Fabio's Favorites of 2009

Music.

Kluster - Kluster & Friends 1969-1973. 6LP Box set - Ltd. Edition Previously, unreleased material

Natural Snow Buildings - the Shadow Kingdom 3x lp

Robert Wyatt - Radio Experiment, Rome 1981 lp

Flower-Corsano Duo - the Four Aims 2x lp

Bound with Skin - Various artist 5x cd set

Bill Orcutt - A New Way to pay Old Debts lp

Nic Collins - The Devils Music 2xLP - Re-issue

Expo 70 - Sonic Messenger lp

Leyland Kirby - Sadly, the Future is No Longer What it Was - 3x double lp sets

Sperm - Shh! lp - re-issue

Freedom, Rhythm & Sound Volumes 1 & 2 - 2x LP (and accompanying book)

Bene Fonteles - Benedito lp

Continue reading below for favorite films, live music and assorted stuff.  Read other DJ's top 10 of 2009 lists here.

Films.

You, the Living - Roy Andersson

The Anti-Christ - Lars Von Trier

Broken Embraces - Directed by Pedro Almodóvar

Ben Rivers & Paul Harnden - May Tomorrow Shine the Brightest of All Your many Days as It Will Be Your Last

Julia - Erick Zonca

Che: Special Roadshow - Steven Soderbergh

Araya - Margot Benacerraf (theatrical release)

The Road - John Hillcoat

Fat City - John Huston (theatrical re-release)

Just Another Love Story - Ole Bornedal

A Serious Man - Coen Brothers

The Hurt Locker - Kathryn Bigelow


Live & Other Stuff...

Natural Snow Buildings & Fennesz, Live at St. Giles Church, London

Bill Orcutt & Paul Hession Live at Colour Out of Space, Brighton, UK

Meeting and seeing Sten Hanson Perform (Colour Out of Space, Brighton, UK)

Metamkine at The French institute, NY. Film & Music live Performance

Sons Of God performances in Brooklyn - No Fun Fest last spring and Issue Project Room in November

James Ensore Show @ MOMA

Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Baer - performing "the Lion Sleeps Tonight" (Colour Out of Space, Brighton, UK)

Seeing Throbbing Gristle at the Masonic Temple in Brooklyn (twice)

Interviewing Throbbing Gristle in the studio at WFMU

This Is Water - David Foster Wallace (book)

The Sacred Made Real - Spanish painting & sculpture 1600-1700 (National Gallery, London)

John Baldessari exhibition at Tate Modern, London