So, here I have a list of my missing recordings from my Morton Feldman collection that I've managed to document, directly from a text file that I keep. Currently, I'm not actively searching for more recordings, but I leave a wishlist autosearch system on running in the background.

In the mid-term, the main task I plan to undertake regarding this collection is adding tags to the albums I've acquired over the past 3 years—there are quite a few. This will allow me to listen to the entire extensive playlist while scrobbling to Last.fm and Maloja. However, I won't be starting this process anytime soon. For the time being, I intend to focus on listening to the albums that have already been tagged.

If you haven't noticed it, I'm a bit obsessed with the works of the composer Morton Feldman. I'm one of those 'Feldman completists'. His music is already part of my identity; it's something that makes me feel cozy and at home.

Some years ago during the pandemic, I was changing my career path (I gave up trying to be a teacher), and my ex-girlfriend suggested to me to pursue librarianship after seeing my Morton Feldman collection, which is to this day very messy, and it clicked. Never in my life have I identified so much with a professional path like the information science field.

Some months ago, when I learned about the passing of Chris Villars, the archivist of my favourite composer, it deeply affected me. Over thirty years, Chris documented the life and works of Morton Feldman with meticulous detail. His dedication led to the creation of the Morton Feldman website, cnvill.net, which is now largely archived on archive.org. That site stands as the largest and most comprehensive resource on Feldman.

Chris's dedication ensured that Feldman's legacy remained accessible to enthusiasts like myself. I'll miss his newsletters; they were valued by many in the community. My last interaction with him was thanking him for adding my new email to the newsletter. Now it feels like it was something more.

In tribute to Chris, I recreated his page of news about Morton Feldman's latest recordings, titled Morton Feldman Discography: What's New?.

His passing also inspired me to create this space.

I've always been into personal websites and the old internet vibe, which definitely influenced what you're seeing here.

Last year I made this list of 100 albums that I thought were important enough to be listened to once in a lifetime, and revised it on 24th January. If I were to make a list like this today it would be very different. I've put many box sets. I arranged them based on the visual aesthetic of the covers and the relationships of sonorities, and some particular babes like Kelela - Raven and Éliane Radigue - Jetsun Mila are above.

It was shortly before the Topsters' owner suddenly deleted the site.

Top 100 albums - 24 January 2024

1. Marc-André Hamelin - Feldman: For Bunita Marcus
2. Éliane Radigue - Jetsun Mila
3. Morton Feldman - String Quartet No.2
4. Kelela - Raven
5. Morton Feldman - For Philip Guston (Tilbury, Rees, Allen)
6. Bernard Parmegiani - L'Œuvre Musicale En 12 CD
7. Morton Feldman - For John Cage (Darragh Morgan, John Tilbury)
8. Sonny Sharrock - Ask The Ages
9. Jeanne Lee - Conspiracy
10. Yosuke Yamashita Trio - Arashi
11. György Ligeti - The Ligeti Project
12. John Coltrane - Live in Japan
13. Derek Bailey - Ballads
14. Strawberry Switchblade - Strawberry Switchblade
15. Alice Coltrane - Eternity
16. John Coltrane - Kulu Sé Mama
17. Albert Ayler - Lorrach/Paris 1966
18. Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, John Tchicai, Roswell Rudd, Gary Peacock, Sunny Murray - New York Eye And Ear Control
19. Iannis Xenakis - Alpha & Omega
20. Morton Feldman - Morton Feldman
21. Zia Mohiuddin Dagar - Vrindavan 1982
22. Maysa - Maysa (1964)
23. Joanna Newsom - Ys
24. Kelela - Take Me Apart
25. Various Artists - Pakistani Soul Session
26. Pharoah Sanders - Africa
27. Kelela - Hallucinogen
28. Various Artists - Saigon Rock & Soul: Vietnamese Classic Tracks 1968-1974
29. Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
30. Wendy Carlos - Beauty in the Beast
31. Morton Feldman - Trio (Aki Takahashi, Rohan de Saram, Marc Sabat)
32. Marion Brown - Porto Novo
33. Ros Sereysothea - Cambodian Rocks
34. Ungfell - Mythen, Mären, Pestilenz
35. Cecil Taylor - Student Studies
36. Éliane Radigue - Occam Ocean I
37. Éliane Radigue - Œuvres électroniques
38. Morton Feldman - Violin and String Quartet (Apartment House)
39. Morton Feldman - Piano and String Quartet (Kronos Quartet)
40. Luc Ferrari - L'Œuvre Électronique
41. Autechre - elseq 1-5
42. Pan Sonic - Kesto (234.48:4)
43. Muslimgauze - Azzazin
44. Muslimgauze - Hajj
45. Incapacitants - Pariah Tapes
46. 非常階段 - The Noise ザ・ノイズ - 30th Anniversary - 1979-2009
47. Government Alpha - Resolution of Remembrance 1992-1999
48. C.C.C.C. - Love & Noise
49. Merzbow - Timehunter
50. Merzbow - Fantail
51. Merzbow, Mats Gustafsson, Balézs Pándi - Cuts
52. Les Rallizes Dénudés - Cable Hogue Soundtrack
53. Madhuvanti Pal - Madhuvanti & the Rudra Veena
54. Itamar Assumpção - Beleléu, Leléu, Eu
55. G.L.O.S.S. - DEMO
56. Sachiko M - Sine Wave Solo
57. Surakarta Sekaten Gamelan - Gamelan From Central Java
58. Hossein Alizadeh - Iranian Music: Târ & Sétâr, Tombak (Musique iranienne)
59. Igor Stravinsky - Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps
60. Eva-Maria Houben - Works for piano
61. Eva-Maria Houben - Breath For Organ
62. Keith Rowe / Sachiko M / Toshimaru Nakamura / Otomo Yoshihide - ErstLive 005
63. Filament - BOX
64. Francisco López - Nowhere Short Pieces 1983 To 2003
65. Morton Feldman - All Piano (John Tilbury)
66. Peter Brötzmann - Nipples
67. Erik Satie - The Best of Satie (Aki Takahashi)
68. Elis Regina - Montreux Jazz Festival
69. Iannis Xenakis - La Légende d'Eer
70. Iannis Xenakis - Electronic Music
71. John Cage - 45' / 34'46.776" / 31'57.9864" / 27'10.554" / 26'1.1499" / 4'33" / Music for Five / Two
72. İlhan Mimaroğlu - Criminal Record
73. Alexander von Zemlinsky - Zemlinsky: The String Quartets
74. Pauline Oliveros - Ghostdance
75. Pauline Oliveros - Reverberations: Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970
76. Cornelius Cardew - Works 1960-70
77. Nico - Desertshore
78. Laurie Anderson - Songs from the Bardo
79. Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis - Born of the Human Soul Works for Solo Piano Vytautas Landsbergis
80. Toumani Diabaté - The Mandé Variations
81. Domenico Scarlatti - Landowska Plays Scarlatti Sonatas
82. November Növelet - From Heaven on Earth
83. Coil - Musick to Play in the Dark, Volume 1
84. Hildegard von Bingen - Hildegard von Bingen - Canticles Of Ecstasy
85. Morton Feldman - Crippled Symmetry: at June in Buffalo
86. Arnold Schönberg - Schoenberg: The Piano Music
87. Keith Rowe & John Tilbury - Duos for Doris
88. AMM - Generative Themes
89. Gal Costa - Gal
90. Sibylle Baier - Colour Green
91. Bunita Marcus - Sugar Cubes
92. Bismillah Khan - Shehnai
93. Jean Sibelius - Sibelius: Symphony No. 5, Finlandia
94. Helmut Lachenmann - Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern
95. Johann Sebastian Bach - The Six Cello Suites (Pablo Casals)
96. Alfred Schnittke - The Complete String Quartets
97. Various Artists - Steffen Schleiermacher - Asia Piano Avantgarde: Indonesia
98. Giacinto Scelsi - The Works for Double Bass
99. 武満徹 - Film Music By Toru Takemitsu
100. Fausto Romitelli - Professor Bad Trip