2022

New Releases:

• bvdub – Violet opposition (n5MD)
• Mark Barrott – Travelling Music EP (International Feel recordings)
• S.O.N.S. – The Escape (S.O.N.S.)
• Zakè & 36 – Stasis Sounds For Long-Distance Space Travel II (PITP)
• Biosphere – Shortwave Memories (Biophon records)
• Horace Andy – Midnight Rocker (On-U Sounds)
• Horace Andy – Midnight Scorcher (On-U Sounds)
• Kyle Hall – Good Hado EP (Forget The Clock)
• Eris Drew & Octo Octa – Day After A Night With U / Stars & Water (fabric originals)
• Marine Eyes – Chamomille (PITP)
• Karsten Pflum – Camera Obscura (Touched Music)
• Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – When The Lights Go (Nice Age)
• Bon Enfant – Diorama (Duprince)
• Veronica Stanton – Caught Up On A Feeling (s/r)
• Tiken Jah Fakoly – Braquage de Pouvoir (Chapter Two)
• Khondo – Plus Haut Que La Tour Eiffel (La COuvreuse)
• Mademoiselle K – Mademoiselle K (Kravache)
• Les Gordon – Nuances (Morning Crash Record)
• Bjork – Fossora (One Little Independent Record)
• La Féline – Tarbes (Kwaidan Records)
• Zazie – Aile-P (La Zizanie)
• Montparnasse Musique – Archeology (Real World Records)
• Maxence CYrin – Melancholy Island (Warner Classics)
• Fally Ipupa – Formule 7 (F’Victeam Entertainment)
• This Immortal Coil – The World Ended A Long Time Ago (Ici Ailleurs)
• Gaël Faure – L’Eau et La Peau (Zamora Label)
• Arovane + EMHO – In Between (Sonic Dialogue)
• Gimmik – Sonic Poetry (n5MD)
• Okada – Fragility (n5MD)
• Jean-Michel Jarre – Oxymore (Columbia, Sony Music)
• Gaël Faye, Grand Corps Malade & Ben Mazué – Éphémère (Anouche Records)
• Aldous Harding – Warm Chris (4AD)

Re-releases & compilations

• v/a – Penrose Showcase, Vol. 1
• v/a – NFRv_009 Natural Rhythm, Saison, Risk Assessment (No Fuss Records)
• v/a – Found Sound, VOl. 3 (Touched Music)
• Adham Shaikh – Early Works 1992-1994 (re-discovery records)
• FM Skyline – Deluxe Memory Suite (100% Electronica)
• Nuron + Fughe – DAT Tapes 1993-1994 (De:tuned)
• v/a – Dailysession Gig Pak EP 1 (Dailisession Records)
• This Immortal Coil – The Dark Age of Love (Ici Ailleurs)
• v/a – Inside Records, Vol. 1 (Inside Records)
• OrelSan – Civilisation (7th Magnitude, 3ème Bureau, Wagram Music)

Babu’s New Releases

• Beyoncé  – Renaissance (Parkwood)
• Shygirl  – Nymph (Because)
• Junglepussy – Jp5000 (Junglepussy)
• Sudan Archives  – Natural Brown Prom Queen (Stone’s Throw)
• FKA twigs – CAPRISONGS (Young)
• Black Rave Culture  – BRC Vol 2 (Black Rave Culture)
• Paurro – Galavisión (Cómeme)
• Björk – Fossora (One Little Independent)

Albums that are not new but I fell in love with during 2022 (Babu)

• Solange – True (Terrible)
• Lady Gaga – ARTPOP (Interscope)
• Sunbear  – Sunbear (Soultrain)
• Arca – KICK ii (XL)
• Arca – kick iiii (XL)
• Azealia Banks – Broke With Expensive Taste (Prospect Park)
• JAY-Z – The Blueprint (Roc-A-Fella)
• Blood Orange – Coastal Grooves (Domino)

Live Shows (Babu)

• Smino – March 11 – Lower Sproul @ UC Berkeley
• Yves Tumor – March 18 – 1015 Folsom
• Doja Cat – April 17 – Coachella
• Phoenix – June 8 – Primavera Sound
• Gorillaz – June 9 – Primavera Sound
• Arca – Sept 24 – Portola
• Five Armed Sloth – November 4 – Battle of the Bands @ UC Berkeley
• Machine Girl – November 29 – Regency Ballroom

DJ sets (Babu)

• Ash Lauryn – February 6 – The Monarch
• Jamie xx – April 17 – Coachella
• Tygapaw – June 11 – Primavera Sound
• Honey Dijon – June 20 – Battle Hymn – NYC
• Mike Q – October 1 – Space 550 San Francisco
• Physical Therapy – October 8 – Club 6 San Francisco
• The Carry Nation – October 30 – Unter – NYC

• Kiyoshi Yamaya, Toshiko Yonekawa, Kifu Mitsuhashi – Wamono Groove: Shakuhachi & Koto Jazz Funk ’76 (180g)
• Liang YiYuan 梁奕源 – Those that Die in a Dream: A Twenty Years Retrospective (Unexplained Sounds Group)
• Various Artists – Begging the Moon: Phleng Thai Sakon & Luk Krung, 1945-1960 (Death is Not the End)
• Various Artists – Drifting with Friends (Eating Music)
• Various Artists – For Ukraine Volumes 1, 2, and 3 (Headphone Commute)

• The Soundcarriers – Wilds (Phosphonic)
• Voision Xi 喜辰晨 –  Lost for Words 欲言又止 (JZ Music)
• Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You (4AD)
• Carmen Villain – Only Love from Now On (Smalltown Supersound)
• Park Jiha – The Gleam (Glitterbeat)
• YĪN YĪN – The Age of Aquarius (Glitterbeat)
• Maya Youssef – Finding Home (S/R)
• Saphileum – Ornaments (Oslated)
• Amine Mesnaoui & Labelle – African Prayers (Lo Recordings)
• Golden Brown – Luminous (Inner Islands)
• Billow Observatory – Stareside (Felte)
• Wema – WEMA (!K7)
• Shabaka Hutchings – Afrikan Culture (Impulse!)
• Acid Twilight – Mustang Zodiac (Not Not Fun)
• Salamanda – Ashbalkum (Human Pitch)
• Esmerine – Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More (Constellation)
• Medicine Singers – Medicine Singers (Stone Tapes/Joyful Noise)
• Skyminds – Terra Preta (Not Not Fun)
• Sun Dawei  – Yòu 右 (SR)
• Emeka Ogboh – 6°30′33.372″N 3°22′0.66″E (Danfotronics)
• The Soft Pink Truth – Is It Going to Get Any Deeper Than This? (Thrill Jockey)
• Lucrecia Dalt – ¡Ay! (RVNG Int’l)

New Releases:

• Cate Le Bon – Pompeii (Mexican Summer)
• Papercuts – Past Life Regression (Slumberland)
• OSEES – A Foul Form (Castle Face)
• Alvvays – Blue Rev (Polyvinyl Record Co.)
• Father John Misty – Chloë And The Next 20th Century (Sub Pop)
• John Carroll Kirby – Cryptozoo (Stones Throw)
• Automatic – Excess (Stones Throw)
• Mitski – Laurel Hell (Dead Oceans)
• Kendrick Lamar – Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers (TDE)
• Vince Staples – Ramona Park Broke My Heart (Blacksmith Recordings)
• Duster – Together
• Weyes Blood – And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow (Sub Pop)
• Kikagaku Moyo – Kumoyo Island (Guruguru Brain)
• Thee Sacred Souls – thee Sacred Souls (Penrose)

Reissues:

• Betty Lou Landreth – Betty Lou (Backatcha)
• Frank Ocean – Blonde (Blonded)
• John Coltrane – Blue Train (Stereo & Mono) (Blue Note)
• Hallelujahs – Eat Meat, Swear A Oath (Black Editions)
• Grachan Moncur III – Evolution (Blue Note)
• Farm – Farm (Guerssen)
• Grant Green –  Feelin’ The Spirit (Blue Note)
• Jiro Inagaki & Soul Media – In The Groove (Deep Jazz Reality)
• Sandro Brugnolini – L’Uomo Dagli Occhiali A Specchio (Edizioni Musicali Redi)
• Alice Coltrane – Ptah, The El Daoud (Verve)
• Sun Ra – The Futuristic Sounds Of Sun Ra (Savoy)
• Harold Budd – The Pavilion Of Dreams (Superior Viaduct)
• Ziad Rahbani – Houdou Nisbi (Wewantsounds)
• Miho Kei & Jazz Eleven – Kokezaru Kumikyoku (HMV)

Compilations:

• V/A – America Dream Reserve (Smiling C)
• V/A – Busy Is Good (Big Nice)
• V/A – Down & Out (NTS)
• V/A – Padang Moonrise (The Birth Of The Modern Indonesian Recording Industry 1955-69) (Soundway)
• V/A – Perfect Motion (Perfect Motion)
• V/A – Saturno 2000-La Rebajada De Los Sonideros 1962-1983 (Analog Africa)
• V/A – Sky Dust Drifter (Forager)
• V/A – V4 Visions: Of Love And Androids (Numero Group)
• V/A – Vacation From My Mind (Forager)
• Norma Tanega – I’m The Sky: Studio And Demo Recordings, 1964-1971 (Anthology)
• Roberta Vandervort & Sally Townes – Roberta Vandervort & Sally Townes (Forager)
• Mary Lattimore – Collected Pieces: 2015-2020 (Ghostly)
• Stereolab: Pulse Of The Early Brain (Switched On Vol. 5) (Duophonic UHF)
• Karate – Time Expired (Numero Group)

7”:

• SvenWunder – Asterism Waltz (Piano Piano)
• Caroline Polachek – Billions (Perpetual Novice)
• Thee Oh Sees – Dark Weald (Philthy Phonographic)
• Sven Wunder – Jazz At Night (Piano Piano)
• Surprise Chef – The Positive And The Negative (Mr. Bongo)
• Thee Sacred Souls – Trade Of Hearts (Penrose)

Live Shows:

• Osees @ The Chapel
• Karate @ Great American Music Hall
• Kikagaku Moyo @ The Warfield
• Thee Sacred Souls @ The Chapel
• The Smile @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
• Stereolab @ The Fillmore
• Cate Le Bon @ The UC Theater
• King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard @ The Greek
• Cindy Lee @ Rickshaw Stop
• The Red Pears @ Bottom Of The Hill
• Margaritas Podridas @ Eli’s Mile High
• Os Mutantes @ The Chapel
• Hania Rani @ The Chapel
• Broken Social Scene @ Gundlach Bundschu

• Aftersun
• Banshees of Inisherin
• The Batman
• Confess, Fletch
• Crimes of the Future
• EO
• Everything Everywhere All At Once
• Fire of Love
• Flee
• Glass Onion
• Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
• Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
• Hatching
• I Didn’t See You There
• Memoria
• Men
• The Menu
• Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
• My Old School
• Nope
• The Northman
• Petite Maman
• Prey
• Remember This
• Tár
• Three Thousand Years of Longing
• Turning Red