Ringo Starr: Rewind Forward

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On October 13, 2023, “Universal Music Enterprises” label released “Rewind Forward”, is the fourth Ringo Starr extended play. It was recorded in 2023, at “Roccabella West” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Ringo Starr.

Personnel:

  • Ringo Starr – vocals, drums, percussion
  • Steve Lukather – guitar
  • Joe Walsh – guitar
  • Steve Dudas – guitar
  • Mike Campbell – guitar, backing vocals
  • Bruce Sugar – keyboards
  • Benmont Tench – piano
  • Paul McCartney – bass guitar, electric guitar, keyboards, zither, backing vocals
  • Torrance Klein – bass guitar
  • Lance Morrison – bass guitar
  • Matt Bissonette – bass guitar
  • Joseph Williams – backing vocals
  • Kipp Lennon, Marky Lennon – backing vocals

Track listing:

  1. Shadows on the Wall – Steve Lukather, Joseph Williams
  2. Feeling the Sunlight – Paul McCartney
  3. Rewind Forward – Richard Starkey, Bruce Sugar
  4. Miss Jean – Mike Campbell, Benmont Tench

Anouar Brahem: Blue Maqams

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On October 13, 2017, “ECM” label released “Blue Maqams”, Anouar Brahem album. It was recorded in May 2017, at “Avatar” in New York City, and was produced by Manfred Eicher.

Personnel:

  • Anouar Brahem – oud
  • Django Bates – piano
  • Dave Holland – bass
  • Jack DeJohnette – drums

Track listing:

All Tracks by Anouar Brahem.

  1. Opening Day
  2. La Nuit
  3. Blue Maqams
  4. Bahia
  5. La Passante
  6. Bom dia Rio
  7. Persepolis’s Mirage
  8. The Recovered Road to A;-Sham
  9. Unexpected Outcome

Rick Astley: Are We There Yet?

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On October 13, 2023, “BMG” label released “Are We There Yet?”, the ninth Rick Astley studio album. It was recorded at Ashtley’s home studio in London, and was produced by Rick Astley.

Personnel:

  • Rick Astley – lead and backing vocals, guitar, bass, drums, engineer
  • Rob Taggart – keyboards
  • James Knight – brass, saxophone
  • Barnaby Dickinson – trombone
  • George Hogg – trumpet
  • Katy Cox – cello
  • Dawn Joseph – backing vocals
  • Lauren Johnson – backing vocals
  • Lene Bausager – choir
  • Tom Ashpitel – choir
  • Katie Owens – choir
  • Simon Mattacks – choir
  • Peter Neill – choir
  • Geoff Pesche – engineer, mastering
  • Dan Frampton – engineer, mastering
  • Chris Bolster – engineer
  • Tom Ashpitel – engineer
  • Tom Hall – mastering assistant
  • Lene Bausager – concept, back cover photography
  • Giulia Villa – design
  • Ekaterina Belinkata – cover photography
  • Peter Neill – sleeve photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Rick Astley.

  1. Dippin’ My Feet
  2. Letting Go
  3. Golden Hour
  4. Never Gonna Stop
  5. Close (Your Shoes)
  6. High Enough
  7. Forever and More
  8. Driving Me Crazy
  9. Maria Love
  10. Take Me Back to Your Place
  11. Waterfall
  12. Blue Sky

Current 93: The Light Is Leaving Us All

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On October 13, 2018, “The Spheres” and “House of Mythology” label s released “The Light Is Leaving Us All”, the 22nd Current 93 album. It was recorded in 2018, and was produced by David Tibet and Andrew Liles.

Personnel:

  • David Tibet – vocals, mixing, photography
  • Andrew Liles – electric guitar, electronics
  • Alasdair Roberts – vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, drone hurdy gurdy, guzheng
  • Reinier Van Houdt – electric piano, piano, theremin, synthesizer, bass, photography
  • Michael J. York – bagpipes, whistle, duduk, bells
  • Aloma Ruiz Boada – violin
  • Rita Knuistingh Neven – silent piano, sleep keys, birdlight
  • Ben Chasny – doppelgänger acoustic and electric guitar
  • Ossian Brown – hurdy gurdy
  • Thomas Ligotti – ghost, voice
  • Andrew Liles – engineer, mixing
  • The Bricoleur – vinyl mastering
  • Stephen Thrower – photography
  • David Ligotti – photography
  • Giulio Di Mauro – photography
  • Ania Goszczyńska – cover design, layout
  • Patrick Wells – screen printing
  • Paschalis Zervas – typesetting
  • Davide Pepe – films

Track listing:

  1. The Birds are Sweetly Singing
  2. The Policeman Is Dead
  3. Bright dead Star
  4. 30 red Houses
  5. A Thousand Witches
  6. Your Future Cartoon
  7. The Postman Is Singing
  8. The Bench and the Fetch
  9. The Kettle’s On
  10. Fair Weather
  11. The Milkmaid Sings

Jalal Mansur Nuriddin: Hustlers Convention

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In October 1973, “Celluloid Records” label released “Hustlers Convention”, album by Jalal Mansur Nuriddin, his debut album under the pseudonym Lightnin’ Rod.

Personnel:

  • Lightnin’ Rod – vocal
  • Kool and the Gang
  • Full Moon (Neil Larsen, Buzzy Feiten)
  • Cornell Dupree, Eric Gale – guitar
  • King Curtis, Trevor Lawrence, Maurice Smith, Andrew Love, Lou Collins – tenor saxophone
  • Jimmy Mitchell – baritone saxophone
  • Charles Sullivan, Gerry Thomas, Wilbur “Dud” Bascomb, Wayne Jackson – trumpet
  • Jack Hale – trombone
  • Richard Tee, Truman Thomas – piano
  • Billy Preston – organ
  • Fred Backmeier, Jerry Jemmott, Chuck Rainey – bass guitar
  • George McCleary – drums, congas
  • Jimmy Johnson, Bernard Purdie, Phillip Wilson – drums

Track listing:

  1. Sport
  2. Spoon
  3. The Café Black Rose
  4. Brother Hominy Grit
  5. Coppin’ Some Fronts For The Set
  6. Hamhock’s Hall Was Big (And There Was a Whole Lot to Dig!)
  7. The Bones Fly from Spoon’s Hand
  8. The Break Was So Loud, It Hushed the Crowd
  9. Four Bitches Is What I Got
  10. Grit’s Den
  11. The Shit Hits the Fan Again
  12. Sentenced to the Chair

Mighty Baby: A Jug Of Love

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In October 1971, “Blue Horizon” label released “A Jug of Love”, the fifth Mighty Baby album. It was recorded in 1971, and was produced by Mike Vernon.

Personnel:

  • Martin Stone – lead acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin
  • Alan King – vocals, acoustic and electric rhythm guitar
  • Ian Whiteman – vocals, piano, organ, harmonium, saxophone, flute,
  • Mike Evans – electric bass
  • Roger Powell – drums, congas
  • Zahara – flute
  • Abd’al Kabir – rattle
  • Jerry Boys – engineer
  • Nick Webb – mastering
  • Farid Vafai-Alamdari – calligraphy
  • Peter Saunders – photography
  • Steven Carr – executive producer

Track listing:

  1. Jug of Love
  2. The Happiest Man in the Carnival
  3. Keep on Jugging’
  4. Virgin Spring
  5. Tasting the Life
  6. Slipstreams

Traffic Sound: Same

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In October 1970, “MaG” label released the self-titled, third Traffic Sound album.

Personnel:

  • Manuel Sanguineti – vocals, percussion, chorus
  • Willy Barclay – lead guitar
  • Freddy Rizo Patron – acoustic guitar, guitar, percussion, chorus
  • Willy Thorne – 12 strings acoustic guitar, piano, organ, guitar, bass
  • Otto De Rojas – piano
  • Luis Neveras – drums, percussion, design
  • Jean Pierre Magnet – alto, tenor and baritone saxophone, flute, vibraphone, percussion, backing vocals, chorus, design
  • Victor De La Cruz – recording
  • Bertrand Tase-Bernard, Julio Menchelli – photography

Track listing:

All lyrics by Manuel Sanguinetti.

  1. Tibet’s Suzettes
  2. Those Days Have Gone
  3. Yesterday’s Game
  4. America
  5. What You Need and What You Want
  6. Chicama Way

Billie Holiday: All Or Nothing At All

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In October 1958, “Verve” label released “All or Nothing at All”, the tenth Billie Holiday studio album. It was recorded August 1956 – January 1957, and was produced by Norman Granz.

  • Billie Holiday – vocals
  • Harry “Sweets” Edison – trumpet
  • Ben Webster – tenor saxophone
  • Barney Kessell – guitar
  • Jimmy Rowles – piano
  • Red Mitchell – bass
  • Joe Mondragon – bass
  • Alvin Stoller – drums
  • David Stone Martin – cover art

Track listing:

  1. Do Nothing till You Hear from Me – Duke Ellington, Bob Russell
  2. Cheek to Cheek – Irving Berlin
  3. Ill Wind – Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler
  4. Speak Low – Ogden Nash, Kurt Weill
  5. We’ll Be Together Again – Carl T. Fischer, Frankie Laine
  6. All or Nothing at All – Arthur Altman, Jack Lawrence
  7. Sophisticated Lady – Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Mitchell Parish
  8. April in Paris – Vernon Duke, E. Y. Harburg
  9. I Wished on the Moon – Dorothy Parker, Ralph Rainger
  10. But Not for Me – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
  11. Say It Isn’t So – Irving Berlin
  12. Our Love Is Here to Stay – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin

Samara Joy: Portrait

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On October 11, 2024, “Verve” label released “Portrait”, the third Samara Joy studio album. It was recorded in 2024, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and was produced by Samara Joy and Brian Lynch.

Personnel:

  • Samara Joy – vocals
  • Connor Rohrer – piano
  • Felix Moseholm – piano, bass
  • Evan Sherman – drums, arrangements
  • David Mason – alto saxophone, flute, arrangements
  • Kendrie McCallister – tenor saxophone, arrangements
  • Donovan Austin – trombone, arrangements
  • Jason Charos – trumpet, flugelhorn, arrangements
  • Maureen Sickler – recording
  • David Darlington – mixing, mastering
  • Jacob Lerman – art direction, design
  • Dominic Avant – painting
  • Tai Linzie – art coordination
  • Eric Neuser – production and release coordination
  • Ken Druker – A&R
  • Brian Lynch – liner notes

Track listing:

  1. You Stepped Out of a Dream – Gus Kahn, Nacio Herb Brown
  2. Reincarnation of a Lovebird – Charles Mingus, Samara Joy
  3. Autumn Nocturne – Kim Gannon, Joe Myrow
  4. Dream Come True / Peace of Mind – Joe Myrow, Sun Ra, Kendric McAllister, Samara Joy
  5. A Fool in Love (is Called a Clown) – Donovan Austin
  6. No More Blues – Jon Hendricks, Antônio Carlos Jobim
  7. Now and Then (In remembrance of…) – Barry Harris, Samara Joy
  8. Day by Day – Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston, Sammy Cahn

Dawes: Oh Brother

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On October 11, 2024, “Dead Ringers” label released “Oh Brother”, the ninth Dawes studio album. It was recorded in 2024, and was produced by Mike Viola, Taylor Goldsmith and Griffin Goldsmith.

Personnel:

  • Taylor Goldsmith – vocals, guitar
  • Griffin Goldsmith – vocals, drums, percussion
  • Trevor Menear – guitar
  • Z Lynch – bass
  • Frank Locastro – keyboards
  • Mike Viola – recording, engineer, mixing
  • David Boucher – engineer
  • Eric Boulanger – mastering
  • Caitlin Gerard – art director
  • Ian Bush – design
  • Silvia Griv – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Taylor Goldsmith.                             

  1. Mister Los Angeles
  2. Front Row Seat
  3. Still Strangers Sometimes
  4. Surprise!
  5. House Parties
  6. King of the Never-Wills
  7. The Game
  8. Enough Already
  9. Hilarity Ensues

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