Best of 2021 – Recorded Music

As per the last couple years, my comments will be with more wide-ranging playlists going up in a week or so, this is a place holder because I do like to look back at a snapshot of what records spoke to me as I looked back on the year. Bandcamp links where available. 

New Material 

1. Allison Russell, Outside Child 

2. Tyshawn Sorey and Alarm Will Sound, For George Lewis/Autoschediasms 

3. John Paul Keith, The Rhythm of The City 

4. Moor Mother, Black Encyclopedia of the Air 

5. Genesis Owusu, Smiling With No Teeth 

(Could not find Bandcamp)

6. Marisa Anderson and William Tyler, Lost Futures 

7. Reigning Sound, A Little More Time With The Reigning Sound 

8. Sons of Kemet, Black To The Future 

9. Powers/Rolin Duo, Strange Fortune 

10. William Parker, Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World 

11. Adia Victoria, A Southern Gothic 

12. Moviola, Broken Rainbows 

13. Arooj Aftab, Vulture Prince 

14. Gentleman Jesse, Lose Everything 

15. James Brandon Lewis’s Red Lily Quartet, Jesup Wagon 

16. Yasmin Williams, Urban Driftwood 

17. Jojra Smith, Be Right Back 

(Couldn’t Find Bandcamp)

18. James McMurtry, The Horses and The Hounds 

19. Elizabeth King, Living in the Last Days 

20. Sylvie Courvoisier and Mary Halvorson, Searching For the Disappeared Hour 

Reissue and/or Archival 

1. Various Artists, It’s a Good, Good Feeling: The Latin Soul of Fania Records 

(Couldn’t Find Bandcamp)

2. PJ Harvey, Stories From The City, Stories From the Sea – Demos 

(Couldn’t Find Bandcamp)

3. Various Artists, The Daptone Super Soul Revue LIVE at the Apollo 

4. The Long Blondes, Someone To Drive You Home: 15^th Anniversary Edition 

(No embed link) https://thelongblondes.bandcamp.com/releases

5. Various Artists, Cuba: Music and Revolution: Culture Clash in Havana: Experiments in Latin Music 1975-85 Vol. 1 

(Couldn’t find Bandcamp)

6. The Bush Tetras, Rhythm & Paranoia: The Best of the Bush Tetras 

7. Joni Mitchell, Archives Vol. 2, The Reprise Years

(Couldn’t Find Bandcamp)

8. Lee Morgan, Complete Live at the Lighthouse 

(Couldn’t Find Bandcamp)

9. Various Artists, Edo Funk Explosion Vol. 1 

10. Roy Hargrove/Mulgrew Miller, In Harmony 

11. Don Cherry, The Summer House Sessions 

12. Leo Nocentelli, Another Side 

13. Sun Ra, Lanquidity (Definitive Edition) 

14. Squarepusher, Feed Me Weird Things (25^th Anniversary Edition) 

15. Various Artists, Cameroon Garage Funk