I enjoyed these album covers in 2019 - especially the music.

2019 - a bunch of newness, relistened & rediscovered past masters - new to me initially and again.

Garden Quartet - just yeah ... and wow!

Joshua Abrams and Natural Information Society - sublime journeying

Casey Bebenek - one from twelve extraordinary explorations of improvisation

Yazz Ahmed - eclectic now-then jazzness with a meaningful message about jettisoning the calcified

banabila + machinefabriek - an odyysidelic journey through sound terrains of sheer and subtle fuck yeahness.

Matthijs Kouw - Tao done drone flow

Levitation Orchestra - jazz is really soaring in the UK, one from many.

jazzdefector - superb shifting palettes and cumulous

Shy Layers - (2018) prismaticised influences coalesce, forming hybrid (and browed) ambient kissed popist forms.

Crown of Thorns - (1988) sadly Chris Wilson died this year, listening back to this you realise what an incredibly original band this was. And Chris, so great a voice and harp player. Magnificent.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - gee, so much history here in the land of the living fairy tale.

KG&LW w. MHC - (2017) delic touchstone, rendered urban pastoral trip.

M.Geddes Gengras - it came out of the deep forest and played pinpoint effulgences of mythic poesy.

R.K.J.Ork - big band now, lost known sourced. Yep - fine.

Steve Lehman Trio - superb starling flocks jacked by avant macaw, plummeting flamingos

 and sparrow pepper.

The Nat Birchall Quartet - ahh yeah - gather, honor and celebrate the love. Another UK balm.

Suss - billowing ambience, subtle ascensions and delectable pedal steel swoon. Kinda Letkaesque & Lanois sprinkled. Dappled pond.

Flaming Pines - in Ukraine see as the Ukrainians be, and save. Experiment and share. Hyperboreal. Drone. Factoried drift. Eclipse. Glean.

Mel from Melbourne - hny