David Dalle
Thursday December 25th, 2025 with David Dalle
2025 Favourites!

For my final show of the year, we'll take a look at some of my favourites from 2025. As always, the list feels abysmaly short, I know there is so much music out there which I missed! 2025 favourites (in no particular order): Lubomyr Melnyk "Windmills" Jersika Records Sarathy Korwar "There Is Beauty, There Already" Otherlands Records Zig-Zag Band "Chigiyo Music Kings 1987-1998" Analog Africa Raphael Weinroth-Browne "Lifeblood" Anamnesis Arts Mulatu Astatke "Mulatu Plays Mulatu" Strut Heinali & Andriana-Yaraslava Saienko "Hildegard" Unsound Kronos Quartet & The Hard Rain Collective "Hard Rain" Red Hot Org Various "Roots Rocking Zimbabwe - The Modern Sound of Harare Townships 1975-1980" Analog Africa Adrian Raso & Fanfare Ciocarlia "The Devil Rides Again" Asphalt Tango Gnonnas Pedro & His Dadjes Band "Roi de l'Agbadja Moderne 1974-1983" Analog Africa Samba Touré "Baarakelaw" Glitterbeat Records Salif Keita "So Kono" No Format Trio Da Kali "Bagola" One World Records Hawa & Kasse Mady Diabaté "Toumaro" One World Records Charles Mingus "In Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts" Resonance Records Freddie Hubbard "On Fire: Live From The Blue Morocco" Resonance Records Hania Rani/Hania Rani, Manchester Collective, Hugh Brunt "Non Fiction" Decca Sissoko, Segal, Parisien, Peirani "Sou Kora" No Format Cheikh Lo "Maame" World Circuit Anouar Brahem, Anja Lechner, Django Bates, Dave Holland "After The Last Sky" ECM Keith Jarrett "New Vienna" ECM Beethoven, Bach, Shubert/Vikingur Olafsson "Opus 109" Deutsche Grammophon Quatuor Mémoire "Chronos, Kairos et Aion" Mnémosyne Ludwig Van Beethoven/Sviatoslav Richter "The Lost Tapes" Deutsche Grammophon John Zorn/JACK Quartet "The Complete String Quartets" Tzadik Records Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali "At the Feet of the Beloved" Realworld Abel Selaocoe "Hymns of Bantu" Warner Classics Anna Thorvaldsdottir/Claire Chase, Cory Smythe, Katinka Kleijn, Seth Parker Woods "Ubique" Sono Luminus Murmurosi "Svitanok" independent Frank Horvat/Christina Petrowska Quilico "More Rivers" Navona Records Pierre Boulez "Boulez The Conductor" Deutsche Grammophon* Nahawa Doumbia "Sakoro Mery" Awesome Tapes From Africa Gwen Laster New Muse 4tet "Keepers of the Flame" Muffymarie Jurg Frey/Quatuor Bozzini "Jurg Frey: String Quartets" CollectionQB Ladom Ensemble "Sofreh Tisch" Lulaworld Records John Luther Adams/South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, Delta David Gier "An Atlas of Deep Time" Cantaloupe Music* Woodlands Backafall "traditional colours" Kakafon Records Christos Hatzis, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji/William Hobbs "Orbiting Garden" Blue Griffin Records Klezmatics "Rhythms + Jews" Piranha *albums which were released around December 2024 and I did not get until the start of 2025