Here’s some kind of list of the 2009 releases that made the most impression on me last year.
1. Peter Hammill, Thin Air
2. Naked Lunch, Universalove
3. The Thing, Bag It
4. Fire,¹ You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago
5. Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love, Chicago Volume/Milwaukee Volume²
6. Full Blast,³ Black Hole
7. Steven Wilson, Insurgentes
8. Æthenor, Faking Gold and Murder
9. Christina Carter, Seals
10. Alela Diane, To Be Still
Notes
1. Fire is Mats Gustafsson, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin.
2. Released as two single CDs, but it’s hard not to think of them as a double.
3. Full Blast is Peter Brötzmann, Marino Pliakas and Michael Wertmüller.
Viennese Waltz 
did you go to that gustavsson show the other day? he played with dieb13 who did a lecture as part of a workshop I attended last October, and I really wanted to go, but I’d just gotten back from my holiday. :(
yeah it was just last night. a short review is on its way to these pages. great show, sorry you missed it :(
oh yeah, it was yesterday! time goes by slow and fast. weird. looking forward to the review! x