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"It is one year to the day that the life of Esbjörn Svensson was tragically lost to the Swedish seas.

The Esbjörn Svensson Trio were truly special; a jazz band unwilling to surrender to the clichéd confines that their genre too often implies… a vibrant, enchanting, progressive antidote to an alienating musical tradition, appreciated in jazz and rock venues alike.

Here’s to a lost conjurer, and all the spectacular sounds he left behind."
MP3 and video after the jump on MonktonVsPlankton...

Esbjörn Svensson Trio
Dodge The Dodo
Seven Days Of Falling

Throne:
Ulver - BLOOD INSIDE

Pretenders to the throne:

<code> - Nouveau Gloaming
Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone
Anja Garbarek - Briefly Shaking
Antimatter - Planetary Confinement
Biomechanical - Empires Of The World
Boris- Pink
Craft - Fuck the Universe
Current 93 - How I Devoured Apocalypse Balloon
Darkspace - Dark Space II
Esbjörn Svensson Trio – Viaticum
Guapo - Black Oni
Infidel? / Castro! - Bioentropic Damage Fractal
Miasma & The Carousel of Headless Horses - Perils
Okkyung Lee - Nihm
Ondskapt - Dödens Evangelium
The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
Shining - IV - The Eerie Cold
Shpongle - Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost
Truckfighters - Gravity X
Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Allat
Vitalic - Ok Cowboy


Good, but could have been better:

Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
Candlemass - Candlemass
Cryptopsy - Once Was Not
Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel
Drudkh - The Swan Road
Fields of the Nephilim - Mourning Sun
Immolation - Harnessing Ruin
Kriegsmaschine - Altered States of Divinity
Minsk - Out of a Center
Origin - Echoes of Decimation
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
Porcupine Tree – Deadwing
Strapping Young Lad - Alien

It has potential, but doesn't work for me:
Judas Priest - Angel Of Retribution

Disappointment:
Arcturus - Sideshow Symphonies
Exodus - Shovel Headed Kill Machine
Green Carnation - The Quiet Offspring
Hate Eternal - I, Monarch
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Paradise Lost - Paradise Lost
Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked

Свободная система тэгов когда-нибудь погубит Last.fm*

* Долго удивлялся, откуда у меня в рекомендациях так часто всплывает какой-то негритянский хип-хоп-гоп-стоп, пока не решил разобраться в чём же дело. Оказалось вот что. В 1983 году клавишник Пинк Флойда Richard Wright сходил «налево» и с другими товарищами создал группу Zee. Группа выпустила один альбом и успешно разбежалась. Zee на Last.fm отмечена как схожая с музыкантами David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, Pink Floyd и поэтому вовсе не удивительно, что она попала в мои рекомендации. Однако, неведомые алгоритмы подбора музыки на этом сайте, со свойственным им чувством юмора, вместо моего Zee подсунули мне вот этот Zee — какого-то негра, решившего тоже назваться этим словом из трёх букв. Тут можно даже не слушать тридцатисекундные превьюшки (прослушки?), достаточно одного взгляда на обложку альбома.

Такая же история была у меня и с пианистами Esbjörn Svensson Trio, которые иногда сокращают своё название до лаконичных трёх букв: e.s.t. Думаю, Esbjörn'ы и не догадываются о существовании русских металлистов с таким же названием. Конечно, пианисты на фотографии похожи на русских гопников, но не настолько же. Пришлось править все тэги.

P.S. Картинка по запросу «Русские гопники Esbjörn Svensson Trio»:

1. Bobo Stenson Trio – Cantando
2. Peter Asplund Quartet – As knights concur
3. Lizz Wright – The orchard
4. Sara Isaksson & Anders Widmark – Pool of happiness
5. Emmylou Harris – All I intended to be
6. Melissa Horn – Långa nätter
7. Avishai Cohen – Gently disturbed
8. Anna Christoffersson & Steve Dobrogosz – Rivertime
9. H3fk – Nubiska nätter
10. Duffy – Rockferry
11. Herbie Hancock - River
12. Solomon Burke – Like a fire
13. Nina Ramsby & Ludvig Berghe Trio – Du har blivit stor nu
14. Victoria Tolstoy – My russian soul
15. E.S.T. – Leucocyte
16. Amy LaVere – Anchors & anvils
17. Eva Cassidy – Somewhere
18. Morcheeba – Dive deep
19. Calexico – Carried to dust
20. Stephanie McKay – Tell it like it is

01 Cynic - Traced In Air
02 Meshuggah - ObZen
03 Portishead - Third
04 Enslaved - Vertebrae
05 Bohren & der Club of Gore - Dolores
06 Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
07 Cult of Luna - Eternal Kingdom
08 United Nations - United Nations
09 Burst - Lazarus Bird
10 Esbjörn Svensson Trio - Leucocyte
11 Opeth - Watershed
12 The Fall of Troy - Phantom On The Horizon
13 She Said Destroy - This City Speaks In Tongues
14 Intronaut - Prehistoricisms
15 Mother Tongue - Follow The Trail
16 Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling
17 Rotten Sound - Cycles
18 Agrypnie - Exit
19 The Samuel Jackson Five - Goodbye Melody Mountain
20 Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band - 13 Blues For Thirteen Moons
21 TV on the Radio - Dear Science
22 Protest the Hero - Fortress
23 The Evpatoria Report - Maar
24 Genghis Tron - Board Up The House
25 Daturah - Reverie
26 Fuck the Facts - Disgorge Mexico
27 Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
28 Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lions Skull
29 Mar de Grises - Draining The Waterheart
30 These Arms Are Snakes - Tail Swallower And Dove
31 Thrice - The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV (Air & Earth)
32 Cat Power - Jukebox
33 Akimbo - Jersey Shores
34 No-Man - Schoolyard Ghosts
35 Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
36 Gregor Samsa - Rest
37 Loma Prieta - Last City
38 Shai Hulud - Misanthropy Pure
39 John Zorn - The Dreamers
40 Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
41 The Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath
42 Krallice - Krallice
43 Sun Kil Moon - April
44 Scarlett Johansson - Anywhere I Lay My Head
45 Mouth of the Architect - Quietly
46 Ocean - Pantheon Of The Lesser
47 Vast Aire - Dueces Wild
48 Capsule - Blue
49 Sigur Rós - Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
50 Psykup - We Love You All

Some albums I thoroughly enjoy from 2008:

Aaron Parks - Invisible Cinema
Brian Blade and The Fellowship Band - Season Of Changes
charles lloyd quartet - Rabo de Nube
Collections of Colonies of Bees - Birds
Dave Douglas & Keystone - Moonshine
Drew Gress - The Irrational Numbers
Esbjörn Svensson Trio - Leucocyte
Fieldwork - Door
Gregor Samsa - Rest
James Blackshaw - Litany of Echoes
Kurt Rosenwinkel Group - The Remedy: Live at the Village Vanguard
Mary Halvorson Trio - Dragon's Head
Matmos - Supreme Balloon
Pat Metheny - Day Trip
Ponytail - Ice Cream Spiritual
Rudresh Mahanthappa - Kinsmen
Shot X Shot - Let Nature Square
Todd Sickafoose - Tiny Resistors
Tony Malaby Cello Trio - Warblepeck
TV on the Radio - Dear Science
Vijay Iyer - Tragicomic
William Parker - Double Sunrise Over Neptune

#1. Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane


#2. The Rural Alberta Advantage - Hometowns (Still unsigned!)


#3. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours


#4. Starfucker - Starfucker


#5. Elle Milano - Acres Of Dead Space Cadets


#6. Russian Circles - Station


#7. Ladyhawke - Ladyhawke


#8. Mates of State - Re-Arrange Us


#9. Santogold - Santogold


#10. Gregory and the Hawk - Moenie and Kitchi


#11. Passion Pit - Chunk of Change [EP]


#12. Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling


#13. Alias - Resurgam


#14. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight


#15. The Tough Alliance - A New Chance


Some noteworthy mentions

Esbjörn Svensson Trio - Leucocyte
Plants and Animals - Parc Avenue
Helios - Caesura
Natalie Portman's Shaved Head - Glistening Pleasure
Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
Ladytron - Velocifero
Van She - V
Women - Women
Ida Maria - Fortress around my heart
God Is an Astronaut - God is an astronaut
Anthallo - Canopy Glow
Shearwater - Rook

The classic best-of-the-year list.

enjoy, listen, and feel free to recommend me something (old, new or forthcoming) i might like.

ALBUM (LPs)
[band, album, genre, country, label]

1.Nachtmystium, “Assassins”, Black Metal, USA, Century Media
2.Rome, “Masse Mensch Material”, Dark Folk, Lussemburgo, CMI
3.Werkraum, “Early Love Music”, Progressive Folk / Neo Folk, Germania, Ahnstern
4.Menace Ruine, “The Die is Cast”, Drone-Metal, Canada, Alien8
5.Jóhann Jóhannsson, “Fordlandia”, Modern Classical/Ambient, Islanda, 4AD
6.Esoteric, “The Maniacal Vale”, Funeral Doom Metal, Inghilterra, Season of Mist
7.A Forest of Stars, “The Corpse of Rebirth”, Black Metal, Inghilterra, Transcendental Creations
8.Paavoharju, “Laulu Laakson Kukista”, Elettronica/FreeFolk, Finlandia, Fonal
9.Sonne Hagal, “Jordansfrost”, Neo Folk, Germania, Tesco
10.Lau Nau, “Nuukkuu”, Free Folk, Finlandia, Locust
11.Have a Nice Life, “Deathconsciousness”, Dark/Gothic/Ambient, USA, Enemieslist
12.Rose Kemp, “Unholy Majesty”, Doom Folk Rock, Inghilterra, One Little Indian
13.Enslaved, “Vertebrae”, Progressive Black Metal, Norvegia, Indie Rec.
14.Koen Heltkamp, “Field Rituals”, Elettronica/Ambient, USA, Type
15.V. Sjöberg New Jazz Ensemble, “Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me”, Ambient, Svezia, Ideal
16.Lifelover, “Konkurs”, Black Metal, Svezia, Avantgarde Rec.
17.Darkspace, “III”, Black Metal, Svizzera, Avantgarde Rec.
18.Extra Life, “Secular Works”, Math Rock, USA, I&Ear
19.Fleet Foxes, “Fleet Foxes”, Folk Rock, USA, Sub Pop
20.Thyrfing, “Hels Vite”, Viking Metal, Svezia, Regain
21.Skepticism, “Alloy”, Funeral Doom Metal, Finlandia, Red Stream
22.Lustmord, “[Other]”, Dark Ambient, Galles, Hydra Head
23.Morkobot, “Morto”, Post-Metal, Italia, Supernatural Cat
24.Dead Elephant, “Lowest Shared Descent”, Experimental Noise Rock / Post HC, Italia, Varie Label
25.Shearwater, “Rook”, Folk Rock, USA, Matador
26.Eluveitie, “Slania”, Folk Metal, Svizzera, Nuclear Blast
27.Spite Extreme Wing, “Vltra”, Black Metal, Italia, Avantgarde
28.Ulaan Khol, “I” e “II”, Psych/Free/Impro Rock, USA, Soft Abuse
29.Esbjörn Svensson Trio, “Leucocyte”, Experimental Piano Jazz, Svezia, ACT
30.Genghis Tron, “Board Up the House”, Experimental Grind-Metal, USA, Relapse
31.Leviathan, “Massive Conspiracy Against All Life”, Black Metal, USA, Moribund
32.Gabriele Mirabassi, “Canto d'Ebano”, Jazz, Italia, Egea
33.The Triple Tree, “Ghosts”, Experimental Dark Folk, Inghilterra, Cold Spring
34.Cult of Luna, “Eternal Kingdom”, Post-Metal, Svezia, Earache
35.Grouper, “Dragging a Dead Deer Upper Hill”, Ambient/Folk, USA, Type
36.Black Mountain, “In the Future”, Hard Psych Rock, Canada, Jagjugwar
37.Earth, “The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull”, Psych Doom Rock, USA, Southern Lord
38.Bohren & der Club of Gore, “Dolores”, Dark Ambient / Dark Jazz, Germania, Ipecac/PIAS
39.Detektivbyrån, “Wermland”, Elettronica/Folk, Svezia, Danarkia
40.The Drift, “Memory Drawings”, Post-Rock, USA, Temporary Residence
41.Eliane Elias, “Something for You: Sings and Plays Bill Evans”, Piano Jazz, Brasile, Blue Note
42.Fennesz, “Black Sea”, Glitch/Ambient, Austria, Touch
43.Havoc Unit, “H.iv+”, Industrial Metal, Finlandia, Vendlus
44.Spires That in the Sunset Rise, “Curse the Traced Bird”, Free-Prog-Psych Folk, USA, Secret Eye
45.Spring Heel Jack, “Songs & Themes”, Free Impro/Jazz, Inghilterra, Thirsty Ear
46.Joose Keskitalo, “Ja Koilmas Mailmaanpalo”, Folk Rock/Blues, Finlandia, Helmi Levyt
47.The Sword, “Gods of the Earth”, Doom Metal, USA, Kemado
48.Sons of Noel & Adrian, “Sons of Noel & Adrian”, Prog Folk, Inghilterra, Shelsmusic
49.Fuck Buttons, “Street Horrrsing”, Elettronica, Inghilterra, ATP
50.Neutral, “Serpents in the Dawn”, Neo Folk, Russia, Eis und Licht

MINI ALBUM (EPs)
1.Agalloch, “The White EP”, Neo Folk
2.Deathspell Omega, “Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum”, Black Metal
3.Nachtmystium, “Worldfall”, Black Metal
4.Moonsorrow, “Tulimyrsky”, Viking Metal
5.Fleet Foxes, “Sun Giant”, Folk Rock
6.Michael Cashmore & Marc Almond, “Gabriel & The Lunatic Lover”, Folk/Chamber Pop
7.Current 93, “Birth Canal Blues”, Experimental/Neo Folk
8.Urfaust, “Drei Rituale Jenseits Des Kosmos”, Black Metal
9.Kemialliset Ystävät, “Harmaa Laguuni”, Free Folk
10.The Field, “Sound of Light”, Minimal Techno

LIVE ALBUM
1.Sunn O))), “Domkirke”
2.Pentemple, “O))) Presents Pentemple”
3.In Gowan Ring & Maja Elliott, “Portugal November 2007”

LIVE SHOWS (attended)
Opeth + Cynic, 4 Dicembre, Alcatraz Milano
Doctor 3, 21 Ottobre, Teatro Lux Sacconago Busto Arsizio
Roberto Fonseca, 24 Luglio, Villa Reale Milano
Jóhann Jóhannsson, 20 Settembre, Teatro Out Off Milano
Antony Hegarty, 10 Settembre, Teatro Smeraldo Milano
Il Teatro Degli Orrori, 11 Gennaio, Jail Legnano

RACCOLTE (Greatest Hits, Reprints, Collections, Archive Boxes, etc)
Agalloch, “The Demonstration Archive”
Morgion, “The Relapse Collection”
Otyg, “Alvefard + Sagovindars Boning”