A playlist of dreams

If they would ask me to make a surprising Klanghorizonte hour on the last evening of 2024, it would look like this, including reissues and albums from the near future besides music from the near future, as well as  stuff at hand by now. Of course, one piece or another will end up in my March show, and maybe all. Merry christmas!

01 – Trees Speak: Timefold
02 – Feliciá Atkinson: Space As An Instrument
03 – Andrew Wasylyk / Tommy Perman: Ash Grey And The Gull Glides On*
04 – Rainer Brüninghaus: Freigeweht
05 – Jon Balke: Skritum**
06 – Joni Mitchell: Hejira Demos
07 – Ambrose Akinmusire: Honey From A Winter Stone
08 – Sam Amidon: Salt River***
09 – Alice Zawadski / Fred Thomas / Misha Mullova-Abbado: Za Górami 
10 – V.A. – Even the Forest Hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archives 1971-1996 
11 – Terry Riley: Shri Camel**** 

* an interview with Tommy Perman or even both men from Scotland is in preparation.  

** the forthcoming album of Jon Balke will be released at the end of February. From the very first note, Norway’s Jon Balke proposes a new sonic dimension with Skrifum, continuing a line of inquiry begun with Warp (2016) and Discourses (2020), solo piano albums which also processed the acoustic environment in which the music was heard.

*** „whether he’s covering Mariah Carey like she’s Bessie Jones or working with the likes of Nico Muhly and Thomas “Doveman” Bartlett, Sam Amidon has always pondered just what’s so folk about folk music. For Salt River he promoted the experimental jazz saxophonist Sam Gendel from sideman to full collaborator, and together, they emphasise the synthlike quality in Amidon’s spidery guitar playing and the rhythmic elements of old folk tunes like “Golden Willow Tree”. Best might be their interpretation of the traditional ballad “Tavern”, which thrums with New Wave percussion, reeling fiddle and a breathtaking solo by Gendel. Folk bends under their queries, but doesn’t break.“ (Uncut, Jan. 2025)

**** i lost a copy of this Riley album years and years ago. I just remember I loved it,  and may look for a wonderful passage for the closing minutes.