Tag Archives: 2009

These New Puritans: Hidden

On January 18, 2010, “Angular” label released “Hidden”, the second These New Puritans studio album. It was recorded in 2009, in London and Prague, and was produced by Jack Barnett and Graham Sutton.

Personnel:

  • Jack Barnett – vocals, keyboards, electric guitar, synthesizer, drums, gong, taiko, handclaps, noises, programming, arrangements
  • Thomas Hein – electric guitar
  • Faith Leadbetter – piano, prepared piano
  • George Barnett – drums, tom tom, taiko, tamborim, art direction, design
  • Hugh Wilkinson – glockenspiel, vibraphone
  • Guglielmo Baldini – trumpet
  • Jiři Novotný – baritone horn
  • Katie Pryce, Pavel Jirásek, Zdeněk Vasina – French horn
  • Aleš Hustoles, Tomáš Hustoles – clarinet
  • Katie Emma Black – clarinet, bass clarinet
  • Kamil Doležal – bass clarinet
  • Vit Korinek – trombone
  • Mark Rudland – trombone, bass trombone
  • Petr Čihák – bass trombone
  • Tomáš Frantis – bassoon
  • Jackie Hayter, Pavel Rytina – contrabassoon
  • Hynek Doležal – flugelhorn
  • Robert Heger – alto flute
  • Daniel Trodden, Lumir Maryška – tuba
  • New London Children’s Choir
  • Ronald Corp – choir conductor
  • Robert Brauner – conductor
  • Alex Gibson – choir directed
  • Ryan Lott – mbira, arrangements
  • Phill Brown – engineer
  • Michael Vaniš – engineer
  • Dave Cooley – mixing
  • Tom Loffman – mixing
  • Stuart Hawkes – mastering
  • Edward Quarmby – design
  • Daniel Askill, Steven Haddock – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Jack Barnett, except where noted.

  1. Time Xone
  2. We Want War – Jack Barnett, Richard Rodney Bennet, John Rutter, Cambridge Singers
  3. Three Thousand
  4.  Hologram
  5. Attack Music – Jack Barnett, Thomas Hein
  6. Fire Power
  7. Orion
  8. Canticle
  9. Drum Courts–Where Corals Lie – Jack Barnett, Sir Edward Elgar, Richard Garnett
  10. White Chords
  11. 5

Chelsea Wolfe: The Grime And The Glow

On December 28, 2020, “Pendu Sound” label released “The Grime and the Glow”, the debut Chelsea Wolfe studio album. It was recorded 2009 – 2010, and was produced by Chelsea Wolfe.

Personnel:

  • Chelsea Wolfe – vocals, guitar
  • Kevin Dockter – lead guitar
  • Ben Chisholm – piano
  • Addison Quarles – bass guitar
  • Drew Walker – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Chelsea Wolfe.

  1. Advice & Vices
  2. Cousins of the Antichrist
  3. Moses
  4. Deep Talks
  5. Fang
  6. Benjamin
  7. The Whys
  8. Nnorus
  9. Halfsleeper
  10. Bounce House demons
  11. Widow

The Flaming Lips: The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing the Dark Side of the Moon

On December 22, 2009, “Warner Bros” label released “The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing the Dark Side of the Moon”, the 14th Flaming Lips (The) album. It was recorded in 2009, and was produced by Wayne Coyne, Steven Drozd, Michael Ivins and Kliph Scurlock.

Personnel:

  • Wayne Coyne – vocals, guitar, keyboard
  • Steven Drozd – vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass, drums
  • Michael Ivins – bass, keyboards, backing vocals
  • Kliph Scurlock – drums, percussion
  • Dennis Coyne – vocals, guitar, keyboard
  • James Young – guitar
  • Casey Joseph – bass, keyboard
  • Matt Duckworth – drums, percussion
  • Henry Rollins – vocals
  • Peaches – vocals

Track listing:

  1. Speak to Me/Breathe
  2. On the Run
  3. Time/Breathe (reprise)
  4. The Great Gig in the Sky
  5. Money
  6. Us and Them
  7. Any Colour You Like
  8. Brian Damage
  9. Eclipse

Gerry Rafferty: Life Goes On

On November 30, 2009, “Hypertension Music” label released “Life Goes On”, the tenth Gerry Rafferty album, and the last one released in his lifetime. It was recorded in 2009, at  “Icon Studios” in East Sussex, England, “Studio Miraval” in France, “Blue Wave Recording Studios” in St. Philip, Barbados, “Parkgate Studios” in Sussex, England, “Chipping Norton Studios” in Oxfordshire, England, “Tye Farm”, “The Hit Factory”, “Skibo Castle” in Dornoch, Sutherland, Scotland, and was produced by Hugh Murphy and Gerry Rafferty.

Personnel:

  • Gerry Rafferty – lead, harmony and backing vocals, acoustic, electric and high-string guitar, piano, electric piano, organ, synthesizer, programming
  • Bryn Haworth – guitar, slide guitar, bottleneck guitar
  • Hugh Burns – electric guitar
  • Mark Knopfler – electric guitar
  • Jerry Donahue – electric rhythm guitar
  • B. J. Cole – pedal steel guitar
  • Pavel Rosak – keyboards, bass guitar, drums, percussion, brass, marimba, drum programming
  • Kenny Craddock – Hammond organ, keyboards, synthesizer
  • Alan Clark – Hammond organ, keyboards, synthesizer
  • Ian Lynn – keyboards, strings
  • Pino Palladino – bass guitar
  • Mo Foster – bass guitar, fretless bass guitar
  • Giles Twigg – drums, percussion, guitar, bass guitar, reading from Digital Delirium, programming, engineer
  • Arran Ahmun – drums, percussion, hi-hat, cymbal, tambourine, toms, cowbell, congas, talking drum, agogô, finger cymbals
  • Mell Collins – saxophone
  • Arturo Tappin – saxophone
  • Gavyn Wright – strings
  • Andy Patterson – bells, programing, engineer
  • Joe Egan – backing vocals
  • Lianne Carroll – backing vocals
  • Julian Littman – backing vocals
  • Melanie Harrold – backing vocals
  • Nicky Moore – backing vocals
  • Cindy Legall – backing vocals
  • Tamara Marshall – backing vocals
  • Ronnie Rehse – German reading
  • Andrew Jackman – bassoon, horn, oboe, string arrangements
  • Doug Cook – engineer, engineer assistant
  • Brad Davis – engineer
  • Philipe Garcia – engineer
  • Jean Jacques Lemoine – engineer
  • Chris Potter – engineer
  • Dan Priest – engineer, mixing
  • Brian Europe – vocal engineering, engineer assistant
  • Tom Gonzales – vocal engineering
  • Barry Hammond – drum engineering, additional engineering
  • Hugh Murphy – recording, engineer
  • Mike Ross – string recording
  • Tim Young – additional engineering
  • Zahir Kahn – engineer assistant
  • Martin Raymond – engineer assistant

Track listing:

All tracks by Gerry Rafferty, except where noted.

  1. Kyrie Eleison – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  2. The Waters of Forgetfulness – (new edit)
  3. Don’t Speak of My Heart – Gerry Rafferty, Jim Rafferty
  4. Because – John Lennon, Paul McCartney
  5. Everytime I Wake Up (new edit) – Gerry Rafferty, with a reading from Rainer Maria Rilke
  6. Love and Affection (new edit) 
  7. The Land of the Chosen Few (new edit) 
  8. Life Goes On (new edit)
  9. Another World (new edit)
  10. Time’s Caught Up on You (new edit)
  11. Conscious Love
  12. Over My Head
  13. Hang On
  14. It’s Easy to Talk
  15. The Maid of Culmore – traditional
  16. Your Heart’s Desire
  17. Adeste Fidelis – traditional
  18. Silent Night

Them Crooked Vultures: Same

On November 13, 2009, “Interscope” label released the self-titled, only Them Crooked Vultures album. It was recorded January – August 2009, at “Pink Duck Studios” in Burbank, California, “Chalice Studios” in Hollywood, and was produced by Josh Homme, John Paul Jones and Dave Grohl.

Personnel:

  • Josh Homme – vocals, guitars
  • John Paul Jones – bass guitar, keyboards, piano, clavinet, optigan, mandolin, backing vocals
  • Dave Grohl – drums, percussion, backing vocals
  • Alain Johannes – backing vocals, guitar overdubs, recording
  • Alan Moulder – recording, mixing
  • Justin Smith – recording assistant
  • Chris Kaysch – mixing assistant
  • Brian Gardner – mastering
  • Mike Bozzi – mastering assistant
  • Morning Breath – art direction
  • Liam Lynch – artwork, graphic design

Track listing:

All tracks by Josh Homme, John Paul Jones and Dave Grohl.

  1. No One Loves Me & Neither Do I
  2. Mind Eraser, No Chaser
  3. New Fang
  4. Dead End Friends
  5. Elephants
  6. Scumbag Blues
  7. Bandoliers
  8. Reptiles
  9. Interlude with Ludes
  10. Warsaw or the First Breath You take After You Give Up
  11. Caligulove
  12. Gunman
  13. Spinning in Daffodils

Atlas Sound: Logos

On October 19, 2009, “4AD” label released “Logos”, the second Atlas Sound studio album. It was recorded in 2009, at “Park Avenue Studio”, “Notown Sound” and “Press Play Studios” in London, and “Soma Electronic Music Studios” in Chicago, and was produced by Bradford Cox.

Personnel:

  • Bradford Cox – vocals, guitar, keyboards, harmonica, bass guitar, drums, percussion, additional photography
  • Noah Lennox – vocals
  • Laetitia Sadier – vocals
  • Benjamin Balcom – piano, engineer
  • Sasha Vine – violin
  • Andy Ramsay – recording
  • Chris Koltay – mixing
  • Christian Wright – mastering
  • Craig McCaffrey – layout assistant
  • Edith Cox – cover photography
  • Ashley Harwood – back cover photography

Track listing:

All music by Branford Cox, all lyrics by Branford Cox, except where noted.

  1. The Light That Failed
  2. An Orchid
  3. Walkabout – Noah Lennox
  4. Criminals
  5. Attic Lights
  6. Shelia
  7. Quick Canal – lyrics by Laetitia Sadier
  8. My Halo
  9. Kid Klimax
  10. Washington School
  11. Logos

Bob Dylan: Christmas In The Heart

On October 13, 2009, “Columbia” label released “Christmas in the Heart”, the thirty-fourth Bob Dylan studio album. It was recorded in 2009, at “Groove Masters Studio” in Santa Monica, California, and was produced by Jack Frost (Bob Dylan’s pseudonym).

Personnel:

  • Bob Dylan – vocals, guitar, electric piano, harmonica, arrangements
  • Phil Upchurch – guitar
  • Donnie Herron – steel guitar, mandolin, trumpet, violin
  • Patrick Warren – piano, organ, celeste
  • David Hidalgo – accordion, guitar, mandolin, violin
  • Tony Garnier – bass guitar
  • George Receli – drums, percussion
  • Amanda Barrett, Bill Cantos, Randy Crenshaw, Abby DeWald, Nicole Eva Emery, Walt Harrah, Robert Joyce – choir
  • David Bianco – recording, mixing
  • Bill Lane – engineer assistant
  • Glen Suravech – engineer assistant
  • David Spreng – additional engineering
  • Rich Tosti – studio support
  • Ed Wong – studio support
  • Coco Shinomiya – design
  • VisualLanguage.com – front cover
  • Olivia De Berandis – inside cover illustration
  • Edwin Fotheringham – back cover illustration
  • Leonard Freed/Magnum Photos – inside photography

Track listing:

  1. Here Comes Santa Claus – Gene Autry, Oakley Haldeman
  2. Do You Hear What I Hear? – Noël Regney, Gloria Shayne Baker
  3. Winter Wonderland – Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith
  4. Hark the Herald Angels Sing – Felix Mendelssohn, Charles Wesley
  5. I’ll Be Home for Christmas – Buck Ram, Kim Gannon, Walter Kent
  6. Little Drummer Boy – Katherine K. Davis, Henry Onorati, Harry Simeone
  7. The Christmas Blues – Sammy Cahn, David Jack Holt
  8. O’ Come All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles) – traditional
  9. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas – Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane
  10. Must Be Santa – William Fredericks, Hal Moore
  11. Silver Bells – Jay Livingston, Ray Evans
  12. The First Noel – traditional
  13. Christmas Island – Lyle Moraine
  14. The Christmas Song – Mel Tormé, Bob Wells
  15. O Little Town of Bethlehem – traditional

Sufjan Stevens: The Age Of Adz

On October 12, 2010, “Asthmatic Kitty” label released “The Age of Adz”, the sixth Sufjan Stevens studio album. It was recorded 2009 – 2010, and was produced by Sufjan Stevens.

Personnel:

  • Sufjan Stevens – vocal, electronics
  • Shara Nova – guitar, piano, backing vocals
  • St. Vincent – backing vocals
  • Royal Robertson Stevens – art work
  • Scott Ogden – artwork

Track listing:

All tracks are written by Sufjan Stevens.

  1. Futile Devices
  2. Too Much
  3. Age of Adz
  4. I Walked
  5. Now That I’m Older
  6. Get Real Get Right
  7. Bad Communication
  8. Vesuvius
  9. All for Myself
  10. I Want to Be Well
  11. Impossible Soul
  12. Part 1
  13. Part 2
  14. Part 3
  15. Part 4
  16. Part 5

Lucero: 1372 Overton Park

On October 6, 2009, “Universal Republic Records” label, released “1372 Overton Park”, the seventh Lucero album.

Personnel:

  • Ben Nichols – vocals, guitar
  • Brian Venable – guitar
  • Rick Steff – piano, Hammond organ, accordion
  • John C. Stubblefield – bass
  • Roy Berry – drums, percsussion
  • Todd Beene – steel guitar

Track listing:

  1. Smoke
  2. What Are You Willing to Lose?
  3. Sounds of the City
  4. Can’t Feel a Thing
  5. The Devil and Maggie Chascarillo
  6. Sixes and Sevens
  7. Goodbye Again
  8. Johnny Davis
  9. Darken My Door
  10. Halfway Wrong
  11. Hey Darlin’ Do You Gamble?
  12. Mom

Jesse Cook: The Rumba Foundation

On September 29, 2009, “EMI Music Canada” label released “The Rumba Foundation”, the eight Jesse Cook album. It was recorded in 2009, at “Coach House Music”, “Phase One Studio” in Toronto, Canada, Estudios Avila Musical” in Colombia, and was produced by Jesse Cook.

Personnel:

  • Jesse Cook – guitar, arrangements, recording
  • Jeremy Fisher – vocals
  • Juan Alberto Fernandez – voice
  • Dennis Mohammed – bass
  • Drew Birston – double bass
  • Juan De Sedas – accordion
  • Gabriel Torregrosa – gaita, pito, percussion
  • Fredys Arrieta – gaita
  • Manuel Antonio Garcia- gaita
  • Rosendo Leon JR – drums, percussion
  • Rosendo Leon SR – bongos
  • Chri Church – violin
  • Jonathan Tortolano, Kevin Fox – cello
  • George Seara – recording
  • Ernesto Santos – additional recording
  • Jay Dufour – recording assistant, mixing assistant
  • Marc Eijkelenbroom – recording assistant, mixing assistant
  • Al Schmitt – mixing
  • George Seara – mixing
  • Steve Genewick – mixing assistant
  • Chris Athens – mastering
  • Terry Lau – art direction, design

Track listing:

All tracks by Jesse Cook, except where noted.

  1. Bogota by Bus
  2. Santa Marta
  3. Tuesday’s Child
  4. Manolo’s Lament – Juan Alberto Fernandez
  5. Improv 1
  6. La Rumba D’el Jete
  7. Improv 2
  8. Gaita
  9. Rain Day
  10. Bombay Diner
  11. Afternoon At Satie’s
  12. Cecilia – Paul Simon
  13. Homebound – Chris Church, Jesse Cook