My favorite music

I listen to music, various kinds of music, with pleasure and often. I prefer less conventional musical forms, although some of my most favourite recordings can be classified as pop music. I like experiments and improvisation - but I also think that listening to music should involve, above all, a simple acoustical enjoyment and excitement (and not, for instance, an intellectual achievement) - but of course, aesthetic values cannot be taken for granted, cultivating one's taste involves active effort and long-time musical experience. I like borders between genres are crossed, when music is played enthusiastically and when the dividing line between composers and creators of music on one hand and musicians on the other is not strict. That is also why I often cannot find a way to much of contemporary classical music, when it often happens that the interpreters play music they simply do not believe. There is plenty of music I occasionally like to listen, but do not actively haunt for (or only very selectively): jazz fusion, classic music, house...

My favourites recruit from pop, progressive and classical rock, alternative, certain areas of contemporary jazz (or post-jazz), and experimental music. Being a drummer, I pay special attention to other drummers, such as Han Bennink, Jim Black, Terry Bozzio, Tony Buck, John French, Milford Graves, Will Guthrie, Shoji Hano, Charles Hayward, Paal Nilssen-Love, Tatsuya Yoshida... Examples of my favourite recordings are listed by year (not necessarily recordings released in the same year, but records I personally discovered at the time). There is not big system in the lists.