Boz Scaggs: Detour

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On October 17, 2025, “Concord” label released “Detour”, the twentieth Boz Scaggs studio album. It was recorded in 2025, at “Davlen Sound Studios”, “Hollywood Sound Recorders” in Hollywood, and was produced by Boz Scaggs and Michael Rodriguez.

Personnel:

  • Boz Scaggs – vocals, guitar
  • Seth Asarnow – piano, bass guitar, arrangements
  • Jason Lewis – drums
  • Jeremy Cohen – violin, viola
  • Jim Cox – string arrangements
  • David Luke – engineer
  • Adam Muñoz – mixing
  • Ken Lee – mastering
  • Chris Tabarez – executive producer

Track listing:

  1. It’s Raining – Naomi Neville
  2. Angel Eyes – Earl K. Brent, Matt Dennis
  3. Once I Loved – Antônio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes, Ray Gilbert
  4. The Very Thought of You – Ray Noble
  5. I’ll Be Long Gone – Boz Scaggs
  6. Detour Ahead – Herb Ellis, Johnny Frigo, Lou Carter
  7. I Could Have Told You – Carl Sigman, Jimmy Van Heusen
  8. The Meaning of the Blues – Bobby Troup, Leah Worth
  9. Tomorrow Night – Alan Jay Lerner, Burton Lane
  10. Too Late Now – Alan Jay Lerner, Burton Lane
  11. We’ll Be Together Again – Carl T. Fischer, Frankie Laine

Of Monsters And Man: All Is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade

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On October 17, 2025, “Skarkall” label released “All Is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade”, the fourth Of Monsters and Men studio album. It was recorded in 2025, and was produced by Peter Katis, Ragnar Þórhallsson, Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir, Brynjar Leifsson, Kristján Páll Kristjánsson and Arnar Rósenkranz Hilmarsson.

Personnel:

  • Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir – vocals, guitar
  • Ragnar Þórhallsson – vocals, guitar, design
  • Brynjar Leifsson – guitar
  • Kristján Páll Kristjánsson – bass
  • Arnar Rósenkranz Hilmarsson – drums, percussion
  • Josh Kaufman – 12-string guitar
  • Steingrímur Karl Teague – keyboards
  • Ragnhildur Gunnarsdóttir – trumpet, keyboards
  • Peter Katis – mixing
  • Greg Calbi – mastering
  • Davíð Arnar Baldursson – design

Track listing:

All tracks by Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir and Ragnar Þórhallsson, except where noted.

  1. Television Love – Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir, Ragnar Þórhallsson, Arnar Rósenkranz Hilmarsson
  2. Dream Team – Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir, Ragnar Þórhallsson, Arnar Rósenkranz Hilmarsson
  3. The Actor
  4. Tuna in a Can
  5. Barefoot in Snow
  6. Fruit Bat – Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir, Ragnar Þórhallsson, Arnar Rósenkranz
  7. Kamikaze – Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir, Ragnar Þórhallsson, Arnar Rósenkranz
  8. The Towering Skyscraper at the End of the Road – Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir, Ragnar Þórhallsson, Arnar Rósenkranz
  9. Ordinary Creature – Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir, Ragnar Þórhallsson, Arnar Rósenkranz
  10. Styrofoam Cathedral – Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir, Ragnar Þórhallsson, Brynjar Leifsson
  11. The Block – Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir, Ragnar Þórhallsson, Arnar Rósenkranz
  12. Mouse Parade
  13. The End

Premiata Forneria Marconi: Photos Of Ghosts

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In October 1973, “Manticore” label released “Photos of Ghosts”, the third Premiata Forneria Marconi studio album and the first English language record. It was recorded 1972 – 1973, and was produced by Peter Sinfield.

Personnel:

  • Franco Mussida – vocals, electric and acoustic guitar, 12 string guitar, theorbo, mandocello
  • Flavio Premoli – vocals, spinet, keyboards, Hammond organ, Minimoog, Mellotron, tubular bells, harpsichord, piano
  • Mauro Pagani – vocals, flute, piccolo, violin
  • Giorgio Piazza – vocals, bass guitar
  • Franz Di Cioccio – vocals, drums, percussion
  • Peter Sinfield – English lyrics

Track listing:

All tracks are written by Franco Mussida, Flavio Premoli, Peter Sinfield, except where noted.

  1. River of Life
  2. Celebration
  3. Photos of Ghosts,
  4. Old Rain – Flavio Premoli
  5. IL Banchetto – Mauro Pagani
  6. Mr. 9 ‘til 5
  7. Promenade the Puzzle

Art Ensemble Of Chicago: Chi-Congo

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In October 1972, “Decca” label released “Chi-Congo”, the 16th Art Ensemble of Chicago album. It was recorded May – June 1970.

Personnel:

  • Joseph Jarman – saxophones, clarinets, percussion
  • Roscoe Mitchell – saxophones, clarinets, flute, percussion
  • Lester Bowie – trumpet, percussion
  • Malachi Favors Maghostut – vocals, bass, percussion instruments
  • Don Moye – drums, percussion

Track listing:

  1. Chi-Congo – Malachi Favors Maghostut
  2. Enlorfe – Roscoe Mitchell
  3. Hipparippp – Roscoe Mitchell

The Brian Jonestown Massacre: Bravery Repetition And Noise

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On October 16, 2001, “Bomp!” label released “Bravery Repetition and Noise”, the eighth Brian Jonestown Massacre (The) album. It was recorded in 2001, and was produced by Anton Newcombe and Rob Campanella.

Personnel:

  • Anton Newcombe – vocals, guitar, bass, mini Moog, mellotron, organ, drums, horns
  • Jeffrey Davies – vocals, guitar, organ, fuzz
  • Rob Campanella – Hammond organ, Mellotron, acoustic guitar, classical guitar, 12-string electric guitar, Vox fuzz repeater
  • Frankie Emerson – guitar
  • Hunter Crowley – drums
  • David Koenig – bass
  • Bobby Hecksher – guitar
  • James Ambrose – vocals, guitar
  • Raymond Richards – pedal steel guitar
  • Jeff Levitz (credited as Jeff Levitts) – guitar
  • Mara Keagle – vocals
  • Raugust – flute
  • Courtney Taylor-Taylor – additional mixing
  • Mark Chelek – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Anton Newcombe, except where noted.

  1. Just for Today
  2. 4Telegram
  3. Stolen
  4. Open Heart Surgery
  5. Nevertheless
  6. Sailor – The Cryan’ Shames
  7. You Have Been Disconnected
  8. Leave Nothing for Sancho
  9. Let Me Stand Next to Your Flower
  10. If I Love You?
  11. (I Love You) Always
  12. If I Love You? (New European Gold Standard Secret Babylonian Brotherhood Cinema Mix)

The Hellacopters: High Visibilityis

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On October 16, 2000, “Polar” label released “High Visibilityis”, the fourth Hellacopters (The) album. It was recorded in 2000, at “Polar Studios” in Stockholm, and was produced by Chips Kiesbye.

Personnel:

  • Nicke Andersson – vocals, guitars, clavinet, percussion
  • Robert Dahlqvist – vocals, guitars
  • Anders Lindström – organ, piano
  • Kenny Håkansson – bass guitar
  • Robert Eriksson – drums, backing vocals
  • Scott Morgan – vocals
  • Biff Malibu – vocals
  • Mattias Bärjed – guitars
  • Fredrick Wennerlund – percussion
  • Karin Thyr – backing vocals
  • Charlotte Ollward – backing vocals
  • Stefan Boman – engineer
  • George Marino – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Nicke Andersson, except where noted.

  1. Hopeless Case of a Kid in Denial
  2. Baby Borderline
  3. Sometimes I Don’t Know
  4. Toys and Flavors – Chips Kiesbye, Nicke Andersson
  5. You’re Too Good (To Me Baby) – Silky Hargreaves, Ed Kaplan, Tina Love
  6. Throw Away Heroes
  7. No Song Ungeard
  8. Truckloads of Nothin’ – Chips Kiesbye, Nicke Andersson
  9. A Heart Without Home – Nicke Andersson, Kenny Håkansson
  10. No One’s Gonna Do It for You – Kenny Håkansson, Nicke Andersson
  11. I Wanna Touch
  12. Hurtin’ Time – Scott Morgan, Nicke Andersson
  13. Envious

Kate Bush: The Sensual World

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On October 16, 1989, “EMI” label released “The Sensual World”, the sixth Kate Bush album. It was recorded September 1987 – July 1989, at “Wickham Farm Home” in Welling, England, “Angel” in Islington, England, “Windmill Lane” in Dublin, Ireland, and was produced by Kate Bush. The album was certified Platinum by the “British Phonographic Industry” (BPI).

Personnel:

  • Kate Bush – vocals, piano, keyboards
  • David Gilmour – guitar
  • Alan Murphy – guitar, guitar synthesizer
  • Del Palmer – rhythm guitar, Fairlight CMI percussion, bass guitar, percussion
  • Charlie Morgan – drums
  • Stuart Elliott – drums
  • Bill Whelan – arrangement
  • Paddy Bush – whip, valiha, mandolin, tupan, backing vocals
  • Davy Spillane – uilleann pipes, whistle
  • John Sheahan – fiddle, bouzouki
  • John Giblin – bass guitar
  • Jonathan Williams – cello
  • Nigel Kennedy – violin , viola
  • Michael Kamen – orchestral arrangements
  • Alan Stivell – Celtic harp, backing vocals
  • “Dr. Bush” (Robert Bush, Kate’s father) – dialogue
  • Balanescu Quartet – strings
  • Michael Nyman – string arrangements
  • Mick Karn – bass guitar
  • Trio Bulgarka – vocals
  • Yanka Rupkina (of Trio Bulgarka) – solo vocalist
  • Dimitar Penev – arranger (Trio Bulgarka)
  • Eberhard Weber – double bass
  • Del Palmer – recording, mixing
  • Haydn Bendall, Kevin Killen, Paul Gomazel – additional recording
  • Andrew Boland – engineer
  • Tom Leader – engineer assistant
  • John Grimes – engineer assistant
  • Kevin Killen – mixing
  • Ian Cooper – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Kate Bush.

  1. The Sensual World
  2. Love and Anger
  3. The Fog
  4. Reaching Out
  5. Heads We’re Dancing
  6. Deeper Understanding
  7. Between a Man and a Woman
  8. Never Be Mine
  9. Rocket’s Tail
  10. The Woman’s Work

Homer: Same

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In October 1972, “Universal Recording Artists” label released the self-titled, debut Homer album. It was recorded in 1972, and was produced by Galen Niles and Chet Himes.

Personnel:

  • Frank Coy – vocals, arrangements,
  • Phil Bepko – vocals, arrangements
  • Galen Niles – guitar, engineer, arrangements
  • Howard Gloor – guitar, steel guitar, arrangements
  • Chet Himes – bass, arrangements, engineer
  • Gene Coleman – drums, arrangements

Track listing:

  1. Circles in the North
  2. Taking Me Home
  3. Dawson Creek
  4. Survivor
  5. In the Beginning
  6. Love’s Coming
  7. Four Days and Nights Without You
  8. Cyrano in the Park
  9. Lonely Woman

Out Of Focus: Four Letter Monday Afternoon

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In October 1972, “Kuckuck” label released “Four Letter Monday Afternoon”, the third Out of Focus album. It was recorded July 1972, at “Bavaria Music Studios” in Munich, Germany, and was produced by Remigius Drechsler, Moran Neumüller, Hennes Herrig, Stephan Wisheu and Klaus Spori.

Personnel:

  • Remigius Drechsler – acoustic and electric guitar, tenor saxophone, flute, stylophone, recorder, backing vocals, arrangements
  • Moran Neumüller – vocals, soprano saxophone, arrangements
  • Hennes Herrig – piano, organ, arrangements
  • Stephan Wisheu – bass guitar, arrangements
  • Klaus Spori – drums, arrangements
  • Peter Dechant – acoustic guitar, backing vocals
  • Michael Thatcher – organ, arrangements
  • Ingo Schmid-Neuhaus – alto and baritone saxophone, arrangements
  • Jimmy Polivka – trumpet
  • Hermann Breuer – trombone
  • Grand Roman Langhans – bongos
  • Wolfgang Loper – engineer
  • Manfred Manke – graphics, photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Remigius Drechsler, Moran Neumüller, Hennes Herrig, Stephan Wisheu and Klaus Spori.

  1. L.S.B.
  2. Tsajama
  3. Black Cards
  4. Where Have You Been
  5. Huchen 55
  6. Huchen 55, A
  7. Huchen 55, B
  8. Huchen 55, C
  9. Huchen 55, D

Eric Dolphy: Iron Man

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In October 1968, “Douglas International” label released “Iron Man”, album by Eric Dolphy. It was recorded in 1963 at “Music Maker’s Studio’s” in New York City, and was produced by Alan Douglas.

Personnel:

  • Eric Dolphy – bass clarinet, flute, alto saxophone
  • Clifford Jordan – soprano saxophone
  • Sonny Simmons – alto saxophone
  • Prince Lasha – flute
  • Woody Shaw – trumpet
  • Bobby Hutcherson – vibraphone
  • Eddie Khan – bass
  • Richard Davis – bass
  • J.C. Moses – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Eric Dolphy, expect where noted.

  1. Iron Man
  2. Mandrake
  3. Come Sunday – Duke Ellington
  4. Burning Spear
  5. Ode to Charlie Parker – Jaki Byard

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