~ Megasoup’s Favorite Albums from 2021
- Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Instrumentals JID009 (Jazz Is Dead)
- Alex Albrecht pres. Melquiades – Campfire Stories (Analogue Attic)
- Arlo Parks – Collapsed In Sunbeams (Transgressive Records)
- Armand Hammer & The Alchemist – Haram (BackwoodzStudioz)
- Arooj Aftab – Vulture Prince (New Amsterdam Records)
- Arushi Jain – Under the Lilac Sky (Leaving Records)
- Ashan – Sacred Spring (Inner Islands)
- Ashley Bellouin & Ben Bracken – String Songs (Debacle)
- Barrett Martin Group – Stillpoint (Sunyata)
- Bedouine – Waysides (Spacebomb Records)
- Bickram Ghosh – Avijatrik {Soundtrack to “The Wanderlust Of Apu”} (Warner Music India)
- Burkina Azza – Wari bô (Social Joy)
- Cassandra Jenkins – An Overview on Phenomenal Nature (Ba Da Bing!)
- Centuries of Roses – Centuries of Roses (Qame Feraq)
- Channelers – Another Entrance (Inner Islands)
- Chuck Johnson – The Cinder Grove (Vin Du Select Qualitite)
- Cochemea – Vol II: Baca Sewa (Daptone)
- Combo Lulo – Neotropic Dream (Names You Can Trust)
- Dax Pierson – Nerve Bumps {A Queer Divine Dissatisfaction} (Ratskin)
- Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek – Dost 1 (Les Disques Bongo Joe / Catapulte Records)
- D.K. – Eighteen Movements (Abstrakce)
- El Michels Affair – Yeti Season (Big Crown Records)
- Felinto – Futuro Antigo Perpétuo (Bokeh Versions)
- Floating Points & Pharoah Sanders – Promises (Luaka Bop)
- Folest – XI (Bandcamp)
- Gianluca Petrella & Pasquale Mirra – Correspondence (Tǔk Air)
- Golden Brown – Gems and Minerals (Inner Islands)
- Hassan Wargui – Tiddukla (Hive Mind)
- Inhmost – Early Horizons (Huinali Recordings)
- J Foerster / N Kramer – Habitat (LEAVING)
- Jane Weaver – Flock (Fire)
- Li Yilei – 之 / Of (Metron)
- Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (Age 101)
- Mas Aya – Máscaras (Telephone Explosion)
- Matthew Halsall – Salute to the Sun {Live at Hallé St Peter’s} (Gondwana)
- Men I Trust – Untourable Album (Return To Analog)
- Michael Harrison – Seven Sacred Names (Cantaloupe)
- N Chambers – Spectrum Garden (Soft Profile)
- Nala Sinephro – Space 1.8 (Warp)
- Nat Birchall – Ancient Africa (Ancient Archive of Sound)
- Nimbudala – Universal Compassion (Inner Islands)
- Okuté – Okuté (Chulo)
- Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp – We’re OK. But We’re Lost Anyway. (Les Disques Bongo Joe)
- Orquesta Akokán – 16 Rayos (Daptone)
- Pachyman – The Return of… (ATO)
- Panabrite – Sub-Aquatic Meditation Vol. 2 (Muzan Editions)
- Petrona Martinez – Ancestras (Chaco World Music)
- Pino Palladino & Blake Mills – Notes With Attachments (Impulse / New Deal)
- Populous – Stasi (La Tempesta Dischi)
- Quantic & Nidia Góngora – Almas Conectadas (Tru Thoughts)
- Salamanda – Allez (Good Morning Tapes)
- Sean La’brooy – Out Moving Windows (Analogue Attic)
- Sleep D x Ad Lib Collective – Flashed Glass (Play On)
- Sunhiilow – Beyond The Cycle (Ikuisuus)
- Tomaga – Intimate Immensity (Hands In The Dark)
- Vanishing Twin – Ookii Gekkou (Fire)
- Wau Wau Collectif – Yaral Sa Doom (Sahel Sounds)
- Yasmin Williams – Urban Driftwood (Spinster Sounds)
- Yola – Stand for Myself (Easy Eye Sound)
- Yu Su 苏玉 – Yellow River Blue (Music From Memory)
~ Megasoup’s Favorite Singles, EPs, and Mini-Albums (30 minutes or less) from 2021 :
- Carmen Villain – Sketch for Winter IX: Perlita (Geographic North)
- Chari Chari – Suburban Ethnology Vol.1 EP (Groovement Organic Series)
- CZN – Commutator (Offen Music)
- Dijf Sanders – Lichen (Unday)
- D.K. – Gate Of Enlightenment (Worship)
- Guazú & Terror/Cactus – Botanas (Shika Shika)
- Holy Tongue – II (Amidah)
- Kiln – Tungsten (Ghostly International)
- Light The Fuse – King Of Funk / Give The Horns Some (Mukatsuku Record)
- Lorde – Te Ao Mārama (Universal)
- Mitchum Yacoub – Cumbia Divina / Bansuri (All-Town Sound)
- Nicolas Repac – Rhapsodic Suite (No Format!)
- Nilotika Cultural Ensemble – Ejokawulida (Nyege Nyege Tapes)
- Parva Karkhaneh – Shabe Lajevardi (Qame Feraq)
- Sophia Nzayisenga & Andi Otto – Abagore Barashoboye (YNFND)
- SUSS – Night Suite (Northern Spy)
- Tape – Apt E Vol 3 (Apt E)
- Tristan Arp – Sculpturegardening (Wisdom Teeth)
- Winter – Lua {feat. Nailah Hunter} (Leaving)
- V/A – All Welcome Volume III (Good Morning Tapes)
~ Megasoup’s Favorite Reissues & Archival Releases from 2021
- Aurita Y Su Conjunto – Chambacu (Mississippi)
- Baligh Hamdi – Instrumental Modal Pop of 1970’s Egypt (Sublime Frequencies)
- The Beach Boys – Feel Flows: The Sunflower & Surf’s Up Sessions 1969-1971 (Capitol / Brother)
- Emeka Ogboh– Beyond The Yellow Haze (A-TON)
- Grand Kalle & African Jazz with Manu Dibango – Joseph Kabasele And The Creation Of Surboum African Jazz (Planet Ilunga)
- Hailu Mergia & The Walias Band – Tezeta (Awesome Tapes From Africa)
- Hany Mehanna – Music For Airplanes – A Collection of Instrumental Showpieces and Scores for Egyptian Films and TV-series {1973-1980} (Souma)
- Juana Molina – Segundo (Crammed Discs)
- Kenji Kihara – Scenes of Scapes (Inner Islands)
- Kiko Kids Jazz – Tanganyika Na Uhuru (Mississippi)
- Manzanita y su Conjunto – Trujillo, Perú 1971-1974 (Analog Africa)
- Mario Rui Silva – Stories from Another Time 1982-1988 (Time Capsule)
- Mary Lattimore – Collected Pieces: 2015-2020 (Ghostly International)
- Masahiko Sato – Belladonna Of Sadness (Finders Keepers)
- Phương Tâm – Magical Nights – Saigon Surf Twist & Soul {1964-1966} (Sublime Frequencies)
- Robin Saville – Public Flowers (Abstrakce)
- Roger Webb – Bartleby {Original Soundtrack Recording} (Trunk)
- Salah Ragab & The Cairo Jazz Band – Egypt Strut (Strut)
- Seefeel – Rupt and Flex (Warp)
- The KLF – Come Down Dawn (KLF Communications)
- The Poets Of Rhythm – Discern/Define (Daptone)
- The Pretty Things – Live at the BBC (Repertoire)
- X.Y.R. – Waves Tapes (Constellation Tatsu)
- V/A – When the Moon Goes Down in the Valley of Time: African-American Gospel, 1939-52 (Canary)
- V/A – Written On the Wall : American Soul Music 1958-1974 (Cairo)
