Superchunk: Songs In The Key Of Yikes

Leave a comment

On August 22, 2025, “Merge” label released “Songs in the Key of Yikes”, the thirteenth Superchunk studio album. It was recorded in 2025, at “Sonark” in Hillsborough, North Carolina.

Personnel:

  • Mac McCaughan – vocals, guitar, additional recording, inner album photography
  • Jim Wilbur – guitar
  • Laura Ballance – bass, shouting
  • Laura King – drums, percussion, backing vocals, shouting
  • Rosali Middleman – additional vocals, additional guitar, shouting
  • Bella Quinlan – additional vocals
  • Holly Thomas – additional vocals
  • Betsy Wright – additional vocals
  • Paul Voran – recording
  • Eli Webb – recording
  • Mike Montgomery – mixing
  • Steve Wethington – mixing assistant
  • Matthew Barnhart – mastering
  • Scott Reeder – cover art
  • Alex Cox – studio photography

Track listing:

  1. Is It Making You Feel Something
  2. Bruised Lung
  3. No Hope
  4. Care Less
  5. Climb the Walls
  6. Cue
  7. Everybody Dies
  8. Stuck in a Dream
  9. Train on Fire
  10. Some Green

Arcadea: The Exodus Of Gravity

Leave a comment

On August 22, 2025, “Relapse Records” label released “The Exodus of Gravity”, the second Arcadea album.

Personnel:

  • Core Atoms – guitar
  • Brann Dailor – drums
  • João Nogueira – performer
  • Tom Tapley – recording, mixing
  • Jaime Gomez Arellano – mastering

Track listing:

  1. Dark Star
  2. Exodus of Gravity
  3. Fuzzy Planet
  4. Lake of Rust
  5. Gilded Eye
  6. 2 Shells
  7. Galactic Lighthouse
  8. Starry messenger
  9. Silent Spores
  10. The Hand That Molds the Milky Way
  11. Sparks
  12. Planet Pounder

Pino Palladino & Blake Mills: That Wasn’t A Dream

Leave a comment

On August 22, 2025, “Impulse!” label released “That Wasn’t a Dream”, album by Pino Palladino and Blake Mills. It was recorded in 2025 at “Sound City Studios” in Los Angeles.

Personnel:

  • Pino Palladino – bass
  • Blake Mills – guitar, mixing
  • Dory Bavarsky – piano, keyboards
  • Rocco Palladino – bass
  • Sam Gendel – saxophone
  • Abraham Rounds – drums
  • Chris Dave – drums
  • Steve Jordan – drums
  • Joseph Lorge – mixing
  • Patricia Sullivan – mastering
  • Daniel Krieger – lacquer cut
  • H. Hawkline – artwork, layout
  • Gabi Zecchetto – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Pino Palladino and Blake Mills, except where noted.

  1. Contour – Chris Weisman additional writing
  2. I Laugh in the Mouth of the Lion
  3. Somnambulista
  4. Taka
  5. What Is Wrong with You
  6. Heat Sink
  7. That Was a Dream

Nubya Garcia: Source

Leave a comment

On August 21, 2020, “Concord Jazz” label released “Source” the debut Nubya Garcia album. It was recorded in 2019, and was produced by Nubya Garcia and Kwes Sey.

Personnel:

  • Nubya Garcia – tenor saxophone 
  • Cassie Kinoshi – vocal, tenor saxophone 
  • Sheila Maurice Grey – vocals, trumpet
  • Joe Armon-Jones – keyboards, piano
  • Daniel Casimir – double bass
  • Sam Jones – drums 
  • Diana Sammiguel – vocals, maracas
  • La perla – performer
  • Giovanna Mogollon – vocals 
  • Karen Forero – vocals 
  • Ritchie Seivwright – vocals
  • Akenya – vocals
  • Giles Barrett – recording 

Track listing:

All tracks by Nubya Garcia, except where noted.

  1. Pace
  2. The Message Continues
  3. Source
  4. Together Is a Beautiful Place to Be
  5. Stand with Each Other
  6. Inner Game
  7. La cumbia me está llamando
  8. Before Us: In Demerara & Caura – Akenya
  9. Boundless Beings

Elephant9 With Reine Fiske: Silver Mountain

Leave a comment

On August 21, 2015, “Rune Grammofon” label released “Silver Mountain”, album by Elephant9 with Reine Fiske (fifth Elephant9 album).

Personnel:

  • Reine Fiske – acoustic and electric guitar, percussion
  • Ståle Storløkken – Fender Rhodes, Hammond organ, upright piano, mellotron, synthesizer
  • Nikolai Hængsle Eilertsen – acoustic and electric bass, percussion
  • Torstein Lofthus – drums, percussion

Track listing:

  1. Occidentali
  2. You are the Sunshine of My Life
  3. Abhartach
  4. Kungsten
  5. The Above Ground Sound

Eva Cassidy: Imagine

Leave a comment

On August 20, 2002, “Blix Street” label released “Imagine”, the third Eva Cassidy studio album. It was recorded in 2002, and was produced by Chris Biondo and Eva Cassidy.

Personnel:

  • Eva Cassidy – lead and backing vocals, guitar, rhythm guitar, artwork
  • Keith Grimes – guitar, electric guitar
  • Lenny Williams – piano, vibraphone
  • Kent Wood – organ, synthesizers
  • Chris Biondo – bass
  • Larry melton – bass
  • Adrian Green – drums
  • Darrel Andrews – percussion
  • Dan Cassidy – violin
  • Geoff Gillette – mixing
  • Robert Vosgien – mastering
  • Larry Melton – photography
  • Bill Straw – liner notes

Track listing:

  1. It Doesn’t matter Anymore – Paul Anka
  2. Fever – Eddie Cooley, John Davenport
  3. Who Knows Where the Time Goes? – Sandy Denny
  4. You’ve Changed – Bill Carey, Carl Fischer
  5. Imagine – John Lennon, Yoko Ono
  6. Still Not Ready – Chris Izzi, Leo LaSota
  7. Early Morning Rain – Gordon Lightfoot
  8. Tennessee Waltz – Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart
  9. I Can Only Be Me – Stevie Wonder
  10. Danny Boy – Frederic Weatherly

Polyphony: Without Introduction…

Leave a comment

In August 1972, “Eleventh Hour” label released “Without Introduction…”, album by Polyphony. It was recorded in 1972, at “Alpha Audio”, and was produced by Chuck Taylor.

Personnel:

  • Glenn Howard – vocals, lead and slide guitar
  • Craig Massey – vocals, organ Moog synthesizer
  • Martin Ruddy – bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Cristopher Spong – drums
  • Chatty Cooper – drums, percussion, timbales
  • Nick Colleran – engineer
  • Betty Cherry – cover art, design concept

Track listing:

  1. Juggernaut – Craig Massey
  2. 40 Seconds Thing in 39 Seconds – Glenn Howard

Ariels Flight

  1. Gorgons of the Glade – Glenn Howard
  2. The Oneirocritic Man – Craig Massey
  3. Gift of the Frog Prince
  4. Crimson Dagger

Gash: A Young Man’s Gash

Leave a comment

In August 1972, “Brian” label released “A Young Man’s Gash”, the debut Gash album. It was recorded April – May 1972, at “Windrose-Dumont-Time Studios” in Hamburg, “Studio Maschen”, “Windrose-Dumont-Time” and “Tonstudio” in Mascen, Germany, and was produced by Bernd E. Schulz and Dicky Tarrach.

Personnel:

  • Frank Feldhusen – vocals, guitar, arrangements
  • Jochen Peters – lead vocals, piano, organ, harpsichord, arrangements
  • Manfred Thiers – bass, arrangements
  • Reinhard Schiemann – drums, percussion, arrangements
  • Bernd E. Schulz – arrangements
  • Dicky Tarrach – arrangements
  • Conny Plank – engineer
  • Hans Lampe, Wolfgang Klaus – engineer assistant
  • PGäthke – art direction
  • PvSpreckelsen – illustration
  • Arthur – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Jochen Peters.

  1. Angel and Mother
  2. Twenty One Days
  3. In the Sea
  4. A Young Man’s Gash
  5. Part I
  6. Part II
  7. Part III

Larry Coryell: Offering

Leave a comment

In August 1972, “Vanguard” label released “Offering”, the seventh Larry Coryell album. It was recorded in January 1972, at “Vanguard 23rd Street Studios” in New York City, and was produced by Daniel Weiss.

Personnel:

  • Larry Coryell – guitar
  • Jeff Zaraya – engineer
  • Steve Marcus – soprano sax
  • Mike Mandel – electric piano
  • Mervin Bronson – bass
  • Harry Wilkinson – drums
  • Jules Halfant – art direction
  • France Ing – cover photo
  • John Jonas Gruen – back cover photo

Track listing:

All tracks by Larry Coryell, except where noted

  1. Foreplay
  2. Ruminations – Doug Davis
  3. Scotland I
  4. Offering – Harry C. Wilkinson
  5. The Mediation of November 8th
  6. Beggar’s Chant – Doug Davis

musicalphabet