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Muse: The Resistance

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On September 14, 2009, “Helium – 3”, and “Warner Bros” labels released “The Resistance”, the fifth Muse studio album, It was recorded September 2008 – May 2009, at “Studio Bellini” in Lake Como, Italy, and was produced by Matthew Bellamy, Chris Wolstenholme and Dominic Howard. At the 53rd “Annual Grammy Awards”, it won the award for “Best Rock Album”. It was certified platinum in the UK by “BPI” and in US by “RIAA”.

Personnel:

  • Matthew Bellamy – vocals, guitars, keyboards, piano, synthesisers, programming, orchestral arrangements
  • Chris Wolstenholme – bass, backing vocals
  • Dominic Howard – drums, percussion, synthesizers, programming
  • Edodea Ensemble; orchestra, conducted by Audrey Riley and led by concertmaster Edoardo de Angelis
  • Enrico Gabrielli – bass clarinet
  • Tom Kirk – handclaps, football hooligan noises
  • Adrian Bushby – engineer, handclaps, football hooligan noises
  • Tommaso Colliva – additional engineering, technical setup
  • Mark “Spike” Stent – mixing
  • Matthew Green – mixing assistant
  • Ted Jensen – mastering
  • Paul Reeve – additional vocal production, handclaps, football hooligan
  • La Boca – artwork
  • Danny Clinch – photography
  • Des Broadbery – additional technical and logistical support

Track listing:

All tracks by Matthew Bellamy, except where noted.

  1. Uprising
  2. Resistance
  3. Undisclosed Desires
  4. United States of Eurasia (+Collateral Damage) – Matthew Bellamy, Frédéric Chopin
  5. Guiding Light
  6. Unnatural Selection
  7. MK Ultra
  8. I Belong to You (+Mon Cœur S’ouvre a ta Voix) – Matthew Bellamy, Camille Saint-Saëns
  9. Exogenesis: Symphony Part 1 (Overture)
  10. Exogenesis: Symphony Part 2 (Cross-Pollination)
  11. Exogenesis: Symphony Part 3 (Redemption)

Stars: Set Yourself On Fire

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On September 14, 2004, “Arts & Crafts International” label released “Set Yourself on Fire”, the third Stars studio album. It was recorded 2003 – 2004, and was produced by Tom McFallm, Amy Millan, Chris Seligmanm, Pat McGee, Torquil Campbell and Evan Cranley.

Personnel:

  • Amy Millan – vocals, guitar
  • Chris Seligman – keyboards, French horn, string arrangements
  • Torquil Campbell – vocals, trumpet, keyboards
  • Evan Cranley – guitar, trombone, bass, bass synth, percussion  
  • Pat McGee – drums, percussion, glockenspiel
  • James Shaw – additional guitar, additional production 
  • Eric Hove – saxophone
  • Lana Tomlin – violin
  • Rachel Moody – violin
  • Markia Anthony-Shaw – viola
  • Anne-Marie Leblanc – cello
  • Douglas Campbell – Dad’s God voice
  • Tom McFall – engineer
  • Drew Malamud – engineer assistant, mastering
  • Tony Hoffer – mixing
  • Brett Zilahi – mastering
  • Ibi Kaslik – sleeve notes

Track listing:

  1. Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
  2. Set Yourself on Fire
  3. Ageless Beauty
  4. Reunion
  5. The Big Fight
  6. What I’m Trying to Say
  7. One More Night (Your Ex-Lover Remains Dead)
  8. Sleep Tonight
  9. The First Five Times
  10. He Lied About Death
  11. Celebration Guns
  12. Soft Revolution
  13. Calendar Girl

Paul McCartney: Chaos And Creation In The Backyard

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On September 12, 2005, “Parlaphone” label released “Chaos and Creation in the Backyard”, the thirteenth Paul McCartney studio album. It was recorded September 2023 – April 2005, at “RAL” and “AIR” in London, “Ocean Way” in Hollywood, and was produced by Nigel Godrich.

Personnel:

  • Paul McCartney – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, classical guitar, 12 string guitar, tambourine on snare, piano, electric piano, B 3 organ, Moog synthesizer, autoharp, Baldwin spinet, bass guitar, cello, drums, drum machine, flugelhorn, violin, gong, güiro, harmonium, acoustic guitar loops, maracas, melodica, recorders, tubular bells, triangle, toy glockenspiel, percussion, vibrachimes, woodblock, art direction
  • Jason Falkner – electric guitar, classical guitar
  • Rusty Anderson – acoustic guitar
  • Brian Ray – acoustic guitar
  • Nigel Godrich – piano and Epiphone acoustic guitar loops
  • Pedro Eustache – duduk
  • James Gadson – drums
  • Joey Waronker – bass drum, bongos, shaker
  • Abe Laboriel Jr. – percussion, block, tambourine
  • The Los Angeles Music Players – strings
  • Millennia Ensemble – strings, brass instrument
  • Joby Talbot – string and brass arrangements, conducting
  • David Campbell – string arrangement
  • Dan Grech-Marguerat – production assistant
  • Darrell Thorp – engineer
  • Alan Yoshida – mastering
  • Stylorouge London – art direction
  • Mike McCartney – cover
  • Brian Clarke – inlay
  • Bill Bernstein – back cover

Track listing:

All tracks by Paul McCartney.

  1. Fine Line
  2. How Kind of You
  3. Jenny Wren
  4. At the mercy
  5. Friends to Go
  6. English Tea
  7. Too Much Rain
  8. A Certain Softness
  9. Riding to Vanity Fair
  10. Follow Me
  11. Promise to You Girl
  12. This Never Happened Before
  13. Anyway
  14. I’ve Only Got Two Hands (unlisted instrumental)

Ozzy Osbourne: Blizzards Of Ozz

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On September 12, 1980, “Jet” label released “Blizzard of Ozz”, the debut Ozzy Osbourne studio album. It was recorded March – April 1980, at “Ridge Farm Studio” in Rusper, England, and was produced by Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoads, Bob Daisley and Lee Kerslake.

Personnel:

  • Ozzy Osbourne – lead and harmony vocals
  • Randy Rhoads – guitars
  • Don Airey – keyboards
  • Bob Daisley – bass guitar, gong, harmony vocals
  • Lee Kerslake – drums, tubular bells, timpani, vibraslap
  • Max Norman – engineer
  • Chris Athens – mastering

Track listing:

All songs tracks by Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoads and Bob Daisley, except where noted.

  1. I Don’t Know
  2. Crazy Train
  3. Goodbye to Romance
  4. Dee – Randy Rhoads
  5. Suicide Solution
  6. Mr. Crowley
  7. No Bone Movies – Ozzy Osbourne, Bob Daisley, Lee Kerslake
  8. Revelation (Mother Earth)
  9. Steal Away (The Night)

 Ulf Lundell: Further Inland

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On September 12, 1980, “EMI” label released “Further Inland”, the second Ulf Lundell studio album. It was recorded at “Ridge Farm” in Surrey, England , and was produced by Kjell Andersson , Lasse Lindbom and Ulf Lundell.

Personnel:

  • Ulf Lundell – vocal, guitar, piano, harmonica
  • Janne Andersson – guitar
  • Mats Ronander – guitar, harmonica, choir
  • Speedy Keen – lead guitar
  • Niklas Strömstedt – piano, Vox organ, choir
  • Hasse Olsson – Hammond organ
  • Lasse Lindbom – bass, choir
  • Ingemar Dunker – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Ulf Lundell.

  1. Happy Again
  2. Strangers
  3. Odysseus
  4. Nobody’s Woman
  5. Powder
  6. So Much Older
  7. Just a Question of When
  8. Home to my Roots Again
  9. Better Times
  10. Back Free
  11. Under the Ashes
  12. Further inland
  13. The Posers
  14. Poor Jack
  15. Distrcted
  16. Like a Sister

Richard Hawley: Hollow Meadows

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On September 11, 2015, “Parlaphone” label released “Hollow Meadows”, the eighth Richard Hawley album. It was recorded in 2015, at “Yellow Arch Studios” in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, “Disgracelands” and “MU Studios” in Sheffield, England, and was produced by Shez Sheridan and Richard Hawley.

Personnel:

  • Richard Hawley – vocals, guitars, lyre, harmonic mesmerizer], Lord Ting’s patent randomizer
  • Colin Elliot – bass guitar, percussion, piano, theremin, Moog synthesizer, Hammond organ, mellotron, Fender Rhodes, celesta, glockenspiel, harpsichord, cello, harmonium, SWFC Key Ring, harmony vocals
  • Shez Sheridan – organ, guitars, mandola, autoharp, lyre, vibraphone, harmony vocals, Dr Zoks Chaosometer
  • Jon Trier – piano, keyboards
  • Martin Simpson – banjo, Bown Weissenborn slide guitar
  • Jarvis Cocker – Rheem Kee Super Bass
  • Dean Beresford – drums, maracas
  • Martin Smith – tom tom
  • Nancy Kerr – viola, fiddle
  • Liz Hanks – cello
  • The Hicks St. Chip Chop Singers (Bryan Day, Colin Elliot, Nancy Kerr, Rebecca Lucy Taylor, Sally Doherty, Shez Sheridan) – vocals
  • Shez Sheridan – recording
  • Martin Gregory Smith – recording, mixing
  • Colin Elliot – recording, mixing
  • Ben Zushi-Rhodes – mixing assistant
  • Duncan Cowell – mastering
  • Noel Summerville – lacquer cut
  • Nick Phillips – artwork, design
  • Chris Saunders – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Richard Hawley, except where noted.

  1. I Still Want You – Richard Hawley, Shez Sheridan
  2. The World Looks Down
  3. Which Way
  4. Serenade of Blue
  5. Long Time Down
  6. Nothing Like a Friend
  7. Sometimes I Feel
  8. Tuesday pm
  9. Welcome the Sun
  10. Heart of Oak
  11. What Love Means – Richard Hawley, Shez Sheridan

Low: Ones And Sixes

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On September 11, 2015, “Sub Pop” label released “Ones and Sixes”, the eleventh Low studio album. It was recorded in 2015, at “April Base Studios” in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and was produced by BJ Burton, Alan Sparhawk, Steve Garrington and Mimi Parker.

Mimi Parker

  • Alan Sparhawk – vocals, guitar, sounds, owl photography
  • Steve Garrington – bass, sounds
  • Mimi Parker – vocals, drums, sounds
  • Glenn Kotche – percussion
  • BJ Burton – recording, mixing, mastering
  • Zach Hanson – recording
  • Huntley Miller – mastering assistant
  • Marko Kluge – lacquer cut
  • Peter Liversidge – artwork
  • Jeff Kleinsmith – design
  • Peter Luversidge – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Alan Sparhawk, Steve Garrington and Mimi Parker.

  1. Gentle
  2. No Comprende
  3. Spanish Translation
  4. Congregation
  5. No End
  6. Into You
  7. What Part of Me
  8. The Innocents
  9. Kid in the Corner
  10. Lies
  11. Landslide
  12. DJ

Low: Hey What

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On September 10, 2021, “Sub Pop” label released “Hey What”, the thirteenth and final Low studio album. It was recorded in 2021, and was produced by BJ Burton.

Personnel:

  • Mimi Parker – vocals, percussion
  • Alan Sparhawk – vocals, guitar
  • BJ Burton – recording, mixing
  • Huntley Miller – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Mimi Parker and Alan Sparhawk.

  1. White Horses
  2. I Can Wait
  3. All Night
  4. Disappearing
  5. Hey
  6. Days Like These
  7. There’s a Comma After Still
  8. Don’t Walk Away
  9. More
  10. The Price You Pay (It Must Be Wearing Off)

Neil Young And The Crazy Horse: Ragged Glory

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On September 10, 1990, “Reprise” label released “Ragged Glory”, the 20th Neil Young, album, and his sixth album with the band Crazy Horse. It was recorded in April 1990, at “Plywood Digital” in Woodside, California, and was produced by David Briggs and Neil Young. In 2019, magazine “Rolling Stone” voted “Ragged Glory” the 36th best grunge album of all time.

Personnel:

  • Neil Young – vocals, guitar, mixing
  • Frank “Poncho” Sampedro – vocals, guitar
  • Billy Talbot – vocals, bass guitar
  • Ralph Molina – vocals, drums
  • Dave Collins, Andrew Vastola, Buzz Burrowes, Gary Long, Pat Stoltz, Chris Kupper, Chuck Johnson, John Nowlan, Harry Sitam – engineer
  • John Hanlon – recording, engineer, mixing
  • Tim Mulligan – engineer, mastering
  • David Briggs – mixing
  • Janet Levinson – art design
  • Larry Cragg – photography
  • Elliot Roberts – direction

Track listing:

All tracks by Neil Young, except where noted.

  1. Country Home
  2. White Line
  3. Fuckin’ Up – Neil Young, Frank “poncho” Sampedro
  4. Over and Over
  5. Love to Burn
  6. Farmer John – Don Harris, Dewey Terry
  7. Mansion on the Hill
  8. Days That Used to Be
  9. Love and Only Love
  10. Mother Earth (Natural Anthem)

Joshua Redman: Long Gone

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On September 9, 2022, “Nonesuch” label released “Long Gone”, the second Joshua Redman Quartet studio album. It was recorded in 2007 at “The Herbst Theater” in San Francisco, and in September 2019, at “Sear Sound Studio C” in New York City, and was produced by James Farber and Joshua Redman.

Personnel:

  • Joshua Redman – soprano and tenor saxophone
  • Brad Mehldau – piano
  • Christian McBride – bass
  • Brian Blade – drums
  • James Farber – engineer, mixing
  • Brian Montgomery – engineer
  • Owen Mulholland – engineer assistant
  • Steven Sacco – engineer assistant
  • Greg Calbi – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Joshua Redman.

  1. Long Gone
  2. Disco Ears
  3. Statuesque
  4. Kite Song
  5. Ship to Shore
  6. Rejoice