Best Albums Of 2011 - Infinite Ceiling

Mark Keill hosts Infinite Ceiling every Thursday from 8:30 PM to 10:00 PM. Infinite Ceiling takes a look every week at the wonderful world of avant-progressive music, the genre of music with, it seems, as many sub-genres as countries where it is being created. You can visit the website for the show here: http://www.infiniteceiling.ca. Here are Mark's favourite albums of 2011 in no particular order.

Ske (Paolo 'Ske' Botta) - 1000 Autunni (Fading)



One Shot - Live in Tokyo (Soleil Zeuhl)

Scherzoo - 01 (Soleil Zeuhl)



Accordo Dei Contrari - Kublai (Independent)



Gösta Berlings Saga - Glue Works (Cuneiform)



October Equus - Saturnal (AltrOck)



Korekyojinn - Tundra (Magaibutsu)



Bill Laswell/Raoul Björkenheim/Morgan Ågren - Blixt (Cuneiform)

Future Kings of England - Who is This Who is Coming? (Backwater)



Ambisonic - ARP (Independent)



Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning (Kscope)



Van der Graaf Generator - A Grounding in Numbers (Esoteric)



Hiromi - Voice (Telarc)



Levin Torn White - Levin Torn White (Lazy Bones)



Kronos Quartet/Kimmo Pohjonen/Samuli Kosminen - Uniko (Ondine)

Best of 2009

Hello,

While we continue to work on the new CKCUFm.COM. I wanted to get a blog going for the station. During the month of January we will get the audio streaming fixed and start CKCU Podcasting. We will also have the on-line playsheets working and get the calendars and show highlights fixed. Yes you have probably heard that before but I am feeling pretty optimistic about it working this time. So to start the CKCU blog I wanted to see what people felt were the best releases of 2009. I want to stay with new music and not re-issues but you can list them if you want. Here are a few I have enjoyed

1)Pieter Wispelway - Walton Cello Concerto - Onyx

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 51515.html

2) Oumou Sangare - Seya - World Circuit/Nonesuch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbxCaUdvlsI

3) Kronos Quartet - Floodplain - Nonesuch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TWsIvJYiPs

4) Guy Clark - Somedays The Song Writes You - Dualtone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHxOego2Sso

5) Neko Case - Middle Cyclone - Anti
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbjnS_RTj_o

6) Vieux Farka Touré - Fondo - Six Degrees
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lfHx4rdHa8

7) Laura Gibson - Beasts of Seasons - Hush
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unkjJtMaXgU

8) Budapest Festival Orchestra - Ivan Fischer - Johannes Brahms Symphony no. 1 - Channel Classics

http://www.channelclassics.com/budapest ... scher.html

9) One For All - Return of the Lineup - Sharp Nine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhyD_HzapcY

10) Sajjanu - Pechiku - Tzadik
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgSufjY7Zs8


What did you like this year? I will post an all Canadian list soon.