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Van Morrison: Pay The Devil

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Pay the Devil

On March 6, 2006, “Lost Highway” label released “Pay the Devil”, the thirty-second Van Morrison studio album. It was recorded in 2005, and was produced by Van Morrison. The album features twelve cover versions of American country and western songs and three original compositions.

Personnel:

  • Van Morrison – vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Crawford Bell – vocals
  • Trionagh Moore- vocals
  • Olwin Bell – vocals
  • Karen Hamill – vocals
  • Aine Whelan – vocals
  • Leon McCrum – vocals
  • Paul Godden – guitar, steel guitar
  • Mick Green- guitar
  • Johnny Scott – vocals, guitar
  • Geraint Watkins- piano
  • Paul Riley- acoustic bass
  • Ian Jennings – double bass
  • Nicky Scott – electric bass
  • Bobby Irwin – drums
  • Bob Loveday – violin
  • Fiachra Trench- vocals, string arrangements
  • Gavyn Wright- string section leader

Track listing:

  1. There Stands the Glass – Alize Gresham, Russ Hull, Mary Jane , Shurtz
  2. Half as Much – Curly Williams
  3. Things Have Gone to Pieces – Leon Payne
  4. Big Blue Diamonds – Earl J. Carson
  5. Playhouse – Van Morrison
  6. Your Cheatin’ Heart – Hank Williams
  7. Don’t You Make Me High – Daniel Barker, Ken Harris
  8. My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It – Clarence Williams
  9. Back Street Affair – Billy Wallace
  10. Pay the Devil – Van Morrison
  11. What Am I Living For? – Art Harris, Fred Jay
  12. This Has Got to Stop – Van Morrison
  13. Once a Day – Bill Anderson
  14. More and More – Merle Kilgore, Webb Pierce
  15. Til I Gain Control Again – Rodney Crowell

Belle And Sebastian: The Life Pursuit

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The life pursuit

On February 7, 2006, “Rough Trade” label released “The Life Pursuit”, album by Belle and Sebastian. It was recorded in 2005, and was produced by Tony Hoffer. In 2009 “Pitchfork Media” ranked it the 86th greatest album of the 2000s.

Personnel:

  • Stuart Murdoch– vocals, electric and acoustic guitar, keyboards
  • Stevie Jackson– vocals, electric and acoustic guitar
  • Chris Geddes– keyboards
  • Richard Colburn– drums, percussion
  • Sarah Martin– keyboards, electric and acoustic guitar, violin, flute, vocals
  • Bobby Kildea– guitar, bass
  • Mick Cooke– trumpet, guitar, bass

All tracks by Belle & Sebastian.

  1. Act of the Apostle
  2. Another Sunny day
  3. White Collar Boy
  4. The Blues Are Still Blue
  5. Dress Up In You
  6. Sukie In the Graveyard
  7. We Are the Sleepyheads
  8. Song for Sunshine
  9. Funny Little Frog
  10. To Be Myself Completely
  11. Act of the Apostle II
  12. For the Price of a Cup of Tea
  13. Mornington Crescent

Beth Orton: Comfort Of Strangers

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Beth Orton

On February 7, 2006, “Astralwerks / EMI” label released “Comfort of Strangers”, the fourth Beth Orton studio album.  It was recorded in 2005, at “Sear Sound Studio” in New York, and was produced by Jim O’Rourke.

Personnel:

  • Beth Orton – guitar, piano, harmonica, illustrations
  • Jim O’Rourke – bass, piano, marimba
  • Tim Barnes – drums
  • T. J. Doherty – engineer
  • Chris Allen – engineer assistant
  • Ellen Nolan – photography
  • Micaela Rossato – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Beth Orton, except the title track by Beth Orton, Jim O’Rourke and M. Ward.

  1. Worms
  2. Countenance
  3. Heartland Truckstop
  4. Rectify
  5. Comfort of Strangers
  6. Shadow of a Doubt
  7. Conceived
  8. Absinthe
  9. A Place Aside
  10. Safe in Your Arms
  11. Shopping Trolley
  12. Feral Children
  13. Heart of Soul
  14. Pieces of Sky

 

 

 

 

Sparks: Hello Young Lovers

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On February 6, 2006, “In the Red” label released “Hello Young Lovers”, the 20th Sparks album. It  was recorded in 2005, at the “Sparks Studio” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Ron Mael and Russell Mael.

Personnel:

  • Ron Mael- keyboards, orchestrations
  • Russell Mael- vocals
  • Dean Menta- guitars
  • Jim Wilson – guitar
  • Steve McDonald – bass
  • Tammy Glover- drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Ron Mael and Russell Mael, except where noted.

  1. Dick Around
  2. Perfume
  3. The Very Next Fight
  4. (Baby, Baby) Can I Invade Your Country – Ron Mael, Russell Mael, Francis Scott Key (additional lyrics)
  5. Rock, Rock, Rock
  6. Metaphor
  7. Waterpool
  8. Here Kitty
  9. There’s No Such Thing as Aliens
  10. As I Sit to Play The Organ at the Notre Dame Cathedral

Queen: Innuendo

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On February 4, 1991,”Parlaphone” released “Innuendo”, the fourteenth Queen studio album. It was recorded March 1989 – November 1990,  at “Metropolis Studios” in London and “Mountain Studios” in Montreux, and was produced by Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, John Deacon and David Richards. “Innuendo” was the final studio album to be released in Freddie Mercury’s lifetime and is the last to be composed entirely of new material. “Innuendo” was voted the 94th greatest album of all time in a national 2006 “BBC” poll.

Personnel:

  • Freddie Mercury– lead and backing vocals, piano, keyboards
  • Brian May– electric, slide and classical guitars, keyboards, piano, backing vocals
  • Roger Taylor– drums, lead vocals, percussion, keyboards, backing vocals
  • John Deacon– bass guitar
  • Steve Howe– classical guitar
  • Michael Moran– piano and keyboards
  • David Richards – keyboards
  • Richard Gray –design
  • Grandville – illustrations
  • Angela Lumley – additional illustrations
  • Simon Fowler –photography

All tracks by Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon, except where noted.

  1. Innuendo
  2. I’m Going Slightly Mad
  3. Headlong
  4. I Can’t Live With You
  5. Don’t Try So Hard
  6. Ride the Wild Wind
  7. All God’s People – Mike Moran, Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon
  8. These Are the Days of Our Lives
  9. Delilah
  10. The Hitman
  11. Bijou
  12. The Show Must Go On

New Order: Technique

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On January 30, 1989, “Factory” label released “Technique”, the fifth New Order studio album.  It was recorded in 1988, at “Mediterranean Studios” in Ibiza and “Real World Studios”, and was produced by Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert. In 2013 “NME” ranked “Technique” at number 122 on its list of “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time”. In 2006 “Q” magazine ranked the album at No. 21 on its list of the “40 Best Albums of the ’80s”.

Personnel:

  • Bernard Sumner– vocals, guitars, melodica, synthesizers, programming
  • Gillian Gilbert– synthesizers, programming, guitars
  • Peter Hook– bass, electronic percussion, synthesizers, programming
  • Stephen Morris– drums, synthesizers, programming
  • Trevor Key – design
  • Peter Saville – design

Track listing:

All tracks by Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert.

  1. Fine Time
  2. All the Way
  3. Love Less
  4. Round & Round
  5. Guilty Painter
  6. Run
  7. Mr. Disco
  8. Vanishing Point
  9. Dream Attack

Arctic Monkeys: Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not

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On January 23, 2006, “Domino” label released “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not”, the debut Arctic Monkeys studio album.  It was recorded June – September 2005, and was produced by Jim Abbiss and Alan Smyth. With sale of more than 360.000, copies in its first week, the album become the fastest selling debut album in British music history and  has gone quintu platinum in the UK. In 2006 it received the “Mercury Prize for Best Album”. In 2013, magazine “Rolling Stone” ranked “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not” at number 371 on its list of “500 Greatest Albums of All Time”, and the 30th greatest debut album of all time. In October 2013, magazine “New Musical  Express” ranked the album at number 19 in ist poll of the “500 greatest albums of all time”.

Personnel:

  • Alex Turner- lead vocals, guitar
  • Jamie Cook- guitars, backing vocals
  • Andy Nicholson- bass, backing vocals
  • Matt Helders- drums, percussion, co-lead vocals, backing vocals
  • Juno Liverpool – design
  • Alexandra Wolkowicz – photography
  • Andy Brown – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Alex Turner, except where noted.

  1. The View from the Afternoon
  2. I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
  3. Fake Tales of San Francisco
  4. Dancing Shoes
  5. You Probably Couldn’t See for the Lights But You Were Staring Straight at Me
  6. Still Take You Home
  7. Riot Van
  8. Red Light Indicates Doors Are Secured
  9. Mardy Bum
  10. Perhaps Vampires is a Bit Strong But…
  11. From the Ritz to the Rubble
  12. A Certain Romance

Richard Ashcroft: Keys To The World

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On January 23, 2006, “Parlaphone” label released “Keys to the World”, the third Richard Ashcroft studio album. It was recorded in 2005, at the “State of the Ark”, and was produced by Chris Potter and Richard Ashcroft.

Personnel:

  • Richard Ashcroft – vocals, guitar, keyboards, design
  • Terry Britten – guitar, mandolin, bass
  • Martin Slattery – piano
  • Arnie Somogyi, John Giblin, Martin Campbell – bass
  • Gerry Conway, Pete Salisbury, Steve Sidelnyk – drums
  • Jon Hunt – saxophone, flute
  • Nick Cooper – cello
  • Andrew Haveron, Andy Brown, Ben Nabarro, Cathy Giles, Chris Fish, Chris Vanderspar, David Juritz, Debbie Widdup, Edward Vanderspar, Fenella Barton, Helen Hathorn, Joel Hunter, Jonathan Tunnell, Laura Mellhuish, Martin Burgess, Matthew Ward, Nick Holland, Nick Cooper, Rachel Roberts, Richard George, Tom Kemp – strings
  • Julian Kershaw – string arrangements
  • Chris West – programming, recording
  • Dario Dendi, Dom Morley, Gareth Cobb, Iain Gore, Matt Paul, Rico Petrillo, Rohan Onraet, Will Usher – engineer
  • Andy Baldwin, Dan Massey – editing
  • Chris Potter – programming, recording, mixing
  • Tony Cousins – mastering
  • Sonny Ashcroft – painting
  • Max Dodson – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Richard Ashcroft, except where noted.

  1. Why Not Nothing?
  2. Music Is Power – Richard Ashcroft, Curtis Mayfield
  3. Break the Night with Colour
  4. Words Just Get in the Way
  5. Keys to the World
  6. Sweet Brother Malcolm
  7. Cry Til the Morning
  8. Why Do Lovers?
  9. Simple Song
  10. World Keeps Turning

Elvin Jones

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On May 18, 2004, Elvin Ray Jones died aged 77. He was musician (drums), performed with  Charles Mingus, Teddy Charles, Bud Powell and Miles Davis, but he is best known as a member of the John Coltrane quartet (from 1960 to 1966) along with Jimmy Garrison on bass and McCoy Tyner on piano, in the celebrated recording phase including the album “A love supreme”. Jones recorded with numerous artists including Art Farmer, J.J. Johnson, Aaron Bell, Tommy Flanagan, Paul Chambers, Pepper Adams, Kenny Burrell, Sonny Rollins, Thad Jones, Idris Sulieman, Mal Waldron, Steve Lacy, Bernie Green, Hank Jones, Jimmy Forest, Randy Weston, Curtis Fuller, Gil Evans, Harry Lookofsky, Julian Priester, Barry Harris, Clifford Jordan, Sonny Red, Yusef Lateef, Lee Konitz, Freddie Hubbard, Pony Poindexter, Duke Ellington, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Woods, Andrew Hill, Stan Getz, Bill Evans, Bob Brookmeyer, Wayne Shorter, Grant Green, Joe Henderson, Larry Young, Roland Kirk, Earl Hines, Jaki Byard, Larry Coryell, Ornette Coleman, Barney Kessel, Phineas Newborn Jr, Allen Ginsberg, Joe Farrell, Frank Foster, Billy Harper, Elek Bacsik, Oregon, Jimmy Rowles, Chico Freeman, Ray Brown, Pharaoh Sanders, Lew Soloff, James Williams, Marcus Roberts, Kenny Garrett, David Murray, Sonny Sharrock, Javon Jackson, Robert Hurst, John McLaughlin, Shirley Horn, Joe Lovano, Steve Griggs, Michael Brecker, Gary LeMel and Stefano di Battista, becoming one of the most recorded artists of all time.  As leader, Jones released 48 albums.