Tag Archives: 2009

Bei the Fish: Time to Make Things Right

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On June 13, 2009, “PMG Recordings” label released “Time to Make Things Right”, the second Bei the Fish album. It was recorded in 2009, and was produced by Ognen Atanasovski, Nenad Georgievski and Valentina Minovska.

Personnel:

  • Ognen Atanasovski – vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass, arrangements, recording, mixing
  • Nenad Georgievski Tonkin – keyboards, programming, arrangements, recording, mixing
  • Valentina Minovska – vocals, keyboards, percussion, arrangements, recording, mixing
  • Vladimir Nastevski – electronic drums
  • Blagoja Boshkovski – arrangements
  • Goran Atanasovski – mastering
  • Goran Kostovski – design

Track listing:

  1. Something Starting
  2. SMS Song
  3. All the Time
  4. True Story
  5. After All
  6. Holiday
  7. Girl
  8. When You Let Me
  9. Livin’ in a Box
  10. Time To Make Things Right
  11. Sexy Night Lovely Shoes

Bonus album music About All About (all put in one track)

1. Intro 2. Pistol Up My Head 3. Feels Like Rain 4. Do You Believe in Love at First Sight? 5. Opera House 1 6. Walking’ Talkin’ Smilin’ 7. What’s The Song All About? 8. Static Love 9. Opera House 2 10. Matter Of Time 11. Are You the Man I Want, Are You? 12. Opera House 3 13. Me And My Friend in The Mountain 14. Sitting On a Branch and Waiting for The Birds to Sing About All About 15. So Beautiful Love Is       16. French Cheese 17. My Friends Don’t Like My Songs Anymore

Ben Harper and the Relentless 7: White Lies for Dark Times

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On May 5, 2009, “Virgin” label released “White Lies for Dark Times”, album by Ben Harper and Relentless7 (the ninth Ben Harper album overall). It was recorded in 2009, and was produced by Denny Kalb, Ben Harper, Jason Mozersky, Jesse Ingalls and Jordan Richardson.

Personnel:

  • Ben Harper – vocals, slide guitar
  • Jason Mozersky – guitar
  • Jesse Ingalls – bass
  • Jordan Richardson – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Ben Harper.

  1. Number With No Name
  2. Up To You Now
  3. Shimmer & Shine
  4. Lay There & Hate Me
  5. Why Must You Always Dress in Black
  6. Skin Thin
  7. Fly One Time
  8. Keep It Together (So I Can Fall Apart)
  9. Boots Like This
  10. The Word Suicide
  11. Faithfully Remain

Super Furry Animals: Dark Days/Light Years

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On March 16, 2009, Super Furry Animals digitally released “Dark Days/Light Years”, the ninth and final band’s studio album. It was recorded 2007 – 2009, at “Faster Recording Studio” in Cardiff, Wales, and was produced by Chris Shaw, Gruff Rhys, Huw Bunford, Guto Pryce, Dafudd Leuan and Cian Ciaran.

Personnel:

  • Gruff Rhys – vocals, guitar, electric saz, vocoder, keyboard
  • Huw Bunford – vocals, guitar, bass guitar, electric saz
  • Cian Ciaran – vocals, keyboards, electronics, guitar
  • Guto Pryce – bass guitar
  • Dafydd Leuan – vocals, drums
  • Kris Jenkins – percussion
  • Jessica Rochman – strings
  • Nick McCarthy – spoken word
  • Chris Shaw – Engineer, mixing
  • Dave Newfeld – recording
  • Stuart Hawkes – mastering
  • Keiichi Tanaami – artwork
  • Pete Fowler – artwork

Track listing:

All tracks by Gruff Rhys, Huw Bunford, Guto Pryce, Dafudd Leuan and Cian Ciaran, except where noted.

  1. Crazy Naked Girls
  2. Mt.
  3. Moped Eyes
  4. Inaugural Trams
  5. Inconvenience
  6. Cardiff in the Sun
  7. The Very Best of Neil Diamond
  8. Helium Hearts
  9. White Socks/Flip Flops
  10. Where Do You Wanna Go?
  11. Lliwiau Liachar
  12. Pric

Quasi: American Gong

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On February 23, 2010, “Kill Rock Stars” label released “American Gong”, the eighth Quasi album. It was recorded in 2009, and was produced by Sam Coomes, Janet Weiss and Joanna Bolme.

Personnel:

  • Sam Coomes – vocals, keyboards, guitar
  • Janet Weiss – drums, backing vocals
  • Joanna Bolme – bass
  • Kendra Wright – recording
  • Steve Fisk – mixing
  • Dave Fridmann – mixing
  • Tucker Martine – mixing
  • Roger Seibel – mastering
  • Johanna Jackson – artwork
  • Chris Johanson – artwork

Track listing:

  1. Repulsion
  2. Little Shite Horse
  3. Everything & Nothing at All
  4. Bye Bye Blackbird
  5. The Jig Is Up
  6. Black Dogs & Bubbles
  7. Death Is Not the End
  8. Rockabilly Party
  9. Now What
  10. Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler
  11. Howler

The Bravery: Stir the Blood

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On December 1, 2009, “Island” label released “Stir the Blood”, the third Bravery (The) studio album. It was recorded in 2009, and was produced by John Hill and Sam Endicott. The album cover features a detail from ‘Carrion Call’ by British artist Polly Morgan.

Personnel:

  • Sam Endicott – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
  • Michael Zakarin – lead guitar, backing vocals
  • John Conway – keyboards, backing vocals
  • Mike Hindert – bass, backing vocals
  • Anthony Burulcich – drums, backing vocals

Track listing:

All tracks by Sam Endicott, except where noted.

  1. Adored
  2. Song for Jacob
  3. Slow Poison
  4. Hatef—k
  5. I Am Your Skin
  6. She’s So Bendable – Mike Hindert
  7. The Spectator
  8. I Have Seen the Future
  9. Red Hands and White Knuckles
  10. Jack-O’-Lantern Man
  11. Sugar Pill

Bernays Propaganda: Happiness Machine

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On September 28, 2009, “Moonle Records” label released “Happiness Machines”, the debut Bernays Propaganda album. It was recorded in 2009, at “Studio Enterprise” in Skopje, Macedonia, and was produced by Valentino Skenderovski.

Personnel:

  • Vasko Atanasovski – guitar
  • Kristina Gorovska – vocals
  • Saša Pavlović – bass
  • Džano Kuc – drums
  • Valentino Skenderovski – recording, mixing
  • Nenad Trifunovski – recording assistant
  • Carl Saff – mastering
  • Darko Kujundžić – layout, artwork
  • Front cover art taken from Gottfried Helnwein’s “Master Piece American Prayer”
  • Igor Kostov – band photography
  • Katerina Božinovska – liner notes English translation

Track listing:

All lyrics by Kristina Gorovska, except where noted; all music by Vasko Atanasovski.

  1. Kill Me! – lyrics by Vasko Atanasovski
  2. Are You Enjoying Being in Your Own Accompaniment?
  3. Safe Left
  4. A Day Before I Disappear
  5. Everything Will Fall Apart
  6. I Don’t Want to Know
  7. Anonymous Enemy
  8. Homo Or Sapiens
  9. Yuppie Dream
  10. No Translation

Phish: Joy

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On September 8, 2009, “JEMP Records” label released “Joy”, the twelfth Phish studio album. It was recorded April – May 2009, at “Chung King Studios” in New York City, and was produced by Steve Lillywhite.

Personnel:

  • Trey Anastasio – lead vocals, guitars
  • Page McConnell – lead and backing vocals, keyboards
  • Mike Gordon – lead and backing vocals, bass guitar
  • Jon Fishman – drums, backing vocals
  • CJ Eiriksson – engineer, mixing
  • Ben Collette – additional engineering
  • Steve Lillywhite – mixing
  • Gavin Lurssen – mastering
  • Jesse Gladstone – assistant

Track listing:

All tracks by Trey Anastasio and Tom Marshall, except where noted.

  1. Backwards Down the Number Line
  2. Stealing Time from the Faulty Plan – Trey Anastasio, Scott Herman, Tom Marshall
  3. Joy
  4. Sugar Snack – Mike Gordon
  5. Ocelot
  6. Kill Devil Falls
  7. Light
  8. I Been Around – Page McConnell
  9. Time Turns Elastic – Trey Anastasio
  10. Twenty Years Later

Neil Finn: The Sun Came Out

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On August 31, 2009, “Columbia” label released “The Sun Came Out”, the fifth Neil Finn album. It was recorded in 2009, at “Roundhead Studios”, and was produced by Jim Scott and Neil Finn.

Personnel:

  • Neil Finn – lead and harmony vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, slide guitar, piano, xylophone
  • Johnny Marr – vocals, electric guitar
  • Ed O’Brien – vocals, electric guitar
  • Pat Sansone – piano, Hammond organ, acoustic guitar, celesta, harmony vocals
  • Mikael Jorgesen – organ, synthesizer
  • Nels Cline – acoustic and slide guitar
  • Phil Selway – percussion
  • Elroy Finn – drums
  • Glenn Kotche – drums, percussion, drum machine
  • Luke Bullen – drums, body percussion, handclaps
  • Sebastian Steinberg – bass
  • Lisa Germano – violin, electric guitar, theremin, harmony vocals
  • Liam Finn – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, Hammond organ, loops
  • Bic Runga – vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Ivy Rossiter – backing vocals
  • Don McGlashan – vocals, guitar, euphonium, flugelhorn
  • KT Tunstall – lead and backing vocals, acoustic guitar, handclaps
  • Jeff Tweedy – vocals, voice, acoustic and electric guitar, piano, organ
  • John Stirratt – bass, harmony vocals
  • Cecilia Herbert – harmony vocals
  • Eliza Jane Barnes – harmony vocals
  • Sonny Marr – backing vocals
  • Glenn Richards – vocals, electric guitar
  • Nile Marr – vocals, acoustic guitar

Track listing:

  1. Too Blue – Johnny Marr, Jeff Tweedy
  2. You Never Know – Jeff Tweedy
  3. Little by Little – Sharon Finn, Neil Finn
  4. Learn to Crawl – Ed O’Brien, Johnny Marr, Liam Finn, Neil Finn
  5. Girl, Make your Own Mind Up – Don McGlashan
  6. Hazel Black – KT Tunstall, Neil Finn
  7. Red Wine Bottle – Liam Finn, Chris Garland, Johnny Marr
  8. Black Silk Ribbon – KT Tunstall, Bic Runga
  9. Run in the Dust – Johnny Marr
  10. The Ties That Bind Us – Phil Selway
  11. What Could Have Been – Jeff Tweedy
  12. Duxton Blues – Glenn Richards
  13. Reptile – Lisa Germano

OSI: Blood

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On August 27, 2009, “InsideOut Music” label released “Blood”, the third OSI album. It was recorded in 2009, and was produced by Jim Matheos and Kevin Moore.

Personnel:

  • Kevin Moore – vocals, keyboards, programming, mixing
  • Jim Matheos – guitar, bass, keyboards, progamming
  • Gavin Harrison – drums
  • Mikael Åkerfeldt – vocals
  • Tim Bowness – vocals
  • Phil Magnotti, Jim Matheos – mixing

Track listing:

All lyrics by Kevin Moore, except where noted; all music by Jim Matheos and Kevin Moore, except where noted.

  1. The Escape Artist
  2. Terminal
  3. False Start
  4. We Come Undone
  5. Radiologue
  6. Be the Hero
  7. Microburst Alert – music by Jim Matheos
  8. Stockholm – lyrics by Mikael Akerfeld
  9. Blood

Céu: Vagarosa

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On July 7, 2009, “Universal Music” label released “Vagarosa”, the second Céu studio album. It was recorded 2008 – 2009, and was produced by Beto Vilares and Gustavo Lenza Gui Amabis.

Personnel:

  • Céu (Maria do Céu Whitaker Poças) – vocals, keyboards
  • Beto Villares – vocals, piano, keyboards, acoustic and electric guitar, bass, mellotron, scratches, programming, arranger bass
  • Fernando Catatau – guitar
  • Marcelo Jeneci – vocals, guitar, accordion
  • Gui Amabis – guitar, bass, keyboards, mellotron, sampler, programming
  • Gustavo Lenza – guitar, keyboards, mellotron
  • Guilherme Ribeiro – keyboards
  • Pepe Cisneros – organ
  • Dengue – bass
  • Lucas Martins – bass, loops
  • Curumin, Gigante Brasil, Pupillo, Serginho Machado – drums
  • Mauricio Alves – reco reco
  • Rodrigo Campos – tamborim, cavaquinho, pandeiro
  • Bruno Buarque – congas, djembe, claves, loops
  • Nahor Gomes – flugelhorn
  • Ubaldo Versolato – baritone saxophone, flute
  • Sidnei Borgani – trombone
  • Guizado (Guilherme Mendonça) – trumpet
  • Anelis Assumpção, B Negão, Luiz Melodia, Thelma de Freitas – vocals
  • Negresko Sis – backing vocals
  • Los Sebosos Postizos – Jorge du Peixe, Lúcio Maia, Dengue, Pupillo, Da Lua, Mundo Livre SA

Track listing:

All tracks by Céu, except where noted.

  1. Sobre o Amor e Seu Trabalho Silencioso
  2. Cangote
  3. Comadi – Céu, Beto Vilares
  4. Bubuia – Céu, Anelis Assumpção, Thalma de Freitas
  5. Nascente – Céu, Siba
  6. Grains de Beauté – Céu, Beto Vilares
  7. Vira Lata
  8. Papa
  9. Ponteiro
  10. Cordão da Insônia – Céu, Beto Vilares
  11. Rosa Menina Rosa – Jorge Ben Jor
  12. Sonâmbulo – Céu, Bruno Buarque, DJ Marco, Serginho Machado, Lucas Martins, Guilherme Ribeiro
  13. Espaçonave – Céu, Fernando Catatau