Even sillier than normal (which is silly enough), given the increasingly circumscribed nature of what new releases I got around to hearing this year, but here's a list of those recordings which I especially loved in 2017. As ever, huge thanks to the musicians and label owners involved. Your work is enormously appreciated.

(alpha order)

Ryoko Akama - Inscriptions  (Suppedaneum)

Ryoko Akama - Places and Pages  (Another Timbre)

Cristián Alvear/Seijiro Murayama - Karoujite (Potlatch)

Antoine Beuger - Ockeghem Octets  (Another Timbre)

Olivia Block - Olivia Block (Another Timbre)

Andrea Borghi  - Sostrato  (Marginal Frequency)

Christopher Butterfield/Quatuor Bozzini - Trip  (qb)

John Cage/Christian Wolff  - CC  (Huddersfield Contemporary)

Isaiah Ceccarelli - Bow  (Another Timbre)

Joda Clément/Mathieu Ruhlmann - Kindred  (Marginal Frequency)

Seth Cooke  - Triangular Trade   (Suppedaneum)

Alfredo Costa Monteiro/Miguel A. Garcia - Aq’Ab’Al  (Mikroton)

Pascal Criton - Infra  (Potlatch)

d’Incise - Ukigusa  (Suppedaneum)

Charles Duvelle/Hisham Meyet  - Photographs of Charles Duvelle  (Sublime Frequencies)

Morton Feldman - Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello  (Another Timbre)

Fraufraulein - Heavy Objects  (Marginal Frequency)

Jürg Frey  - l’âme est sans retenue  (ErstClass)

Jürg Frey  - Collection Gustave Roud  (Another Timbre)

Jürg Frey  - Ephemeral Constructions  (Edition Wandelweiser)

Miguel A. Garcia  - Argiope  (Insub)

Will Guthrie  - People Pleaser  (Black Truffle)

Haptic  - Ten Years Under the Earth (Unfathomless)

Eva-Marie Houben - Organ Sonantinas and Drones (Edition Wandelweiser)

A.F. Jones - Four Dot Three to One  (Kendra Steiner Editions)

Alan F. Jones/Derek Rodgers  - CEDARS  (Sedimental)

Irene Kurka  - Chants  (Edition Wandelweiser)

Eric La Casa  - Paris Quotidien  (Swarming)

Graham Lambkin/Taku Unami  - The Whistler  (Erstwhile)

Mike Majkowski  - Days and Other Days  (Monofonus)

Catriel Nieves/Joe Wheeler  - Balance  (Marginal Frequency)

Jérôme Noetinger/Anthony Pateras  - Beauty Will Be Amnesiac Or Will Not Be at All (Immediata)

Michael Parsons/Apartment House   - Patterns of Connection  (Huddersfield Contemporary)

Anthony Pateras/Erkki Veltheim  - The Slow Creep of Convenience (Immediata)

Michael Pisaro - Resting in a Fold of the Fog (Potlatch)

Éliane Radigue - Occam Ocean 1 (Shiiin)

Keith Rowe/Michael Pisaro  - 13 (Erstwhile)

Burkhard Schlothauer - More Chamber Events (Edition Wandelweiser)

Grisha Shakhnes  -  choice ambience  (Disappearing Records)

Grisha Shakhnes  - Ghosts  (Disappearing Records)

Linda Catlin Smith - Drifter  (Another Timbre)
(Various) - The Seen, Volumes I-V  (Confront)