This year, Dinner Music featured 365 albums and over a thousand songs. They were a mix of new, old, funk, ambient, global groove, american nostalgia — anything to get you going in the kitchen, at the dinner table, drinking a glass of wine.
To end the year, I have a playlist and a list of albums.
I hope you enjoy them as much as I have.
A playlist of 200 songs I loved this year:
The albums, sorted by region:
America
East Coast
Cut Worms - Cut Worms (2023) | Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube / Other streaming services
& The Charm - Avalon Emerson (2023) | Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube / Other streaming services
Fred Neil - Fred Neil (1966) | Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube / Other streaming services
West Coast
In Heaven - Dick Stusso (2018) | Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube / Other streaming services
So Far So Good - Meernaa (2023) | Spotify / YouTube / Other streaming services
South / Texas
Time Ain’t Accidental - Jess Williamson (2023) | Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube / Other streaming services
Hawaii
When It’s Time To Go - Buddy Fo & His Group (1967) | Spotify / YouTube / Other streaming services
Puerto Rico
Switched-On - Pachyman (2023) | Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube / Other streaming services
Europe
UK
DREAMER - Nabihah Iqubal (2023) | Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube / Other streaming services
Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying - Labi Siffre (1976) | Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube / Other streaming services
France
Hydranism - Oracle Sisters (2023) | Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube / Other streaming services
The Best of Agathe and Regrets - Agathe and Regrets (1985) | Spotify / Other streaming services
Poland
On Giacometi - Hania Rani (2023) | Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube / Other streaming services
Norway
blómi - Susanne Sundfør (2023) | Bandcamp / Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube / Other streaming services
Italy
Il Grande Esploratore - Tony Esposito (1984) | Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube / Other streaming services
Denmark
Flowers of Your Youth - Oilly Wallace (2023) | Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube / Other streaming services
Central / South America
Mexico
¡AHORA! The Latin Sound of Now - Club Coco (2023) | Bandcamp / Spotify / Apple Music / Other streaming services
Brazil
Maravilhas Contemporâneas - Luiz Melodia (1976) | Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube / Other streaming services
Ocean Memories - Bola Sete (1999) | Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube / Other streaming services
Venezuela
Birds Of Venezuela - Jean C. Roché (2018)| Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube / Other streaming services
Africa
Zambia
Welcome to Zamrock! How Zambia’s Liberation Led To a Rock Revolution, Vol. 1 (1972-1977) | Bandcamp / Spotify / Apple Music / Other streaming services
Egypt
Kawahel - Hamid Al Shaeri (1988) | Spotify
Cabo Verde
Space Echo - The Mystery Behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed! (2014) | Bandcamp / Spotify / Apple Music / Other streaming services
Togo
Akofa Akoussah - Akofa Akoussah (1976) | Spotify / Apple Music / Other streaming services
Middle East
Lebanon
Belly Dance Disco - Ihsan Al-Munzer (1979) | Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube / Other streaming services
Enta Fen - Soapkills (2005) | Spotify / Apple Music / Other streaming services
Obscure Sounds for Small Clubs - Hadi Zeidan (2019)| Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube / Other streaming services
Egypt
Orkos - Maha (1979) | Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube / Other streaming services
Turkey
Aşk Eski Bir Yalan - Kâmuran Akkor (1967) | Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube / Other streaming services
Asia
Japan
Utakata No Hibi - Mariah (1983) | Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube / Other streaming services
悲しいほどお天気 - Yumi Matsutoya (1979)| Spotify
Thailand
21st Century Molam - Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band (2014) | Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube / Other streaming services
Thank you, thank you.