It had been a while (five good years actually) since we’d done this, so we went ahead and asked the musicians whom we worked with this year in some respect or other, to tell us about their favorite albums of 2021.

SARY MOUSSA

– Lucy Railton & Kit Downes: Subaerial
– FUJI||||||||||TA: Tsu Tsu 
– Jerusalem In My Heart: Qalaq 
– Demdike Stare: Drum Machines 
– Mark Fell & Will Guthrie: Infoldings/Diffractions 
– Olivia Block: Innocent Passage in The Territorial Sea
– aya: im hole
– Anthony Sahyoun: Proof by Infinite Descent
– Leila Bordreuil: Not An Elegy 
– Loraine James: Reflection 

Continuation & previously released tracks listened to in 2021:

– JLZ & LYCOX: UH UH BALANCOU
– Nour Al Houda: Ya Jarat al Wadi 
– Abou Baker Salim: Ya Hamel al Athqal 
– Jessica Moss: Opened Ending 
– Mohammad Reza Mortazavi: Ritme Jaavdanegi 
– Unknown Singer: Teir Al Hamami (Originally sung by Mehad Hamad) / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cArefgHje6s
– Eartheater: Phoenix: La Petite Mort Édition
– Two or The Dragon: Dance Grooves For The Weary EP 
– Powell: Piano Music 1-7 
– Claire Rousay: A Softer Focus 
– Lee Gamble: Flush Real Pharynx 2019-2021
– Marie Davidson & L’Œil Nu: Renegade Breakdown Remixes 
– Kinematik: Ensemble 1: Al Jadi
– Liliane Chlela: Safala