Tag Archives: 2014

Stephen Malkmus: Wig Out at Jagbags

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On January 7, 2014, “Domino Records” and “Matador Records” labels released “Wig Out at Jagbags”, the sixth Stephen Malkmus studio album. It was recorded in 2013, and was produced by Remko Schouten

Personnel:

  1. Stephen Malkmus – vocals, guitar, keyboards
  2. Mike Clark – guitar, keyboards
  3. Joanna Bolme – bass, mixing
  4. Jake Morris – drums, backing vocals
  5. Ika Gunnarson – flute
  6. Berlin Bi-Lingual Ensemble – horns
  7. Talia Czernik – cello
  8. Remko Schouten – shaker, backing vocals, engineer, mixing
  9. Fran Healy – engineer

Track listing:

All tracks by Stephen Malkmus.

  1. Planetary Motion
  2. The Janitor Revealed
  3. Lariat
  4. Houston Hades
  5. Shibboleth
  6. J Smoov
  7. Rumble at the Rainbo
  8. Chartjunk
  9. Independence Street
  10. Scattegories
  11. Cinnamon and Lesbians
  12. Surreal Teenagers

Jan Gunnar Hoff: Fly North

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On January 6, 2014, “Losen Records” label released “Fly North”, the 14th  Jan Gunnar Hoff album. It was recorded in 2013, at “Rainbow Studios” in Oslo, Norway, and was produced by Arve Henriksen and Jan Gunnar Hoff.

Personnel:

  • Jan Gunnar Hoff – piano, keyboards
  • Arve Henriksen – vocals, trumpet
  • Anders Jormin – bass
  • Marilyn Mazur – drums, percussion
  • Jan Erik Kongshaug – recording, mixing
  • Darcy Proper – editing
  • medicineheads.com – design
  • Petter Furuseth – front cover photography
  • Guro Skjelderup – group photography
  • Mari Rokkan – Jan Gunnar Hoff photography
  • David Fishel – liner notes
  • Odd Gjelsnes – executive producer

Track listing:

All tracks by Jan Gunnar Hoff.

  1. Fly North
  2. Living
  3. Arise
  4. Places
  5. Sacrifice
  6. Böcklin
  7. Spheres
  8. Valse De Décembre
  9. Questions
  10. Gathering

Pixies: EP2

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On January 3, 2014, Pixies self released “EP2”, the second EP in a series of Eps. It was recorded in 2013, and was produced by Gil Norton.

Personnel:

  • Black Francis– vocals, guitar
  • Joey Santiago– guitar
  • Ding (Simon “Ding” Archer) – bass guitar
  • David Lovering– drums
  • Vaughan Oliver– artwork

Track listing:

  1. Blue Eyed Hexe
  2. Magdalena 318
  3. Greens and Blues
  4. Snakes

Terje Isungset and Arve Henriksen: World of Glass

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On October 24, 2014, “All Ice” label released “World of Glass”, album by Terje Isungset and Arve Henriksen. It was recorded December 2011, live in Tallinn, and in 2012 in Bergen, Norway, and was produced by Arve Henriksen and Terje Isungset. All instruments used on the album are made out of glass, 15 glass artists worked on making instruments for two years.

Personnel:

  • Arve Henriksen – glass horns, glass trumpets, recording, mixing, editing
  • Terje Isungset – glass percussion, concept, recording, mixing, editing
  • Asle Karstad, Estonian Public Broadcasting – live recording engineer
  • Daniel Mikael Wold – mixing, mastering
  • Lasse Berntzen – album cover
  • Kaupo Kikkas – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Terje Isungset and Arve Henriksen.

  1. Cave
  2. Looking Through
  3. Transparent Shadow
  4. Crystal Clear
  5. Surface
  6. Optical Density
  7. Silica
  8. Obsidian
  9. Float
  10. Crunchy Crystal
  11. Melting Glass Process
  12. Blow
  13. Murano Stories
  14. Prism
  15. Clearness At Departure

Collective Soul: See What You Started by Continuing

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On October 2, 2015, “Vanguard” label released “See What You Started by Continuing”, the ninth Collective Soul studio album. It was recorded February – October 2014, in Sandy Springs, Georgia, and was produced by Ed Roland.

Personnel:

  • Ed Roland– vocals, acoustic guitar, piano
  • Dean Roland– rhythm guitar
  • Jesse Triplett– lead guitar
  • Eric Frampton – organ
  • Will Turpin– bass
  • Johnny Rabb– drums, percussion
  • Mama Jan Smith– backing vocals
  • Ebony Childs – backing vocals
  • Sweet Tea Project(Christopher Alan Yates, Brian Bisky, Mike Rizzi) – backing vocals
  • Stevie Blackie – strings, string arrangements, engineer
  • Anthony J. Resta – programming, additional production
  • Karyadi Sutedja – recording
  • Shawn Grove – engineer, mixing
  • Greg Archilla – additional engineering
  • Steve Rawls – mastering
  • NUU Group LLC – package design
  • Joseph Guay – photography
  • Jolie Rizzi – photo editing

Track listing:

All tracks written by Ed Roland, except where noted.

  1. This
  2. Hurricane
  3. Exposed
  4. Confession
  5. AYTA
  6. Contagious
  7. Life
  8. Am I Getting Through
  9. Memories of 2005
  10. Tradition
  11. Without Me

Bob James & Nathan East: The New Cool

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On September 18, 2015, “Yamaha Entertainment Group” label released “The New Cool”, album by Bob James and Nathan East. It was recorded 2014 – 2015, and was produced by Bob James and Nathan East.

Personnel:

  • Bob James – piano, keyboards, arrangements, conductor
  • Nathan East – bass guitar, double bass
  • Nashville Recording Orchestra – orchestral backing

Track listing:

All tracks by Bob James and Nathan East, except where noted.

  1. The New Cool
  2. Oliver’s Bag
  3. All Will Be Revealed
  4. Midnight Magic/Love Me As Though There Were No Tomorrow
  5. Crazy
  6. How Deep Is The Ocean
  7. Canto Y La Danza
  8. Waltz For Judy
  9. Seattle Sunrise
  10. Ghost Of A Chance
  11. Turbulence
  12. House Of Blue

Ane Brun: When I’m Free

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On September 4, 2015, “Balloon Ranger” label released “When I’m Free”, the seventh Ane Brun studio album. It was recorded 2014 – 2015, at “Atlantis Studio”,  “Gig Studio”, “Hammarby Studio” in Stockholm, “The Bigger Pink” in Viklau, and was produced by Ane Brun and Tobias Fröberg.

Personnel:

  • Ane Brun– lead and backing vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Johan Lindström – electric and pedal steel guitar
  • Martin Hederos– keyboards
  • Dan Berglund– double bass
  • Thobias Gabrielsson – bass
  • Ola Hultgren – drums, percussion
  • Lars Skoglund– drums, hi-hat
  • Andreas Werlin – drums, percussion
  • Mikael Häggström – percussion
  • John Eriksson– mallets sounds, synth pads and synth bass outro
  • Tobias Fröberg – cymbals, drum programming, hi-hat, percussion programming, string machine, strings
  • Sabina Ddumba– guest vocals
  • Torbjörn Bernhardsson, Ulf Forsberg, Hanna Göran, Iskander Komilov, Annette Mannheimer, Veronika Novotna, Bo Söderström – violin
  • Elisabeth Arnberg, Ingegerd Kierkegaard, Svein H. Martinsen, Ann Christin Wingård Ward – viola
  • Jana Boutani, Helena Nilsson – cello
  • Joakim Milder – conductor, string arrangements
  • Nina Kinert– backing vocals
  • Linnea Olsson– backing vocals
  • Johannes Berglund – additional production

Track listing:

All tracks by Ane Brun, except where noted.

  1. Hanging
  2. Black Notebook
  3. You Lit My Fire
  4. Directions
  5. Shape of a Heart
  6. Miss You More
  7. All We Want Is Love
  8. Still Waters
  9. Better Than This
  10. Signing Off

Atlas Genius: Intimate Objects

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On August 28, 2015, “Warner Bros” label released “Inanimate Objects”, the second Atlas Genius studio album. It was recorded 2014 – 2015, in Adelaide, Australia  and  “Studio City” in California, and was produced by Frederik Thaae, Keith Jeffery and Michael Jeffery.

Personnel:

  • Keith Jeffery – vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, drums, percussion, programming
  • Michael Jeffery – drums, percussion, backing vocals
  • Frederik Thaae – guitar, bass, keyboards, drum programming, backing vocals
  • David Larson – keyboards
  • Alan Wilkis – programming, backing vocals
  • Elyse Rogers – backing vocals
  • Carrie Keagan – backing vocals
  • Jonny Kaps – backing vocals
  • Dylan Morgan – engineer assistant
  • Manny Marroquin – mixing
  • Andrew Maury– mixing
  • Mike Duncan – mixing assistant
  • Chris Galland – mixing assistant
  • Ike Schultz – mixing assistant
  • Joe LaPorta – mastering
  • Kii Arens – cover art
  • Donny Phillips – cover art
  • Frank Maddocks – design, photography
  • Big Data – additional production
  • Jesse Shatkin – additional production

Track listing:

All tracks by Keith Jeffery, Michael Jeffery and Frederik Thaae.

  1. The Stone Mill
  2. Molecules
  3. Stockholm
  4. Refugees
  5. A Perfect End
  6. Friendly Apes
  7. Friends with Enemies
  8. Where I Belong
  9. Balladino
  10. The City We Grow
  11. Levitate

John Zorn: On Leaves of Grass

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On July 22, 2014, “Tzadik” label released “On Leaves of Grass”, album composed by John Zorn inspired by the works of Walt Whitman. It was recorded in March 2014, at “East Side Sound” in New York City, and was produced by John Zorn and Kazunori Sugiyama.

Personnel:

  • John Medeski- piano
  • Kenny Wollesen- vibraphone
  • Trevor Dunn- bass
  • Joey Baron- drums
  • Ikue Mori- electronics
  • Marc Urselli – engineer, audio mixer

Track listing:

All tracks by John Zorn

  1. Whispers of Heavenly Death
  2. Song at Sunset
  3. Halcyon Days
  4. Portals
  5. Sea Drift
  6. Song of the Open Road
  7. The Body Electric
  8. Mystic Cyphers
  9. America

Róisín Murphy: Take Her Up to Monto

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On July 8, 2016, “Play It Again Sam” label released “Take Her Up to Monto”, the fourth Róisín Murphy studio album. It was recorded 2014 – 2016, at “The Damp Squid”, “RMS”, “Fish Factory” in London, and was produced by Eddie Stevens.

Personnel:

  • Róisín Murphy– lead and backing vocals, design, art direction, video concept, video direction
  • Eddie Stevens– vocals, keyboards, percussion, flutes, guitar,  violin, floor toms, programming
  • Rhianna Kenny– backing vocals
  • Jodie Scantlebury – backing vocals
  • Rob Mullarkey – bass
  • Dave De Rose – drums, floor toms
  • Jamie McCredie – guitar
  • Ally McNeil – additional programming
  • Mark Allaway – additional recording
  • Darius van Helfteren – mastering
  • Ian Anderson – design, art direction
  • Ben Wearing – director of photography
  • Katie Lambert – video production

Track listing:

All tracks by Róisín Murphy and Eddie Stevens.

  1. Mastermind
  2. Pretty Gardens
  3. Thoughts Wasted
  4. Lip Service
  5. Ten Miles High
  6. Whatever
  7. Romantic Comedy
  8. Nervous Sleep
  9. Sitting and Counting