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new releases i enjoyed
Kohei Oyamada - Loam (Kankyō Records) 

Olli Aarni - Kuvioita (Ultraääni Records / Salatut Elämät) 

Antonina Nowacka - Sylphine Soporifera (Mondoj) 

Oval Angle - Figures of Speech (Moon Glyph) 

H To O - Cycle (Wisdom Teeth)

Maibaum - Sumer Is Icumen In (Kraak/Nonlocal Research/Psychic Sounds) 

Manoir Molle - accords (Pylône Éditions)

Unknown Me - Bitokagaku (Not Not Fun) 

Günter Schlienz - Kurpark (Lighten Up Sounds) 

Qoa - Sauco (Leaving Records)

Tomutonttu ja Lehtisalo - Tomutonttu ja Lehtisalo (VHF) 

Khôra - Gestures of Perception (Marionette)

Jonas Meersmans - Glassman (W.E.R.F Records) 

Various - Alley Of The Sun (Not Not Fun)

Baldruin - Mosaike Der Imagination (Quindi records) 

Lamina - Alisma (Orila)

Yayoba - A Maze of Glass (Not Not Fun)

Mich L. - Shelved Dreams (for a new Nubia) (Dauw)  

album discoveries
Saki Hiwatari - Akuma-kun Magic★SWEET (1986)
Logic System - Logic (1981)
Bernard Fèvre - Suspense (1975)
Enya - Enya (1986)

some albums I revisited this year
The Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms (1994)
µ-Ziq - Lunatic Harness (1997)
Plug - Drum ’n’ Bass for Papa (1997)
Blech II Blechsdöttir - Mix by Patrick Carpenter & Strictly Kev (1996)

concerts
Dup Sys - Environment 0g, Osaka Oct 18th
Atoris - Kōen, Tokyo Oct 24th
Sax Tape, Venediktos Tempelboom - Kraak Festival, Antwerpen March 2nd

special events / experiences
Amazing snowy landscapes in upper Belgium in februari.
Visiting various gardens around Oxfordshire and East Sussex
with Johanna & Jatinder in early Spring.
Being a seasonal worker from May to September
on Joke’s farm with Melody.
Staying 4 days with Virginia & David in Moers in Summer.
Privileged to be able to release 2 new albums this year
(Daarbuiten/Binnenin) 💚 Muzan Editions & Black Sweat Records.
Strolling through Ginkakuji Temple garden in Kyoto (!),
visiting Oshiage & Watarase reserve with Yuma & Hitomi,
hanging out with Moriyama-San in his music basement,
staying in traditional Japanese houses;
the amazing Hayakawa family residence in Fuefuki
and Zenjun & Maya’s house in Sakai
+ everything we experienced on our wonderful Japan trip.

🍂1K thanks to Arisa Shimizu (Nidi), Sumire Hayakawa, Zenjun & Maya, Hitomi & Yuma Yamamoku, Kohei Yamamoto, H.Takahashi, Kohei Oyamada, Yudai Osawa, Kengoshimiz, Rie Rinn Suzuki & Tan Yutaka, Yasuko, Johannes/Joshua (Muzan Editions), all at Environment 0g Osaka, all at Kōen Tokyo, Moe Watanabe & Azu Kimura and their lovely atelier friends, Mr.Moriyama-San, all at Gallery Trax and everyone else we got to meet..

background picture: Kamo river, Kyoto