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Mike Burma – Fave Discoveries of 2022

Posted on February 1, 2023

ALBUMS – no particular order

Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra – Promises (2021, Luaka Bop)

  • Mid-Air Thief – Gongjoong Doduk (orig 2015, reissued 2021 on bandcamp) <from South Korea>
  • neutrals – Bus Stop Nights 7″ E.P. (2022, Static Shock) <from Oakland>
  • Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp – We’re OK. But We’re Lost Anyway (2021, Les Disques Bongo Joe) <from Geneva, Switzerland>
  • Women – Public Strain (2010, Jagjaguwar) <from Calgary, Canada>
  • Artsick – Fingers Crossed (2022, Slumberland)
  • Suburban Lawns – Suburban Lawns (originally 1981 release on Capitol, reissued 2021 by Superior Viaduct) <a recent discovery for me, check out if you like Devo>
  • Afro Yaqui Music Collective – Maroon Futures (2021, Neuma) <from Pittsburgh, PA>
  • Body Double – Milk Fed (2020, Zum Audio)  <from Oakland>
  • Orquesta Akokán – 16 Rayos (2021, Daptone) <from Havana>
  • Kim Gordon – No Home Record (2019, Matador)
  • Wayne County & The Electric Chairs – The Safari Years CD boxset (2020, Captain Oi!) <music from 1977-79>
  • Silk Sonic – An Evening with Silk Sonic (2021, Atlantic/Aftermath) <duo of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak>
  • Phuong Tam (Phương Tâm) – Magical Nights: Saigon Surf Twist & Soul (1964-1966) (2021, Sublime Frequencies) <another great collection from Bay Area legend Mark Gergis>
  • Idles – Ultra Mono (2020, Partisan)
  • Fake Fruit – Fake Fruit  (2021, Rocks In Your Head) <from Oakland>
  • Sons Of Kemet – Black To The Future (2021, Impulse!)
  • Beynelmilân – Yeraltı Oyun Havaları (2020, Korsan Plakçılık) <from Turkey>
  • Whateverglades – Don’t Call Me Baby / I Watch Over Me  (2020, No Egrets Records, 7″ single)
  • Fatty Cakes and the Puff Pastries – Fatty Cakes and the Puff Pastries (2018, Emotional Response) <produced by Alice Bag>
  • Bobby Ramone – Rocket to Kingston (2020, Guerilla Asso) <Bob Marley songs in da Ramones stylee. And the cover art…chefs kiss>
  • VARIOUS ARTISTS – A Kaleidoscope Of Sounds: Psychedelic & Freakbeat Masterpieces (2018, 7×7″ boxset, Mercury/Decca/Polydor) <includes The Wimple Winch>
  • VARIOUS ARTISTS – Venezuela 70 (Cosmic Visions Of A Latin American Earth: Venezuelan Experimental Rock In The 1970s)  (2018, Soul Jazz)
  • VARIOUS ARTISTS – Saigon Rock & Soul: Vietnamese Classic Tracks 1968-1974 (Sublime Frequencies, 2012)

SONGS – no particular order

  • TEKE::TEKE – “Yoru Ni” – Shirushi (2021, Kill Rock Stars) <from Montreal Québec>
  • Seamus Fogarty – “Johnny K” – A Bag Of Eyes (202, Domino) <from London>
  • Johnny Cash – “God’s Gonna Cut You Down” – American V: A Hundred Highways (2006, American) <Shocked that I hadn’t listened to this album until now. Burma, you’re fired>
  • Big Thief – “Spud Infinity” – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (2022, 4AD)
  • Model Zero – “Leather Trap” – Little Crystal b/w Leather Trap 7″ Single (2022, Third Man) <from Memphis, TN>
  • Obongjayar – Message in a Hammer (2021 single, 3:38 version)  <Nigerian artist living in London>
  • Lonnie Holley – “So Many Rivers (The First Time)” – National Freedom  (2020, Jagjaguwar) <from Atlanta, GA>
  • Natacha Atlas – “I Put A Spell On You” – Ayeshteni (2001, Mantra) <creative interpretation of the classic>
  • The Spook School – “I Want To Kiss You” – Try to be Hopeful (215, Fortuna Pop!) <from Edinburgh, Scotland>
  • The Bobby Lees – “Dig Your Hips” – Hollywood Junkyard EP (2022, Ipecac)
  • Fireflies – “She’s My Witch (VDCR Remix)” – The Machine Stops (2021, Bandcamp)
  • Mattiel – “Count Your Blessings” – Mattiel (2017, Heavenly) <from Atlanta>
  • The Donkeys – “Don’t Go” –  Don’t Go/Living Legends (1981, MCA, 7 inch single)
  • The Chats – “6L GTR” – Get Fucked (2022, Bargain Bin Records)
  • School Damage – “Sick Of You” – Break Up 7″ (2014, Detonic)
  • Sprints – “Im In a Band” – A Modern Job EP (2022, Nice Swan)
  • Medicine Singers – “Sunset” – Medicine Singers (2022, Mothland) <supergroup of Ikue Mori, Jaimie Branch, Laraaji, and members of Swans>
  • Lola Flores – “A Tu Vera” – La Inimitable (1990, Perfil, Spain)
  • Kelly Stoltz – “Dodged a Bullet” – Ah! (etc) (2020, Agitated)
  • Algiers – “Dispossession” – There Is No Year (2020, Matador)
  • Cable Ties – “Sandcastles” – Far Enough  (2020, Merge)
  • NOV3L – “Untouchable” – Non-Fiction (2021, Flemish Eye) <from Vancouver, BC, Canada>
  • Snooper – “Running” – Music For Spies 7″ (2020, Computer Human Records) <from Nashville>

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