- Raven Chacon, Tatsuya Nakatani, Carlos Santistevan: “Inhale/Exhale” (Other Minds)
- Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica: “ppp” (SKANI)
In an ongoing effort to spend as little time as possible with my own thoughts, I often have something on: A new album, a podcast, an audiobook, the same recording of “Chess” that I’ve been playing into warped oblivion for the last two decades… They all more or less see the same concentrated output of my auditory efforts. It’s hard for me to do “background” music, because I inevitably focus on the sound, like a cat stalking a laser pointer.