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    Posted: April 05 2016 at 13:27
Hi Guys. Not having found such a topic (except for the collaborators' one) I figured I would open one, so that users can share personal favs from 2015. Bit late I know... though I just finished listening to many 2015 releases myself :)


MY LIST (biggest favourites on top)

Steven Wilson: Hand cannot erase
Anekdoten: Until all the ghosts are gone
Nordic giants: A séance of dark delusions
Gazpacho: Molok
Callisto: Secret youth
Caligula’s horse: Bloom
Earthside: Dream in static
Perfect beings: II
Jakob: Sines
Between the buried and me: Coma eliptic
DelvoidSerene
The departures: Atmospheres
Chris cornell: Higher truth
The dear hunter: Act IV
Leprous: The congregation
Sóley: Ask the deep
Exovex: Radio silence
District 97: In vaults
Riverside: Love, fear and the time machine
Lanterns on the lake: Beings
Seigmen: Enola
Sigur rós: Circe

Out of all those, cannot help but comment on how huge surprise it was to hear Callisto's new album and how bloody underappreciated these guys are!
Same goes for Jakob's Sines (though it's not underestimated - more like unknown).
Nordic giants made an earth-shaking debut. And Gazpacho also had a strong return.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2016 at 13:33
I made a thread last year called '2015 picks' where folks posted their favourites: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=102815

My two favourite albums from last year were Elephant9 - Silver Mountain and
Circle - Pharaoh Overlord.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2016 at 13:34
Btw both Jakob's Sines and Seven Impale's City of the Sun are from 2014
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2016 at 13:36
Point taken, bit of a time travel there sorry :)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2016 at 13:38
Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

I made a thread last year called '2015 picks' where folks posted their favourites: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=102815 

Cool, will check this out also. Did not mean to duplicate btw, figured someone might have opened up such a topic already but the search did not give me any hits :(

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2016 at 14:08
My list is below...there may be some jostling since the deadline passed, but it's still fairly accurate:

1.       Alco Frisbass – S/t

2.       Zu – Cortor Todo

3.       Ni – Les Insurges De Romiliy

4.       Jaga Jazzist – Starfire

5.       Zs – Xe

6.       Angel Ontavla – Tierra Quemada

7.       Toundra – IV

8.       Elephant9 – Silver Mountain

9.       Unit Wail - Beyond Spaces Edges

10.   Breznev Fun Club - Il Misantropo Feilce

11.   Thy Catafalque – Sgurr

12.   Simon Steensland - A Farewell To Brains

13.   Homunculus Res - Come Si Diventa Ciň Che Si Era

14.   Krokofant – II

15.   Upsilion Acrux - Sun Square Dialect

16.   Ghost Rhythms – Madeline

17.   Richard Pinhas – Live In Japan

18.   John Zorn – Inferno

19.   Guapo - Obscure Knowledge

20.   Unreal City - Il Paese Del Tramonto

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2016 at 14:45
Here's my list, I updated the position of some albums but the albums are the same:
1. La Coscienza di Zeno - La Notte Anche di Giorno
2. Unreal City - Il Paese Del Tramonto
3. Equations - Hightower
4. Hooffoot - s/t
5. Arena - The Unquiet Sky
6. La Curva di Lesmo - s/t
7. Ciccada - The Finest of Miracles
8. Mammatus - Sparkling Water
9. La Fabbrica Dell'Assoluto - 1984: L'Ultimo Uomo D'Europa
10. Hedersleben - The Fall Of Chronopolis
11. Anekdoten - Until All Ghosts Are Gone
12. Jaga Jazzist - Starfire
13. Nemo - Coma
14. Zombi - Shape Shifter
15. Vespero - Fitful Slumber Until 5 A.M.
16. Dungen - Allas Sak
17. Brainticket - Past, Present & Future
18. Maat Lander - The Birth of Maat's Galaxy
19. Brian Ellis Group - Escondido Sessions
20. Girón - Stones
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2016 at 15:20
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 1. Anekdoten - Until All the Ghosts Are Gone
 2. Nice Beaver - The Time It Takes
 3. Alejandro Matos - La Potestad
 4. Cailyn Lloyd - Voyager
 5. District 97 - In Vaults
 6. Battlestations - The Extent of Damage
 7. La Coscienza di Zeno - La Notte Anche di Giorno
 8. IOEarth - New World
 9. Ciccada - The Finest of Miracles
10. Grand Tour - Heavy on the Beach
11. Big Big Train - Wassail
12. Roz Vitalis - Lavoro d'Amore
13. Red Jasper - The Great and Secret Show
14. Profusion - Phersu
15. The Psychedelic Ensemble - The Sunstone
16. Corvus Stone - Corvus Stone Unscrewed
17. Unreal City - Il Paese del Tramonto
18. Advent - Silent Sentinel
19. Riverside - Love, Fear and the Time Machine
20. Perhaps - Third
 
This was my contribution to the PA Collaborators Top Albums of the Year 2015. One thing has changed since I posted this list. I would put Monnaie de Singe's album Error 404 on 12, 13 or 14. Tentatively, for this band is still under evaluation of the Xover team.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2016 at 15:59
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The only change I'd make is to add Firefly Burning - Skeleton Hill in somewhere.

Guapo - Obscure Knowledge
2
Reve General - Howl
3
Steensland, Simon - A Farewell To Brains
4
Unit Wail - Beyond Space Edges
5
Sonar - Black Light
6
Drake, William D. - Revere Reach
7
Schnellertollermeier - X
8
A Formal Horse - Morning Jigsaw
9
Upsilon Acrux - Sun Square Dialect
10
elephant9 - Silver Mountain
11
Jaga Jazzist - Starfire
12
Hooffoot - s/t
13
Scherzoo - 03
14
Ghost Rhythms - Madeleine
15
ni - Les insurgés de Romilly
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Zombi - Shape Shift
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Battles - La Di Da Di
18
Asturias - Missing Pieces Of My Life
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder Sweet & Other Distress 
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Nerve Institute - Fictions
21
Rabbit Rabbit Radio, Vol. 3 - Year of the Wooden Horse
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Vak - Aedividea 
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La STPO - L'imparfait multiplede dieu
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Angel Ontalva - Tierra Quemada
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Breznev Fun Club - il misantrope felice
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Artaud Beats - Logos
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Wilson, Steven - Hand. Cannot. Erase.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 06 2016 at 07:58
Not sure the order is still the same....
1- Scherzoo – 3
2- VdGG – Merlin/Atmos
3- Ryley Walker – Primrose Green
4- Reve Général – Howl
5- Alco Frisbass – s/t
6- Anekdoten – Until The Ghost are Gone
7- Unit Wail - Beyond Space Edges
8- Witchwood - Litanies from the Woods
9- Hooffoot - s/t
10- Jaga Jazzist –Star Fire
11- Elephant 9 – Silver Mountain
12- STPO - L'imparfait multiple de dieu13- Guapo – Obscure Knowledge
14- Magma - Sl*g Tanz
15- Ghost Rhythms - Madeleine
16- VAK Aedividia
17- Vespero - Fitful Slumber Until 5:00 am
18- Simon Steensland - A Farewell to Brains (12 ratings)
19- Agusa - Tvŕ
20- Unreal City - Il Paese del Tramonto
 
 
jazz & others
1- Kamasi Washington - The Epic
2- Ibrahim Maalouf – Red & Black Light
3- Algiers – Algiers
4- Ibrahim Maalouf –Kalthoum
5- Tigran Hamasyan – Mockroot
6- Henry Threadgill Zooid - In for a Penny, In for a Pound
7- Aka Moon & Alefba
8- Aka Moon - The Scarlatti Book


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 06 2016 at 14:25
My list:

1. Mřster! - When You Cut Into the Present
2. Agusa - Tvĺ
3. Zs - Xe
4. Jaga Jazzist - Starfire
5. Elephant9 with Reine Fiske - Silver Mountain
6. Magma - Slaǧ Tanƶ
7. Lindsay Cooper / Fred Frith / Gianni Gebbia / Lars Hollmer - Angels on the Edge of Time
8. Dungen - Allas sak
9. Battles - La Di Da Di
10. William D. Drake - Revere Reach
11. Krokofant - Krokofant II
12. Simon Steensland - A Farewell to Brains
13. Sannhet - Revisionist
14. Ręve Général ‎- Howl
15. Toe. - Hear You
16. Jono El Grande - Melody of a Muddled Mason
17. Motorpsycho and Stĺle Storlřkken - En konsert for folk flest
18. Ciccada - The Finest of Miracles
19. Homunculus Res - Come si diventa ciň che si era
20. Biosphere and Deathprod - Stator

I'd probably have Baroness' Purple in there somewhere, and perhaps changed the order around a bit, but it's still pretty accurate I'd say.
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