Merry Christmas from the Aubergine team!

Merry Christmas y'all! We wish you warm and happy days spent with friends and family.

May all your wishes come true.

Perfect time to continue our yearly tradition and share our end of the year lists with you.

Ready? Here it comes:

Lize Colson

ARTIST/BAND OF 2018 Fulco Ottervanger // ESINAM

ALBUM OF 2018 African Scream Contest 2 (Analog African No. 26)

SONG OF 2018 How We See Things (Shake Stew ft. Shabaka Hutchings)

MUSIC VIDEO OF 2018 Harmony of Difference (Kamasi Washington)

"From 2017, I know, but I discovered it only this year. Binge watching, check!"

CONCERT OF 2018 Lisa Hannigan & The Colorist (Concertgebouw Brugge)

Maaike Wuyts

ARTIST/BAND OF 2018 ESINAM // Nubya Garcia

ALBUM OF 2018 Soil (Serpentwithfeet) // Sketches of Nowhere (Antoine Pierre URBEX) // Your Queen is a Reptile (Sons of Kemet) // Mopocalypse (Mopo)

SONG OF 2018 Whisper (Serpentwithfeet)

MUSIC VIDEO OF 2018 Lover's Quarrel (Moses Sumney) // Like Sugar (Chaka Kahn)

CONCERT OF 2018 Amir El Saffar: River of Sound Ensemble (Bozar) // Moses Sumney (Botanique) // Ammar 808 (Sines Festival) // Irreversible Entanglements (Le Guess Who) // The Brother Moves on + Bowrain (Druga Godba) // Asma Hamzaoui + Fatoumata Diawara (Festival Gnaoua et Musique du Monde) // Montparnasse Musique (WOMEX) // Lisa Hannigan & The Colorist Orchestra (Concertgebouw Brugge)

Martin Vernier

ARTIST/BAND OF 2018 De Beren Gieren

ALBUM OF 2018 8 regards obliques (Etienne Jaumet)

SONG OF 2018 Wunder Der Schöpfung (Egyptology)

MUSIC VIDEO OF 2018 coitus interruptus (Sylvain Darrifourcq IN LOVE WITH)

CONCERT OF 2018 Roberto Negro piano solo (Jazz Station) //

Irreversible Etanglements (BRDCST Festival) // Warm Bad (Flagey) // Mâäk Five (Jazz Middelheim) // Hermia/Ceccaldi/Darrifourcq (Jazzahead) // Mopo (Jazzahead) //Jameszoo (BOZAR) // Colin Stetson (AB) // Amir El Saffar: River of Sound Ensemble (BOZAR) // Stefan Fraunberger (Saint-Etienne) // Alifbata (Opéra de Lille) // Makaya McRaven (AB) // Joe Armon Jones (AB)