. Locrian – Epicedium (At War With False Noise / Small Doses)

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Image by Glen E. Friedman

Between 1987 and 2003, Fugazi played over 1000 concerts in all 50 states and all over the world. Over 800 of these shows were recorded by the band's sound engineers. The goal of this project is to make each of these recordings available to download for a small fee. We will start with 130 shows and release more monthly until we're done. A searchable archive lists each show along with available photos, flyers and general show info. Each listing with a download offers a streaming preview of material for sound quality as well as the reading and posting of comments on the show and the recording.

Typically, the show I saw in 1992 isn't available (still one of the best shows I've ever seen), but still... Go get.

There's also a good interview with Ian MacKaye over at Pitchfork, and not to forget Glen E. Friedman's book of Fugazi photos from where the above image is taken.

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