Current listening

After a huge influx of new music, the following have bubbled to the top:

1. Jon Hassell – Maarifa Street (Miles Davis meets the 21st Century with 4th world sensbilities)
2. Coldplay – X&Y; (played it twice, rationed to avoid overplay, think it is beautiful)
3. Keith Jarrett – Radiance (double CD of solo concert performances, completely improvised, a musician back in the zone)
4. Charles Lloyd / Billy Higgins – Which way is East (two musicians, a heap of instruments, inspiration flooding across another double CD)
5. Robert Fripp & Brian Eno – The Equatorial Stars (celestial music that eases the mind into a workful state)
6. Porcupine Tree – Deadwing (prog rock meets its contemporary match)
7. Van Morrison – Magic Time (makes you want to dance, sing and swing)
8. Thomas Dolby – Astronauts and Heretics (is it true the earth is flat?)
9. Brian Eno – Textures (rare album of early workings and ideas, serene and troubling by turns)
10. David Sylvian – Alchemy / An Index of Possibilities (instrumental bliss)

Has anyone heard Brian Eno’s new album – the man is singing again! It is getting good reviews too.