miércoles, junio 06, 2007

Los 100 discos más perfectos de la historia

Aunque lo correcto sería decir "mis 100 discos favoritos", aclaro que todo esto empezó con el artículo (de próxima publicación) que escribí para la revista Pulso, sobre los 6 discos que me llevaría a una isla desierta. 100 es lo mínimo, decidí. Y al ver una discusión similar en el foro I Hate Music, que frecuento, decidí de una vez por todas hacer mi lista.

Últimas aclaraciones: aunque traté de limitar la elección a un sólo disco por artista, tuve que incluir dos discos de un mismo artista en seis ineludibles casos (Coltrane, Keith Jarrett, Serge Gainsbourg, Willie Colón, Héctor Lavoe y Sleep) e incluí tres discos de la gloriosa banda Africa 70 de Fela Kuti; tres de los discos que menciono no son oficiales, o sea, son grabaciones piratas de conciertos (material excepcionalmente brutal: David Murray solo al sax tenor en los 70's; la ICP Orchestra -a quienes vi hace un mes en Texas- en vivo en los 90's con Peter Brötzmann y Roswell Rudd; y la bestialmente groovy big band japonesa Shibusa Shirazu Orchestra en vivo en Europa hace un par de años); y he incluido dos compilaciones (de Bad Religion y Mose Allison; ambas incluyen la mayoría de mis canciones favoritas de tales artistas).

Salud y bienestar,

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1. John Coltrane – A Love Supreme [1964]
2. Keith Jarrett – Concerts: Bregenz [1981]
3. Kevin Drumm – Sheer Hellish Miasma [2002]
4. Arcturus – La Masquerade Infernale [1997]
5. Silvio Rodríguez – Al Final de Este Viaje [1978]
6. Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band – Trout Mask Replica [1968]
7. Markolino Dimond & Frankie Dante – Beethoven's Fifth [1975]
8. Keith Rowe/Sachiko M/Toshimaru Nakamura/Otomo Yoshihide – Erstlive 005 [2004]
9. Fela Kuti & Afrika 70 – Zombie [1976]
10. Serge Gainsbourg – Histoire de Melody Nelson [1971]
11. Willie Colón y Héctor Lavoe – Lo Mato [1973]
12. Brujería – Raza Odiada [1995]
13. The Modern Jazz Society – Presents a Concert of Contemporary Music [1955]
14. Black Sabbath – Master of Reality [1971]
15. Louis Moholo – Spirits Rejoice! [1978]
16. Emiliano Salvador – Nueva Visión [1978]
17. Manu Chao – Clandestino [1998]
18. Albert Mangelsdorff – Tromboneliness [1978]
19. David Murray – Bracknell Jazz Festival, England [1978] (grabación no oficial)
20. Sleep – Jerusalem [1995]
21. Edward Vesala – Nan Madol [1974]
22. Eric Dolphy – Out to Lunch! [1964]
23. Can - Tago Mago [1971]
24. Kyuss – And the Circus Leaves Town [1995]
25. The Trio (John Surman, Barre Philips & Stu Martin) - The Trio [1970]
26. Ray Barretto - Indestructible [1973]
27. Chris McGregor & Brotherhood of Breath – Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath [1970]
28. Caetano Veloso – Araça Azul [1972]
29. Dave Holland – Conference of the Birds [1972]
30. Acid Bath – Paegan Terrorism Tactics [1996]
31. Misha Mengelberg, Steve Lacy, George Lewis, Han Bennink, Arjen Gorter - Change of Season: the Music of Herbie Nichols [1984]
32. Krzysztof Komeda - Astigmatic [1965]
33. Mano Negra – Casa Babylon [1993]
34. Toshimaru Nakamura + Sachiko M – Do [2000]
35. Arthur Blythe – Elaborations [1982]
36. Willie Colón y Rubén Blades – Siembra [1978]
37. John Handy – Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival [1965]
38. Bad Religion - All Ages [1982-1992] (compilación)
39. Charles Lloyd – Forest Flower: Charles Lloyd at Monterey [1966]
40. Charles Mingus – Cumbia & Jazz Fusion [1976]
41. Carcass – Heartwork [1994]
42. Ornette Coleman – Dancing in Your Head [1973-1975]
43. Bill Evans – Sunday at the Village Vanguard [1961]
44. Borknagar – The Archaic Curse [1996]
45. Anthony Braxton – Dortmund (Quartet) [1976]
46. Carla Bley – Dinner Music [1976]
47. Augustus Pablo & King Tubby – Meets the Rockers Uptown [1976]
48. Peter Brötzmann – Machine Gun [1968]
49. Bix Beiderbecke – Bixology [1924-1930]
50. Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Rip, Rig and Panic [1965]
51. At the Gates – Slaughter of the Soul [1995]
52. Mose Allison – Allison Wonderland [1957-1989] (compilación)
53. Pink Floyd – Atom Heart Mother [1970]
54. Will Guthrie – Spear [2005]
55. Clutch – The Elephant Riders [1998]
56. Chet Baker & Art Pepper - Playboys [1956]
57. Oscar Chávez – Tropicanías [1983]
58. Sergei Rachmaninoff - Concerto No. 3 [comp. 1909] (la versión de 1978 de la Filármonica de Nueva York con Vladimir Horowitz al piano)
59. Brutal Truth – Need to Control [1994]
60. Héctor Lavoe – La Voz [1975]
61. Nmperign + Jason Lescalleet – Love Me Two Times [2000-2006]
62. Peter Tosh – Equal Rights [1977]
63. Codona – Codona 2 [1980]
64. Guillermo Klein y Los Guachos – Los Guachos III [2002]
65. Cypress Hill – Temples of Boom [1995]
66. Derek Bailey – Aida [1981]
67. Orchestra Harlow – Hommy: A Latin Opera [1973]
68. Don Cherry – Complete Communion [1964]
69. Miles Davis – In a Silent Way [1969]
70. Down – NOLA [1995]
71. Mel Tormé with the Marty Paich Orchestra – Swings Shubert Alley [1960]
72. Digable Planets – Blowout Comb [1994]
73. Evan Parker, Derek Bailey & Han Bennink – The Topography of the Lungs [1970]
74. John Coltrane – Live at Birdland [1963]
75. Miles Davis - Jack Johnson [1970]
76. Caetano Veloso/João Bosco/Ney Matogrosso – Montreux ‘83: Brazil Night [1983]
77. Keith Jarrett – El Juicio [1971]
78. Fela Kuti – Gentleman [1974]
79. Ground Zero – Plays Standards [1997]
80. Juan Luis Guerra y sus 4.40 – Bachata Rosa [1990]
81. King Tubby & Soul Syndicate – Freedom Sounds in Dub [1976-1979]
82. Led Zeppelin – Houses of the Holy [1973]
83. Franz Liszt – Hungarian Rhapsodies [comp. 1839-1885]
84. Los Fabulosos Cadillacs – La Marcha del Golazo Solitario [1999]
85. Mr. Bungle – Disco Volante [1995]
86. Position Alpha – The Great Sound of Sound [1984]
87. MF Doom – Operation: Doomsday [1999]
88. Soilent Green – Sewn Mouth Secrets [1998]
89. Café Tacuba - Re [1994]
90. Steve Reich – Music for 18 Musicians [1976] (la grabación digital de 1998 de Nonesuch)
91. Sun Ra and his Arkestra - Featuring Pharoah Sanders and Black Harold [1964]
92. Thelonious Monk – Brilliant Corners [1956]
93. Masonna - Destructive Microphone 3" EP
94. Eddie Palmieri – The Sun of Latin Music [1975]
95. ICP Orchestra with Roswell Rudd & Peter Brötzmann - Live at Bimhuis [1997] (grabación no oficial)
96. Tisziji Muñoz – Presence of Joy [1999]
97. Hermeto Pascoal – Hermeto [1970]
98. Woody Herman – Woody’s Winners [1965]
99. Jan Allan – Jan Allan 70 [1968-1969]
100. AMM – The Crypt [1968]

Y, uno que es goloso y no puede parar, menciona 32 más que deberían estar ahí:

101. Louis Armstrong – The Complete Hot Fives & Hot Sevens [1925-1930]
102. Albert Ayler – Live in Greenwich Village [1965-1967]
103. Amon Düül II - Phallus Dei [1969]
104. Willem Breuker Kollektief - Live at the Donaueschingen Music Festival [1975]
105. Clarke/Boland Big Band – Latin Kaleidoscope [1968]
106. Alice Coltrane – Journey in Satchidananda [1970]
107. Sentenced – Amok [1994]
108. Gil Evans – Out of the Cool [1960]
109. Chico Buarque – Construçao [1971]
110. Skip James – Complete Early Recordings [1930]
111. Dennis González & Band of Wizards – Hymn for the Perfect Heart of a Pearl [1990]
112. Grant Green – His Majesty King Funk [1965]
113. Bobby Hutcherson – Dialogue [1965]
114. Edge of Sanity – Crimson [1996]
115. Ronald Shannon Jackson & Decoding Society – Man Dance [1982]
116. Elvin Jones & Jimmy Garrison Sextet with Prince Lasha and Sonny Simmons – Illumination! [1963]
117. Robert Johnson - Complete Recordings [1936-1937]
118. Mike Osborne, Harry Miller & Louis Moholo – All Night Long [1975]
119. Solefald - Neonism [1999]
120. David S. Ware – Godspelized [1998]
121. George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue [comp. 1923] (la versión de la Filarmónica de Budapest con Jenö Jando al piano)
122. Max Roach Trio - Featuring the Legendary Hassan [1964]
123. Shibusa Shirazu Orchestra - Live Moers Festival, Germany [2005] (grabación no oficial)
124. Corrosion of Conformity - Deliverance [1994]
125. João Gilberto - Live at the 19th Montreux Jazz Festival [1985]
126. Keith Rowe + Toshimaru Nakamura - Between [2005]
127. Iannis Xenakis - La Légende d'Eer [1977-1978]
128. Pharoah Sanders - Black Unity [1971]
129. Paradise Lost – Icon [1993]
130. Fela Kuti & Africa 70 - Expensive Shit [1975]
131. Bobby Previte & Bump – Counterclockwise [2002]
132. Serge Gainsbourg - L'Homme à Tête de Chou [1976]
133. My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans [1993]
134. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde [1966]
135. Nirvana – Nevermind [1991]
136. Sleep – Holy Mountain [1992]