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Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes

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On January 6, 1992, “Atlantic” label released “Little Earthquakes”, the debut Tori Amos studio album. It was recorded 1990 – 1991, and was produced by Eric Rosse, Tori Amos, Davitt Sigerson and Ian Stanley.

Personnel:

  • Tori Amos – lead and backing vocals, acoustic piano, keyboard, sampled strings
  • Steve Caton – guitar, bass, backing vocals
  • David Rhodes – guitar
  • John Chamberlain – mandolin
  • Eric Williams – ukulele, dulcimer
  • Jef Scott – bass
  • Matthew Seligman – bass
  • Will McGregor – bass 
  • Carlo Nuccio – drums 
  • Ed Greene – drums
  • Chris Hughes – drums 
  • Eric Rosse – Irish war drum, drum and keyboard programming, backing vocals
  • Paulinho da Costa – percussion
  • Philly – finger cymbal 
  • Jake Freeze – rat pedal, saw
  • Nick DeCaro – orchestra arrangements, conductor
  • Stuart Gordon – violin
  • Will Gregory – oboe
  • Tina Gullickson – backing vocals
  • Nancy Shanks – backing vocals
  • Phil Shenale – keyboard programming
  • David Lord – string arrangements

Track listing:

All tracks by Tori Amos.

  1. Crucify
  2. Girl
  3. Silent All This Years
  4. Precious Things
  5. Winter
  6. Happy Phantom
  7. China
  8. Leather
  9. Mother
  10. Tear in Your Hand
  11. Me and a Gun
  12. Little Earthquakes

Thinking Fellers Union: lovelyville

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On December 12, 1991, “Matador” label released “Lovelyville”, the third Thinking Fellers Union studio album. It was recorded in 1991, at “Lowdown Studios” in San Francisco, and was produced by Greg Freeman, Paul Bergmann, Mark Davies, Anne Eickelberg, Brian Hageman, Jay Paget and Hugh Swarts.

Personnel:

  • Hugh Swarts – vocals, guitar
  • Brian Hageman – vocals, guitar, viola, tape, mandolin
  • Mark Davies – vocals, bass guitar, guitar, Casio synthesizer, drums, euphonium, trombone
  • Anne Eickelberg – vocals, bass guitar
  • Paul Bergmann – drums
  • Jay Paget – drums
  • Paul Bergmann – accordion
  • Margaret Murray – oboe, illustrations
  • Chris Clougherty – clarinet
  • David Tholfsen – contrabass clarinet
  • Greg Freeman – engineer
  • Chas Nielsen – illustrations

Track listing:

All tracks by Paul Bergmann, Mark Davies, Anne Eickelberg, Brian Hageman, Jay Paget and Hugh Swarts, except where noted.

  1. Four O’ Clocker 2
  2. Not This World
  3. Nail in the Head
  4. Green Eyed Lady – Jerry Corbetta, Dave Riordian
  5. Mother Uncle Delicious Tasty
  6. Streets Vibrated With the Traffic and the Power Tool
  7. Mark My Words
  8. Push
  9. More Glee
  10. Big Hands
  11. The Marshall
  12. Sinking Boats
  13. Motorin’ Flarey Jenkins
  14. 2 x4s
  15. Nothing Solid
  16. Maverick
  17. Wonderbread Display
  18. The Meat Display
  19. Strife Is Good
  20. The Marshall’s Boont’s
  21. The World Is Changing for Good
  22. The Demise of Craig
  23. Horrible Hour

My Bloody Valentine: Loveless

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On November 4, 1991, “Creation” label released “Loveless”, the second My Bloody Valentine studio album. It was recorded in February 1989 – September 1991, and was produced by Kevin Shields and Col Ó Cíosóig. In 2020, “Rolling Stone” magazine ranked “Loveless” at number 73, on its list of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time”.

Personnel:

  • Kevin Shields – vocals, guitar, bass, sampling keyboard, cover concept
  • Bilinda Butcher – vocals, guitar, cover concept
  • Debbie Googe – bass, cover concept
  • Colm Ó Cíosóig – drums, sampling keyboard, cover concept
  • Angus Cameron – photography
  • Ann Marie Shields – coordination

Track listing:

All tracks are written by Kevin Shields, except where noted.

  1. Only Shallow – lyrics by Bilinda Butcher, music by Kevin Shields
  2. Loomer – lyrics by Bilinda Butcher, music by Kevin Shields
  3. Touched – Colm Ó Cíosóig
  4. To Here Knows When – lyrics by Bilinda Butcher, Kevin Shields, music by Kevin Shields
  5. When You Sleep
  6. I Only Said
  7. Come in Alone
  8. Sometimes
  9. Blown’s a Wish – lyrics by Bilinda Butcher, music by Kevin Shields
  10. What You Want
  11. Soon

Taj Mahal: Mule Bone

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On November 1, 1991, “Gramavision” label released “Mule Bone”, the 16th Taj Mahal album. It was recorded in 1991, and was produced by Taj Mahal.

Personnel:

  • Taj Mahal – keyboards, bass, guitar, harmonica, banjo
  • Abdul Wali – guitar
  • Kim Jordan – keyboards, synthesizer, percussion
  • Calvin “Fuzzy” Samuel – bass
  • Marc Singer, Mike Sena – drums, percussion

Track listing:

  1. Jubilee (Opening Theme)
  2. Graveyard Mule (Hambone Rhyme)
  3. Me and the Mule
  4. Song for a Banjo Dance
  5. But I Rode Some
  6. Hey Hey Blues
  7. Shake That Thing
  8. Intermission Blues
  9. Crossing (Lonely Day)
  10. Bound No’th Blues
  11. Finale

Charlie Haden And The Liberation Music Orchestra: Dream Keeper

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In October 1990, “Blue Note” label released “Dream Keeper”, the fourth Charlie Haden and the Liberation Music Orchestra album. It was recorded in April 1990, at “Clinton Studios” in New York City. “Dream Keeper” was voted “Jazz album of the year” in “Down Beat” magazine’s 1991 critics’ poll.

Personnel:

  • Charlie Haden – double bass
  • Carla Bley – arranger, conductor
  • Ken McIntyre – alto saxophone
  • Dewey Redman – tenor saxophone
  • Joe Lovano – tenor saxophone, flute
  • Branford Marsalis – tenor saxophone, flute
  • Tom Harrell – trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Earl Gardner – trumpet
  • Ray Anderson – trombone
  • Sharon Freeman – French horn
  • Joseph Daley – tuba
  • Juan Lazaro Mendolas – wood flute, pan flute
  • Amina Claudine Myers – piano
  • Mick Goodrick – guitar
  • Paul Motian – drums
  • Don Alias – percussion
  • The Oakland Youth Chorus, Elizabeth Min – director

Track listing:

  1. Dream Keeper – Carla Bley, Langston Hughes, traditional
  2. Dream Keeper Part 1 – Carla Bley
  3. Feliciano Ama – traditional from El Salvador
  4. Dream Keeper Part II – Carla Bley
  5. Canto del Pilon (I) – traditional from Venezuela
  6. Dream Keeper Part III – Carla Bley
  7. Canto del Pilon (II) – traditional from Venezuela
  8. Hymn of the Anarchist Women’s Movement – traditional from Spanish Civil War
  9. Dream Keeper Part IV – Carla Bley
  10. Rabo de Nube – Silvio Rodríguez
  11. Nkosi Sikelel’i Afrika – Enoch Sontonga
  12. Sandino – Charlie Haden
  13. Spiritual – Charlie Haden

Paul McCartney And Carl Davis: Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Oratorio

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On October 7, 1991, “EMI Classics” label released “Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Oratorio”, a live album by Paul McCartney and Carl Davis. It was recorded in June 1991, at “Liverpool Cathedral” in Liverpool, England, and was produced by John Fraser. The album was released to commemorate the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s 150th anniversary.

Personnel:

  • Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – orchestra
  • Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir – chorus
  • Liverpool Cathedral Choiristers – chorus
  • Carl Davis – conductor
  • Ian Tracey – conductor
  • Kiri Te Kanawa – soprano: Mary Dee
  • Jerry Hadley – tenor: Shanty
  • Sally Burgess – mezzo-soprano: Miss Inkley, Chief Mourner, Nurse
  • Willard White – bass: Headmaster, Preacher, Mr. Dingle
  • Jeremy Budd – treble: Boy soloist

Track listing:

All pieces by Paul McCartney and Carl Davis.

Movement I – War

  1. Andante (Orchestra)
  2. Non Nobis Solum
  3. The Air Raid Siren Slices Through… (Shanty)
  4. Oh Will It All End Here? (Shanty)
  5. Mother and Father Holding Their Child

Movement II – School

  1. We’re Here in School Today to Get a Perfect Education
  2. Walk in Single File Out of the Classroom (Headmaster)
  3. Settle Down
  4. Kept in Confusion (Shanty)
  5. I’ll Always Be Here (Mary Dee)
  6. Boys, This Is Your Teacher (Headmaster, Miss Inkley)
  7. Tres Conejos (Miss Inkley, Headmaster, Shanty)
  8. Not for Ourselves (Headmaster, Miss Inkley, Shanty)

Movement III – Crypt

  1. And So It Was That I Had Grown (Shanty)
  2. Dance
  3. I Used to Come Here When This Place Was a Crypt (Shanty, Preacher)
  4. Here Now (Shanty)
  5. I’ll Always Be Here (Mary Dee, Shanty)
  6. Now’s the Time to Tell Him (Mary Dee, Shanty)

Movement IV – Father

  1. Andante Lamentoso
  2. O Father, You Have Given… (Chief Mourner)
  3. (Ah)
  4. Hey, Wait a Minute (Shanty)
  5. Father, Father, Father (Shanty, Chief Mourner)

Movement V – Wedding

  1. Andante Amoroso – I Know I Should Be Glad of This (Shanty, Mary Dee)
  2. Father, Hear Our Humble Voices (Preacher)
  3. Hosanna, Hosanna (Mary Dee, Shanty)

Movement VI – Work

  1. Allegro Energico
  2. Working Women at the Top (Mary Dee)
  3. Violin Solo
  4. Did I Sign the Letter… (Mary Dee)
  5. Tempo I
  6. When You Ask a Working Man (Shanty, Mr. Dingle)
  7. Let’s Find Ourselves a Little Hostelry (Mr. Dingle)

Movement VII – Crises

  1. Allegro Molto
  2. The World You’re Coming Into (Mary Dee)
  3. Tempo I
  4. Where’s My Dinner? (Shanty, Mary Dee)
  5. Let’s Not Argue (Shanty, Mary Dee)
  6. I’m Not a Slave (Mary Dee, Shanty)
  7. Right! That’s It! (Mary Dee)
  8. Stop. Wait.
  9. Do You Know Who You Are… (Nurse)
  10. Ghosts of the Past Left Behind (Nurse, Shanty, Mary Dee)
  11. Do We Live in a World… (Mary Dee, Nurse, Shanty)

Movement VIII – Peace

  1. And So It Was That You Were Born (Shanty)
  2. God Is Good
  3. What People Want Is a Family Life (Preacher)
  4. Dad’s in the Garden (Nurse, Mary Dee, Preacher, Shanty)
  5. So on and on the Story Goes (Mary Dee, Shanty)

Mickey Hart: Planet Drum

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On September 24, 1991, “Rykodisc” label released “Planet Drum”, the eight Mickey Hart album. It was recorded in 1991, and was produced by Mickey Hart.

Personnel:

  • Mickey Hart – vocals, drums, percussion, balafon, bombo, bones, bass drum, snare, tambourine, triangle, body percussion, goblet drum, whistle, nose flute
  • Sikiru Adepoju – percussion, talking drum, cow bell, bells, djembe, dunun
  • Molonga Casquelord – vocals
  • Frank Colón – shekere
  • Giovanni Hidalgo – bata, shekere, congas
  • Zakir Hussain – tabla, percussion, madal, dunun, shaker, bells, udu, balafon, bass drum, dholak, tarang, conch shell
  • Bruce Langhorne – vocals, body percussion
  • Airto Moreira – vocals, voice, tambourine, berimbau, chimes, percussion, conch, whistle, handclaps, caxixi, rattle, cymbal, shaker, wood block, tom tom, rainstick, Earth drum, clackers, duggi tarang, body shaker, conch, gong
  • Caryl Ohrbach – shaker
  • Babatunde Olatunji – vocals, shaker, bells, congas, djembe, handclaps, body percussion, ashiko
  • Flora Purim – vocals, voice, wind chimes, shaker
  • Gordy Ryan – vocals, body percussion
  • Jeff Sterling – udu
  • T.H. “Vikku” Vinayakram – ghatam, Jew’s harp
  • Sikiru Adepoju, Zakir Hussain, Airto Moreira, Babatunde Olatunji, Flora Purim, T.H. “Vikku” Vinayakram – co-producers
  • Tom Flye, Jeff Sterling – recording, mixing
  • Paul Stubblebine – digital mastering
  • Howard Jacobsen – art direction
  • Nancy Nimoy – cover illustration
  • Howard Cohen – production manager
  • Ram Rod, Rudson Shurtliff – equipment manager
  • Jack Crymes – technical support

Track listing:

  1. Udu Chant – Sikiru Adepoju, Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, Airto Moreira
  2. Island Groove – Sikiru Adepoju, Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, Airto Moreira, Babatunde Olatunji
  3. Light Over Shadow – Airto Moreira, Babatunde Olatunji, Flora Purim
  4. Dance of the Hunter’s Fire – Sikiru Adepoju, Airto Moreira, Babatunde Olatunji, Frank Colón, Airto Purim, Giovanni Hidalgo, T.H. “Vikku” Vinayakram
  5. Jewe (You are the One) – Babatunde Olatunji
  6. The Hunt – Sikiru Adepoju, Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, Airto Moreira, Babatunde Olatunji, T.H. “Vikku” Vinayakram
  7. Temple Caves – Sikiru Adepoju, Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, Airto Moreira, Babatunde Olatunji
  8. The Dancing Sorcerer – Zakir Hussain, Airto Moreira
  9. Bones – Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, Babatunde Olatunji, Flora Purim
  10. Lost River – Sikiru Adepoju, Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, Airto Moreira, Babatunde Olatunji, Flora Purim
  11. Evening Samba – Sikiru Adepoju, Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, Airto Moreira, Olatunji, T. H. “Vikku” Vinayakram
  12. Iyanu (Surprises) – Babatunde Olatunji
  13. Mysterious Island – Mickey Hart, Airto Moreira, Flora Purim, Jeff Sterling

Everything But The Girl: Worldwide

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On September 23, 1991, “Blanco y Negro” label released “Worldwide”, the sixth Everything but the Girl studio album. It was recorded in 1991, at “Livingston Recording Studios” in London.

Personnel:

  • Tracey Thorn – vocals
  • Greg Lester – guitar
  • Ben Watt – synthesizer, guitar, synthesizer bass, piano, organ, drum, sound programming, backing vocals
  • Damon Butcher – piano
  • Peter Murray – organ
  • Geoff Gascoyne – bass
  • Steve Pearce – bass
  • Ralph Salmins – drums, cymbals, percussion
  • Vinnie Colaiuta – drums
  • Martin Ditcham – percussion
  • Dick Oatts – alto and soprano saxophone
  • Pete Whyman – tenor saxophone
  • James McMillan – flugelhorn, trumpet
  • Jerry Boys – engineer
  • Richard Haughton – cover photography

Track listing:

  1. Old Friends – Ben Watt
  2. Understanding – Tracey Thorn, Ben Watt
  3. You Lift Me Up – Tracey Thorn
  4. Talk to Me Like the Sea – Ben Watt
  5. British Summertime – Tracey Thorn, BenWatt
  6. Twin Cities – Ben Watt
  7. Frozen River – Ben Watt
  8. One Place – Tracey Thorn
  9. Politics Aside – Ben Watt
  10. Boxing and Pop Music – Ben Watt
  11. Feel Alright – Ben Watt

Ween: The Pod

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On September 20, 1991, “Shimmy-Disc” label released “The Pod”, the second Ween studio album. It was recorded January – October 1990, at “The Pod” in Solebury, Township, Pennsylvania, and was produced by Andrew Weiss.

Personnel:

  • Dean Ween (Michael Melchiondo Jr.) – vocals, guitar, engineer, art direction
  • Gene Ween (Aaron Freeman) – vocals, guitar, engineer, art direction
  • Mean Ween – bass
  • Andrew Weiss – mixing
  • Howie Weinberg – remastering
  • Michael McGrath – art direction
  • Logorythms – cover art, design

Track listing:

All tracks by Dean Ween and Gene Ween.

  1. Strap on That Jammy Pac
  2. Dr. Rock
  3. Frank
  4. Sorry Charlie
  5. The Stallion (Pt. 1)
  6. Pollo Asado
  7. Right to the Ways and the Rules of the World
  8. Captain Fantasy
  9. Demon Sweat
  10. Molly
  11. Can U Taste the Waste?
  12. Don’t Sweat It
  13. Awesome Sound
  14. Laura
  15. Boing
  16. Mononucleosis
  17. Oh My Dear (Falling in Love)
  18. Sketches of Winkle
  19. Alone
  20. Moving Away
  21. She Fucks Me
  22. Pork Roll Egg and Cheese
  23. The Stallion (Pt. 2)

John Hicks: Steadfast

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On September 19, 1991, “Strata-East” and “Bellaphon” labels released “Steadfast”, album by John Hicks. It was recorded in May 1975, in London.

Personnel:

  • John Hicks – piano
  • Duncan Stanbury – digital transfer
  • Malcolm Addey – digital mastering
  • Ulrich Hofmann – design
  • Manfred Rinderspacher – photography

Track listing:

  1. One for Mixon – John Hicks
  2. Lush Life – Billy Strayhorn
  3. Pensativa – Clare Fischer
  4. Sophisticated Lady – Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Mitchell Parish
  5. Hamp’s Dance – John Hicks
  6. My One and Only Love – Robert Mellin, Guy Wood
  7. Steadfast – John Hicks
  8. Serenade – J. Walters
  9. Without a Song – Vincent Youmans
  10. In a Sentimental Mood – Duke Ellington, Manny Kurtz
  11. Soul Eyes – Mat Waldron
  12. A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square – Eric Maschwitz, Manning Sherwin
  13. The Bright Eyes – John Hicks