Jesse Cook: Free Fall

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On September 26, 2000, “Narada” label released “Free Fall”, the fourth Jesse Cook studio album. It was recorded in 2000, at “Pizazzudio”, “Musickkloftet”, “National Arts Centre” and was produced by Jesse Cook.

Personnel:

  • Jesse Cook – guitar, keyboards, shaker, handclaps, goblet drum, surdo, congas, drum programming, handclaps, engineer, mixing
  • Kevin Laliberté – guitar
  • Danny Wilde – vocals
  • Etric Lyons – bass
  • Peter Cardinali – bass
  • Paul Antonio – drums
  • Samba Squad – percussion
  • Mario Melo – surdo, repinique, congas, rattle, arrangements
  • Art Avalos – timbales, cowbell, triangle, djembe, goblet drum, shaker, congas, surdo
  • Ron Allen – bansuri
  • Djivan Gasparyan – duduk, ney
  • Rick Shadrach Lazar – goblet drum, tambourine, shaker, finger cymbals, percussion
  • Steven Greenman – violin
  • Kathleen Kajioka – viola
  • George Gao – fiddle
  • Nancy Cardwell – handclaps
  • Pacy Shulman, Vidar Lunden, Michel Lardie – engineer
  • Richard Denhart – mixing, executive producer
  • Trevor Sadler – mastering
  • Connie Gage – design
  • Julio Moya – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Jesse Cook, except where noted.

  1. Switchback
  2. Air
  3. Virtue
  4. Free Fall
  5. Paloma
  6. Incantation
  7. All That Remains
  8. On Walks the Night
  9. Querido Amigo
  10. Viva
  11. Fall At Your Feet – Neil Finn

Meat Puppets: Golden Lies

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On September 26, 2000, “Atlantic” label released “Golden Lies”, the tenth Meat Puppets album. It was recorded in 2000, and was produced by Curt Kirkwood and Paul Leary.

Personnel:

  • Curt Kirkwood – lead vocals, guitar, artwork
  • Kyle Ellison – vocals, guitar, co-producer
  • Andrew Duplantis – vocals, bass
  • Shandon Sahm – drums 
  • Mat Mitchell – programming
  • Jim Vollentine – engineer assistant
  • Brian “Big Bass” Gardner – mastering
  • Joseph Cultice – photography
  • Martin Ogolter – artwork
  • Shayne Ivy – artwork, design
  • John Plymale – co-producer

Track listing:

  1. Intro
  2. Armed and Stupid
  3. I Quit
  4. Lamp
  5. Hercules
  6. Batwing
  7. Take Off Your Clothes
  8. You Love Me
  9. Pieces of Me
  10. Push the Button
  11. Tarantula
  12. Endless Wave
  13. Wipeout
  14. Fatboy/Fat/ Requiem

Jesse Cook: Tempest

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On September 26, 1995, “Narada” label released “Tempest”, the debut Jesse Cook album.

Personnel:

  • Jesse Cook – guitar, palmas, synthesizer, djembe, percussion
  • Andrew Morales – bass guitar
  • Mario Melo – congas, percussion, palmas
  • Blake Manning – darbuka, timbali

Track listing:

All tracks by Jesse Cook.

  1. Tempest
  2. Cascada
  3. Breeze from Saintes Maries
  4. Baghdad
  5. Parasol
  6. Dance of Spring
  7. Soledad
  8. Orbit
  9. Fate (Parasol Reprise)
  10. Jumpstart

The Remains: Same

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On September 26, 1966, “Epic” label released the self-titled, debut Remains (The) album. It was recorded January 1965 – August 1966, and was produced by Ted Cooper, Bob Morgan, Robin McBridge and Billy Sherrill.

Personnel:

  • Barry Tashian – vocals, guitar
  • Bill Briggs – keyboards
  • Vern Miller – bass
  • Chip Damiani – drums

Track listing:

  1. Heart – Georges Aber, Tony Hatch
  2. Lonely Weekend – Charlie Rich
  3. Don’t Look Back – Billy Vera
  4. Why Do I Cry? – Barry Tashian
  5. Diddy Wah Diddy – Ellas McDaniel, Willy Dixon
  6. You Got a Hard Time Coming – Barry Tashian, Vern Miller
  7. Once Before – Vern Miller, Chip Damiani
  8. Thank You – Barry Tashian
  9. Time of Day – Barry Tashian
  10. Say You’re Sorry – Bill Briggs

Sufjan Stevens: The Ascension

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On September 25, 2020, “Asthmatic Kitty” label released “The Ascension”, the eighth Sufjan Stevens studio album. It was recorded in 2020, and was produced by Sufjan Stevens.

Personnel:

  • Sufjan Stevens – vocals, drums and percussion, tempest, electric guitar, Prophet ’08, Prophet 6, Prophet X, piano, recorders, performance, recording, engineer, arrangements, mixing, original art, layout, design, typography
  • Bryce Dessner – electric guitar
  • Casey Foubert – bass guitar, vibraphone, electric guitar, lead electric guitar, recording, engineer
  • James McAlister – additional drums, percussion, vocal cut-up effects, recording, engineer
  • Emil Nikolaisen – black magic; engineer
  • TW Walsh – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Sufjan Stevens.

  1. Make Me an Offer I Cannot Refuse
  2. Run Away with Me
  3. Video Game
  4. Lamentations
  5. Tell Me You Love Me
  6. Die Happy
  7. Ativan
  8. Ursa Major
  9. Landslide
  10. Gilgamesh
  11. Death Star
  12. Goodbye to All That
  13. Sugar
  14. The Ascension
  15. America

The Bad Plus: Made Possible

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On September 25, 2012, “E1 Music” label released “Made Possible”, the tenth Bad Plus (The) album. It was recorded in November 2011, at “Club House Recording Studios” in New York, and was produced by Ethan Iverson, Reid Anderson and David King.

Personnel:

  • Ethan Iverson – piano
  • Reid Anderson – bass, electronics, synthesizer
  • David King – drums, electric drums
  • Pete Rende – engineer, mixing
  • Huntley Miller – mastering
  • Sherman Iverson – illustrations
  • Greg Meyers – design
  • Chris Hinderaker – executive producer
  • Darryl Pitt – executive producer

Track listing:

All tracks by Reid Anderson, except where noted.

  1. Pound the Pound
  2. Seven Minute Mind
  3. Re-Elect That – Ethan Iverson
  4. Wolf Out – David King
  5. Sing for a Silver Dollar – Ethan Iverson
  6. For My Eyes Only – David KIng
  7. I Want to Feel Good Pt. 2 – David King
  8. In Stitches
  9. Victoria – Paul Motian

Bruce Springsteen: Magic

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On September 25, 2007, “Columbia” label released “Magic”, the fifteenth Bruce Springsteen studio album. It was recorded March – May 2007, at “Southern Tracks” in Atlanta, Georgia, and was produced by Brendan O’Brien.

Personnel:

  • Bruce Springsteen – lead and backing vocals, guitars, pump organ, harmonica, synthesizer, glockenspiel, percussion
  • Nils Lofgren – guitars, backing vocals
  • Steven Van Zandt – guitars, mandolin, backing vocals
  • Roy Bittan – piano, organ
  • Danny Federici – organ, keyboards
  • Garry Tallent – bass guitar
  • Max Weinberg – drums
  • Clarence Clemons – saxophone, backing vocals
  • Jeremy Chatzky – upright bass 
  • Patrick Warren – Chamberlin, tack piano
  • Soozie Tyrell – violin, backing vocals
  • Daniel Laufer – cello 
  • Kenn Wagner, Jay Christy, Justin Bruns, William Pu, Cristopher Pulgram, John Meisner, Olga Shpitko, Sheela Lyengar – violin
  • Tania Maxwell Clements, Amy Chang, Lachlan McBane – viola
  • Karen Freer, Daniel Laufer, Charae Kruege – cello
  • Patti Scialfa – backing vocals
  • Eddie Horst – string arrangements
  • Nick DiDia – recording
  • Billy Bowers – additional engineering
  • Tom Tapley – recording and mixing assistant
  • Toby Scott – additional recording
  • Tom Syrowski, Matt Serrecchio, Glenn Pittman, Kevin Mills – additional recording
  • Brendan O’Brien – mixing
  • Bob Ludwig – mastering
  • Patti Horst, Shari Sutcliffe – string contractors
  • Michelle Holme, Chris Austopchuk – album art direction
  • Mark Seliger, Danny Clinch – photography
  • Bea Nettles – disk icon

Track listing:

All tracks by Bruce Springsteen.

  1. Radio Nowhere
  2. You’ll Be Coming Down
  3. Livin’ in the Future
  4. Your Own Worst Enemy
  5. Gypsy Biker
  6. Girls in Their Summer Clothes
  7. I’ll Work for Your Love
  8. Magic
  9. Kast to Die
  10. Long Walk Home
  11. Devil’s Arcade
  12. Terry’s Song (hidden track)

Mooger Fooger: Same

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On September 25, 2005, “Record Records” label released the self-titled, debut Mooger Fooger album. It was recorded in 2005, in Skopje, Macedonia.

Personnel:

  • Sead Hadzic Secko – guitar
  • Ognen Mangarovski – guitar
  • Antonio Dojcinovski Dojcin – bass
  • Toni Michevic – guitar, bass, synthesizer
  • Petrit Sarachini Mra – vocal
  • Sonja Dimitrijoska – vocal
  • Mihajlo Motevski Mote – design

Track listing:

  1. Vox is Murder
  2. Oki Trash
  3. Joy Joke
  4. Monkey
  5. Go mrazam kapitalizmot
  6. Lets Beat
  7. Dr. G
  8. Hello
  9. Krugot na Mra
  10. Mooger Fooger
  11. Out of Tune
  12. Tune

John Coltrane:The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording

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On September 25, 2001, “Impulse!” label released “The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording”, the final live John Coltrane recording. It was recorded in April 1967, at the “Olatunji Center of African Culture” in New York City, and was produced by Bryan Koniarz.

Personnel:

  • John Coltrane – soprano and tenor saxophone
  • Pharoah Sanders – tenor saxophone
  • Alice Coltrane – piano
  • Jimmy Garrison – double bass
  • Rashied Ali – drums
  • Algie DeWitt – Batá drum, double bass
  • Jumma Santos – percussion

Track listing:

  1. Introduction by Billy Taylor
  2. Ogunde – John Coltrane
  3. My Favorite Things – Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein

They Might Be Giants: Lincoln

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On September 25, 1988, “Bar/None” label released “Lincoln”, the second They Might Be Giants studio album. It was recorded March – June 1988, at “Dubway” in New York City, and was produced by Bill Kraus.

Personnel:

  • John Flansburgh – lead and backing vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, trumpet, melodica
  • John Linnell – lead and backing vocals, accordion, autoharp, clarinet, keyboards, baritone and bass saxophone, bass harmonica, tenor saxophone, banjo
  • Lisa Klapp – bridge monologue
  • Kenneth Nolan – drums
  • The Ordinaires – arrangements
  • Al Houghton – engineer
  • Brian Dewan – cover art
  • Carol Kitman – cover photography

Track listing:

All tracks by John Flansburgh and John Linnell.

  1. Ana Ng
  2. Cowtown
  3. Lie Still, Little Bottle
  4. Purple Toupee
  5. Cage & Aquarium
  6. Where Your Eyes Don’t Go
  7. Piece of Dirt
  8. Mr. Ne
  9. Pencil Rain
  10. The World’s Address
  11. I’ve Got a Match
  12. Santa’s Beard
  13. You’ll Miss Me
  14. They’ll Need a Crane
  15. Shoehorn with Teeth
  16. Stand on Your Own Head
  17. Snowball in Hell
  18. Kiss Me, Son of God

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