Hello! Part 1 of my 2022 Annual Round Up was a look back at everything I’d achieved in 2022. No art happens in isolation, though, and I want to list all the amazing stuff by artists I stumbled across this year. Live shows are in chronological order, albums are in alphabetical order.
LIVE Pauline Oliveros: Kyema (1988) IKLECTIK 22 January
LIVE Alison Knowles: ‘#1 Shuffle’ (1961) Elaine Mitchener, Sarah Saviet, Mira Benjamin, Bridget Carey, Tamaki Sugimoto, Heather Roche, Siwan Rhys, Wigmore Hall 8 March
LIVE Chihiro Ono x ARCO: Mendelssohn Violin Concerto Cafe Oto 22 May
LIVE Samantha Fernando: ‘Breathing Forest’ (2022) BCMG, Iannis Xenakis Centenary CBSO Centre 29 May
LIVE Christian Marclay: ‘No!’ (2020) Elaine Mitchener, LCMF Woolwich Works 19 June
LIVE Sam Salem: ‘The Raft Breaks’ (2019) Distractfold, Cafe Oto 25 July
LIVE Jennifer Walshe: ‘The Site of an Investigation’ (2018) BBCSSO, The Proms Royal Albert Hall 28 July
LIVE Juste Janulyte: ‘Sleeping Patterns’ (2022) London Sinfonietta, hcmf Huddersfield Town Hall 20 November
LIVE Yoko Kinishi: ‘Fluctuating Beings II’ (2022) hcmf Huddersfield Town Hall 21 November
LIVE Aaron Holloway-Nahum: ‘Thing to Do in the Belly of the Whale’ (2022) Riot Ensemble, hcmf Bates Mill Blending Shed 21 November
LIVE Dominykas Digimas: ‘This Order Goes Wrong’ (2018) Lora Kmieliauskaite, hcmf Bates Mill Blending Shed 22 November
ALBUM Architects: the classic symptoms of a broken spirit (2022)
ALBUM Benedict Taylor: DECADE (2022)
ALBUM Bjork: Fossora (2022)
ALBUM Eliane Radigue x Frederic Blondy: OCCAM XXV (2022)
ALBUM Gyorgy Kurtag: Kafka-Fragmente (2022) Anna Prohaska (soprano), Isabelle Faust (violin)
ALBUM Machine Head: OF KINGDOM AND CROWN (2022)
ALBUM Maxim Mental: Make Team Presents Maxim Mental in Maximalism (2022)
ALBUM Red Hot Chili Peppers: Unlimited Love (2022)
ALBUM Rebecca Saunders: Skin (2022) Christian Dierstein, Dirk Rothbrust, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
ALBUM The Wonder Years: The Hum Goes on Forever (2022)
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