Both artists have dabbled in the extreme minimalism of post-millennial Taku Sugimoto, and both artists have also expanded their palettes far beyond the self-imposed austerity of Sugimoto. Takahiro Kawaguchi is one of several likeminded musicians in the modern Japanese electroacoustic scene, less prolific and less well-known than Unami but promising in his own right his 2009 solo album n, constructed entirely from ticking metronomes, is remarkable. Taku Unami has for several years now been one of the most interesting and unique musicians in avant-garde music, a clever conceptualist who is seldom content to operate in any one mode for long, and who distances himself from so many other high-concept sound artists because his ideas almost always yield fascinating sonic results rather than being interesting only as theory. Taku Unami/Takahiro Kawaguchi | Teatro Assente (Erstwhile) So this is just a rough attempt at putting all this music I love in some kind of preferential order, even if that order would probably change if I posted the list tomorrow.ฤก. Rankings are always subjective, and it just gets even more difficult and silly when the list in question combines various forms of avant-garde and electronic music with rock and rap and whatever else. Unlike the film list, this one is limited to actual 2011 releases. On Monday, I posted about the best films I saw in 2011 (though not the best films released in 2011), and now here's a list of the best music of 2011. Here is the second part of my annual cultural summary.
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