- Benny Carter, Central City sketches (Nimbus);
- Big Black, Songs about fucking (Touch & Go);
- Bill Bruford's Earthworks, Earthworks (EG);
- Bobby Previte, Pushing the envelope (Gramavision);
- Borbetomagus, Seven reasons for tears (Agaric);
- Charlie Haden, Quartet West (Verve);
- Chick Corea's Elektric Band, Light years (GRP);
- Coil, Horse rotorvator (Relativity);
- Danny Gottlieb, Aquamarine (Atlantic);
- Dave Holland, Razor's edge (ECM);
- David Sylvian, Secret of the beehive (Virgin);
- David Torn, Cloud about Mercury (ECM);
- Dinosaur Jr., You're living all over me (SST);
- Echo & The Bunnymen, Echo & The Bunnymen (Sire);
- Elements, Illumination (Novus);
- Emmylou Harris, Angel band (Warner);
- Fausto, Para além das cordilheiras (Columbia);
- George Harrison, Cloud nine (Dark Horse);
- Guns n'Roses, Appetite for destruction (Geffen);
- Guy Klucevsek, Scenes from a mirage (No Man’s Land);
- Hank Roberts, Black pastels (JMT);
- Henry Flynt, You are my everlovin'/Celestial power (Hundertmark);
- Henry Threadgill, Easily slip into another world (Novus);
- Jeff Greinke, Timbral planes (Dossier);
- John Zorn, Spillane (Nonesuch);
- Júlio Pereira, Miradouro (Transmédia);
- Madredeus, Os dias da Madredeus (EMI);
- Manhattan Transfer (The), Brasil (Atlantic);
- Marilyn Crispell, Labyrinths (Victo);
- Mark Helias, The current set (Enja);
- Marty Ehrlich, Pliant plaint (Enja);
- Michael Brecker, Michael Brecker (Impulse!);
- Mulgrew Miller, Wingspan (32 Jazz);
- Neil Swainson, 49th parallel (Concord Jazz);
- Pat Metheny Group, Still life (Talking) (Geffen);
- Pink Floyd, A momentary lapse of reason (EMI);
- Prince, Sign 'o' the times (Warner);
- R.E.M., Document (IRS);
- Roland Dyens, Villa-Lobos, Concerto: Suite populaire bresilienne; Choros, No.1; Dyens: Hommage a Villa-Lobos (Valois);
- Rush, Hold your fire (Mercury);
- Ry Cooder, Get rhythm (Warner);
- Sonic Youth, Sister (Geffen);
- Sonny Sharrock, Seize the rainbow (Enemy);
- Steve Lacy, Momentum (Novus);
- Sting, Nothing like the sun (A&M);
- Suzanne Vega, Solitude standing (A&M);
- Tim Berne, Fulton Street Maul (Koch Jazz);
- Univers Zero, Heatwave (Cuneiform);
- Yes, Big generator (ATCO).