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Robert Glasper: Double Booked

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On August 25, 2009, “Blue Note” label released “Double Booked”, the fourth Robert Glasper studio album. It was recorded in 2009, at “System Two” and “Brooklyn Recording” in New York, and was produced by Robert Glasper.

Personnel:

  • Robert Glasper – piano, electric piano
  • Vicente Archer – double bass 
  • Derrick Hodge – bass guitar 
  • Casey Benjamin – alto saxophone, vocoder
  • Terence Blanchard – voice 
  • Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson – voice 
  • Bilal Oliver – vocals
  • Dante “Mos Def” Smith – rap vocals 
  • Jahi Sundance – scratches
  • Joe Marciano – recording, mixing 
  • Keith “Qmillion” Lewis – recording, mixing 
  • Mike Marciano – mastering
  • Konstantin Dzhibilov – art direction, design
  • Joey Lawrence – photography
  • Marques Green – additional photography
  • Eli Wolf – A&R
  • Gordon H Jee – creative director
  • Shanieka D. Brooks – product management

Track listing:

The Robert Glasper Trio

All tracks by Robert Glasper except where noted.

  1. Intro
  2. No Worries
  3. Yes I’m Country (And That’s OK)
  4. Downtime
  5. 59 South
  6. Think of One – Thelonious Monk

The Robert Glasper Experiment

  1. 4eva – Robert Glasper, Dante Smith
  2. Butterfly – Herbie Hancock, Benjamin Maupin, Jean Hancock
  3. Festival – Robert Glasper
  4. For You – Sameer Gupta, Casey Benjamin
  5. All Matter – Bilal Sayeed Oliver
  6. Open Mind – Derric Hodge

Aaron Parks: Invisible Cinema

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On August 19, 2009, “Blue Note” label released “Invisible Cinema”, the fifth Aaron Parks album. It was recorded in January 2008, at “Brooklyn Recording” and was produced by Aaron Parks and Michele Locatelli.

Personnel:

  • Aaron Parks – piano, mellotron, glockenspiel, synthesizers
  • Mike Moreno – guitar
  • Matt Penman – bass
  • Eric Harland – drums

Track listing:

  1. Travelers
  2. Peaceful Warrior
  3. Nemesis
  4. Riddle Me This
  5. Into the Labyrinth
  6. Karma
  7. Roadside Distraction
  8. Harvesting Dance
  9. Praise
  10. Afterglow

Fire!: You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago

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On August 10, 2009, “Rune Grammofon” label released “You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago”, the debut Fire! album. It was recorded in 2009, at “Summa” in Stockholm, Sweden, and was produced by Johan Berthling, Andreas Werllin and Mats Gustafsson.

Personnel:

  • Mats Gustafsson – tenor and baritone saxophone, Fender Rhodes, electronics
  • Johan Berthling – double and electric bass, electric guitar, Hammond organ, recording, mixing
  • Andreas Werllin – drums, percussion, recording, mixing
  • Mariam Wallentin – vocal
  • Joachim Ekermann – mastering
  • Kim Hiorthøy – design
  • Robert Creeley – titles inspired by

Track listing:

All tracks by Johan Berthling, Andreas Werllin and Mats Gustafsson.

  1. If I Took Your Hand
  2. But Sometimes I Am
  3. Can I Hold You for a Minute?
  4. You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago

Mouse On The Keys: An Anxious

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On July 8, 2009, “Machu Picchu Industrias” label released “An Anxious”, the debut Mouse on the Keys album. It was recorded in 2009, and was produced by Atsushi Kiyota, Daisuke Niitome, Takaaki Mino, Keisuke Ikeda and Akira Kawasaki.

Personnel:

  • Atsushi Kiyota, Daisuke Niitome – piano, keyboards, arrangements
  • Keisuke Ikeda – piano, arrangements, film producer
  • Akira Kawasaki – drums, piano, arrangements
  • Jun Nemoto – saxophone
  • Daisuke Sasaki – trumpet
  • Takaaki Mino – arrangements

Track listing:

  1. Completed Nihilism
  2. Spectres De Mouse
  3. Seiren
  4. Dirty Realism
  5.  Forgotten Children
  6. Unflex
  7. Double Bind
  8. Soil
  9. Ouroboros

Karnivool: Sound Awake

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On June 5, 2009, “Cymatic: label released “Sound Awake” , the second Karnivool studio album. It was recorded in 2009, at “Blackbird / Kingdom Studios” in Perth,  Australia, and was produced by Forrester Savell.

Personnel:

  • Drew Goddard – guitar, backing vocals
  • Ian Kenny – vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Mark Hosking – guitar, backing vocals
  • Jon Stockman – bass
  • Steve Judd – drums, percussion
  • Jason Bunn – viola 
  • Grant McCulloch – additional vocals
  • Javin Sun – additional vocals
  • Jessop Maticevski-Shumack – additional vocals
  • Jules Pacy-Cole – additional vocals
  • Talfryn Dawlings – additional vocals
  • Zak Hanyn – additional vocals
  • Sam Pilot Kickett – didgeridoo
  • Louise Conray – additional percussion
  • Prue Glenn – conductor
  • Chris Frey – concept, design
  • Dave Parkin – mixing
  • Forrester Savell – mixing
  • Rick Mafferty – mixing assistant
  • Tom Coyne – mastering
  • Nicole Norelli – photography

Track listing:

  1. Simple Boy
  2. Goliath
  3. New Day
  4. Set Fire to the Hive
  5. Ubra
  6. All I Know
  7. The medicine Wears Off
  8. The Caudal Lure
  9. Illumine
  10. Deadman
  11. Change (part 2)

Lazuli: Réponse Incongrue À L’Inéluctable

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On May 23, 2009, “Eclats Production” label released “Réponse Incongrue À L’Inéluctable”, the fourth Lazuli album.

Personnel:

  • Dominique Leonetti – vocals, guitars
  • Gédéric Byar – guitar
  • Claude Leonetti – Léode
  • Sylvain Bayol – Chapman stick, warr guitar
  • Yohan Siméon – percussion, métalophone, guitar
  • Frédéric Juan – marimba, vibes, percussion
  • Jean Pascal Boffo – guitar, programming

Track listing:

  1. Abime
  2. On Nous Ment Comme On Respire
  3. La Vie Par La Face Nord
  4. Aimants
  5. Toujours Un Gars Sur Un Pont
  6. Prologue
  7. La Belle Noirceur
  8. Epilogue
  9. L’Essentiel

Kronos Quartet: Floodplain

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On May 19, 2009, “Nonesuch” label released “Floodplain”, the 44th Kronos Quartet (The) album. It was recorded August 2007 – October 2008, at “Architecture” in Los Angeles, “Ramadan Nights Festival” in Barbican Centre, London, “Skywalker Sound” in Nicasio, California, “Whip Records” in Berkeley, California  and was produced by David Harrington.

Personnel:

  • David Harrington – violin, arrangements
  • John Sherba – violin, arrangements
  • Hank Dutt – viola, arrangements
  • Jeffrey Zeigler – cello, arrangements
  • Osvaldo Golijov – arrangements
  • Jacob Garchik – arrangements
  • Stephen Prutsman – arrangements
  • Alim Qasimov – arrangements
  • Ljiva – arrangements
  • Scott Fraser – engineer
  • Adam Whitford – engineer
  • Scott Fraser – engineer
  • Dann Thompson – engineer assistant
  • David Landon – engineer assistant
  • Dann Thompson – engineer assistant
  • Jeanne Velonis – editing assistant
  • Judith Sherman – producer

Track listing:

  1. Ya Habibi Ta’ala – Midhat Assem
  2. Tashweesh – Ramallah Underground
  3. Wa Habibi – traditional
  4. Getme, Getme – Said Rustamov
  5. Raga Mishra Bhairavi: Alap – Ram Narayan
  6. Oh Mother, the Handsome Man Tortures Me – unknown
  7. Mugam Beyati Shiraz – Rahman Asadollahi
  8. Lullaby – traditional
  9. Nihavent Sirto – Tanburi Cemil Bey
  10. Kara Kemir – Kuat Shildebaev
  11. Tèw semagn hagèré – Alèmu Aga
  12. …Hold Me, Heighbor, in This Storm.. – Aleksandra Vrebalov

Samsara Blues Experiment: Long Distance Trip

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On March 31, 2010, “World In Sound” label released “Long Distance Trip”, the second Samsara Blues Experiment album. It was recorded in 2009, at “Big Snuff Studio” in Berlin, Germany, and was produced by Richard Behrens.

Personnel:

  • Christian Peters – vocals, guitar, sitar, recording, mixing
  • Hans Eiselt – guitar, recording, mixing
  • Richard Behrens – bass, engineer, recording, mixing
  • Thomas Vedder – drums, recording, mixing
  • Matthias Schauble – mastering
  • SST – lacquer cut

Track listing:

  1. Singata Mystic Queen
  2. Army of Ignorance
  3. For the Lost Souls
  4. Wheel of Time
  5. Double Freedom

PJ Harvey & John Parish: A Woman A Man Walked By

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On March 27, 2009, “Island” label released “A Woman a Man Walked By”, the second PJ Harvey and John Parish album. It was recorded January 2006 – September 2008, at “Toybox Studios” and “Honorsound” in Bristol, England, “Hothead Studios” in New York City, and was produced by Flood, PJ Harvey and John Parish.

Personnel:

  • Polly Jean Harvey – vocals
  • John Parish – guitars, drums, organ, ukulele, banjo
  • Giovanni Ferrario – guitar, bass guitar
  • Eric Drew Feldman – bass guitar
  • Carla Azar – drums
  • Jean-Marc Butty – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by PJ Harvey and John Parish.

  1. Black Hearted Love
  2. Sixteen, Fifteen, Fourteen
  3. Leaving California
  4. The Chair
  5. April
  6. A Woman a Man Walked By/The Crow Knows Where All the Little Children G
  7. The Soldier
  8. Pig Will Not
  9. Passionless, Pointless
  10. Cracks in the Canvas

Gazpacho: Tick Tock

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On March 14, 2009, Gazpacho self-released “Tick Tock”, bands fifth album. It was recorded in 2008, and was produced by Jan Henrik Ohme, Jon-Arne Vilbo, Thomas Andersen, Kristian Olav Torp, Robert Risberget Johansen and Mikael Krømer.

Personnel:

  • Jan Henrik Ohme – vocals, arrangements
  • Jon-Arne Vilbo – guitar, arrangements
  • Thomas Andersen – keyboards, arrangements
  • Kristian Olav Torp – bass, arrangements
  • Robert Risberget Johansen – drums, arrangements
  • Mikael Krømer – violin, mandolin, arrangements
  • M. Krømer, R. Johansen, T. Andersen – mixing
  • Antonio Seijas Cruz – artwork, design
  • Jeroen Bos – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Jan Henrik Ohme, Jon-Arne Vilbo, Thomas Andersen, Kristian Olav Torp, Robert Risberget Johansen and Mikael Krømer.

  1. Desert Flight

The Walk

  • Part I
  • Part II

Tick Tock

  • Part I
  • Part II
  • Part III
  • Winter Is Never