POLYLEMMA WINS HAPPY NEW YEARS AWARD 2011

In the most fierce voting mobilisation campaign ever, Joe Hertenstein's band with Thomas Heberer, Pascal Niggenkemper and Joachim Badenhorst achieved with "Polylemma" the first place in the HAPPY NEW EARS AWARD 2011, in a daily changing neck-against-neck race against Scoolptures with "White Sickness" in a more than honorable second place.  More than 1629 votes were cast.

The top-5 is as follows :

1. Joe Hertenstein - Polylemma  : 675 (41%) 
2. Scoolptures - White Sickness : 579 (35%) 
3. Duplant, Chagas &  Sait - Late Winter, Early Spring : 76 (4%) 
4. Peter Evans Quintet - Ghosts :  64 (3%) 
5. Foton Quartet - Zomo Hall  : 46 (2%)

It must be clear that the after a couple of days, Scoolptures and Hertenstein were so much ahead of the other bands, that it became pointless to vote on the other bands.

Joe Hertenstein, Thomas Heberer, Joachim Badenhorst & Pascal Niggenkemper - Polylemma

A more than deserved second place goes to Scoolptures - White Sickness

We wish both bands, and all the other contenders, all the best and hope they will continue with offering us highly innovative listening experiences. Congratulations to all and hopefully it has helped and will help to get some wider attention new audiences.

The five winners also reflect the current international nature of modern music, with no less than Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Poland, Canada, and the US represented.

Congratulations to all!


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HAPPY NEW EARS AWARD 2011

Here we are again for the Free Jazz Blog Readers Poll for the best innovative listening experience of the year. Let me emphasise that we are not talking about the best album as such, but we will reward the band or musician who show us new paths for music to take in the future, while at the same time offering lots of joy to the listener. The list of best albums will be on a separate overview.

Here are the simple rules for the HAPPY NEW EARS AWARD 2011 :

Phase 1 - between now and December 3 - establishment of the shortlist - everyone can make recommendations for the most innovative listening experience of the year. The contributors to this blog will make a shortlist out of the suggestions. Of course you can only select the albums that were reviewed during the year on this blog.

Phase 2 - from December 4 till December 29 - everybody can vote on the shortlist of fifteen albums selected by the reviewers.


To kick-start, here is my (Stef's) recommendation for the longlist, but as said, more suggestions are welcome.

1. Foton Quartet - Zomo Hall
2. Afterfall
3. Lisa Ullén & Nina de Heney - Carve
4. Agustí Fernández, Barry Guy & Ramón López - Morning Glory
5. AMM - Uncovered Correspondence
6. Jim Black, Trevor Dunn, Oscar Noriega, Chris Speed - Endangered Blood
7. Darren Johnston, Aram Shelton, Lisa Mezzacappa, Kjell Nordeson - Cylinder
8. Nate Wooley & Taylor Ho Bynum - The Throes
9. Sei Miguel & Pedro Gomes - Turbina Anthem
10. Rob Mazurek - Calma Gente
11. Peter Evans Quintet - Ghosts
12. Louie Belogenis Trio - Tiresias
13. Thomas Heberer's Clarino - Klippe
14. Joe Hertenstein, Thomas Heberer, Joachim Badenhorst, Pascal Niggenkemper - Polylemma
15. Guillaume Roy, Vincent Courtois, Claude Tchamitchian - Amarco
16. Vyacheslav Gaivoronsky & Alexander Ragazanov Revelation
17. Scoolptures - White Sickness
18. Reed Trio - Last Train to the First Station
19. Bruno Duplant, Paulo Chagas & David Sait - Late Winter, Early Spring
20. Kiyoharu Kuwayama & Masayoshi Urabe - From The Abolition Port
21. BB&C - the Veil
22. Farmers By Nature - Out Of This World's Distortions
23. Fire! with Jim O'Rourke - Unreleased
24. Kontra Trio - Jeux Circulaires
25. Bill Dixon - Envoi
26. Tarfala - Syzygy
27. Satoko Fujii & Min-Yoh - Watershed
28. Kaza - Rafale
29. RED Trio + John Butcher - Empire
30. William Parker - Winter Sun Crying
31. Peter Evans & Nate Wooley - High Society
32. Daunik Lazro - Some Other Zongs
33. Mural - Live At The Rothko Chapel
34. Benoît Delbecq & François Houle - Because She Hoped
35. The Limbo Ensemble - Plebiscitu

Please share your thoughts!

Thanks
stef


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