On May 31, 2011, “Universal Music Canada” label released “Lights of Endangered Species”, the fifth Matthew Good studio album. It was recorded October-November 2010, at “Vogville Recording” in Port Coquitlam, Canada, and was produced by Warne Livesey.
Personnel:
- Matthew Good – vocals, piano, guitar, bass, claratron, strings, brass and woodwind arrangements
- Stuart Cameron – guitar, lap steel
- Warne Livesey- organ, mellotron, strings, brass and woodwind arrangements
- David Brown – double bass
- Blake Manning – drums, percussion, glockenspiel, backing vocals
- Bill Runge – baritone saxophone
- Terry Townson – trumpet, flugelhorn
- Rod Murray – trombone
- Jeremy Berkman – trombone
- Brad Muirhead – bass trombone
- Oliver De Clercq – French horn
- Brenda Fedoruk – flute
- Fracois Houle – clarinet
- David Owen – cor anglais
- Ingrid Chiang – bassoon
- Mary Sokol Brown – violin
- David Harding – viola
- Andrew Brown – viola
- Avery Grace – backing vocals
- Jennifer Zall – backing vocals
- Warne Livesey- engineer, mixer
- Joel Livesey – engineer
- Rob Sommerfeldt, Jennifer Zall, Paul Dutil – session assistants
- Tim Young – mastering
- Matthew Good and Susan Michalek – art direction
- Susan Michalek – design
- Miriam Aroeste – artwork
Track listing:
- Extraordinary Fades
- How It Goes
- Shallow’s Low
- What If I Can’t See the Stars Mildred?
- Zero Orchestra
- Non Populus
- In a Place of Lesser Men
- Set Me On Fire
- Lights of Endangered Species