The Necks: Unfold

On February 10, 2017, “Ideologic Organ” label released “Unfold”, the fourteenth Necks (The) studio album. It was recorded in 2017, at “Studios 301” in Alexandria, Australia, and was produced by Chris Abrahams, Lloyd Swanton and Tony Buck.

Personnel:

  • Chris Abrahams – piano
  • Lloyd Swanton – bass
  • Tony Buck – drums

Track listing:

Alltracks by Chris Abrahams, Tony Buck and Lloyd Swanton

  1. Rise
  2. Overhear
  3. Blue Mountain
  4. Timepiece

Bedhead: Transaction De Novo

On February 10, 1998, “Trance Syndicate” label released “Transaction de Novo”, the third Bedhead studio album. It was recorded in May 1997, and was produced by Steve Albini, Bubba Kadane and Matt Kadane.

Personnel:

  • Bubba Kadane – vocals, guitar
  • Matt Kadane – vocals, guitar
  • Tench Coxe – guitar
  • Kris Wheat – bass
  • Trini Martinez – drums
  • Steve Albini – engineer

All tracks by Matt Kadane and Bubba Kadane.

  1. Exhume
  2. More Than Ever
  3. Parade
  4. Half-Thought
  5. Extramundane
  6. Forgetting
  7. Lepidoptera
  8. Psychosomatica
  9. The Present

Ornette Coleman: Ornette

In February 1962, “Atlantic” label released “Ornette!”, the seventh Ornette Coleman album. It was recorded in January 1961, at “Atlantic Studios” in New York.

Personnel:

  • Ornette Coleman – alto saxophone
  • Don Cherry – pocket trumpet
  • Scott LaFaro – bass
  • Ed Blackwell – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Ornette Coleman.

  1. W.R.U.
  2. T. & T.
  3. C. & D.
  4. R.P.D.D.

The Pineapple Thief: It Leads To This

On February 9, 2024, “Kscope” label released “It Leads to This”, the fifteenth Pineapple Thief (The) studio album. It was recorded 2012 – 2023, at “Bourne Place” in London, “Soord Studios” in Yeovil, Somerset, England, and was produced by Bruce Soord.

Personnel:

  • Bruce Soord – vocals, guitars, mixing
  • Beren Matthews – additional guitar, backing vocals
  • Steve Kitch – keyboards, mastering
  • Jon Sykes – bass, backing vocals
  • Gavin Harrison – drums, percussion, mixing
  • Beech – design

Track listing:

All lyrics by Bruce Soord, all music by Gavin Harrison and Bruce Soord.

  1. Put It Right
  2. Rubicon
  3. It Leads to This
  4. The Frost
  5. All That’s Left
  6. Now It’s Yours
  7. Every Trace of Us
  8. To Forget

Joel Ross: Nublues

On February 9, 2024, “Blue Note” label released “Nublues”, the fourth Joel Ross album. It was recorded in 2023, at “The Bunker Studio” in Brooklyn, New York, and was produced by Walter Smith III and Joel Ross.

Personnel:

  • Joel Ross – vibraphone
  • Immanuel Wilkins – alto saxophone
  • Gabrielle Garo – flute
  • Jeremy Corren – piano
  • Kanoa Mendenhall – bass
  • Jeremy Dutton – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Joel Ross except where noted.

  1. Early
  2. Equinox – John Coltrane
  3. Mellowdee
  4. Chant – Gabrielle Garo, Joel Ross
  5. What Am I Waiting For?
  6. Bach (God the Father in Eternity
  7. Nublues – Joel Ross, Immanuel Wilkins, Jeremy Corren, Jeremy Dutton, Kanoa Mendenhall
  8. Ya Know?
  9. Evidence – Thelonious Monk
  10. Central Park West – John Coltrane

Helado Negro: Phasor

On February 9, 2024, “4AD” label released “Phasor”, the eighth Helado Negro studio album. It was recorded in 2023, and was produced by Helado Negro.

Personnel:

  • Helado Negro (Roberto Carlos Lange) – vocals, instrumentation, engineer, mixing
  • Sufjan Stevens – vocals, tone bells 
  • Opal Hoyt – vocals, piano
  • Jason Ajemian – bass
  • Andy Stack – bass
  • Jason Nazary – drums, percussion
  • Jason Trammell – drums, percussion
  • Benjamin Julia – drums, percussion
  • Matt Crum – drums, percussion
  • Savannah Harris – drums, percussion
  • Pinson Chanselle – drums, percussion
  • Rob Frye – drums, percussion
  • Zach Cooper – tempo consultation
  • Rachel Alina – mastering
  • Crystal Zapata – design
  • Kristi Sword – drawing
  • Sol Talamantes – inner sleeve photo

Track listing:

All tracks by Roberto Carlos Lange.

  1. LFO (Lupe Finds Oliveros)
  2. I Just Want to Wake Up With You
  3. Best of You and Me
  4. Colores Del Mar
  5. Echo Tricks Me
  6. Out There
  7. Flores
  8. Wish You Could Be Here
  9. Es Una Fantasia

MGMT: Little Dark Age

On February 9, 2018, “Columbia” label released “Little Dark Age”, the fourth MGMT studio album. It was recorded September 2016 – May 2017, at “Baby Office” and “Kingsize Soundlabs” in Los Angeles, “The CRC” and “Tarbox Toad” in New York, and was produced by Patrick Wimberly, Dave Fridmann and Andrew VanWyngarden, Ben Goldwasser.

Personnel:

  • Andrew VanWyngarden – vocals, backing vocals, guitar, keyboards, synthesizer, bass, drums, percussion, programming
  • Ben Goldwasser – vocals, backing vocals, organ, keyboards, bass, synthesizer, flute,  programming
  • Josh Da Costa – additional drums
  • Ariel Pink – synthesizer, guitars, backing vocals
  • Danny Meyer – saxophone
  • Connan Mockasin – guitar, backing vocals
  • Cellars – vocals
  • Patrick Wimberly – vocals, bass, percussion, vibraphone
  • James Richardson – additional bass, synthesizer, French horn, recorder, guitar, bass
  • Sébastien Tellier – backing vocals
  • Patrick Wimberly – engineer
  • Dave Fridmann – engineer, mixing
  • Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson – additional engineering
  • Celso A. Estrada – engineer assistant
  • Tyler Karmen – engineer assistant
  • Matt Estep – mixing assistant
  • Greg Calbi – mastering
  • Steve Fallone – mastering

Track listing:

All lyrics by Andrew VanWyngarden, all music by Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser, except where noted.

  1. She Works Out Too Much
  2. Little Dark Age
  3. When You Die – lyrics by Andrew VanWyngarden, Ariel Pink, music by Andrew VanWyngarden, Ben Goldwasser, Ariel Pink
  4. Me and Michael
  5. TSLAMP – music by Andrew VanWyngarden, Ben Goldwasser, James Richardosn
  6. James
  7. Days That Gone Away – music by Andrew VanWyngarden, Ben Goldwasser, Patrick Wimberley, Connan Mockasin
  8. One Thing Left to Try
  9. When You’re Small – lyrics by Andrew VanWyngarden, Ben Goldwasser, music by Andrew VanWyngarden, Ben Goldwasser
  10. Hand It Over

Jessica Pratt: Quiet Signs

On February 8, 2019, “Mexican Summer” label released “Quiet Signs”, the third Jessica Pratt studio album. It was recorded in 2018, at “Gary’s Electric Studio” in New York City, and was produced by Jessica Pratt.

Personnel:

  • Jessica Pratt – vocals, guitar, organ, synthesizer
  • Al Carlson – piano, organ
  • Matthew McDermott – piano, synthesizer
  • Will Canzoneri – piano
  • Al Carlson – flute, mixing, co-producer
  • Jeff Lipton – mastering
  • Saamuel Richard – artwork

Track listing:

All tracks by Jessica Pratt.

  1. Opening Night
  2. As the World Turns
  3. Fare Thee Well
  4. Here My Love
  5. Poly Blue
  6. This Time Around
  7. Crossing
  8. Silent Song
  9. Aeroplane

Anthony Braxton: Eugene

In February 1989, “Black Saint” label released” Eugene”, the 58th Anthony Braxton album. It was recorded in January 1989, at “Beall Hall” in “University of Oregon”, in Oregon, and was produced by Mike Heffley.

Personnel:

  • Anthony Braxton – alto saxophone, conductor

The Northwest Creative Orchestra:

  • Rob Blakeslee, John Jensen, Ernie Carbajal – trumpet
  • Ed Kammerer, Tom Hill, Mike Heffley – trombone
  • Thom Bergeron, Jeff Homan, Carl Woideck, Mike Curtis – reeds
  • Mike Vannice – reeds, piano
  • Todd Barton – synthesizer
  • Joe Robinson – guitar
  • Forrest Moyer – bass
  • Tom Kelly – percussion
  • Charles Dowd – percussion, vibraphone

Track listing:

All tracks by Anthony Braxton.

  1. Composition No. 112
  2. Composition No. 91
  3. Composition No. 134
  4. Composition No. 100
  5. Composition No. 93
  6. Composition No. 45
  7. Composition No. 71
  8. Composition No. 59

Sugarhill Gang: Same

On February 7, 1980, “Sugarhill” label released the debut, self-titled Sugarhill Gang studio album. It was recorded in 1979, and was produced by Sylvia Robinson.

Personnel:

  • Big Bank Hank, Wonder Mike, Master Gee (The Sugarhill Gang) – rappers
  • Albert Pittman, Skip McDonald, Brian Morgan – guitar
  • Nate Edmonds, Skitch Smith – keyboards
  • Bernard Rowland, Doug Wimbish, Chip Shearin- bass
  • Bryan Horton, Keith LeBlanc – drums
  • Craig Derry, Harry Reyes, John Stump – percussion
  • Sylvia Robinson – vibraphone, backing vocals, engineer, mixing
  • Positive Force – backing vocals, rhythm arrangements
  • Tito Puente
  • The Sequence
  • Billy Jones, Nate Edmonds – special effects, engineer, mixing

Track listing:

  1. Here I Am – Craig Derry, Nate Edmonds
  2. Rapper’s Reprise (Jam Jam)
  3. Bad News (Don’t Bother Me) – Guy O’Brien, Henry Kackson, Michael Wright
  4. Sugarhill Groove – Guy O’Brien, Henry Jackson, Michael Wright, Sylvia Robinson
  5. Passion Play – Brenda Reynolds, Nate Efmonds, Ray Smith
  6. Rapper’s Delight – Bernards Edwards, Nile Rodgers

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