Tag Archives: 2010

Van Der Graaf Generator: A Grounding In Numbers

On March 14, 2011, “Esoteric Recordings” label released “A Grounding in Numbers”, the eleventh Van der Graaf Generator studio album. It was recorded in April 2010, at “Propagation House” in Holsworthy, Devon, England, and was produced by Peter Hammill, Hugh Banton and Guy Evans.

Personnel:

  • Peter Hammill – vocals, piano, electric guitar
  • Hugh Banton – organs, bass guitar, harpsichord, piano, glockenspiel, 10 string bass
  • Guy Evans – drums, percussion

Track listing:

All tracks by Hugh Banton, Guy Evans and Peter Hammill.

  1. Your Time Starts Now
  2. Mathematics
  3. Highly Strung
  4. Red Baron
  5. Bunsho
  6. Snake Oil
  7. Splink
  8. Embarrassing Kid
  9. Medusa
  10. Mr. Sands
  11. Smoke
  12. 5533
  13. All Over the Place

Alex Turner: Submarine

On March 14, 2011, “Domino” label released “Submarine”, the debut Alex Turner EP. It was recorded in 2010, at “Air” and “One Inch” in London, at was produced by James Ford.

Personnel:

  • Alex Turner – vocals, guitar, keyboard
  • Bill Ryder-Jones – guitar 
  • The Composers Ensemble – strings
  • Andrew Hewitt – conducting
  • Owen Pallett – arrangements
  • Jake Jackson – recording
  • James Ford – mixing

Track listing

All lyrics by Alex Turner, all music by Alex Turner and James Ford.

  1. Stuck on the Puzzle (Intro)
  2. Hiding Tonight
  3. Glass in the Park
  4. It’s Hard to Get Around the Wind
  5. Stuck on the Puzzle
  6. Piledriver Waltz

Titus Andronicus: The Monitor

On March 9, 2010, “XL” label released “The Monitor”, the second Titus Andronicus studio album. It was recorded in August 2009, and was produced by Kevin McMahon.

Personnel:

  • Patrick Stickles – vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano, synthesizer, tape operator, electronics, engineer
  • Liam Betson – vocals, guitar
  • Ian Graetzer – bass
  • Eric Harm – vocals, drums, percussion
  • Julian Veronesi – vocals
  • Dan McGee – vocals
  • Matt Miller – vocals
  • Brendan Stickles – vocals
  • Ryan Walsh – vocals
  • Andrew Cedermark – guitar
  • Pete Feigenbaum – guitar
  • Kevin McMahon – vocals, guitar, percussion, recording, mixing
  • Ian O’Neil – guitar, vocals
  • Jenn Wasner – vocals, guitar
  • Dustin Wong – guitar
  • Elio DeLuca – vocals, piano, organ, electric piano, engineer
  • Peter Buettner – tenor saxophone
  • Brian Rutledge – trumpet
  • Dean Jones – trombone
  • David Bentley – cello
  • Brett Bondar – highland bagpipes, Scottish small pipes
  • Ian Dykstra – bass drums, sleigh bells, tambourine
  • Greg Farley – fiddle
  • Alex Tretiak – vocals, snare drums, research assistant
  • Andy Stack – engineer
  • Dustin Miller – vocal recording
  • Okey Canfield Chenoweth III, quoting Abraham Lincoln
  • Cassie Ramone, quoting Jefferson Davis
  • Craig Finn, quoting Walt Whitman’s Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field one Night

Track listing:

All tracks by Patrick Stickles.

  1. A More Perfect Union
  2. Titus Andronicus Forever
  3. No Future Part Three: Escape From No Future
  4. Richard II or Extraordinary Popular Dimensions and the Madness of Crowds (Responsible Hate Anthem)
  5. A Pot in Which to Piss
  6. Four Score and Seven
  7. Theme from “Cheers”
  8. To Old Friends and New
  9. …And Ever
  10. The Battle of Hampton Roads

Yuck: Same

On February 15, 2011, “Fat Possum” label released the self-titled, debut Yuck studio album. It was recorded in 2010, in London, and was produced by Daniel Blumberg, Max Bloom, Mariko Doi and Jonny Rogoff.

Personnel:

  • Daniel Blumberg – vocals, guitar
  • Max Bloom – vocals, lead guitar
  • Mariko Doi – vocals, bass
  • Jonny Rogoff – drums
  • Ilana Blumberg – backing vocals
  • Marc Waterman – drum engineering
  • Matt Pence – mixing
  • Max Bloom – mixing
  • Nilesh Patel – mastering
  • Amir Amos – drum production
  • Jou Bergman – band photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Daniel Blumberg and Max Bloom, except where noted.

  1. Get Away
  2. The Wall
  3. Shook Down
  4. Holing Out
  5. Suicide Policeman
  6. Georgia
  7. Suck
  8. Stutter
  9. Operation – Mx Bloom
  10. Sunday
  11. Rose Gives a Lilly – Max Bloom
  12. Rubber

Bernie Worrell: I Don’t Even Know

On February 11, 2010, “PurpleWoo Productions, Inc” label released “I Don’t Even Know”, the eighth Bernie Worrell album. It was recorded in 2009, and was produced by Bernie Worrell.

Personnel:

  • Bernie Worrell – all instruments

Track listing:

All tracks by Bernie Worrell.

  1. First Things First
  2. Tribal Up
  3. Shades of the Kid
  4. Next
  5. Thug
  6. Refurbish
  7. Tribale
  8. Free-Fore
  9. One Rabbit
  10. Judicious
  11. Hearin Dis’, Playin’ Dat
  12. Sunrise
  13. Beef
  14. Once Again (First Things First Reprise)

Thee Silver Mt. Zion: Kollaps Tradixionales

On February 8, 2010, “Constellation” label released “Kollaps Tradixionales”, the sixth Thee Silver Mt. Zion album. It was recorded in 2009, at “Hotel2 Tango” in Montreal, Canada, and was produced by Howard Bilerman and RadwaMoumneh.

Personnel:

  • Efrim Menuck – vocals, guitar, organ, piano
  • Thierry Amar – vocals, contrabass, horn arrangements
  • David Payant – vocals, drums, organ, piano
  • Jessica Moss – vocals, violin
  • Sophie Trudeau – vocals, violin

Horn section

  • Adam Kinner – tenor saxophone
  • Matana Roberts – alto saxophone
  • Jason Sharp – baritone saxophone
  • Gordon Allen – trumpet
  • Harris Newman – mastering

Track listing:

  1. There Is a Light
  2. I Built Myself a Metal Bird
  3. I Fed My Metal Bird the Wings of Other Metal Birds
  4. Kollapz Tradixional (Thee Olde Dirty Flag)
  5. Collapse Traditional (For Darling)
  6. Kollaps Tradicional (Bury 3 Dynamos)
  7. Kollaps Tradicional (Bury 3 Dynamos)
  8. ‘Piphany Rambler

Patty Griffin: Downtown Church

On January 26, 2010, “Crediental” label released “Downtown Church”, the sixth Patty Griffin studio album. It was recorded in January 2009, at “Downtown Presbyterian Church” in Nashville, Tennessee, and was produced by Buddy Miller. In 2011, “Downtown Church” won the “Grammy for Best Traditional Gospel Album”. The album won a “Dove Award for Inspirational Album of the Year” at the 42nd “GMA Dove Awards”.

Personnel:

  • Patty Griffin – vocals
  • Buddy Miller – vocals, guitar, mixing
  • Doug Lancio – guitar
  • Russ Pahl – pedal steel guitar
  • John Deaderick – piano
  • Dennis Crouch – bass
  • Jay Bellerose – drums
  • Bryan Owings – percussion
  • Stuart Duncan – fiddle
  • John Catchings – cello
  • Emmylou Harris – vocals
  • Raul Malo – vocals
  • Jim Lauderdale – vocals
  • Shawn Colvin – vocals
  • Mike Farris – vocals
  • Julie Miller – vocals
  • Regina McCrary – vocals
  • Ann McCrary – vocals
  • Mike Poole – engineer
  • Gordon Hammond – engineer assistant
  • Jim DeMain – mastering
  • Kathi Whitley – production coordination
  • Maple Byrne – production assistant

Track listing:

  1. House of Gold – Hank Williams
  2. Move Up – traditional
  3. Little Fire – Patty Griffin
  4. Death’s Got a Warrant – traditional
  5. If I Had My Way – Reverend Gary Davis
  6. Coming Home to Me – Patty Griffin
  7. Wade in the Water – traditional
  8. Never Grow Old – traditional
  9. Virgen de Guadalupe – traditional
  10. I Smell a Rat – Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller
  11. Waiting for My Child – Sullivan Pugh
  12. The Strange Man – Dorothy Love Coates
  13. We Shall All Be Reunited – A. Karnes, B. Bateman
  14. All Creatures of Our God and King – traditional

Destroyer: Kaputt

On January 25, 2011, “Merge” and “Dead Oceans” labels released “Kaputt”, the ninth Destroyer album. It was recorded 2008 – 2010, at “JC/DC Studios” in Vancouver, British Columbia, and was produced by John Collins and David Carswell.

Personnel:

  • Dan Bejar – vocals, guitar, tambourine, piano
  • Nocolas Bragg – lead guitar
  • Ted Bois – keyboards, cover photography
  • Joseph Shabason – saxophone, flute, clarinet
  • JP Carter – trumpet
  • John Collins – bass
  • Joshua Wells – drums
  • Sibel Trasher – vocal
  • John Collins – engineer
  • Cady Bean-Smith – design

Track listing:

  1. Chinatown
  2. Blue Eyes
  3. Savage Night at the Opera
  4. Suicide Demo for Kara Walker
  5. Poor in Love
  6. Kaputt
  7. Downtown
  8. Song for America
  9. Prelude (Estuary)
  10. Nagel’s Marimba
  11. The Laziest River
  12. Palm Springs Life
  13. Landing on Water
  14. Bay of Pigs (Detail)

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