Melhores do Ano [Best Classical, Jazz and World Music releases of 2019]

Allegri/Monteverdi: Anamorfosi / Le Poème Harmonique (Alpha)

Brumel: The Complete Lamentations / Musica Secreta (Obsidian)

Joachim: Fanm D’Ayiti / Spektral Quartet (New Amsterdam)

Lamb: Atmospheres Transparent/Opaque / Ensemble Dedalus (New World)

Leuven Chansonnier / Sollazzo Ensemble (Ambronay)

Lymburgia: Gaude Felix Padua / Le Miroir de Musique (Ricercar)

Murail: Portulan / Ensemble Cairn (Kairos)

Ockeghem: Complete Songs Volume 1 / Blue Heron (Blue Heron)

Rore: Missa Vivat Felix Hercules / Weser-Renaissance (Cpo)

Venez Chère Ombre / Eva Zaïcik, Le Consort (Alpha)

Menções honrosas: “Become Desert”, de John Luther Adams (Cantaloupe); o Binchois Consort em “Music for Saint Katherine of Alexandria” (Hyperion); “Nomaden”, de Joël Bons (BIS); o Illyria Consort em “Sonate da Camera Nos 7-12”, de Carbonelli (Delphian); o Orlando Consort em “Lament for Constantinople & Other Songs”, de Dufay (Hyperion); o Ensemble Gilles Binchois em “Messes de Barcelone et d'Apt” (Evidence); “Ensemble Works”, de Eva-Maria Houben (Edition Wandelweiser); La Reverdie em “L’Occhio Del Cor”, de Landini (Arcana); “Occam Océan, Vol 2”, de Eliane Radigue (Shiiin); o Helsinki Chamber Choir em “Vigilia”, de Rautavaara (BIS); o Kronos Quartet em “Sun Rings”, de Terry Riley (Nonesuch); Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla em “Symphonies Nos. 2 & 21”, de Weinberg (Deutsche Grammophon); “Fire in My Mouth”, de Julia Wolfe (Decca). Um disco que podia estar na coluna da direita: “Antichamber Music”, de Claudia Solal, Tomeka Reid, Katherine Young e Benoît Delbecq (Bridge Sessions).

Abdullah Ibrahim “Dream Time” (Enja)

Eve Risser “Après un rêve” (Clean Feed)

Ivo Perelman, Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Bobby Kapp “Ineffable Joy” (ESP)

John Butcher & Rhodri Davies “Drunk on Dreams” (Cejero)

Matana Roberts “Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis” (Constellation)

Peter Brötzmann “I Surrender Dear” (Trost)

Rodrigo Amado/Chris Corsano “No Place to Fall” (Astral Spirits)

Susan Alcorn/Joe McPhee/Ken Vandermark “Invitation to a Dream” (Astral Spirits)

Tyshawn Sorey and Marilyn Crispell “The Adornment of Time” (Pi Recordings)

Whit Dickey/Kirk Knuffke “Drone Dream” (NoBusiness)

Menções honrosas: Aki Takase em “Hokusai” (Intakt); Angles 9 em “Beyond Us” (Clean Feed); Arashi em “Jikan” (PNL); Burton Greene, Damon Smith e Bob Moses em “Life’s Intense Mystery” (Astral Spirits); David Torn, Tim Berne e Ches Smith em “Sun of Goldfinger” (ECM); Evan Parker e Trance Map + em “Crepuscule in Nickelsdorf” (Intakt); From Wolves to Whales em “Strandwall” (Aerophonics); Jimmy Giuffre 3 em “Graz Live 1961” (Ezz-thetics); Paul Flaherty em “Focused & Bewildered” (Relative Pitch); Stellari String Quartet em “Vulcan” (Emanem); Taylor Ho Bynum em “The Ambiguity Manifesto” (Firehouse 12). Dos arquivos: Don Rendell e Ian Carr na Jazzman; “Musical Prophet”, de Eric Dolphy (Resonance); “Alors Nosferatu Combina un Plan Ingénieux”, de François Tusques (Cacophonic); “Spirits Rejoice!”, de Louis Moholo (Otoroku); Sounds of Liberation na Corbett vs. Dempsey; Sam Rivers na NoBusiness. Um disco que podia estar na coluna da esquerda: “Invisible Horizon”, de Jon Irabagon (Irabbagast).

Issam Hajali “Mouasalat Ila Jacad El Ard” (Habibi Funk)

El Wali “Tiris” (Sahel Sounds)

Ustad Saami “God Is Not a Terrorist” (Glitterbeat)

The Good Ones “Rwanda, You Should Be Loved” (Anti-)

Mazouni “Un Dandy en Exil” (Born Bad)

Antoinette Konan “Antoinette Konan” (Awesome Tapes from Africa)

V/A “Early Congo Music 1946-62” (El Sur)

François N’Gwa “Ogooué” (Into the Deep Treasury)

V/A “Pour Me a Grog” (Ostinato)

V/A “Jambú e os Míticos Sons da Amazônia” (Analog Africa)

Menções honrosas: os África Negra de “Alia Cu Omali” (Mar & Sol); os Kokoko! de “Fongola” (Transgressive); Julie Coker em “A Life in the Limelight – Lagos Disco & Itseriki Highlife, 1976-1981” (Kalita); Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba em “Miri” (Out Here); Sir China Peters com “Sewele” (Strut); Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe com “Osondi Owendi” (Hive Mind); as reedições de Om Kalsoum na Souma; as reedições de Xoliso, Sidiku Buari, Dytomite Starlite Band of Ghana ou Bota Tabansi International na BBE. Mais meia dúzia de compilações: “Mogadisco – Dancing Mogadishu (Somalia, 1972-1991)”, na Analog Africa; “Kinshasa 1978 (Originals and Reconstructions)”, na Crammed; “Congo Revolution – Revolutionary and Evolutionary Sounds from the Two Congos, 1955-62” e “Style & Fashion”, na Soul Jazz; “Alefa Madagascar! Salegy, Soukous & Soul from the Red Island, 1974-1984” e “Nigeria 70 – No Wahala: Highlife, Afro Funk & Juju, 1973-1987”, na Strut.