The Best Of 2016

01 NEW ORDER - Complete Music

02 SORGE - La Guerra di Domani

03 GABRIELLES WISH - Debunking The Myth Of Being A Slave

04 Marlene Kuntz - Lunga Attesa

05 Pixies - Head Carrier

06 Robert Paul Corless - Volumes

07 Diaframma - Siberia Reloaded 2016

08 Spartiti - Austerità

09 Incognito - In Search Of Better Days

10 Afterhours - Folfiri o Folfox

11 Egle Sommacal - L'Atlante della Polvere
12 G4shi - Stairs
13 Wu Ming Contingent - Schegge di Schrapnel
14 Fourplay - Silver
15 Drake - Views
16 J Balvin - Energia
17 The Rippingtons - True Stories
18 Cerrone - Red Lips
19 Rihanna - ANTI
20 Robert Glasper and Miles Davis - Everything's Beautiful

21 Luke Howard - Two Places 22 Immaginisti - Immaginisti 23 Gregory Porter - Take Me To The Alley (deluxe) 24 David Bowie - Blackstar 25 Zo! - SkyBreak 26 Sia - This Is Acting 27 Pooh - The Collection 5.0 28 Phonte and Eric Roberson - Tigallerro 29 DJ Snake - Encore 30 Future - EVOL 31 Lemongrass - Beauty 32 Crispy Ambulance - Random Textures 33 Morgan e Bluvertigo - I Grandi Successi 34 Elio E Le Storie Tese - Figgatta de Blanc 35 Pet Shop Boys - Super 36 Akoya Afrobeat Ensemble - Under The Tree 37 Drama B - Vybez 38 Laura Mvula - The Dreaming Room 39 Starless - Starless 40 dvsn - SEPT 5TH

41 Kaytranada - 99.9%
42 Hecq - Night Falls
43 Badbadnotgood - IV
44 Ambarchi Pupillo Pilia - Aithein
45 Tre Allegri Ragazzi Morti - Inumani
46 Gidge - Lulin
47 All India Radio - The Slow Light
48 Carbon Based Lifeforms - ALT:01
49 Furns - Only Through Your Eyes
50 FM-84 - Atlas

In 2016 there has been a lot of great music, the only thing missing was time to hear it all, even this post comes much later than the usual Christmas.
New Order did again the album of the year. It's true the songs are from the previous year's Music Complete, but they're all extended versions, not only extended mixes, but with additional elements. They've always been a band giving their best at the 12" length, and this album makes no excepetion, all the songs are even better than the originals.
The Top 10 saw the return of indie. Pixies came back with a great album though not all at their best standards. Gabrielles Wish released a fantastic EP with a couple of really beautiful ballads. Their prolific leader Robert Paul Corless released more than a dozen albums of instrumentals!
Massimo Volume frontman Emidio Clementi debuted his new project Sorge mixing his poetry with electronica thanks to Marco Caldera. Their guitarist Egle Sommacal released a new wonderful solo acoustic album and collaborated with the Wu Ming Contingent which released a superb post punk album. The other guitarist Stefano Pilia did nice experimental records with Immaginisti (formerly known as Cagna Schiumante) and Ambarchi and Pupillo.
Marlene Kuntz came back rocking with an inspired record and Diaframma made a new version of their legendary album with excellent additional tracks featuring Gianni Maroccolo from Litfiba. The new album by Afterhours is amazingly beautiful and one of the debuts of the year is Spartiti, the new project of Max Collini from Offlaga Disco Pax with Jukka Reverberi from Giardini di Mirò.
The best non-indie album has been Incognito's contemporary funk masterpiece but there has been plenty of eclectic records in 2016 as well, a year which saw a huge step forward in hip hop and pop blended with it. G4shi is a bright new hope, Drake and Rihanna released two excellent duets on their great albums, it would be interesting to get a full album of their duets. Innovative and exciting records in the genre came from Zo!, Phonte and Eric Roberson, Future, Drama B, dvsn, Kaytranada.. some of this artists have various links with Drake.
Even mainstream pop had quality albums, like the new from Sia and, on the dance side, DJ Snake which confirmed Justin Bieber is not your enemy. This will be remembered as the year we lost Prince, George Michael and David Bowie who had just released a great album. Italian prog and AOR legends Pooh closed their 50 years long career with a compilation. Bluvertigo also released a compilation which should have anticipated a new album after the new great single premiered at the Sanremo festival, but the new album has been then put on hold after new problems emerged within the band. Pet Shop Boys and Elio E Le Storie Tese came back with two albums which are good but slightly disappointing for their standards.
Fourplay and The Rippingtons gave us two smooth jazz masterpieces. Gregory Porter did a sophisticated soul gem.  J Balvin certainly made the best reggaeton album of the year. Disco legend Cerrone came back with two afro funk releases which sound amazingly fresh. Proper afrobeat came from the Akoya Ensemble. Robert Glasper did a fantastic album with Miles Davis material.
A bit lower in the chart there's proper chillout like Lemongrass, but as this year I missed time to hear more music I've yet to hear the new releases from favourites of the genre like Afterlife and Cantoma.
There have been great albums in the darkest ambient genre by the likes of Luke Howard, Hecq, Gidge and Carbon Based Lifeforms.
This year will bring a new Slowdive album, and this alone is enough a great reason to have great expectations!

Hear Where The Sun Don't Shine from the new Gabrielles Wish EP!

From http://www.gabrielleswish.net/2016/08/hear-where-sun-dont-shine-from-new-ep.html

Gabrielles Wish have shared Where The Sun Don't Shine, taken from their new six tracks EP, Debunking The Myth Of Being A Slave, available here:

Band Camp: MP3 or FLAC, only £2.99!
Vinyl Revival: CD, only £4.49 including postage!
iTunes: M4A £5.94

The Best Of 2015 (and Merry Christmas)

01 NEW ORDER - Music Complete

02 MASSIMO VOLUME - Luce Mia

03 GABRIELLES WISH - Hypnagogic

04 Emidio Clementi - Notturno Americano

05 Swervedriver - I Wasn't Born To Lose You

06 Gabrielles Wish - Propaganda

07 ElDera - In Memory Of You

08 Johnny Marr - Adrenalin Baby (Johnny Marr Live)

09 Paul Hardcastle - The Chill Lounge, Vol. 3

10 Jake Evans - Day One



11 Robert Paul Corless - Robert Paul Corless + Volume Two and singles
12 Stefano Pilia - Blind Sun New Century Christology
13 Halftribe - Memory Module
14 Alex H - There's No Turning Back
15 Karima - Close To You (Karima Sings Bacharach)
16 Verdena - Endkadenz Vol. 1 + 2
17 Four80East - Positraction
18 Bjork - Vulnicura
19 Il Teatro Degli Orrori - Il Teatro Degli Orrori
20 Hot Vestry - A Scene In Between

21 Fabi Silvestri Gazzè - Il Padrone della Festa Live 22 Various Artists - Hackney's Finest (original soundtrack) 23 Anthony Mea - True 24 Lemongrass - Meditation 25 Jacob Gurevitsch - Lovers in Paris 26 Brian Wilson - No Pier Pressure 27 Cesare Malafatti - Una Città Esposta 28 Dan Solo - Classe A 29 City Lies - Camera 30 Henrik Lindstrand - Steppeulven 31 Killing Joke - Pylon 32 Simply Red - Big Love 33 Pitbull - Dale 34 Post CSI - Breviario Partigiano 35 Toto - XIV 36 Disclosure - Caracal 37 The Hamsters - Branches EP 38 The Names - Stranger Than You 39 Fabryka - Sparkles 40 Wire - Wire 41 Scisma - Mr. Newman 42 Ernest's Liver - Ernest's Liver 43 Nonostante Clizia - La Stagione Animale 44 Nek - Prima Di Parlare 45 Jazmine Sullivan - Reality Show 46 Novalima - Planetario 47 LTN - People I'll Never Forget 48 Giovanni Caccamo - Qui Per Te 49 Aly & Fila - The Chill Out 50 Andrew Odd - Life

This has been a pretty eclectic year! New Order released their first album in 10 years and the first with Tom Chapman replacing Peter Hook, with Gillian Gilbert welcome back, and it is an amazing masterpiece beyond any expectation met with unanymous critical acclaim.
Massimo Volume have made freely available a wonderful soundtrack only as download and on SoundCloud and that's why the most beautiful track is embedded separately above. Massimo Volume leader Emidio Clementi released his first excellent solo record, a collaboration with two members from Giardini di Mirò tributing poet Emanuel Carnevali. Stefano Pilia from Massimo Volume released a solo album with his wonderful guitar skills.
The new Gabrielles Wish album Hypnagogic has been another long awaited comeback and found them on top form with inspired songs and their trademark post punk sound. The band also released Propaganda, a compilation of their electronica sessions from the start of the century. Some of their classic songs were included in the Hackney's Finest soundtrack. Gabrielles Wish leader Robert Paul Corless had a really prolific year releasing two albums and a string of singles of charmingly dark ambient.
Swervedriver have been missing for a long time, and how: this superb album reminds us why. Johnny Marr released an excellent live album and former Bad Lieutenant singer Jake Evans made a truly amazing debut, basically indie music as it really should be made today.
The comeback of great indie and post punk, then, but also more excellent chill out releases, and label of the year has certainly been Silk Music, bringing us emotional masterpieces from the likes of ElDera (debut of the year and just the best of the many promising Russian artists in this field), Halftribe, City Lies and Andrew Odd. More great music came from the master of chill out, Paul Hardcastle.
Alex H definitely released the best progressive house EP (more good music in this genre from LTN) while the best smooth jazz/fusion album came from Four80East though Karima finally did her Bacharach covers album. Jazmine Sullivan did the best forward looking RnB.
Anthony Mea made possibly the best deep house release while chill out veterans Lemongrass did a surprise ambient album. The concept of Egyptian artists releasing great chill out on Armada made sense with Aly & Fila.
Verdena and Il Teatro Degli Orrori released excellent albums of Italian alternative rock, and we also had the surprise comeback of Scisma. (Post) CSI reunited with Angela Baraldi replacing Giovanni Lindo Ferretti as singer. Another good album from the massively underrated Fabryka. Former Marlene Kuntz bassist Dan Solo released his long awaited solo debut. Two interesing debuts in the Italian underground came from Ernest's Liver and Nonostante Clizia (produced by Riccardo Tesio from Marlene Kuntz). More great music from former La Crus Cesare Malfatti.
The Sanremo festival brought two surprises: a monster single and a pretty decent album by the usually more predictable Nek, and the emerging talent of Giovanni Caccamo.
Bjork's comeback has been a real surprise, because after years and years of pretentious avant garde she finally managed to balance it with some rediscovered emotional impact, most possibly because this is a breakup album.
An interesting debut came from Hot Vestry, a band featuring Steve and Gillian Morris' daughter Mathilda at the keyboard, the EP might have been definitely produced by Martin Hannett.
The Quiet Please label gave us some excellent chill out releases in the past, this year two main artists from that label came back with different stuff: an acoustic effort from Jacob Gurevitsch and a soundtrack from Henrik Lindstrand.
Latin anthem of the year is certainly El Taxi by Pitbull and his album is also decent enough. Novalima are a band from Peru doing great afrobeat.
The legendary Brian Wilson came back with his trademark pop genius, while I was expecting a little more from other classic pop giants like Toto and Simply Red. Disclosure's debut was very promising but this second effort is a bit underachieving.
Killing Joke did an amazingly good comeback, I still prefer their classic post punk sound to the more recent harder version, but this album is inspired. More punk and post punk returns from the likes of The Hamsters, Wire and The Names.
Merry Christmas and a Happy 2016, a year which will certainly bring us more great music!

Chris Wise & The Hidden Revolution - Bloodlines (Live at Manchester Road...

EXTREMELY talented band which has contributed a track to the Hackney's Finest soundtrack where Gabrielles Wish also appear. Amazing voice, emotional tune, wonderful sound.

Live And Bobbins by Gabrielles Wish back for Christmas!

From http://www.gabrielleswish.net/2014/12/live-and-bobbins-back-from-christmas.html

Here's a true Christmas miracle:
Live And Bobbins, the legendary live tape released in 1997 and deleted from the official discography, is back for a very limited time as a free download! Recorded live at the Manchester Hacienda and Roadhouse, it was mixed by former Joy Division sound engineer Chris Nagle (Martin Hannett's closest collaborator) at New Order's manager Andy Robinson's studio with deliberately fake handclaps.
It includes gems which will remain unreleased like Blackpool, ESP and Deaf Disco which you can hear streaming below.

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New Gabrielles Wish single Stand Together out now

From http://www.gabrielleswish.net/2014/07/new-gabrielles-wish-single-stand.html

The new Gabrielles Wish single, Stand Together, is out now on BandCamp and all other good online stores, with the remix of brand new track Quadra by AAAK (As Able As Kane) as B side.

Buy on BandCamp (MP3 and high quality format FLAC) only £0.99!!!
Buy on iTunes (M4A) $1.98
Buy on Google Play (MP3) €1.98

Gabrielles Wish - Wandering The Streets

From http://www.gabrielleswish.net/2013/11/new-single-wandering-streets-out-in.html

The new single by Gabrielles Wish, Wandering The Streets, is out now on Eromeda Records, fordownload on Google Play, iTunes and other digital retailers.
The B side is the Wandering The Streets remix by As Able As Kane.
The new album Hypnagogic is expected to follow shortly.

Gabrielles Wish - I've Always Believed

BRAND new single from Manchester cult band Gabrielles Wish.

Out from April 1st on iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/ga...

The Psychiatrist (2013) Trailer

The music is Position Oldham Street Manchester by Gabrielles Wish, from the Reformer album

Gabrielles Wish - Dik

Free Gabrielles Wish EP

What a better way to celebrate Christmas than drinking gallons of beer with your friends after downloading a free Gabrielles Wish EP?

Here it is, the free Jam EP!
Click the link above to download it fromMegaUpload!

The Jam EP features four tracks, titled in Roman numerals, where you can hear the band jamming in the studio and finding some of their best sounds and tunes ever.

The artwork is an actual painting made by artist Linda Cunningham especially for the EP.

The Evil Poor, with members of Gabrielles Wish and Northside

Amplify’d from www.eromenosmedia.com

THE EVIL POOR

Eromenos Music are proud to welcome The Evil Poor to the label.

The Evil Poor are ;

Robert Corless - vocals

Tim Walsh - Guitars

Andrew Saunderson - Bass

Liam Farr - Drums

Jonathan Prestbury - Keyboards

A single is due out in the new year. The band are playing live in manchester on the 8th December at Gullivers music venue.

The Evil Poor on Facebook and MySpace (with streaming tracks)
Robert Corless is the singer of Gabrielles Wish, Tim Walsh the former Northside guitarist.

Gabrielles Wish - The Son Of The Sun (full vid)

Amplify’d from www.youtube.com

Promo Video for the new Gabrielles Wish Single 'The Son Of The Sun' Available now from http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/GabriellesWish and Itunes at http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/circa/id415007087 Video by Jason Vaughn 2011 Eromenos Music 2011

Gabrielles Wish – The Son Of The Sun promo

Promo video for the new Gabrielles Wish single ‘The Son Of The Sun’,
being released on Itunes on the 28/11/11.

To visit the Gabrielles Wish itunes store go to ;
http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/gabrielles-wish/id415007088

All images by Transhumanizer
Eromenos Music 2011

New Gabrielles Wish single in November

Amplify’d from gabrielleswish.blogspot.com

Gabrielles Wish will release their first single in one year and a half on November 28th. The Son Of The Sun is a single track release which will be made available on iTunes by their new label, Eromenos Music, which has just reissued Golded Up at the bargain price of $2 only. Details and samples to follow soon.

Robert Corless - Solitude After They Left

Wonderful solo sounds from the Gabrielles Wish frontman
Track taken from Roberts second collection of solo material

New Facebook page for Gabrielles Wish

Amplify’d from gabrielleswish.blogspot.com

New Facebook page

02 Jul 2011 Gabrielles Wish have a brand new official Facebook page, which integrates content from ReverbNation like streaming audio and video, dates, together with the Facebook wall and news feed from this site. More content will be added soon. Read more at gabrielleswish.blogspot.com

 

See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/a16gm9

Gabrielles Wish on iTunes and Amazon

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Circa on iTunes and Amazon

21 Apr 2011 The most recent studio album by Gabrielles Wish, Circa, is finally available on iTunes, for $7.92 only. This M4A purchase is the best for your iPod, but the files are DRM-free and you can easily convert them to MP3 and burn the album on CD. Circa is also on Amazon as MP3 at the same price. Following the links you can preview each track. Check the videos of A To Z and New York Girl. Hear the full Into The City on the free sampler EP. Read more at gabrielleswish.blogspot.com

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Gabrielles Wish - Processed sampler

Processed, the legendary "lost" debut album by Gabrielles Wish, has been finally released on CD (with four bonus live tracks, including the totally unreleased Never Know Why) by Plastic Frog Records.
The album was recorded with Joy Division's sound engineer Chris Nagle (Martin Hannett's assistant) at Peter Hook's studio Suite 16 in 1997, when the band was, after two highly acclaimed EPs, the best promise on Manchester Records, the label of New Order's manager Rob Gretton, and shelved when Gretton died just before its planned release.
Processed sees at last its first official release on CD, enhanced with a new cover designed by the band's keyboardist, Karen Leatham, and some bonus tracks such as a live recording coming from their support performance at New Order's reunion gig at the Manchester Apollo in 1998.
Get Processed from Plastic Frog Records,
http://www.plasticfrogrecords.com/

More info here: http://tinyurl.com/39xerus
http://gabrielleswish.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/gabrielleswish

The Best Of 2010 (and Merry Christmas)

01 MASSIMO VOLUME
Cattive Abitudini
 
02 GABRIELLES WISH
Processed
 
03 MARLENE KUNTZ
Ricoveri Virtuali E Sexy Solitudini

04 Skarnemurta - Traffic

05 Freebass - It's A Beautiful Life

06 Beautiful - Beautiful

07 Kalevala - Musicanti Di Brema

08 Exit Calm - Exit Calm

09 Blonde Redhead - Penny Sparkle

10 Jungle Radio - Live Session

11 Serena-Maneesh - S-M 2: Abyss In B Minor
12 Culpable - Culpable
13 Section 25 - Retrofit
14 Pet Shop Boys - Ultimate
15 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - History Of Modern

This year has been a weird mix of different trends for me. I've been discovering artists I've been guilty of overlooking in the past which haven't released albums this year, like the years of Brian Wilson as a genius in The Beach Boys (second half of the 60s) and Maxwell, a genius of contemporary black music. I've also been hearing a lot of singles released in the past few years in the Fidget house scene, especially Brooklyn artists like AC Slater and Udachi, who are doing the most inventive music heard (and danced) in this century so far.
I've also discovered 4AD (which was a cult label in the 80s with bands like Cocteau Twins and Pixies) is still releasing great albums, this year with bands like Blonde Redhead (who are progressing further in refining their sophisticated and melancholic synth pop) and Serena-Maneesh (who try too often to sound like My Bloody Valentine but still show a lot of talent, especially when doing something more personal).
Then we've had great comebacks, reissues or compilations of bands which have been around for ages. Massimo Volume came back with a studio album after 11 years. They had been playing half of the new songs in concert so we expected the new album would have been great, but nobody was really ready to hear their best album ever. Gabrielles Wish released for the first time on CD their excellent lost debut album, recorded 13 years ago, adding some bonus tracks. Marlene Kuntz involved production genius Howie B (he did Bjork's most inventive albums in the 90s) and he produced their less commercial album ever, a record full of ideas daring to take many different directions, mostly unconventional, with some wonderful sounds enhancing the formula. The collaboration went further in the project Beautiful (which sounds even more experimental), where Howie B plays keyboards and bass legend Gianni Maroccolo (formerly in Litfiba and CSI) comes back to complete the line-up and release the album on his own label Al-Kemi. Peter Hook finally released, after an EP with guest vocalists like Tim Burgess from The Charlatans) the Freebass debut album which is great, pity the band have already split. Another long awaited debut came from Exit Calm and, even if they haven't included all their best songs in the tracklists, the album is good enough to say they're the best new band in this century so far.
Section 25 survived the death of singer Larry Cassidy, his daughter Beth sings now, and have released an album with re-recordings of their classics. Pet Shop Boys released a compilation of hits missing some important singles but including their excellent new single Together, which also has a really beautiful video.
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark came back with a new studio album after 14 years and it's alright but unfortunately, just like their last album before this long time off, shows their best inspiration is long gone, though it tries a return to the sound of their former glories.
2010 has also been a great year in my local scene in Parma. There are other great bands who haven't released records playing fantastic gigs, there are cool DJs in the dance scene, and we've had also some excellent releases. Skarnemurta had another triumphant tour in Ukraine and repackaged their last album and EP with a bonus track on one CD while recording a new album which should follow in a couple of months. Kalevala are selling promo copies of their astonishing and truly inspired new album while waiting for a wider release next year. Jungle Radio emerged with their inventive blend of DJ set and live performance and Culpable finally made available on iTunes the studio recordings of the wonderful songs they've been playing live for years.
Merry Christmas and Happy 2011, hoping to hear more great new music!