2020 Single Listens (unless otherwise noted)

Robert Ashley - Automatic Writing
Africa Negra - Alia Cu Omali
Kiss - Music from "The Elder" [two listens, surprisingly]
Mamadou Kelly - Les Bateaux
Houssam Gania - Mosawi Swiri
Rich Gang - Tha Tour Pt. 1
Various Artists - Kinshasa 78 (didn’t listen to all of the “reconstruction” disc)
Sault - 5
Sault - 7
Ekiti Sound - Abeg No Vex
A-Wa - Bayti Fi Rasi
Mal Blum - Pity Boy
Mr Eazi - Life is Eazi, Vol. 2: Lagos to London
Popul Vuh - Nosferatu
Ballake Sissoko & Baba Sissoko - Sissoko & Sissoko [two listens]
Vortex - Special Request
Nils Frahm - Spaces [neo-classical/new age piano music]
Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the Sky: The Best of ... [few tracks I could find - really not for me]
Laurie Spiegel - Unseen Worlds
Mike Oldfield - The Songs of Distant Earth
Rupa - Disco Jazz
Caterina Barbieri - Ecstatic Computation
Hayes Carll - What It Is
Mdou Moctar - Blue Stage Session
Kel Assouf - Black Tenere
K.A.A.N. - Subtle Meditations
Add-2 - Jim Crow: The Musical
Murs - The Iliad Is Dead and the Odyssey Is Over
Syran M'Benza [Mbenza] - Kouame [pretty terrible recording] [two listens]
Ramones - Loco Live
Various Artists - Soukouss Vibration Volume 2
Bruce Hornsby and the Range - The Way It Is
King Krule - Man Alive!
Various Artists - Bibi Den's Tshibayi "The Best Ambiance"
The Dust Brothers - Fight Club Original Motion Picture Score
Asap Rocky - At Long Last Asap
Carlene Carter - Little Love Letters
Lil Uzi Vert - Eternal Atake
Faraon Bantu & Champetaman - Pantera Picotera en la Cuidad de las Piramides
Snotty Nose Rez Kids - Trapline
Randy Newman - The Natural (soundtrack)
The Grateful Dead - Sunshine Daydream: Veneta, OR, August 27th, 1972
The Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks Vol. 3 [Pembroke Pines, FL, 5/77]
The Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks Vol. 8 [Binghamton, NY, 5/70; two listens]

The Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks Vol. 14 [Boston, 11-12/73] [worst live Dead I've heard]

The Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks Vol. 18 [2/78] [Dead at their noodly, overlong worst]

The Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks Vol. 29 [Atlanta, GA & Lakeland, FL 5/77] [two listens]

The Grateful Dead - Dave's Picks Vol. 1 [Richmond, VA 5/77]
The Grateful Dead - Winterland 6/9/77

The Grateful Dead - Alabama 5/17/77
The Grateful Dead - Veterans' Memorial Coliseum 5/5/77
The Grateful Dead - Madison Square Garden 9/18/87
The Grateful Dead - Red Rocks: 7/8/78
The Grateful Dead - History of the Grateful Dead, Vol. 1 (Bear's Choice)
The Grateful Dead - To Terrapin: Hartford '77 [two listens]
The Grateful Dead - June 1976 [Each of five "Listening Parties" on dead.net (one per show)]
The Grateful Dead - Go to Nassau [5/15-16/80; terrible]
The Grateful Dead - Download Series Vol. 1: Palladium, New York, NY 4/30/77

The Grateful Dead - Saint of Circumstance [Giants Stadium, 6/17/91. Tinkly keyboards.]
Sonic Youth - Blastic Scene (Live in Lisbon 1993)
Sonic Youth - Live At Cabaret Metro Chicago, IL 2002
Y Pants - Beat It Down [played single "That's the Way Boys Are" three times - difficult]
Moby - All Visible Objects
Drakeo the Ruler - Thank You For Using GTL
Fun Lovin' Criminals - Another Mimosa
Khruangbin - Con Todo El Mundo
Errol Dunkley - Darling Ooh
Various Artists - Pure Moods [1997; 17-track version]
Harold Budd - Pavilion of Dreams
Keleketla! - Keleketla!
Siti Muharam - Siti of Unguja (Romance Revolution On Zanzibar)
Brian Eno - The Shutov Assembly
Brian Eno - January 07003: Bell Studies for the Clock of the Long Now
Busdriver - Perfect Hair
The Stooges - Live at Goose Lake: August 8th, 1970

The Heliocentrics - Infinity of Now

Beverly Glenn-Copeland - Keyboard Fantasies

Various Artists - Pimpin' in Mellow [Mike D mixtape from PB era]

Bobby Whitlock - Bobby Whitlock

Ebo Taylor - Palaver

Manu Chao - Radio Bemba Sound System

Various Artists - Daora: Underground Sounds of Urban Brasil

Soft Machine - Third

Biyolo Le Grand - Dans Salubrite

Ngatamaare - Ngalu Fouta

The Isley Brothers - The Isleys Live

The Isley Brothers - It's Your Thing: The Story of [De trop 3 CD best of; no way >B+]

Serengeti - The Gentle Fall

Luciano - One Way Ticket

The Cables - What Kind of World

Delroy Wilson - Good All Over

Various Artists - Harder Shade of Black

Various Artists - Rebel Music: A Reggae Anthology

Yabby You - Meets Mad Professor & Black Steel

Yabby You & The Prophets - Beware Dub: An expanded version of the classic album

Ras Allah [Prince Alla] - Heaven Is My Roof [no one told him he was out of tune?]

Tetrack - Let's Get Started

Mikey Dread - African Anthem: The Mikey Dread Show Dubwise

Baby Queen - Medicine [EP]

Various Artists - This Is Trojan Dub

Mr. Lif & Brass Menazeri - Resilient [rap and Balkan brass - nice idea]

Maalem Mahmoud Gania - Aicha

Various Artists - Guasa, Cununo y Marimba

Qwanqwa - Volume 3

Culture - Culture in Dub [1978] [two listens]

Amaarae - The Angel You Don't Know

Various Artists - From the Grass Roots of Jamaica

Papa Wemba et Strervos Niarcos - dans Champs-Elysees: Firenze

Blu & Exile - Miles [way overstays its welcome - goes on and on and on]

Joe Strummer - Assembly [greatest solo hits]