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Dave Sumner's Best Releases/Downloads of 2011

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It's never easy compiling best of lists, but here are twelve albums for which my enthusiasm hasn't ebbed during the course of the year. A free download is available for each of them, except for the Avital (which I'm in the process of obtaining) and the Haarla (which I'll never get). Enjoy!

Tunnel Six
Lake Superior
Origin/OA2

Kekko Fornarelli
Room of Mirrors
Auand

Paul Lieberman
Ibeji
Self Produced

Steven Lugerner
Narratives
Armored Records

Joe Locke
VIA
Origin/OA2

Rafal Sarnecki
The Madman Rambles Again
Fresh Sound New Talent

Susana Santos Silva
Devil's Dress
Toap Records

Omer Avital
Free Forever
Smalls Records

Iro Haarla
Vespers
ECM

Jean Lapouge
Temporare
Musea

Will Collier
Those Who Wait
F-ire

Jacob Karlzon
The Big Picture
Challenge Records

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