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Maxwell: BLACKsummers’night

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On July 7, 2009, “Columbia” label released “BLACKsummers’night”, the fourth Maxwell studio album. It was recorded 2003 – 2009, at “Chung King”, “Bowery Digital”, “Platinum Sound Recording” in New York City, and was produced by Maxwell and Hod David.

Personnel:

  • Maxwell (MUSZE) – vocals, instrumentation, various instruments, engineer
  • Hod David – guitar, instrumentation, various instruments, engineer
  • Shedrick Mitchell – organ
  • Federico Pena – keyboards
  • Derrick Hodge – bass, bass instrument
  • Chris “Daddy” Dave – drums
  • Kenneth Whalum III – saxophone
  • Keyon Harrold – trumpet
  • Saunders Sermons – trombone
  • Benedetto Nino Caccauale – engineer
  • Jesse Gladstone – engineer
  • Mike Pela – engineer, mixing
  • Glen Marchese – engineer, mixing
  • Mike Makowski – assistant
  • Anthony Palazzole – assistant
  • Dave Clauss – assistant
  • Tom Coyne – mastering
  • Eric L. Johnson – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by MUSZE and Hod David.

  1. Badhhabits
  2. Cold
  3. Prettywings
  4. Helpsomebody
  5. Stoptheworld
  6. Loveyou
  7. Fistfulloftears
  8. Playingpossum
  9. Phoenixrise

Sault: Acts Of Faith

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On July 6, 2024, “Forever Living Originals” label released “Acts of Faith”, the eleventh Sault studio album. It was recorded in 2024, and was produced by Inflo.

Personnel:

  • Inflo – vocals, mixing, engineer
  • Cleo Sol – vocals
  • Chronixx – vocals
  • Guy Davie – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Dean Cover and Cleopatra Nikolic, except where noted.

  1. I Look for You – Jamar McNaughton
  2. Set Your Spirit Free
  3. God Will Help You Heal
  4. Heal
  5. Soul Clean
  6. The Lesson Is Over
  7. Someone to Love You
  8. Signs
  9. Pray for Me

Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is The Massage

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On July 6, 1967, “Columbia” label released “The Medium Is the Massage”, album by Marshall McLuhan. It was recorded in 1967, and was produced by John Simon.

Personnel:

  • Marshall McLuhan – voice actor, script
  • Quentin Fiore – voice actor, script
  • Jerome Agel – voice actor, script, executive director
  • John Simon – voice actor, director
  • Ann Lynn – voice actor
  • Bob McFadden– voice actor
  • Bryna Raeburn – voice actor
  • Elisabeth Lohman – voice actor
  • John Culkin, S.J. – voice actor
  • Sugar Wagner – voice actor
  • Ralph Curtiss – effects
  • Walt Gustafson – effects

Track listing:

All tracks written by Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore and Jerome Agel.

  1. The Medium Is the Massage: With Marshall McLuhan
  2. The Medium Is the Massage: With Marshall McLuhan

Kasabian: Happenings

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On July 5, 2024, “Sony Music” label released “Happenings”, the eighth Kasabian studio album. It was recorded 2022 – 2023, and was produced by Serge Pizzorno and Mark Ralph.

Personnel:

  • Sergio Pizzorno – lead vocals, guitars, bass guitar, mellotron, piano, synthesizers
  • Tim Carter – guitars, piano, keyboards, bass guitar, backing vocals, additional production
  • Chris Edwards – bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Ian Matthews – drums, percussion, piano
  • Rob Harvey – backing vocals
  • Mark Ralph – programming, programming
  • Matt Colton – mastering

Track listing

All tracks by Serge Pizzorno.

  1. Happenings
  2. Darkest Lullaby
  3. Call
  4. How Far Will You Go
  5. Coming Back to Me Good
  6. G.O.A.T
  7. Passenger
  8. Hell of It
  9. Italian Horror
  10. Bird in a Cage
  11. Algorithms

Norma Winstone and Kit Downes: Outpost Of Dreams

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On July 5, 2024, “ECM” label released “Outpost of Dreams”, album Norma Winstone and Kit Downes. It was recorded in April 2023, and was produced by Manfred Eicher.

Personnel:

  • Norma Winstone – vocal
  • Kit Downes – piano

Track listing:

  1. El
  2. Fly the Wind
  3. Jesus Maria
  4. Beneath an Evening Sky
  5. One of the Dancing Sea
  6. The Steppe
  7. Nocturne
  8. Black is the Colour
  9. In Search of Sleep
  10. Rowing Home

U2: Zooropa

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On July 5, 1993, “Island” label released “Zooropa”, the eighth U2 studio album. It was recorded February – May 1993, at “The Factory”, “Windmill Lane”, “Westland” in Dublin, and was produced by Brian Eno, Flood and The Edge.

Personnel:

  • Bono – vocals, guitar
  • The Edge – vocals, guitar, piano, synthesizers
  • Adam Clayton – bass guitar
  • Larry Mullen Jr. – drums, percussion, backing vocals
  • Brian Eno – synthesizers, piano, arcade sounds, loops, strings, harmonium, backing vocals
  • Des Broadbery – loops
  • Flood – loops, engineer, mixing
  • Johnny Cash – lead vocals
  • Robbie Adams – engineer
  • Willie Mannion – engineer and mixing assistant
  • Rob Kirwan – engineer and mixing assistant 
  • Mary McShane – engineer and mixing assistant
  • Terry Cromer – additional recording facilities
  • Julian Douglas – additional recording facilities
  • Arnie Acosta – mastering
  • Stewart Whitmore – digital editing
  • Anne-Louise Kelly – album production manager
  • Suzanne Doyle – studio production manager
  • Cheryl Engels – post production coordinator
  • Steve Averill – art direction
  • Brian Williams – design, computer treatments
  • Shaughn McGrath – baby illustration

Track listing:

All music by Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr., all lyrics by Bono, except where noted.

  1. Zooropa
  2. Babyface
  3. Numb – The Edge
  4. Lemon
  5. Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
  6. Dady’s Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car)
  7. Some Days Are Better Than Others
  8. The First Time
  9. Dirty Day – Bono, The Edge
  10. The Wanderer

Zach Bryan: The Great American Bar Scene

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On July 4, 2024, “Belting Bronco” and “Warner Bros” labels released “The Great American Bar Scene”, the fifth Zach Bryan studio album. It was recorded in 2024, and was produced by Chris Braun, Zach Bryan, Jacquire King, John Mayer and Scott Zhang.

Personnel:

  • Zach Bryan – lead vocals, guitars, harmonica, piano, drums, engineer
  • Bruce Springsteen – vocals
  • Noeline Hofmann – vocals
  • Watchhouse
  • Chris Braun – electric guitar, acoustic slide guitar, nylon string guitar, baritone guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, percussion, backing vocals, additional arrangements, engineer
  • Read Connolly – pedal steel guitar, dobro, banjo
  • Scott Zhang – electric guitar, tambourine, bass guitar, piano, trumpet, backing vocals, engineer, mixing
  • Mike Robinson – pedal steel guitar
  • Graham Bright – electric guitar
  • Noeline Hofmann – vocals, guitars
  • Noah Legros – guitars
  • John Mayer – guitars, backing vocals
  • Andrew Marlin – mandolin, backing vocals
  • Dawson March – piano
  • Zephyr Avalon – upright bass, bass guitar
  • John Moreland – vocals, bass guitar, dobro
  • Jake Weinberg – bass guitar, drums, upright bass, acoustic guitar, synthesizer, dobro, backing vocals, engineer
  • Gabe Wax – bass guitar, backing vocals, engineer
  • Patrick Kelly – bass guitar
  • Nate Head – drums, backing vocals
  • Hannah Cohen – fiddle
  • Ana Monwah Lei – cello
  • Amanda Broadway – choir
  • Greg Breal – choir
  • Jeremy Lister – choir
  • Kendra Chantelle – choir
  • Kristen Rogers – choir
  • Kyla Jade – choir
  • Ronnie Robertson – choir
  • Samson White – choir
  • Morgan Meinert – backing vocals
  • Bree Tranter – backing vocals
  • Emily Frantz – backing vocals
  • Jordan Lehning – choir arrangements
  • Owen Barrett – engineer assistant
  • Jacquire King – mixing
  • Hudson Pollock – mixing
  • Pete Lyman – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Zach Bryan, except where noted.  

  1. Lucky Enough (poem)
  2. Mechanical Bull
  3. The Great American Bar Scene
  4. 28
  5. American Nights
  6. Oak Island
  7. Purple Gas – Noeline Hofmann
  8. Boons
  9. The Way Back – Zach Bryan, Jim Vallance, Bryan Adams
  10. Memphis; the Blues – Zach Bryan, John Moreland
  11. Like Ida
  12. Bass Boat
  13. Better Days
  14. Towers
  15. Sandpaper
  16. Northern Thunder
  17. Funny Man
  18. Pink Skies
  19. Bathwater 

Afi: Answer That and Stay Fashionable

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On July 4, 1995, “Wingnut Records” label released “Answer That and Stay Fashionable”, the debut Afi studio album. It was recorded in 1995, at “Art of Ears” in Hayward, California, and was produced by Markus Stopholese, Adam Carson, Davey Havok and Geoff Kresge.

Personnel:

  • Davey Havok –– lead vocals
  • Markus Stopholese – guitars
  • Geoff Kresge – vocals, bass
  • Adam Carson – drums
  • Andy Ernst – engineer, recording
  • George Horn – mastering
  • Steve Z – photography
  • Tim Armstrong – co-producer
  • Brett Reed – co-producer
  • Doug Sangalang – co-producer

Track listing:

All lyrics by Davey Havok, all music by Geoff Kresge, except where noted.

  1. Two of a Kind
  2. Half-Empty Bottle – lyrics by Geoff Kresge
  3. Yürf Rendenmein – music by Geoff Kresge, Dave Havok
  4. I Wanna Get a Mohawk (But Mom Won’t Let Me Get One)
  5. Brownie Bottom Sundae
  6. The Checkered Demon
  7. Cereal Wars
  8. The Mother in Me – music by Geoff Kresge, Dave Havok
  9. Rizzo in the Box – Dave Havok, Adam Carson
  10. Kung-Fu Devil
  11. Your Name Here – music by Geoff Kresge
  12. Ny-Quil
  13. Don’t Make Me Ill – music by Geoff Kresge, Dave Havok
  14. High School Football Hero – music by Geoff Havok
  15. Man in a Suitcase (The Police cover; hidden track) – Sting

Mulatu Astatke & Black Jesus Experience: To Know Without Knowing

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On July 3, 2020, “Agogo Records” label released “To Know Without Knowing”, album by Mulatu Astatke & Black Jesus Experience. It was recorded in 2020, at “Ginger Studios” in Melbourne, “Rolling Stock Recording Rooms” in Collingwood, “BIX Mobile Studio”, and was produced by Ian Dixon and Peter Harper.

Personnel:

  • Mulate Astatke – electric piano, vibraphone, congas
  • Zac Lister – guitar, chorus 
  • Bob Sedergreen – grand piano 
  • Richard Rose – bass
  • James Davies – drums
  • Olugbade Okunade – congas, shaker
  • Kahan Harper – shaker, wood block
  • Peter Harper – tenor saxophone, arrangements
  • Dominique Chaseling – flute
  • Ian Dixon – flugelhorn, trumpet, arrangements
  • Haftu Reda – masinko
  • Enushu Taye – vocals
  • Vida Sunshyne – vocals
  • Addisalem Taye, Corry Harper, Mearge Abate – chorus
  • Elf Tranzporter – MC
  • Liam Monkhouse – MC
  • Jimi Wyatt – engineer
  • Myles Mumford – engineer
  • Zac Lister – engineer
  • Jono Podmore – mixing
  • Kevin Metcalfe – mastering
  • Hendrik Pauler – direct metal mastering
  • Ian Dixon – artwork
  • John Ryrie – artwork
  • Ralf Zitzmann – A&R

Track listing:

  1. Mulatu
  2. Kulun Mankwaleshi
  3. To Know Without Knowing
  4. Mascaram Setaba
  5. Living on Stolen Land
  6. Ambassa Lemdi

Little Kid: Transfiguration Highway

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On July 3, 2020, “Solitaire Recordings” label released “Transfiguration Highway”, album by Little Kid. It was recorded in 2020, at “The Pharmacy” in Toronto, Canada.

Personnel:

  • Kenny Boothby – vocals, piano, acoustic guitar, classical guitar, harmonica, organ, keyboards
  • Brodie Germain – acoustic and electric guitar
  • Megan Lunn – vocals, banjo
  • Paul Vroom – bass, keyboards, percussion
  • Brodie Germain – drums
  • Liam Cole – drums
  • Brigitte Naggar – additional vocals
  • Joel Harrower – whistling
  • James Lee Chiahan – design

Track listing:

  1. I Thought That You’d Been Raptured
  2. What’s in a Name
  3. Transfiguration Highway
  4. Thief on the Cross
  5. All Night (Golden Ring)
  6. Candle Out
  7. Made for Each Other
  8. Close Enough to Kill
  9. Losing
  10. Gill
  11. Pry