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Mekons: Journey to the End of the Night

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On March 7, 2000, “Quarterstick Records” label released “Journey to the End of the Night”, the thirteenth Mekons studio album. It was recorded in 1999, at “Monti Sound & Corina Studios” in London, and “Stinkpole & Kingsize Sound Labs” in Chicago.

Personnel:

  • Sally Timms – vocals
  • Tom Greenhalgh – vocals, guitar, autoharp, piano
  • Jon Langford – vocals, guitar, melodica, machines
  • Rico Bell – vocals, accordion, harmonica
  • Susie Honeyman – fiddle
  • Sarah Corina – vocals, bass
  • Steve Goulding – drums
  • John Rice– electric sitar
  • Mitch Marlow – rhythm guitar
  • Lu Edmonds – cumbus
  • Edith Frost, Kelly Hogan, Neko Case– backing vocals
  • Kenny Sluiter – mixing, mastering

Track listing:

  1. Myth
  2. Out In The Night
  3. Last Week Of The War
  4. City Of London
  5. Tina
  6. The Flood
  7. Cast No Shadow
  8. Ordinary Night
  9. Power And Horror
  10. Neglect
  11. Something To Be Scared Of
  12. Last Night Of Earth
  13. … And Heracles Smiled

CAB: Same

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On March 7, 2000, “Tone Center” label released the self-titled, debut CAB album. It was recorded in 1999, at “B&W Studios” in Woodland Hills” and “MI Studios” in  Hollywood, Los Angeles, and was produced by Bunny Brunel.

Personnel:

  • Bunny Brunel– keyboard, bass, engineer, mixing
  • Tony MacAlpine– guitar, keyboard
  • Dennis Chambers– drums
  • Brian Auger– organ
  • Barry Rudolph – engineer, mixing
  • Dallan Beck – engineer

Track listing:

All tracks by Bunny Brunel, except where noted.

  1. Night Splash
  2. CAB
  3. So There Is Love – Tony MacAlpine
  4. Just Perfect
  5. One for Stern
  6. The Watcher – Tony MacAlpine
  7. Atamanashi – Bunny Brunel, Kazumi Watanabe
  8. Boogie Me
  9. Elastic Man – Tony MacAlpine
  10. Bernard

Bruce Springsteen: Wrecking Ball

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On March 6, 2012, “Columbia” label released “Wrecking Ball”, the seventeenth Bruce Springsteen studio album. It was recorded 2011 – 2012, at Stone Hill at Bruce’s House, New Jersey, and was produced by Ron Aniello and Bruce Springsteen. In 2012, “Rolling Stone” magazine ranked “Wrecking Ball” at number-one on its “Top 50 albums of 2012” list.

Personnel:

  • Bruce Springsteen– vocals,  guitars,  banjo,  piano,  organ,  drums,  percussion, loops
  • Ron Aniello– guitar, bass, keyboards, piano, drums, loops
  • Rob Lebret – electric guitar
  • Tom Morello– electric guitar
  • Greg Leisz– banjo, mandocello, lap steel guitar
  • Marc Muller – pedal steel
  • Steve Van Zandt– mandolin
  • Steve Jordan – tambourine
  • Charlie Giordano– accordion, piano, organ, synth, celeste
  • Max Weinberg– drums
  • Matt Chamberlain– drums
  • Kevin Buell – marching drum
  • Clarence Clemons– saxophone
  • Curt Ramm, Darrel Leonard – trumpet solo
  • Curt Ramm, Clark Gayton, Stan Harrison, Ed Manion, Dan Levine, Art Baron – horns
  • Clif Norrell– tuba
  • Soozie Tyrell– violin
  • Patti Scialfa– vocal arrangements
  • Lisa Lowell
  • Soozie Tyrell
  • Michelle Moore
  • Cindy Mizelle – outro vocal
  • Ron Aniello
  • Kevin Buell
  • Ross Petersen, Ron Aniello, Clif Norrell, Rob Lebret – group vocals
  • Victorious Gospel Choir
  • Lilly “Crawford” Brown – director
  • New York Chamber Consort
  • Rob Mathes – strings arrangements, conductor
  • Mark “Spike” Stent, Rich Costey, Bob Clearmountain, Chris Lord-Alge, Ron Aniello, Ross Petersen – mixing

Track listing:

All tracks by Bruce Springsteen.

  1. We Take Care of Our Own
  2. Easy Money
  3. Shackled and Drawn
  4. Jack of All Trades
  5. Death to My Hometown
  6. This Depression
  7. Wrecking Ball
  8. You’ve Got It
  9. Rocky Ground
  10. Land of Hope and Dreams
  11. We Are Alive

Mogwai: Mr. Beast

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On March 6, 2006, “Play it Again Sam”, label released “Mr Beast”, the fifth Mogwai studio album. It was recorded April – October 2005, at “Castle of Doom Studios” in Glasgow, Scotland, and was produced by Tony Doogan, Stuart Braithwaite, Dominic Aitchison, Martin Bulloch, John Cummings and Barry Burns.

Personnel:

  • Stuart Braithwaite– vocals, guitar
  • John Cummings– guitar
  • Barry Burns– vocals, piano, guitar, flute
  • Dominic Aitchison– bass guitar
  • Martin Bulloch– drums
  • Craig Armstrong– keyboard
  • Tetsuya Fukagawa– vocals
  • Amanda Church – artwork

Track listing:

All tracks by Stuart Braithwaite, Dominic Aitchison, Martin Bulloch, John Cummings, and Barry Burns, except where noted.

  1. Auto Rock
  2. Glasgow Mega-Snake
  3. Acid Food
  4. Travel is Dangerous
  5. Team Handed
  6. Friend of the Night
  7. Emergency Trap
  8. Folk Death 95
  9. I Choose Horses – lyrics by Tetsuya Fukagawa
  10. We’re No Here

Youth Lagoon: Wondrous Bughouse

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On March 5, 2013, “Fat Possum” label released “Wondrous Bughouse”, the second Youth Lagoon (Trevor Powers) album. It was recorded in 2012, and was produced by Trevor Powers and Ben H. Allen.

Personnel:

  • Trevor Powers – vocals, piano, synth, percussion, guitar, art direction, programming, arrangements
  • Richie Figgs – bass
  • Ben H. Allen – bass, synth, percussion, programming, mixing
  • Heather McIntosh – cello
  • Chandler Rentz – drums
  • Logan Hyde – guitar, percussion, synth
  • Jason Kingsland – recording
  • Alex Tumay, Joe D’Agostino, Sumner Jones – engineer assistant
  • Jason Kingsland – mixing
  • Joe Lambert – mastering
  • Marcia Blaessle – illustrations

Track listing:

All tracks by Trevor Powers.

  1. Through Mind and Back
  2. Mute
  3. Attic Doctor
  4. The Bath
  5. Pelican Man
  6. Dropla
  7. Sleep Paralysis
  8. Third Dystopia
  9. Raspberry Cane
  10. Daisyphobia

How To Destroy Angels: Welcome Oblivion

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On March 5, 2013, “Columbia” label released “Welcome Oblivion”, the debut How to Destroy Angels studio album. It was recorded in 2012, and was produced by Mariqueen Maandig, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Rob Sheridan.

Personnel:

  • Mariqueen Maandig
  • Trent Reznor
  • Atticus Ross
  • Rob Sheridan
  • Alessandro Cortini– co-writing, performance
  • Blumpy – recording
  • Dustin Mosley – additional engineering
  • Jun Murakawa – additional engineering
  • Alan Moulder– mixing
  • Tom Baker – mastering

Track listing:

Vinyl edition

All tracks by Mariqueen Maandig, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Rob Sheridan.

  1. The Wake – Up
  2. Keep It Together
  3. And the Sky Began to Scream
  4. Ice Age
  5. Welcome Oblivion
  6. On the Wing
  7. Too Late, All Gone
  8. The Province of Fear
  9. How Long?
  10. Strings and Attractors
  11. Recursive Self-Improvement
  12. Unintended Consequences
  13. Unintended Consequences
  14. We Fade Away
  15. The Loop Closes
  16. Hallowed Ground

Miles Davis: Round About Midnight

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On March 4, 1957, “Columbia” label released “’Round About Midnight”, the 28th Miles Davis album. It was recorded October 26, 1955, June 5 – September 10, 1956, at “Columbia Studios” in New York City, and was produced by George Avakian.

Personnel:

  • Miles Davis – trumpet
  • John Coltrane– tenor saxophone
  • Red Garland– piano
  • Paul Chambers– double bass
  • Philly Joe Jones– drums
  • George Avakian– liner notes
  • Frank Laico – engineer
  • Teo Macero– mastering
  • Aram Avakian, Don Hunstein, Dennis Stock– photography

Track listing:

  1. Round Midnight – Thelonious Monk, Bernie Hanighen, Cootie Williams
  2. Ah-Leu-Cha – Charlie Parker
  3. All of You – Cole Porter
  4. Bye Bye Blackbird – Mort Dixon, Ray Henderson
  5. Tadd’s Delight – Tadd Dameron
  6. Dear Old Stockholm – traditional, arranged by Stan Getz

Thao & the Get Down Stay Down: A Man Alive

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On March 4, 2016, “Ribbon Music” label released “A Man Alive”, the fourth Thao & the Get Down Stay Down studio album. It was recorded in 2015, at “Tiny Telephone & Different Fur Studios” in San Francisco, and was produced by Merrill Garbus.

Personnel:

  • Thao Nguyen– vocals, bass, clapping, composer, drum programming, drums, guitar, loops, mandolin, oscillator, percussion, telecaster, toy piano, univox
  • Merrill Garbus– vocals, backing vocals, bass, cabasa, clapping, farfisa organ, flute, sampling
  • Lynne Angel – drum samples, inspiration
  • Johanna Kunin – vocals, backing vocals
  • Sami Perez – clapping, backing vocals, clapping
  • Jason Slota – clapping, cowbell, drums, gamelan, percussion, shaker, tambourine
  • Beau Sorenson – clapping, engineer, guitar, linn drum, loops, mixing, programming, sampling, sequencing
  • Adam Thompson – audio manipulation, bass, casio, clapping, glockenspiel, guitar, polysynth, synthesizer, synthesizer bass
  • Charlie Glenn – guitar, organ, piano, lapsteel

Track listing:

  1. Astonished Man
  2. Slash/Burn
  3. The Evening
  4. Departure
  5. Nobody Dies
  6. Guts
  7. Fool Forever
  8. Millionaire
  9. Meticulous Bird
  10. Give Me Peace
  11. Hand to God
  12. Endless Love

Roy Harper: Whatever Happened to Jugula?

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On March 4, 1985, “Beggars Banquet” label released “Whatever Happened to Jugula?”, the thirteenth Roy Harper studio album. It was recorded in 1984, at “Boilerhouse Studios”, and was produced by Roy Harper.

Personnel:

  • Roy Harper– vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, percussion
  • Jimmy Page– acoustic and electric guitar
  • Nick Harper– semi-acoustic guitar
  • Nik Green – keyboards. mixing
  • Tony Franklin– bass guitar
  • Ronnie Brambles – drums
  • Steve Broughton– drums
  • Preston Heyman– drums
  • Koala Bear – sleeve notes, art work, design
  • Michael Scott – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Roy Harper, except where noted.

  1. Nineteen Forty-Eightish
  2. Bad Speech
  3. Hope – Roy Harper, David Gilmour
  4. Hangman
  5. Elizabeth
  6. Frozen Moment
  7. Twentieth Century Man
  8. Advertisement (Another Intentional Irrelevant Suicide)

Blood Red Shoes: Same

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On March 3, 2014, “Jazz Life” label released the self titled, fourth Blood Red Shoes album. It was recorded in 2013, in Berlin, and was produced by Laura-Mary Carter and Steven Ansell.

Personnel:

  • Laura-Mary Carter – vocals, guitar, engineer
  • Steven Ansell – viola, engineer, mixing
  • Kris Jones – brass
  • Ian Clement, Margarita Louca– vocals
  • Mike Lord – engineer
  • John Agnello – mixing
  • Greg Calbi, Robin Schmidt – mastering
  • We Three Club – artwork
  • Nima Elm, Steve Glashier, Format 34, Anton Coene – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Laura-Mary Carter and Steven Ansell. .

  1. Welcome Home
  2. Everything All At Once
  3. An Animal
  4. Grey Smoke
  5. Far Away
  6. The Perfect Mess
  7. Behind A Wall
  8. Stranger
  9. Speech Coma
  10. Don’t Get Caught
  11. Cigarettes in the Dark
  12. Tightwire