David Dalle
Thursday December 29th, 2016 with David Dalle
2016 Favourites

My favourites for 2016, in no particular order. This list includes some late 2015 releases which I was not able to include last year, and of course, there are likely scores of albums which should be on the list but I did not have the chance to hear them. - Christos Hatzis/Tanya Tagaq, Steve Wood and the Northern Cree Singers, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Tadeusz Biernacki "Going Home Star: Truth and Reconciliation" Canadian Music Centre - Kandia Kouyate "Renascence" Sterns Africa - Lubomyr Melnyk "Rivers and Streams" Erased Tapes - Chucho Valdes "Tribute to Irakere" Jazz Village - Kaoru Watanabe "Neo" Independent - Ibrahim Maalouf "Kalthoum" Impulse! - Bombino "Azel" Partisan Records/Knitting Factory Records - Henryk Gorecki/London Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrey Boreyko "Symphony No. 4" Nonesuch - Henryk Gorecki arr. Colin Stetson/Colin Stetson "Sorrow"a reimagining of Gorecki's 3rd Symphony" Colin Stetson - Debo Band "Ere Gobez" FPE Records - Siama Matuzungidi "Rivers" Independent - Fanfare Ciocarlia "Onwards to Mars!" Asphalt Tango - Wu Wei & Wang Li "Overtones" Harmonia Mundi - Ifrikya Spirit "Ifrikya Spirit" Independent - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart/Jacques Israelievitch, Christina Petrowska Quilico "Sonatas and Variations for Piano and Violin vol. 1" Fleur de Son Classics - Masabumi Kikuchi "Black Orpheus" ECM - Hawniyaz "Hawniyaz" Harmonia Mundi - Carate Urio Orchestra "Ljubljana" Clean Feed Records - Lubomyr Melnyk "Illirion" Sony Classical - Tanya Tagaq "Retribution" Six Shooter Records - Mohamed Abozekry "Karkade" Jazz Village - Marcel Khalife & the Al Mayadine Quartet "Andalusia Of Love" Nagam Records - Maria Pikoula "Variations & Inspirations" Independent - Patricia Kopatchinskaja, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra "Death and the Maiden" Alpha-Classics - Ludomir Rozycki/Jonathan Plowright, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Lkuasz Borowicz "The Romantic Piano Concerto vol. 67" Hyperion