Here we are again – the first part of our annual list of favorite recordings for 2023. Today is for the honorable mentions. Tomorrow we will publish our albums of the year.
Honorable Mentions
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Allemano, Lina – Canons
Amado, Rodrigo / Schlippenbach / Flaten / Hemingway – Beyond the Margins
Amon Ra Collective – At the Centre of Everything
André 3000 – New Blue Sun
Aton Five – Aton Five
Autumn Tears – Guardian of the Pale
Baker, Aidan – Engenderine
Barbiero, Daniel – Soundings
Barbiero, Daniel / Gary Rouzer – Metamorphoses
Bathory, Kristof – Humanoid Dystopia
Becuzzi, Gianluca – We Can Be Everywhere
Bell Witch – Future’s Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate
Belorukov, Ilia – Scattered Underfoot
Bird, David – Wire Hums
Bonanza of Doom – Bonanza of Doom
Bröndum, Lars – Wall of Darkness (Black Programs Facility)
BRUIT – Apologie du Temps Perdu – Vol. 1
Buck, Tony & Mark Nauseef – Mongrels
Cadlag – Integral
Cameron, Lisa / Ernesto Diaz-Infante – Ghosts of the JA
Carbon in Prose – Salt Water Blood
Carter, Daniel / Leo Genovese / W.Parker / F.Mela – Shine Hear Vol. 1
Clark, Scott – Dawn & Dusk
Cleaver, Gerald / Brandon Lopez / Hprizm – In the Wilderness
Conjecture – Nostalgia Futura
Council of Nine – The People’s Temple
Crypthios – Fading Coast
Dahlia’s Tear – Tales from a Feeble Dream
Darja Kazimira and Zura Makharadze – Songs from an Obscure Matriarchal Tribe
Darsombra – Dumesday Book
Davis, Kris – Live at the Village Vanguard
Dead Melodies – Sleepy Town of Winter
Dead Melodies – The Aberration of Time and Space
Deathprod – Compositions
Dewar, Andrew Raffo / John Hughes / Chad Popple – Reflejos IV-VII
Dronal – Whilst We Fall
Droneroom – Rusted Lung
Ducret, Marc – Palm Sweat: Marc Ducret Plays the Music of Tim Berne
DUGA-1 – Abyss
Dunstan, Nick – Skultura
East Axis – No Subject
Endlingr – Tra
Ensemble 1 – Delay Works
Ensemble Dedalus + eRikm – Fata Morgana
Fang, Forrest – The Oort Cloud Meditations
Fleshvessel – Yearning: Promethean Fates Sealed
Fujii, Satoko – Torrent
Fujiwara, Tomas – Pith
Gdanian – Mechanical Gods
Gentile, Kate – Find Letter X
Glasova, Jelena – The Dream of Hans Castorp
Glass Triangle – Blue and Sun-lights
God Body Disconnect – The Weight of Regression
Grant the Sun – Voyage
Groetsch, Daryl – Frozen Waste
Groetsch, Daryl – Gardens in Glass
Gunn-Truscinski-Nace – Glass Band
Immortal Samsara Travelers, The – Hanging Gardens in Glacial Apocha
Irarrázabal, Amanda & Miriam Den Boer – Salmon Fauces
Jarguna – Explorations of the Unconscious
Kannon – Kannon
Kawar, Yousef – Unclear Frequencies
Keosz – Neven (OST)
Kloob & Onasander – Goês
Kodian Plus – Disengage
Kohl, Lia – The Ceiling Reposes
Krieger, Ulrich – Aphotic I – Hadal
Kuvveti, Deli – In the Summer Dusk
Laubrock, Ingrid – The Last Quiet Place
Leonard, Cheryl E. / Wobbly – Multiple Park
Light Sleeper, A – Equaeverpoise
Lilac Numbering System – Distance Drone
Lim, Katherine Kyu Hyeon – Starling
Liturgy – 93696
Llyn Y Cwn – Stratigraphy
Lopez, Brandon / Trio – Matanzas
Loud as Giants (Justin Broadrick / Dirk Serries) – Empty Homes
Lucaslavia – Furnace
Mademoiselle Plume Rouge – Horror Politics
Mammatus – Expanding Majesty
Maulen – El Miedo De Amar Pero Igual Lo Hago
McLaughlin, Elijah / Ensemble – III
Merzbow – Hatomatsuri
Michelle, Chantal – Broken to Echoes
Mitchell, Nicole / Alexander Hawkins – At Earth School
MMRK – Narcolepsy
Moore, N.O. – Solo Live at Oto
Morego – Fascination
Mortágua / Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Sommer – Not Bad
Mountain King, The / Gate To Xibalba – Split
Nachoff, Quinsin – Stars and Constellations
Nagano, Sana / Leonor Flacon – Peach and Tomato
Namlook, Pete / Bill Laswell – Outland Box (6CD)
Necks, The – Travel
Nile on Wax – After Heaven
Ogives – La Mémoire des Orages
øjeRum – The Limited Circle is Pure
Olencki, Weston / Anna Webber – Several
Pateras, Anthony – Two Solos
Perelman, Ivo / Joe Morris – Elliptic Time
PoiL Ueda – PoiL Ueda
PoiL Ueda – Yoshitsune
Rasmussen, Mette / P.Flaherty, Z.Rowden, C.Corsano – Crying in Space
Rench’s Rifles – Rench’s Rifles
Rosenboom, Daniel – Polarity
SATØRI – The Woods
Shibalba – Dreams Are Our World of Experience
Shinkiro – The Birth of the Gods
Shipp, Matthew – The Intrinsic Nature of Shipp
Silent Universe – Immensity
Small Things on Sundays – Guide
Smiley, Andrew / Kate Gentile – Flagrances
Smith, Wadada Leo – Fire Illuminations
Socolofksy, Annika – Don’t Say a Word
Spence, Alister / Tony Buck – Mythographer
Spirit in Spirit – Lencastre / Van der Weide / Govaert Cinematico
Stancati, Mario Lina – Revision
Stars Without Light – Benath and Before
Stein, Jason / Damon Smith / Adam Shead – Hum
Subverge – Etterath
Sutekh Hexen and Funerary Call – P:R:I:S:M
Swell, Steve / Fire Into Music For Jemeel – Fire from the Road
Tele.S.Therion - In Umbra Malitiae Ambulabo in Aeternum in Triumpho Tenebrarum
Thomas, Pat – Burdah Variations
Thompson, Robert Scott – Placid
Toop, David / Lawrence English – The Shell that Speaks the Sea
Transatlantic Five – Transitions
Triswara – Transcendant
Trow, Zane – envoûteuse haleine
Various Artists – Anthology of Electroacoustic Music from Finland
Various Artists – Arise – A Cold Spring Sampler
Various Artists – Tomb of Witches (Cryo Chamber)
Vogt, Karen – Le Mans
Vongoiva – The Fabric of Space and Time
Vyormouth -Liminal Spaces
Ward Item 4, Alex -Furthered
Washing Planck, The – Integrale Sui Cammini
Webster, Colin / Large Ensemble – First Meeting
Worms of the Earth – Kheri-Habet
Yuleman, Mombi – Abductee
Zorn, John – 444
Zorn, John – Multiplicities II: A Repository of Nonexistent Objects
Zorn, John – The Fourth Way
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