Monthly Archives: October 2020

Greg Howe, Victor Wooten and Dennis Chambers: Extraction

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On October 7, 2003, “Tone Center” label released “Extraction”, an album by Greg Howe, Dennis Chambers and Victor Wooten. It was recorded 2001 – 2003, and was produced by Greg Howe.

Personnel:

  • Greg Howe – guitar, guitar synthesizer, keyboards
  • David Cook – keyboards
  • Victor Wooten – bass guitar
  • Dennis Chambers – drums
  • Mark Gifford – engineer, mixing
  • John Grant – engineer
  • Tony Gross – mixing
  • Ashley Moore – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Greg Howe except where noted.

  1. Extraction
  2. Tease
  3. Crack It Way Open
  4. Contigo
  5. Proto Cosmos – Alan Pasqua
  6. A Delicacy
  7. Lucky 7
  8. Ease Up
  9. Bird’s Eye View

Azure Ray: Hold On Love

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On October 7, 2003, “Saddle Creek” label released “Hold On Love”, the third Azure Ray studio album. It was recorded in 2003, at “Presto! Recording Studios”, and was produced by Eric Bachmann.

Personnel:

  • Orenda Fink – vocals, guitar, trumpet
  • Mike Mogis – pedal steel, engineer, mixing
  • Maria Taylor – vocals, piano, guitar, drums
  • Clark Baechle – drum programming
  • Ben Armstrong – drums
  • Andy LeMaster – additional instrumentation, engineer, mixing
  • Eric Bachmann – additional instrumentation, arrangement, mixing
  • Doug Van Sloun – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor.

  1. The Devil’s Feet
  2. New Resolution
  3. We are Mice
  4. Look to Me
  5. The Drinks We Drank Last Night
  6. Across the Ocean
  7. If You Fall
  8. Sea of Doubts
  9. Dragonfly
  10. Nothing Like a Song
  11. These White Lights will Bend to Make Blue
  12. Hold On Love
  13. Across the Ocean (video)
  14. We are Mice (live)

Coheed and Cambria: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3

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On October 7, 2003, “Equal Vision” label released “In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3”, the second Coheed and Cambria studio album. It was recorded in 2003, at “Applehead Recording” in Woodstock, New York, and was produced by Michael Birnbaum and Chris Bittner.

Personnel:

  • Claudio Sanchez – lead vocals, guitar, piano, keyboard, programming
  • Travis Stever – guitar, backing vocals
  • Michael Todd – bass, backing vocals
  • Josh Eppard – drums, backing vocals
  • Danny Louis – additional keyboards
  • Roger Lian – mastering
  • Bill Scoville – art direction, design
  • Justin Meyer – drum tech

Track listing:

All lyrics by Claudio Sanchez, all music by Claudio Sanchez, Travis Stever, Michael Todd and Josh Eppard.

  1. The Ring in Return
  2. In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
  3. Cuts Marked in the March of Men
  4. Three Evils (Embodied in Love and Shadow)
  5. The Crowing
  6. Blood Red Summer
  7. The Camper Velourium I: Faint of Hearts
  8. The Camper Velourium II: Backend of Forever
  9. The Camper Velourium III: Al the Killer
  10. A Favor House Atlantic
  11. The Light & the Glass
  12. 21:13 (hidden track)

Edward Lodewijk Van Halen

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On October 6, 2020, Edward Lodewijk Van Halen died aged 65. He was a musician (guitar), songwriter, producer, and inventor, known for his work with Michael Jackson, Brian May, Sammy Hagar, and LL Cool J, but best known as a founding member, songwriter, and guitarist of band Van Halen. He was voted number one in the “Guitar World” magazine reader’s poll for “The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time”.

Lunatic Soul: Fractured

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On October 6, 2017, “Kscope” label released “Fractured”, the fifth Lunatic Soul studio album. It was recorded 2016 – 2017, at “Serakos Studio” in Warsaw, Poland, and was produced by Mariusz Duda, Robert Srzednicki and Magda Srzednicka.

Personnel:

  • Mariusz Duda – lead and backing vocals, keyboards, bass, acoustic guitar, piccolo bass guitar, percussion, programming
  • Wawrzyniec Dramowicz – drums
  • Sinfonietta Consonus Orchestra
  • Michał Mierzejewski – orchestra arrangements
  • Marcin Odyniec – saxophone
  • Eliza Falkowska, Ewelina Bronk-Młyńska, Krzysztof Jakob Szwarc, Maciej Rogoziński – viola
  • Judyta Sawicka, Julia Ziętek, Karolina Gutowska, Katarzyna Libront, Martyna Kopiec, Paulina Kuśmierska, Anna Gospodarek, Gabriela Żmigrodzka, Karolina Janiak, Magdalena Szczypińska, Tomasz Chyła – violin
  • Alicja Różycka, Katarzyna Kamińska, Weronika Kulla – cello
  • Damian Wdziękoński – contrabass
  • Jakub Mańkowski, Łukasz Kumański – orchestra recording
  • Magda – recording, mixing
  • Robert Srzednicki – recording, mixing
  • Travis Smith – illustration, design, layout
  • Oskar Szramka – photography.

Track listing:

All tracks by Mariusz Duda.

  1. Blood On The Tightrope
  2. Anymore
  3. Crumbling Teeth And The Owl Eyes
  4. Red Light Escape
  5. Fractured
  6. A Thousand Shards Of Heaven
  7. Battlefield
  8. Moving On

Enid: First Light

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On October 6, 2014, “Operation Seraphim” label released “First Light”, the fifteenth Enid studio album. It was recorded August – September 2014, at “The Lodge Recording Studio” in Northampton, England, and was produced by Max Read and Robert John Godfrey.

Personnel:

  • Joe Payne – vocals
  • Jason Ducker – guitars
  • Robert John Godfrey – keyboards
  • Max Read – guitars, bass, vocoder
  • Dominic Tofield – bass, percussion, guitar
  • Dave Storey – drums, percussion
  • Max Read – engineer
  • Jason Ducker – engineer
  • Dominic Tofield – cover art

Track listing:

All lyrics by Joe Payne.

  • Someone Shall Rise
  • Wings
  • Leviticus
  • One and the Many
  • Terra Firma
  • Dark Hydraulic
  • Mocking Bird
  • Mayday Galliard

Paul Bley: Chaos

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On October 6, 1998, “Soul Note” label released “Chaos”, the 75th Paul Bley album. It was recorded in March 1994, at “Mu Rec Studios” in Milan, Italy, and was produced by Giovanni Bonandrini.

Personnel:

  • Paul Bley – piano
  • Furio Di Castri – bass
  • Tony Oxley – drums
  • Paolo Falascone – recording
  • Aldo Borelli – mastering
  • Maria Bonandrini – artwork
  • Fred Bouchard – liner notes

Track listing:

All tracks by Paul Bley except where noted.

  1. Chaos
  2. Touching Bass – Furio Di Castri
  3. Modulating – Tony Oxley
  4. Soft Touch – Paul Bley, Tony Oxley
  5. Poetic Justice
  6. Interpercussion 1 – Tony Oxley
  7. Touch Control
  8. Turnham Bey
  9. Street Wise
  10. Bow Out – Tony Oxley
  11. Starting Over
  12. Interpercussion 2 – Tony Oxley
  13. Template

B. B. King: Let the Good Times Roll:The Music of Louis Jordan

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On October 5, 1999, “MCA” label released “Let the Good Times Roll: The Music of Louis Jordan”, the thirty seventh B. B. King studio album. It was recorded in 1999, at “Cello Recording” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Stewart Levine.

Personnel:

  • B.B. King – lead vocals, lead guitar
  • Russell Malone – rhythm guitar
  • Dr. John – piano, additional vocals
  • Neil Larsen – Hammond organ, piano
  • John Heard – bass guitar
  • Earl Palmer – drums
  • Lenny Castro – percussion
  • Hank Crawford – alto saxophone
  • David “Fathead” Newman – tenor saxophone
  • Marcus Belgrave – trumpet

Track listing:

  1. Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens – Joan Whitney Kramer, Alex Kramer
  2. Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby – Billy Austin, Louis Jordan
  3. Beware, Brother, Beware – Dick Adams, Morry Lasco, Fleecie Moore
  4. Somebody Done Changed the Lock on My Door – Casey Bill Weldon , Will Weldon
  5. Ain’t That Just Like a Woman (They’ll Do It Every Time) – Claude Demetrius, Fleecie Moore
  6. Choo Choo Ch’Boogie – Vaughn Horton, Denver Darling, Milt Gabler
  7. Buzz Me – Danny Baxter, Fleecie Moore
  8. Early in the Mornin’ – Joe Josea, B.B. King, traditional
  9. I’m Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town – Andy Razaf, Will Weldon
  10. Jack, You’re Dead
  11. Knock Me a Kiss
  12. Let the Good Times Roll
  13. Caldonia
  14. It’s a Great, Great Pleasure
  15. Rusty Dusty Blues
  16. Sure Had a Wonderful Time Last Night
  17. Saturday Night Fish Fry
  18. Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out

Jan Garbarek: Rites

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On October 5, 1998, “ECM” label released “Rites”, the 30th Jan Garbarek album. It was recorded in March 1998, at “Rainbow Studio” in Oslo, and in Tbilisi, Georgia, and was produced by Manfred Eicher.

Personnel:

  • Jan Garbarek – soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, synthesizers, sampler, percussion
  • Rainer Brüninghaus – piano, keyboards
  • Eberhard Weber – bass
  • Marilyn Mazur – drums, percussion
  • Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra – conducted by Jansug Kakhidze
  • Bugge Wesseltoft – synthesizer, accordion
  • Sølvguttene Choir – conducted by Torstein Grythe

Track listing:

All tracks by Jan Garbarek except where noted.

  1. Rites
  2. Where the Rivers Meet
  3. Vast Plain, Clouds
  4. So Mild the Wind, So Meek the Water
  5. Song, Tread Lightly
  6. It’s OK to Listen to the Gray Voice
  7. Her Wild Ways
  8. It’s High Time
  9. One Ying for Every Yang
  10. Pan
  11. We Are the Stars
  12. The Moon Over Mtatsminda – Jansug Kakhidze
  13. Malinye – Don Cherry
  14. The White Clown
  15. Evenly They Danced
  16. Last Rite

American Music Club: Everclear

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On October 5, 1991, “Alias” label released “Everclear”, the fifth American Music Club studio album. It was recorded in 1991, at “Music Annex Studio A” in Menlo Park, California, “Soma Sync Studios”, “Brilliant Studios” in San Francisco, and was produced by Mark Eitzel, Bruce Kaphan, Dan Pearson, Mike Simms, Vudi, Bruce Kaphan and Norman Kerner.

Personnel:

  • Mark Eitzel – vocals, guitar, keyboards, songwriting
  • Bruce Kaphan – pedal steel, keyboards, bass, percussion, lap steel, dobro, guitar, dulcimer
  • Vudi – guitar, accordion, bass
  • Dan Pearson – vocals, bass, guitar, dulcimer, mandolin, banjo
  • Mike Simms – drums
  • Tom Carr – recording
  • Norman Kerner – recording
  • Joe Chiccarelli – mixing
  • Bruce Kaphan – mixing, recording
  • Kyle Johnson – second engineer
  • Bob Ludwig – mastering
  • Jean Lowe – painting
  • Frank Weidemann – design
  • Beth Herzhaft – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Mark Eitzel.

  1. Why Won’t You Stay
  2. Rise
  3. Miracle on the 8th Street
  4. Crabwalk
  5. Sick of Food
  6. The Confidential Agent
  7. Sick of Food
  8. The Dead Part of You
  9. Royal Café
  10. What the Pillar of Salt Held Up
  11. Jesus’ Hands