Ank Anum: From Nowhere to No. 29 in Michael’s Desert 100 (for Leah Kardos)

in regards to my no. 1:

Not forgetting all things lost
in the fire of our lives
(as far as we can remember).
Sometimes, from a distance, everything
(losses first, and hands still to hold)
falls into place. No catchy songs,
no singalongs, no fairytale parallel worlds,
no hooks, no future evergreens, oh,
hold on, in their own peculiar way
Brian Eno’s modern day lamentations are
a collection of future „everblues“,
haunting, uncanny, anti-
grandiose, epic, enigmatic &
beautiful in a dark way. (m.e.)

And how then could it be
That we appear at all?
In all this rock and fire
In all this gas and dust
Are we not each a flame?
All born to live in light
All born to give our light 

1) Brian Eno: Foreverandevernomore
2) Talk Talk: Laughing Stock
3) Robert Wyatt: Rock Bottom
4) Joni Mitchell: Hejira
5) Ralph Towner: Solstice
6) Robert Wyatt: Rock Bottom
7) Brian Eno: On Land
8) Keith Jarrett: The Survivors´ Suite
9) David Bowie: Black Star
10) Brian Eno: Another Green World / Music For Films
11) Neil Young: Tonight‘s The Night
12) Beth Gibbons: Lives Outgrown
13) Miles Davis: In a silent way
14) Leonard Cohen: Songs of Love and Hate
15) Paul Bley: Open, To Love
16) Eno / Byrne: My Life in The Bush Of Ghosts
17) Fire! Orchestra: Echoes
18) Steve Tibbetts: Life Of
19) Underworld: Second Toughest In The Infance
20) Talking Heads: More Songs About Buildings And Food
21) P.J. Harvey: I Inside The Old Year Dying
22) The Go-Betweens: Spring Hill Fair
23) Jan Garbarek: Sart
24) The Beatles: Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
25) Young Marble Giants: Colossal Youth
26) Jon Hassell/Brian Eno: Possible Musics
27) Laurie Anderson: Big Science
28) The Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
29) Ank Anum: Song Of The Motherland
30) Wire: Chairs Missing

31) Weather Report: Mysterious Traveller
32) Floating Ponts / Pharoah Sanders: Promises
33) Dadawah: Peace and Love
34) David Bowie: Low
35) Neil Young: On The Beach
36) Marion Brown: Geechee Recollections
37) Codona: Codona 3
38) Jacques Brel: Brel (his last one, with clouds on the cover)
39) Soft Machine: Third
40) a choice between 66 roots reggae albums
41) King Crimson: Discipline (or three other Crimons, growers forever)
42) Bill Callahan: Apocalypse
43) John Coltrane: A Love Supreme
44) Brian Eno: Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
45) J.J. Cale: Naturally
46) Edvard Vesala: Nan Madol
47) Punkt: Crime Scenes 
48) Gavin Bryars: The Sinking of the Titanic (Obscure Records)
49) Gary Peacock: Paradigm – Voice Fron The Past
50) Van Morrison: Veedon Fleece 

51) Arve Henriksen / Audun Kleive / Jan Bang: Chiaroscuro
52) Brian Eno: The Ship
53) Robert Fripp: Exposure
54) Talking Heads: More Songs about Buildings and Food
55) John Coltrane: A Love Supreme
56) Wilco: A Gost Is Born
57) Laurie Anderson: Big Science
58) Thomas Köner: Novaya Zemlya
59) Harold Budd & Brian Eno: The Plateaux of Mirror
60) Lambchop: Showtunes
61) Sidsel Endresen / Jan Bang / Erik Honoré: Punkt Live Remixes Vol. 2
62) Lucinda Williams: Essence
63) Punkt: Crime Scenes
64) David Sylvian: Manafon
65) Keith Jarrett: Belonging
66) Robert Fripp: Let The Power Fall
67) Egberto Gismonti / Jan Garbarek / Charles Haden: Magico
68) Anthony Braxton: New York, Fall 1976
69) David Holland: Conference Of The Birds
70) Can: Tago Mago 
71) Kraftwerk: Autobahn
72) Robert Wyatt: Dondestan
73) Holger Czukay: Ode To The Peak Of Normal
74) The Go-Betweens: Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express
75) Miles Davis: Bitches Brew
76) Natural Infornation Society: Since Time Is Gravity
77) Keith Jarrett: Bremen / Lausanne
78) Joe Henderson: The Elements
79) Music from the Penguin Cafe Orchestra (Obscure Records)

The wonderful Moon Safari from Air is on no. 185. There‘s a constant flowflowflow amongst my 100 Desert Island Discs. Yes, there are errors, double placings etc, but I am working on this list til Saturday, and as soon as it is finished, it will vanish. Number 100, too, is a five star album.  The personal is more important than the canonical element.

80) Van Morrison: Veedon Fleece
81) Television: Marquee Moon
82) Jon Balke: Warp 
83) Brian Eno: Music For Airports
84) Meredith Monk: Dolmen Music
85) The Kinks: a best of compilation
86) Shabaka: Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
87) Bo Hansson: Lord of the Rings
88) Al Green: a best of compilation
89) Colin Walcott / Don Cherry / Nana Vasconcelos: Codona 2 (or 3)

90) Ryuichi Sakamoto: Left Handed Dream (or Async)
91) T. Rex: Electric Warrior
92) Caetano Veloso: Estrangero
93) Don Cherry: Brown Rice
94) Robert Wyatt: Shleep
95) Billie Holiday: Lady In Satin
96) Lewis: L’Amour
97) Bob Dylan: Desire
98) Lankum: False Lankum
99) Alice Coltrane: Journey in Satchinanda
100) Pharoah Sanders: Tauhid