Sound&Visions

My Top 10 Music List for 2010.

Here’s my list. What’s on yours?

Helios (Unleft)
Jumpel (Samuel Jason Lies on the beach)
Near the Parenthesis (Go Out and See)
Jan Jelinek (Loop-finding-jazz-records)
Olafur Arnalds (Dyad  1909)
Olafur Arnalds (Found Songs)
Ezekiel Honig (Surfaces of a broken marching band)
Arve Henrikson (Cartography)
Four Tet (There is love in you)
Brian McBride (The effective disconnect)

And special mention to Dave Brubeck . (My family listens to his album Love Songs almost every night at dinner time.)

I put these in roughly chronological order i.e., according to when they were in heavy rotation during the year. Arrange yours any way you like.

Olafur Arnalds: "...and they have escaped the weight of darkness"

From the BBC:

"Ólafur Arnalds has found inspiration for his latest collection in the slow-motion celluloid poetry of Werckmeister Harmonies, the elegiac fantasy of Hungarian director Béla Tarr. In particular, the Icelandic composer has drawn on that film’s opening sequence (a line from which provides this album with its title), which sees the chief protagonist delivering an emotive monologue on the processes of a solar eclipse; patently a metaphor for the resurrection of hope from the depths of despair."

Full BBC review here.

My Thoughts: Highly recommended for fans of Max Richter or Johann Johannsson.

More info here: Olafur Arnalds