Music 2022

During 2022, as tracked by Last.fm, I listened to 11,509 tracks by 850 different artists.

Discoveries

My favorite new releases or new discoveries of 2022 were:

• Jihye Lee - Relentless Mind (feat. Sean Jones & Alan Ferber)
• Karel Boehlee, tasteful piano trio
• DOMi & JD Beck - Jazz piano virtuosity and glitchy drumming
• Taisei Iwasaki - Jazz from Japan
• MINOR DOLL (feat. Takuya Kuroda)
• SPACE JAM (feat. Takuya Kuroda)
• GoGo Penguin - Wave Decay
• Shostakovich: 24 Preludes - Recordings by either Keith Jarrett or Vladimir Ashkenazy
• Debussy, performed by Jean-Yves Thibaudet or Pascal Rogé
• Francis Poulenc - Mouvements perpétuels
• Joey Alexander - Origin

Collecting covers of Aphex Twin songs

Aphex Twin tunes have been covered in all kinds of styles. I’m a total nerd for it.

• Alberto Balsalm on Taylor Haskins Recombination (2009)
• Avril 14th > Nannou2 by Brad Walker Quintet (2014)
• Avril 14th Olga Scheps (2019)
• Flim The Bad Plus These Are the Vistas (2003)
• Jynweythek Ylow Alarm Will Sound (2005). AWS lean into the percussive nature of the work bringing it somewhere in the direction of Bartok or Webern.
• Nannou The New Talent Jazz Orchestra (featuring Taylor Haskins) 2003
• Nannou and Polynomial - C covered by Jazz pianist Dorian Dumont (2021)
• Rhubarb beautifully arranged for guitar and cello and Jynweythek Ylow for guitar, mandolin, and cello performed—all intruments—by Youtuber who goes by “Run on Music”.
• Performances and transcriptions of Avril 14th and Jynweythek Ylow by Megan L. Nell aka Lapsura.