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Delays: You See Colours

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On March 6, 2006, “Rough Trade” label released “You See Colours”, the second Delays studio album. It was recorded in 2005, at “Real World”, “Rockfireld” and “Dustsucker Sound”, and was produced by Graham Sutton.

Personnel:

  • Greg Gilbert – vocals, guitar
  • Aaron Gilbert – sequencer, synths, backing vocals
  • Colin Fox – bass, percussion, backing vocals
  • Rowly – drums
  • Graham Sutton – additional synth arrangements, programming, engineer, mixing
  • Trevor Horn – additional arrangement, vocal overdub
  • Duncan Lewis – additional arrangement
  • Jon Kelly – additional arrangement
  • Robbie Nelson – engineer
  • Paul Burgess – artwork
  • Jeff Teader – package design
  • Roger Sargent – photography

Track listing:

  1. You and Me – Greg Gilbert, Aaron Gilbert
  2. Valentine – Greg Gilbert, Aaron Gilbert
  3. This Town’s Religion – Greg Gilbert
  4. Sink Like a Stone – Greg Gilbert
  5.  Too Much in Your Life – Greg Gilbert, Aaron Gilbert
  6. Winter’s Memory of Summer – Greg Gilbert, Aaron Gilbert
  7. Given Time – Greg Gilbert
  8. Hideaway – Greg Gilbert
  9. Lillian – Greg Gilbert, Aaron Gilbert
  10. Out of Nowhere – Greg Gilbert
  11. Waste of Space – Greg Gilbert, Aaron Gilbert

Jane Ira Bloom: Sometimes the Magic

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On March 6, 2001, “Arabesque” label released “Sometimes the Magic”, the ninth Jane Ira Bloom album. It was recorded June – July 2000, at “Current Sound” in New York City, and was produced by Jane Ira Bloom.

Personnel:

  • Jane Ira Bloom – soprano saxophone, live electronics
  • Vincent Bourgeyx – piano
  • Mark Dresser – double bass
  • Bobby Previte – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Jane Ira Bloom except where noted

  1. Denver Snap
  2. Now You See It
  3. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered – Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
  4. Blue Poles
  5. Pacific
  6. Truth in Timbre
  7. Without Words
  8. In Everything
  9. Varo
  10. Many Landscapes
  11. How Are Things in Glocca Morra? – Burton Lane, Yip Harburg

Kings of Leon: When You See Yourself

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On March 5, 2021, “RCA” label released “When You See Yourself”, the eighth Kings of Leon studio album. It was recorded 2020 – 2021. At “Blackbird Studios” in Nashville, Tennessee, and was produced by Markus Dravs.

Personnel:

  • Caleb Followill – vocals, guitar
  • Matthew Followill – vocals, guitar, synthesizer
  • Jared Followill – vocals, bass, acoustic guitar
  • Nathan Followill – vocals, drums, percussion
  • Liam O’Neil – piano, organ, mellotron, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
  • Timothy Deaux – backing vocals
  • Iain Berryman – engineer
  • Sean Badum – engineer assistant
  • Mark “Spike” Stent – mixing
  • Matt Wolach – mixing assistant
  • Ted Jensen – mastering

Track listing:

  1. When You See Yourself, Are You Far Away
  2. The Bandit
  3. 100.000 People
  4. Stormy Weather
  5. A Wave
  6. Golden Restless Age
  7. Time in Disguise
  8. Supermarket
  9. Claire & Eddie
  10.  Echoing
  11. Fairytale

Snow Patrol: When It’s All Over We Still Have to Clear Up

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On March 5, 2001, “Jeepster” label released “When It’s All Over We Still Have to Clear Up”, the second Snow Patrol studio album. It was recorded in 2000, at “Substation”, “CaVa”, “The Stables” and “Rage”, and was produced by Michael Brennan Jr., Gary Lightbody, Mark McClelland and Johnny Quinn.

Personnel:

  • Gary Lightbody – vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards, backing vocals
  • Mark McClelland – bass guitar, piano, keyboards, additional vocals
  • Jonny Quinn – drums, additional vocals
  • Liam Saunders – electric piano
  • Mick Cooke – flugelhorn, trumpet
  • Stuart Murdoch – piano
  • Kevin Lynch – additional vocals
  • Rob Dillam – feedback and acoustic guitar
  • Richard Colburn – percussion
  • Fly by Heart – choir
  • John Todd – trumpet
  • Caroline Evans – violin
  • David Burke – viola
  • Peter Harvey – cello

Track listing:

All lyrics by Gary Lightbody, all music by Gary Lightbody, Mark McClelland and Jonny Quinn.

  1. Never Gonna Fall in Love Again
  2. Ask Me How I Am
  3. Making Enemies
  4. Black and Blue
  5. Last Ever Lone Gunman
  6. If I’d Found the Right Words to Say
  7. Batten Down the Hatch
  8. One Night Is Not Enough
  9. Chased by…I Don’t Know What
  10. On/Off
  11. An Olive Grove Facing the Sea
  12. When It’s All Over We Still Have to Clear Up
  13. Make Love to Me Forever
  14. Firelight

Billy Hart: One is the Other

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On March 4, 2014, “ECM” label released “One Is the Other”, the twelve Billy Hart album. It was recorded April – May 2013, At “Avatar Studios” in New York City, and was produced by Manfred Eicher.

Personnel:

  • Billy Hart – drums
  • Mark Turner – tenor sax
  • Ethan Iverson – piano
  • Ben Street – double bass

Track listing:

All tracks by Billy Hart, except where noted.

  1. Lennie Groove – Mark Turner
  2. Maraschino – Ethan Iverson
  3. Teule’s Redemption
  4. Amethyst
  5. Yard
  6. Sonnet for Stevie – Mark Turner
  7. Some Enchanted Evening – Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II
  8. Big Trees – Ethan Iverson

Jane Ira Bloom: Chasing Paint

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On March 4, 2003, “Arabesque” label released “Chasing Paint”, the tenth Jane Ira Bloom album. It was recorded April – May 2002, at “The Studio” in New York City, and was produced by Jane Ira Bloom.

Personnel:

  • Jane Ira Bloom – soprano saxophone, live electronics
  • Fred Hersch – piano
  • Mark Dresser – bass
  • Bobby Previte – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Jane Ira Bloom except where noted.

  1. Unexpected Light
  2. Chasing Paint
  3. The Sweetest Sounds – Richard Rodgers
  4. On Seeing JP
  5. Many Wonders
  6. Jackson Pollock
  7. Alchemy
  8. Reflections of the Big Dipper
  9. White Light

Andre Previn & J. J. Johnson: Same

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In March 1962, “Columbia” label released “André Previn and J. J. Johnson” (subtitled Play Kurt Weill’s Mack the Knife & Bilbao-Song and Other Music from The Three Penny Opera, Happy End, Mahagonny), album by André Previn and J. J. Johnson.It was recorded in December 1961, in Los Angeles, and was produced by Irving Townsend.

Personnel:

  • André Previn – piano
  • J. J. Johnson – trombone
  • Red Mitchell – bass
  • Frank Capp – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Kurt Weill.

  1. Bilbao Song – (from Happy End)
  2. Barbara Song – (from The Three Penny Opera)
  3. Overture – (from The Three Penny Opera)
  4. Seeräuberjenny – (from The Three Penny Opera)
  5. Mack the Knife (Moritat)
  6. Surabaya Johnny – (from Happy End)
  7. Wie man sich bettet – (Meine Herren, meine Mutter prägte from Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny)
  8. Unzulänglichkeit – (from The ThreePenny Opera)

Ike Quebec: Heavy Soul

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In March 1962, “Blue Note” label released “Heavy Soul”, the debut Ike Quebec album. It was recorded in November 1961, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, and was produced by Alfred Lion.

Personnel:

  • Ike Quebec – tenor saxophone
  • Freddie Roach – organ
  • Milt Hinton – bass
  • Al Harewood – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Ike Quebec, except where noted.

  1. Acquitted
  2. Just One More Chance – Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston
  3. Que’s Dilemma
  4. Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? – Jay Gorney, Yip Harburg
  5. The Man I Love – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
  6. Heavy Soul
  7. I Want a Little Girl – Murray Mencher, Billy Moll
  8. Nature Boy – Eden Ahbez

Methyl Ethel: Everything Is Forgotten

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On March 3, 2017, “4AD” label released “Everything Is Forgotten”, the second Methyl Ethel studio album. It was recorded 2016 – 2017, and was produced by James Ford and Jake Webb. At the 2017 “West Australian Music Industry Awards”, the album won “Best Album” award.

Personnel:

  • Jake Webb – vocals, instrumentation, recording
  • Thom Stewart – organ
  • James Ford – drums, synthesizer, engineer, mixing
  • Noël Besson – vocals
  • Holly Fewson – cover painting
  • Phil Laslett – design

All tracks by Jake Webb, except where noted.

  1. Drink Wine
  2. Ubu
  3. No. 28
  4. Femme Maison / One Man House
  5. L’Heure des Sorcières
  6. Act of Contrition
  7. Groundswell
  8. Hyakki Yako
  9. Summer Moon
  10. Weeds Through the Rind
  11. Schlager

Matmatah: Plates Coutures

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On March 3, 2017, “La Ouache Production” label released “Plates Coutures”, the fifth Matmatah studio album. It was recorded in August 2016, at “ICP Studios” and “Abbey Road Studios” in London, and was produced by Bruno Green, Emmanuel Baroux, Éric Digaire, Benoît Fournier and Tristan Nihouarn.

Personnel:

  • Emmanuel Baroux – vocals, guitars, keyboards
  • Éric Digaire – vocals, bass, guitars, keyboards, percussions
  • – drums, percussion, guitars, piano
  • Tristan Nihouarn – vocals, guitars, keyboards, harmonica, percussion, flute
  • Bruno Green – keyboards, guitars, percussions
  • Gaëlle Kerrien – choirs
  • Gaëlle Bellaunay – choirs
  • Morgane Mercier – choirs director, choirs
  • Ghislaine Bachelier, Odile Guillarmou, Nadia Le Goff, Grand Palladium – choirs
  • Dana Colley – voice, bass clarinet, saxophones, flute
  • Sebastien Blanchon – trumpet
  • David Dupuis – trombone
  • Jacopo Costa – cimbalum 

Track listing:

 All tracks by Tristan Nihouarn.

  1. Nous y sommes
  2. Lésine pas
  3. Petite frappe
  4. Marée haute
  5. Toboggan
  6. Retour à la normale
  7. Ô ma beauté
  8. Entre en lignes
  9. Overcom
  10. Margipop
  11. Peshmerga