Katharsis Favourite Releases from 2009

Now, with some distance from last year, I present my 'short' list of favourite releases from 2009:

I have actually been sitting on this list since the new year and had intended to add short descriptions/reviews of each of these (reviews for some were published in BeatRoute last year) but I just haven't had the time and sadly probably won't for a long time. Some googling will lead you to much better reviews of these than I could ever write and these records are deserving of the highest calibre of writing to describe them.

For now my cryptic genre codes will have to suffice as a description (a lot of these terms have become so ambiguous they are now meaningless to most; sorry):

a = ambient instrumental (acoustic and/or electronic), e = electronic (uptempo), g = glitch (electronic), n = neo-classical, p = post-rock, i = indie-rock/pop, f = folk

A Broken Consort - Box of Birch (a,n)
A Broken Consort - Crow Autumn Part Two (a,n)
Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol II (a,n)
Ametsub - The Nothings Of The North (a,g,e)
Animal Hospital - Memory (a,n,p,f)
Balmorhea - All Is Wild, All Is Silent Remixes (Vinyl) (a,n)
Barzin - Notes to An Absent Lover (i)
Bell Orchestre - As Seen Through Windows (a)
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle (i)
Clouwbeck - Wolfrahm (a,n)
Dakota Suite - The Night Just Keeps Coming In (a)
David Bazan - Curse Your Branches (i)
DM Stith - Heavy Ghost (i,a)
Early Day Miners - The Treatment (i)
Evan Miller - Transfigurations on Lap-Steel Guitar (a,f)
Felix - You Are the One I Pick (i)
Fjordne - The Setting Sun (a,g)
Forest Tate Fraser - The Fall EP (i,f)
Fuqugi - Gransofa + Nightingale (a,p)
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (i)
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Through The Devil Softly (i,f)
Ilyas Ahmed - Goner (a,i,f)
James Blackshaw - The Glass Bead Game (a,n,f)
Jasper TX - Singing Stones (a,e)
Jasper TX & Anduin - The Bending Of Light (a)
Jonathan Kane - Jet Ear Party (i,p)
Jon-Rae Fletcher - Oh Maria (i,f)
Klumpes Ahmad - In Bed We Trust (a,g)
Knots - The Blistering Sun, the Pale Moon, Hahahaha (i)
Kreng - L'Autopsie Phe´nome´nale De Dieu (a,g,n)
Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy (i)
Laura Gibson - Beasts Of Seasons (f)
Lisa Germano - Magic Neighbor (i,f)
Lusine - A Certain Distance (e)
Mark Eitzel - Klamath (i)
Mark Templeton & Aaron Munson - Acre Loss (a,p)
Mirah - (A)Spera (i)
Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem (i)
Mountains - Choral (a)
Nancy Elizabeth - Wrought Iron (i,f)
Nels Cline - Coward (a)
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - White Lunar (a,n,f)
Pale Air Singers - Pale Air Singers (i)
Peter Broderick & Machinefabriek - Blank Grey Canvas Sky (a)
Pillowdiver - Sleeping Pills (a,p)
Pixel - The Drive (a,g)
Rachel Grimes - Book of Leaves (a,n)
Rameses III - I Could Not Love you More Vinyl (a)
Riceboy Sleeps - Riceboy Sleeps (a)
Seaworthy - 1897 (a,f)
Shannon Stephens - The Breadwinner (a,i,f)
Shannon Wright - Honeybee Girls (i,f)
Sholi - Sholi (i)
Steven R Smith - Cities (a,f)
Tara Jane O'Neil - A Ways Away (a,i,f)
The Antlers - Hospice (i)
The Green Kingdom - Twig and Twine (a)
Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country (a)
Timber Timbre - Timber Timbre (i,f)
Tiny Vipers - Life on Earth (a,i,f)
Tomasz Bednarczyk - Let's Make Better Mistakes Tomorrow (a)
Tsukimono - Heart Attack Money (a,g)
Various - Dark Was The Night (i)
Vetiver - Tight Knit (a,i,f)
Vic Chesnutt - At the Cut (i,f)
Viva Voce - Rose City (i)
Volcano Choir - Unmap (a,i,p)
Wye Oak - The Knot (i)
Years - Years (a,g,f)
Zelienople - Give it Up (a,i,p)

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Katharsis June 20 '10 (Mark Templeton Interview)

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This week: A conversation with Anticipate recording artist Mark Templeton. Mark is playing a concert in Calgary this Friday June 25 at the Local Library.

The program unfolded as follows: Indian Jewelry - Excessive Moonlight, Nicolaus - Inner (C&C Fade), Ben Frost - Hibakusja, Klive - Sweaty Psalms, Oval - Hmmm, 36 - Siren, Olafur Arnalds - Tunglid, Jasper TX - Morning After, Mark Templeton - Beginnings, Live Interview with Mark Templeton, Mark Templeton - Safely into March, Klimek - For Zofia Klimek and Gregory Crewdson, Alva Noto, T3 (For Dieter Rams), Tsukimono - Complex Salts of Platina, Alexandre Navarro - Mystical Lane, and Mark Templeton - Drama Section. If you live in the area don't miss the performance on Friday.

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Katharsis June 13 '10

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This week: Damien Jurado - The Falling Snow, Band of Horses - Evening Kitchen, Peter Broderick - You Are My Sunshine, Ed Harcourt - Fears of a Father, Heart Failure Research Unit - I Felt Alone, Lilium - One Bear with Me, Michael Gira - No Words/No Thoughts, Nina Nastasia - Outlaster, Balmorhea - Palestrina, Murder By Death - White Noise, Woven Hand - Behind Your Breath, Zelienople - Parts Are Lost, White Hills - Let the Right One In, Tiny Vipers - Forest On Fire, Broken Water - Kamilche House, Jack Rose - Tree In the Valley, Kurt Vile - The Finder, Kaki King - Sloan Shore, Jasper TX - Some Things Broken, Some Things Lost, and Pleq - Don't Cry My Dear.

The links to the archived show recordings should be good for up to a month from the show date. If the links expire just let me know via comment and I'll re-up.

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Katharsis June 6 '10

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This week: The American Analog Set - You Own Me, In Tall Buildings - Flemishing, Tom Brosseau - Youth Decay, Damien Jurado - Kansas City, Veda Hille (w/ Nick Krgovich) - Bedlam!, The Acorn - On the Line, Trespassers William - Rainbow Connection, The Alps - Black Mountain, CocoRosie - Trinity's Crying, Grouper - Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping, Kammerflimmer Kollektief - Silver Chords, Peter Broderick - Part I from "Three Film Score Intakes", Mark Templeton - Safely Into March, Marsen Jules - Yara 02, D.A.A.U. - Out of the Woods, Christian Prommer - Sandcastles (Dennis Ferrer cover), Murcof - Sangre, Polar Bear - The Love Didn't Go Anywhere, Ruxpin - Now I Turn to You, Hammock - Andalusia, and, Ametsub - Old Obscurity.

The links to the archived show recordings should be good for up to a month from the show date. If the links expire just let me know via comment and I'll re-up.

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Katharsis for Hedgehogs May 30 '10

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Thanks again to Timothy Heck for another wonderful showfill. Have a listen to his exquisite selections of new and old music from across the globe.

The links to the archived show recordings should be good for up to a month from the show date. If the links expire just let me know via comment and I'll re-up.

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Katharsis for Hedgehogs May 23 '10

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Thanks to Timothy Heck for a wonderful showfill. Have a listen to his exquisite selections of new and old music from across the globe.

The links to the archived show recordings should be good for up to a month from the show date. If the links expire just let me know via comment and I'll re-up.

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Katharsis May 16 '10

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This week: Horse Feathers - Starving Robins, In Tall Buildings - The Way to a Monster's Lair, Inlets - Bells & Whistles, The National - England, Paper Beats Scissors - Be Patient, A Weather - Fond, Offthesky - Hand Held Lightly, Mark Eitzel - There's Someone Waiting, Matt Pond PA - Winter Fawn, Gareth Dickson - Noon, Hoquiam - On the Beach, Clinton St. John - Building Their Nests, Damien Jurado - Rachel & Cali, Bobby & Blumm - Seascape, Danny Paul Grody - Four Years, Sylvain Chaveau - The Unbroken Line, Lilium - Believer, The White Birch - Silent Love, Woven Hand - Truth (New Order Cover), Shearwater - A Hush, Francesco Tristano - Andover (Based on Overand by Autechre), Akira Rabelais - 1382 Wyclif Gen. II. 7 And Spiride In To The Face Of Hym An Entre Of Breth Of Lijf., Ambrose Field & John Potter - Presque Quelque Chose, Federico Durand - Los Alerces Del Patio, The Sales Department - Rain or Snow, and Hammock - Breathturn.

The links to the archived show recordings should be good for up to a month from the show date. If the links expire just let me know via comment and I'll re-up.

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