What spun in my player the past couple of days. The preponderance of instrumental music is due to my working on a long piece for another magazine that required little distraction from lyrics.

  1. Sonny Sharrock – Ask the Ages (Axiom)

  2. Sisters of Mercy – Some Girls Wander By Mistake (EastWest/Merciful Release)

  3. Steve Tibbetts – Exploded View (ECM)

  4. John Abercrombie/Dave Holland/Jack DeJohnette – Gateway (ECM)

  5. Bill Frisell – Lookout For Hope (ECM)

  6. The Green Pajamas – The Red, Red Rose (Green Monkey)

  7. David Torn – Cloud About Mercury (ECM)

  8. Steve Tibbetts – Natural Causes (ECM)

  9. Eels – Tomorrow Morning (E Works)

  10. English Teeth – s/t (Invasion)