Smokey Robinson: Smokey’s Family Robinson

On February 10, 1976, “Tamla” label released “Smokey’s Family Robinson”, the fourth Smokey Robinson studio album. It was recorded in 1975, and was produced by Smokey Robinson.

Personnel:

  • Smokey Robinson – lead vocals, rhythm arrangements, engineer
  • Marvin Tarplin – guitar
  • Reginald “Sonny” Burke – keyboards, rhythm arrangements
  • Scott Edwards – bass guitar
  • Wayne Tweed – bass guitar
  • Joseph A. Brown, Jr. – drums
  • James “Alibe” Sledge – percussion
  • Michael Jacobsen – electric cello, saxophone
  • Fred Smith – horns, horn arrangements
  • Ivory Stone Davis – backing vocals
  • Carolyn Dennis – backing vocals
  • Patricia Henley – backing vocals
  • Melba Joyce – backing vocals
  • Guy Costa – engineer
  • Frank Mulvey – art direction
  • Gribbit! – graphics
  • Sam Emerson – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Smokey Robinson, except where noted.

  1. When You Came
  2. Get Out of Town – Smokey Robinson, Rose Ella Jones
  3. Do Like I Do – Smokey Robinson, Rose Ella Jones
  4. Open – Smokey Robinson, Marv Tarplin, Pamela Moffett
  5. So in Love
  6. Like Nobody Can
  7. Castles Made of Sand

Dusty Springfield: Cameo

On February 10, 1973, “ABC Dunhill Records” label released “Cameo”, the eighth Dusty Springfield studio album. It was recorded July – October 1972, at “ABC Studios” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Steve Barri, Brian Potter and Dennis Lambert.

Personnel:

  • Dusty Springfield – vocals
  • Ben Benay – guitar
  • Larry Carlton – guitar
  • David Cohen – guitar
  • Dennis Lambert – keyboards
  • Michael Lang – keyboards
  • Michael Omartian – keyboards, string, horn and flute arrangements
  • Wilton Felder – bass guitar
  • Carol Kaye – bass guitar
  • Wilton Felder – bass guitar
  • Carol Kaye – bass guitar
  • Hal Blaine – drums
  • Paul Humphrey – drums
  • Brian Potter – percussion
  • Victor Feldman – percussion
  • Clydie King – backing vocals
  • Venetta Fields – backing vocals
  • Sherlie Matthews – backing vocals
  • Myrna Matthews – backing vocals
  • Sid Sharp – concertmaster
  • Jimmie Haskell – string arrangements
  • Ruby Mazur – design
  • Joe Black – project coordinator

Track listing:

All tracks by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter, except where noted.

  1. Who Gets Your Love
  2. Breakin’ Up a Happy Home
  3. Easy Evil – Alan O’Day
  4. Mama’s Little Girl
  5. The Other Side of Life – David Gates
  6. Comin’ and Goin’
  7. I Just Wanna Be There – Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson
  8. Who Could Be Loving You Other Than Me? – Willie Hutchinson
  9. Tupelo Honey – Van Morrison
  10. Of All the Things
  11. Learn to Say Goodbye” (from the ABC Movie of the Week, Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole) – Hugo Montenegro, Bradford Craig

Flower Travelling Band: Made In Japan

On February 10, 1972, “Atlantic” label released “Made in Japan”, the third Flower Travelling Band studio album. It was recorded in 1971, at “Thunder Sound Studio” in Toronto, Canada, and was produced by Yuya Uchida, Ikuzo Orita and Paul Hoffert.

Personnel:

  • Joe Yamanaka – vocals, arrangements
  • Hideki Ishima – guitar, sitar, arrangements
  • Jun Kozuki – bass, arrangements
  • Joji Wada – drums, arrangements
  • Paul DeLong – drums
  • Gilbert Kong – mixing
  • Kiyoshi Sunamori – artwork
  • Yoshio Niwano – artwork
  • David Ohashi – photography
  • Toyo Nakamura – liner notes
  • John & Yoko Nomura – supervision

Track listing:

All tracks by Hideki Ishima and Yoko Nomuro, except where noted. track 7, by Ishima, Nomuro and Joe Yamanaka

  1. Introduction” (advertisement for a concert)
  2. Unaware
  3. Aw Give Me Air
  4. Kamikaze
  5. Hiroshima
  6. Spasms
  7. Heaven and Hell
  8. That’s All

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 2021 – 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

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 – vocals, instrumentation
  • 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
  • Roberto Carlos Lange – engineer, mixing 
  • Rachel Alina – mastering
  • Crystal Zapata – design
  • Kristi Sword – drawing
  • Sol Talamantes – inner sleeve photography

Track listing:

All tracks are written by Helado Negro (Roberto Carlos Lange).

  1. LFO (Lupe Finds Oliveros)
  2. I Just Want to Wake Up with You
  3. Best for 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

Brittany Howard: What Now

On February 9, 2024, “Island” label released “What Now”, the second Brittany Howard studio album. It was recorded in 2023, and was produced by Shawn Everett and Brittany Howard.

Personnel:

  • Brittany Howard – vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards, bass, engineer, mixing
  • Brad Allen Williams – guitar
  • Lloyd Buchanan – keyboards
  • Paul Horton – keyboards, piano
  • Zac Cockrell – bass
  • Nate Smith – drums
  • Rod McGaha – trumpet
  • Shawn Everett – engineer, mixing
  • Emily Lazar – mastering
  • Chris Allgood – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Brittany Howard, except where noted.

  1. Earth Sign
  2. I Don’t
  3. What Now – Brittany Howard, Taylor Ann Avis Bogner
  4. Red Flags
  5. To Be Still – Brittany Howard, Brad Allen Williams
  6. Interlude
  7. Another Day
  8. Prove It to You
  9. Samson
  10. Patience
  11. Power to Undo
  12. Every Color in Blue

Palm: Rock Island

On February 9, 2018, “Carpark” label released “Rock Island”, the second Palm studio album.

Personnel:

  • Kasra Kurt – vocal, guitar, recording
  • Eve Alpert – guitar
  • Gerasimos Livitsanos – bass
  • Hugo Stanley – drums, recording
  • Matt Labozza – recording, mixing
  • Sarah Register – mastering
  • Carl Rowatti – lacquer cut
  • Greg Burak – cover art
  • Aaron Lowell Denton – design, layout

Track listing:

All tracks by Kasra Kurt, Eve Alpert, Gerasimos Livitsanos and Hugo Stanley.

  1. Pearly
  2. Composite
  3. Dog Milk
  4. Forced Hand
  5. Theme from Rock Island
  6. Bread
  7. Colour Code
  8. Swimmer
  9. Heavy Lifting
  10. 20664
  11. (Didn’t What You Want) Happen

Thee Silver Mt. Zion: Kollaps Tradixionales

On February 8, 2010, “Constellation” label released “Kollaps Tradixionales”, the sixth Thee Silver Mt. Zion album. It was recorded in 2009, at “Hotel2 Tango” in Montreal, Canada, and was produced by Howard Bilerman and RadwaMoumneh.

Personnel:

  • Efrim Menuck – vocals, guitar, organ, piano
  • Thierry Amar – vocals, contrabass, horn arrangements
  • David Payant – vocals, drums, organ, piano
  • Jessica Moss – vocals, violin
  • Sophie Trudeau – vocals, violin

Horn section

  • Adam Kinner – tenor saxophone
  • Matana Roberts – alto saxophone
  • Jason Sharp – baritone saxophone
  • Gordon Allen – trumpet
  • Harris Newman – mastering

Track listing:

  1. There Is a Light
  2. I Built Myself a Metal Bird
  3. I Fed My Metal Bird the Wings of Other Metal Birds
  4. Kollapz Tradixional (Thee Olde Dirty Flag)
  5. Collapse Traditional (For Darling)
  6. Kollaps Tradicional (Bury 3 Dynamos)
  7. Kollaps Tradicional (Bury 3 Dynamos)
  8. ‘Piphany Rambler

Belong: October Language

On February 8, 2006, “Carpark” label released “October Language”, the debut Belong studio album. It was recorded in 2004, in New Orleans, and was produced by Turk Dietrich and Michael Jones.

Personnel:

  • Joshua Eustis – guitar, mastering
  • Turk Dietrich – mastering
  • Michael Jones – artwork

Track listing:

All tracks by Turk Dietrich and Michael Jones.

  1. I Never Lose. Never Really
  2. Red Velvet or Nothing
  3. October Language
  4. I’m Too Sleepy… Shall We Swim?
  5. Remove the Inside
  6. Who Told You This Room Exists?
  7. All Equal Now
  8. The Door Opens the Other Way

Jawbox: For Your Own Special Sweetheart

On February 8, 1884, “Atlantic” label released “For Your Own Special Sweetheart”, the third Jawbox album. It was recorded August – September 1983, at “OZ Studio” in Baltimore, Maryland, and was produced by Ted Niceley.

Personnel:

  • J. Robbins – vocals, electric guitar
  • Bill Barbot – vocals, electric guitar
  • Kim Coletta – bass guitar
  • Zachary Barocas – drums
  • Drew Mazurek – engineer
  • Ted Niceley – engineer, mixing
  • Geoff Turner – engineer, mixing
  • Tim Gregory – engineer assistant
  • Jason Farrell – art direction, design
  • Jim Saah – photography
  • Shawn Scallen – photography
  • Katherine Davis – photography

Track listing:

  1. FF-66
  2. Savory
  3. Breathe
  4. Motorist
  5. LS/MFT
  6. Cooling Card
  7. Green Glass
  8. Cruel Swing
  9. Jackpot Plus!
  10. Chicago Piano
  11. Reel
  12. U-Trau
  13. Whitney Walks