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Momus: Circus Maximus

On January 15, 1986, “Creation Records” label released “Circus Maximus”, the debut Momus album. It was recorded in September 1985, at “Alaska Studio”, in London, and was produced by Momus.

Personnel:

  • Momus (Nicholas Currie) – vocals, guitar, synthesizer, arranger
  • Neill Martin – synthesizer
  • Jane Davies – backing vocals
  • Noel Thomson – engineer

Track listing:

All tracks by Nicholas Currie (Momus).

  1. Lucky Like St. Sebastian
  2. The Lesson of Sodom (According to Lot)
  3. John The Baptist Jones
  4. King Solomon’s Song and Mine
  5. Little Lord Obedience
  6. The Day the Circus Came to Town
  7. The Rape of Lucretia
  8. Paper Wraps Rock
  9. Rules of the Game of Quoits

Daniel Knox: Won’t You Take Me With You

On January 15, 2021, “H. P. Johnson Presents” label released “Won’t You Take Me with You”, the fifth Daniel Knox studio album. It was recorded in 2020, and was produced by Daniel Knox and Joshua Fitzgerald Klocek.

Personnel:

  • Daniel Knox – vocals, piano, synth
  • Joshua Fitzgerald Klocek – guitar
  • Paul Parts – electric bass
  • Colby Starck – drums
  • Jim Cooper – string bass, orchestration
  • Nate Lepine – saxophone
  • Andra Kulans – violin, viola
  • Nora Barton – cello
  • Nick Jones – timpani
  • Greg Norman – engineer, mixing
  • Greg Obis – mastering
  • Sheila Sachs – design
  • John Atwood – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Daniel Knox.

  1. King of the Ball
  2. Vinegar Hill
  3. Fall Apart
  4. Fool in the Heart
  5. Girl from Carbondale
  6. Look at Me
  7. I Saw Someone Alone
  8. Lights Out
  9. No Horizon

The Lumineers: Brightside

On January 14, 2022, “Dualtone” and “Decca” labels released “Brightside”, the fourth Lumineers (The) studio album. It was recorded in 2021, at “Sun Mountain” in Boiceville, New York, and was produced by Simone Felice, David Baron, Brian Hubblen, Derek Brown and Rick Mullen.

Personnel:

  • Wesley Schultz – lead vocals, acoustic and electric guitar
  • Jeremiah Fraites – piano, Firewood, Rhodes, electric guitar, tambourine, electric bass, glockenspiel, drums, drum programming
  • Simone Felice – tambourine, claps, maracas, backing vocals
  • David Baron – synthesizers, Rhodes, sub bass, Hammond B3, mini Moog, mellotron
  • Byron Isaacs – bass, backing vocals
  • Lauren Jacobson – violin, backing vocals
  • Alex Waterman – cello
  • Diana DeMuth – backing vocals
  • James Felice – backing vocals
  • Cindy Mizelle – backing vocals
  • Palenville Firehouse – siren
  • David Baron – mixing, engineer
  • Taylor Chadwick – engineer assistant
  • Andrew Darby – engineer assistant
  • Bobbi Giel – engineer assistant
  • Luke Armentrout – engineer assistant
  • Andrew Mendelson – mastering
  • Renée Hikari – studio assistant
  • Brian Hubble – piano technician
  • Rick Mullen – guitar technician
  • Derek Brown – drum technician
  • Sara Full – studio coordinator
  • Anthony Hook – Sara Full’s assistant
  • Nicholas Sutton Bell – creative director, photographer

Track listing:

All tracks by Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites.

  1. Brightside
  2. A. M. Radio
  3. Where We Are
  4. Birthday
  5. Big Shot
  6. Never Really Mine
  7. Rollercoaster
  8. Remington
  9. Reprise

Elvis Costello and The Imposters: The Boy Named If

On January 14, 2022, “EMI” label released “The Boy Named If”, album by Elvis Costello and The Imposters (the 32nd Elvis Costello album). It was recorded in 2021, and was produced by Sebastian Crys and Elvis Costello.

Personnel:

  • Elvis Costello – vocals, guitar, piano
  • Steve Nieve – keyboards, piano
  • Davey Faragher – bass, upright bass
  • Pete Thomas – drums, percussion
  • Nicole Atkins – vocals
  • Sebastian Krys – backing vocals, engineer, mixing
  • Dex Green – recording
  • Daniel Galindo – engineer
  • Ron Taylor – engineer
  • Brian Lucey – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks are written by Elvis Costello.

  1. Farewell, OK
  2. The Boy Named If
  3.  Penelope Halfpenny
  4. The Difference
  5. What If I Can’t Give You Anything but Love
  6. Paint the Red Rose Blue
  7. Mistook Me for a Friend
  8. My Most Beautiful Mistake
  9. Magnificent Hurt
  10. The Man You Love to Hate
  11. The Death of Magic Thinking
  12. Trick Out the Truth
  13. Mr. Crescent

Sean Danielsen: Production of Isolation

On January 13, 2017, “God Hates Me Music” label released “Production of Isolation”, the third Sean Danielsen album. It was recorded in 2016, and was produced by Sean Danielsen.

Personnel:

  • Sean Danielsen – vocal, guitar, various instruments, programming, engineer
  • Eddie Wohl – programming, mixing
  • Matt Dalton – mastering
  • Chris Sehenuk – artwork

Track listing:

All tracks by Sean Danielsen.

  1. Scattered Ashes
  2. Still
  3. The Light
  4. Back to Sleep
  5. Skin
  6. Tennessee
  7. All This Talk
  8. Parasite
  9. Is It Wrong
  10. Wedding Song

Zijan: Nizvodno

On January 13, 1991, “MRT” label released “Nizvodno”, the debut Zijan album. It was recorded in 1990, at “Studio 2” in Skopje, Macedonia, and was produced by Valentino Skenderovski.

Personnel:

  • Kostadin Dinev – vocals, bass guitar, arrangements
  • Apostol Mitrov – vocals, guitar, arrangements
  • Ќiril Zarlinov – keyboards
  • Anğel Dinev – drums, arrangements
  • Valentino Skenderovski – keyboards, programming
  • Stevo Stojkovski – bagpipes
  • Vera Jankoviƙ – vocal
  • Ismail Avdulovski – engineer
  • Žarko Tuniƙ – design
  • Jane KoƉabašija – editor
  • Petar Georgievski – executive producer

Track listing:

  1. Pušti kosi – Kostadin Dinev
  2. Stamena – traditional
  3. Kate svaƙe – Kostadin Dinev
  4. Elizabet – lyrics by Apostol Mitrov, music by Kostadin Dinev
  5. Denovi – Kostadin Dinev
  6. Rušime se – lyrics by Kostadin Dinev, music by Apostol Mitrov, Kostadin Dinev
  7. Grad – lyrics by Kostadin Dinev, music by Apostol Mitrov, Kostadin Dinev
  8. Nizvodno – Apostol Mitrov, Anğel Dinev, Risto Kornakov, Kostadin Dinev

Jeff Beck

On January 10, 2023, Geoffrey Arnold Beck aka Jeff Beck died aged 78. He was musician (guitar), in all lists of the 100 Greatest guitarists of all time, he was ranked in the top five. Beck’s innovative guitar sound spanned various styles ranging from blues rock, jazz fusion and guitar rock and influenced generations of young guitarists. He received “Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performances” six times, and “Best pop Instrumental Performance” once. In 1992, as member of The Yardbirds he was inducted into the “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame”, and as solo artists in 2009. In 2014 he received the “British Academy’s Ivor Novello Award” for Outstanding Contribution to British Music. Beck was member of the Yardbirds, founder and leader of Jeff Beck Group, and member of Beck, Bogert and Appice. As leader he released fourteen albums.

The Teskey Brothers: Half Mile Harvest

On January 12, 2017, “Half Mile Harvest Recordings” label released “Half Mile Harvest”, the debut Teskey Brothers (The) studio album. It was recorded in 2016, at “Half Mile Recording Studios” in Melbourne, Australia, and was produced by Sam Teskey and Brendon Love.

Personnel:

  • Sam Teskey – lead guitar, backing vocals
  • John Teskey – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, harmonica
  • Brendon Love – bass, guitar percussion, backing vocals
  • Liam Gough – drums, percussion
  • Reuben Lewis – trumpet
  • Nathaniel Sametz – trombone
  • Joseph Carra – mastering
  • CDALTRON – lacquer cut
  • John Fish – artwork

Track listing:

All tracks by Sam Teskey, John Teskey, Brendon Love and Liam Gough, except where noted.

  1. Crying Shame
  2. I Love a Woman – Billy Myles
  3. Pain and Misery
  4. Shiny Moon
  5. Reason Why
  6. Louisa
  7. Love Her with a Feeling
  8. Til’ the Sky Turns Black
  9. Hard Feeling
  10. Honeymoon

Fever Ray: Same

On January 12, 2009, “Rabid” label released the self-titled, debut Fever Ray album. It was recorded in 2008, and was produced by Christoffer Berg, Van Rivers & The Subliminal Kid and Fever Ray.

Personnel:

  • Fever Ray – vocals, recording, mixing
  • Cecilia Nordlund – vocals
  • Hampus Lundgren – double bass
  • Christoffer Berg – recording, mixing
  • Van Rivers & The Subliminal Kid – mixing, recording 
  • Henrik Jonsson – mastering
  • Martin Ander – design

Track listing:

All lyrics by Fever Ray, except where noted, all music by Fever Ray.

  1. If I Had a Heart
  2. When I Grow Up
  3. Dry and Dusty
  4. Seven
  5. Triangle Walks
  6. Concrete Walls
  7. Now’s the Only Time I Know
  8. I’m Not Done
  9. Keep the Streets Empty for Me – Fever Ray, Cecilia Nordlund
  10. Coconut

One Ok Rock: Ambitions

On January 11, 2017, “A-Sketch” label released “Ambitions”, the eighth One Ok Rock. It was recorded in 2016, at “Foxy Studios” in Los Angeles, “The Hideout Studios” in Las Vegas, and was produced by Colin Brittain, John Feldmann, Dan Lancaster, Andrew Goldstein, Kane Churko, CJ Baran, Takahiro Moriuchi, Toru Yamashita, Ryota Kohama and Tomoya Kanki.

Personnel:

  • Takahiro “Taka” Moriuchi – vocals
  • Toru Yamashita – guitar
  • Ryota Kohama – bass
  • Tomoya Kanki – drums
  • Avril Lavigne – vocal
  • 5 Seconds of Summer
  • Ben Sabin – piano, additional engineering, digital editing
  • Nolan Sipe – additional vocals
  • Aimer – backing vocals
  • Nick Long – backing vocals, additional instruments
  • Colin Brittain – programming, recording, mixing, engineer, editing 
  • John Feldmann – recording
  • Dan Lancaster – engineer, mixing
  • Jonathan Gerring – programming, additional production
  • Neil Avron – mixing
  • Zakk Cervini – programming, engineer, mixing, editing, additional production
  • Matt Pauling – programming, engineer, editing, additional production
  • Serban Ghenea – mixing
  • Mitch McCarthy – mixing
  • John Hanes – mixing
  • Kane Churko – engineer, mixing, mastering 
  • Mike Shinoda – additional production
  • Florian Ammon – additional vocal recording, engineer
  • Tyler Carter – vocal direction
  • Chris Baseford – vocal production
  • Phil Threlfall – vocal recording
  • Ted Jensen – mastering
  • Bruno Agra – drum tech
  • Kazuaki Seki – art direction
  • Daichi Shiono – design

Track listing:

  1. Ambitions (introduction) – Takahiro Moriuchi, Colin Brittain, Bruno Agra
  2. Bombs Away – Takahiro Moriuchi, Colin Brittain, Bruno Agra
  3. Taking Off – Takahiro Moriuchi, Dan Lancaster, Nick Long
  4. We Are – Toru Yamashita, Takahiro Moriuchi, Colin Brittain, Nick Long
  5. 20/20 – Takahiro Moriuchi, Colin Brittain, Nick Long
  6. Always Coming Back – Takahiro Moriuchi, Totu Yamashita, John Feldmann
  7. Bedroom Warfare – Takahiro Moriuchi, Nolan Sipe, Andrew Goldstein
  8. Lost in Tonight – Takahiro Moriuchi, Kame Churko
  9. I Was King – Takahiro Moriuchi, John Feldmann, Simon Wilcox, Colin Brittain
  10. Listen – Takahiro Moriuchi, Colin Brittain, Nick Long
  11. One Way Ticket – Takahiro Moriuchi, CJ Baran, Nick Long
  12. Bon Voyage – Toru Yamashita, Takahiro Moriuchi, Colin Brittain
  13. Start Again – Takahiro Moriuchi, Colin Brittain, Nick Long
  14. Take What You Want – Takahiro Moriuchi, Colin Brittain, Nick Long