The music I enjoyed most from 2023, either bought in physical form, often through Burning Shed, or digitally through bandcamp:

1. Akku Quintet, Kinema
2. Anchor and Burden, Kosmonautik Pilgrimage
3. Big Big Train, Ingenious Devices
4. Blaer, Pure
5. Delrei, Desolation and Radiation
6. D’Virgilio, Morse & Jennings, Sophomore
7. Colin Edwin and Robert Jürjendal, The Weight of a Shadow
8. The Fierce and the Dead, News from the Invisible World
9. Peter Gabriel, i/o
10. Haken, Fauna
11. Hely, Plode
12. Katatonia, Sky Void of Stars
13. Jeremias Keller, Alloy
14. Neal Morse, The Dreamer – Joseph Part One
15. The Neal Morse Band, An Evening of Innocence and Danger: Live in Hamburg
16. PAKT [Percy Jones, Alex Skolnick, Kenny Grohowski, Tim Motzer], Live in Piermont
17. Reichenhall, Muschelkalk
18. Markus Reuter & Stefano Castagna, Sea of Hopeless Angels
19. North Atlantic Oscillation, United Wire
20. Sanscreed Kanon, Sanscreed Kanon
21. Shibui, Quint
22. Sonar with David Torn and J. Peter Schwalm, Three Movements
23. Stephan Thelen and Fabio Anile, Music for Piano and Strings
24. Steven Wilson, The Harmony Codex
25. Temic, Terror Management Theory

For previous years: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 and 2012.

I didn’t get to see much music live, and missed a few due to illness, but particularly enjoyed Big Big Train, Haken, The Aristocrats, Peter Gabriel, Extreme and Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin.