2003 Top 10 releases 1. And Also the Trees - Further from the Truth (AATT website) 2. Derek Bailey & Shaking Ray Levis - Live at Lamar's in Chattanooga (Incus website) 3. SWANS - Forever Burned (Young Gods Website) (Sad but this SWANS reissue makes the top 10 list but the new 2003 Angels of Light album does not) 4. Keiji Haino - "c'est parfait" endoctriné tu tombes la tete la première (Turtles Dream) 5. Yuji Itsumi - Jiyu no ishi (Free Will) book + cd (PSF) 6. Richard Youngs - Airs of the Ear (Jagjaguwar) 7. Knead - This Melting Happiness ... lp (Fractal) 8. Derek Bailey & Will Gaines - Rappin & Tappin (Incus) 9. Sonic Youth - Mariah Carey and the Arthur Doyle Handcream 7" (Narnack) And I haven't heard this one yet (just released) but I am very much anticipating it... 10. Derek Bailey - Poetry and Playing (Paractactile) This is 26 minutes of Bailey reading poems by Lyn Hejinian, Peter Riley and Steve Dalachinsky (none of whom I have heard before) and playing (hopefully simultaneously) some acoustic guitar. David K.