Starting off the Best of 2021.
This is based on my favourite radio show on KEXP called Pacific Notions that features music in the realm of instrumental, ambient, classical, modern classical and experimental.
Enjoy this list of albums you should listen to and hopefully drift off to.
My #1 pick goes to an Ottawa/Montreal artist who released an incredible conceptual album about the National Gallery of Canada.
Majority of the Top 10 are Canadian based.
Here is the Top 50.
1. Nick Schofield – Glass Gallery
2. You’ll Never Get To Heaven – Wave Your Moonlight Hat for the Snowfall Train
3. Eydís Evensen – Bylur
4. Bell Orchestre – House Music
5. Hollie Kenniff – The Quiet Drift
6. Joseph Shabason – The Fellowship
7. Masahiro Takahashi – Flowering Tree, Distant Moon
8. Li Yilei – 之 / OF
9. Lyndsie Alguire – the pause in you
10. Yu Su – Yellow River Blue
11. Alaskan Tapes – For Us Alone
12. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders and London Symphony Orchestra – Promises
13. No Translation – Inner Distance
14. Marigold Sun – Swimming
15. Lionmilk – I Hope You Are Well
16. Sarah Neufeld – Detritus
17. Tomotsugu Nakamura – rabiit ears
18. JJJJerome Ellis – The Clearing
19. Alex Somers Siblings 1 & 2
20. Yann Tiersen – Kerber
21. Kumi Takahara – See-Through
22. Masayoshi Fujita – Bird Ambience
23. Unknown Me – Bishintai
24. Izzy Johnson – earth tones
25. IKSRE – III
26. Olivia Belli – Sol Novo
27. Green-House – Music for Living Spaces
28. Chihei Hatakeyama – Late Spring
29. v e n n – Anyway,Anywhere
30. Luke Sager – Languid Gongue
31. Sarah Davachi – Antiphonal
32. Carlos Nino & Friends – More Energy Fields, Current
33. taennya – Natural Serenity
34. Sonya Waters – The Sheltering Ranges
35. The Vernon Spring – A Plane Over Woods
36. Ki Oni – Stay Indoors and Swim
37. Fuubutsushi – Yamawarau
38. Part Timer – Reaching Ends
39. Andy Aquarius – Chapel
40. Home Learning – Someday, Wyoming
41. Isaac Symonds & Yaeshun – Natura Sophia
42. Simon Dobson – MDCNL
43. Samuel Organ – A Safe Place in Cyberspace
44. Innesti – Filament and Place
45. Henning Schmiedt – Piano Diary
46. Daniel Aged – You Are Protected by Silent Love
47. Jay Charkravorty – A Map With No Memory
48. Secret of Elements – Chronos
49. Ben Seretan – Cicada Waves
50. Danny Scott Lane – Caput
