Tag Archives: 2017

Jonathan Coulton: Solid State

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On April 28, 2017, “SuperEgo” label released “Solid State”, the ninth Jonathan Coulton studio album. It was recorded in 2017, and was produced by Christian Cassan.

Personnel:

  • Jonathan Coulton – vocals, guitar, ukulele, accordion, harmonica, banjo, mandolin, glockenspiel, analog synthesizers
  • Aimee Mann – vocals
  • Christian Cassan – engineer, mixing
  • Albert Monteys – illustration

Track listing:

  1. Wake Up
  2. All This Time
  3. Solid State
  4. Brave
  5. Square Things
  6. Picture of Cats
  7. Ordinary Man
  8. Robot Txt
  9. Don’t Feed the Trolls
  10. Your Tattoo
  11. Ball and Chain
  12. Sunshine
  13. Solid State (reprise)
  14. Pulled Down the Stars
  15. All to Myself (Pt 1)
  16. All to Myself (Pt 2)
  17. There You Are

 

Procol Harum: Novum

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On April 21, 2017, “Eagle Rock Entertainment” label released “Novum”, the twelfth Procol Harum studio album. It was recorded October – December 2016, and was produced by Dennis Weinreich.

Personnel:

  • Gary Brooker– vocals, piano, accordion
  • Geoff Whitehorn– guitar
  • Josh Phillips – vocals, organ
  • Matt Pegg– bass guitar
  • Geoff Dunn– drums

Track listing:

Music by Gary Brooker, and Josh Phillips, except where noted. Lyrics by Pete Brown, except where noted.

  1. I Told On You
  2. Last Chance Motel
  3. Image of the Beas – music Gary Brooker, Josh Philips, Geoff Whitehorn
  4. Soldier – lyrics Gary Brooker
  5. Don’t Get Caught
  6. Neighbour
  7. Sunday Morning
  8. Businessman
  9. Can’t Say That
  10. The Only One
  11. Somewhen – lyrics Gary Brooker

Incubus: 8

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On April 21, 2017, “Island” label released “8”, the eighth Incubus studio album. It was recorded 2016 – 2017, and was produced by Leandro Dusso Jr., Brandon Boyd, Michael Einziger, Jose Pasillas II, Chris Kilmore and Ben Kenney.

Personnel:

  • Brandon Boyd– lead vocals, guitar, melodies, percussion, art direction
  • Michael Einziger– guitar, piano, backing vocals, string orchestration and arrangements, conducting, additional engineering
  • Jose Pasillas II– drums
  • Chris Kilmore– piano, keyboards, mellotron, organ, turntables
  • Ben Kenney– bass guitar, backing vocals
  • James Monti – engineer
  • Cameron Barton – engineer assistant
  • Matt Tuggle – 2nd engineer
  • Bryan Dimaio – 3rd engineer
  • Gabe Sackier, Todd Hurtt – additional engineering
  • Gentry Studer – mastering
  • Brantley Gutierrez – art direction, band photography
  • Alberto Erazo – design

Track listing:

All tracks by Brandon Boyd, Michael Einziger, Jose Pasillas II, Chris Kilmore and Ben Kenney.

  1. No Fun
  2. Nimble Bastard
  3. State of the Art
  4. Glitterbomb
  5. Undefeated
  6. Loneliest
  7. When I Became a Man
  8. Familiar Faces
  9. Love in a Time of Surveillance
  10. Make No Sound in the Digital Forest
  11. Throw Out the Map

Maximo Park: Risk to Exist

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On April 21, 2017, “Daylighting” label released “Risk to Exist”, the sixth Maximo Park studio album. It was recorded in 2016, at “The Loft” in Chicago, Illinois, and was produced by Tom Schick.

Personnel:

  • Paul Smith – vocals
  • Duncan Lloyd – guitars
  • Lukas Wooller – keyboards
  • Paul Rafferty – bass guitar
  • Tom English – drums
  • Mimi Parker– backing vocals

Track listing:

  1. What Did We Do to You to Deserve This?
  2. Get High (No, I Don’t)
  3. What Equals Love?
  4. Risk to Exist
  5. I’ll Be Around
  6. Work and Then Wait
  7. The hero
  8. The Reason I Am Here
  9. Make What You Can
  10. Respond to the Feeling
  11. Alchemy

Sun Ra And His Arkestra: Thunder Of The Gods

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On April 7, 2017, “Modern Harmonic” label released “Thunder of the Gods”, album by Sun Ra and His Arkestra, featuring unreleased live and studio tracks. It was recorded 1966 – 1971, at “Slug’s Saloon” in New York City.

Personnel:

  • Sun Ra– Moog, Intergalactic space organ, Lightening drum, strings
  • Marshall Allen– alto saxophone, oboe, piccolo flute, strings
  • Ronnie Boykins– bass, viola, dutar
  • Robert Cummings – strings
  • Danny Davis – alto saxophone, clarinet, strings
  • Akh Tal Ebar, Kwami Hadi – trumpet
  • John Gilmore– tenor saxophone, strings
  • Ali Hassan – trombone, strings
  • Lex Humphries– drums
  • James Jacson – oboe, flute, log drums, strings
  • Clifford Jarvis– percussion
  • Art Jenkins, Carl Nimrod – strings
  • Eloe Omoe – bass clarinet, strings
  • Pat Patrick– baritone saxophone, strings
  • Danny Ray Thompson – baritone saxophone, flute
  • Charles Stevens – trombone
  • June Tyson– vocals
  • Alzo Wright – cello

Track listing:

All tracks by Sun Ra

  1. Calling Planet Earth – We’ll Wait for You
  2. Moonshots Across the Sky
  3. Thunder of the Gods

Dayna Stephens: Gratitude

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On April 7, 2017, “Contagious Music” label released “Gratitude”, the ninth Dayna Stephens album. It was recorded in 2017, and was produced by Matt Pierson.

Personnel:

  • Dayna Stephens– baritone sax, tenor sax, EWI, synthesizer, bass
  • Brad Mehldau– piano, tack piano
  • Julian Lage– guitar
  • Larry Grenadier– bass
  • Eric Harland– drums

Track listing:

  1. Emilie
  2. In a Garden
  3. Amber Is Falling (Red and Yellow)
  4. Woodside Waltz
  5. We Had a Sister
  6. The Timbre of Gratitude
  7. Isfahan
  8. Don’t Mean a Thing at All
  9. Clouds

Josh Tillman: Pure Comedy

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On April 7, 2017, “Bella Union” label released “Pure Comedy”, the third Josh Tillman album, under his pseudonym Father John Misty. It was recorded in March 2016 at “United Recording Studios” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Jonathan Wilson and Josh Tillman. In its choice of the “100 Best Albums of the Year”, “The Sunday Times” ranked “Pure Comedy” at number one.

Personnel:

  • Josh Tillman– vocals, horn and vocal arrangement, mixing, art direction
  • Jonathan Wilson– performance, mixing
  • Thomas Bartlett, Elijah Thomson, Daniel Bailey, Keefus Ciancia, Kyle Flynn – performance
  • Gavin Bryars – vibraphone, string arrangements
  • Greg Leisz– pedal steel, lap steel
  • Kelsey Lu – cello
  • George Potts Young, De’Ante Duckett, Ryan Stewart, Tiffanie Cross, Vanessa Grundy, Shanika Bereal, Celeste Young, Dominique Dubose – additional vocals
  • Chavonne Stewart – additional vocals, vocal arrangement
  • Gavin Bryars– horn arrangements
  • James King– horn arrangements
  • Paul Jacob Cartwright, Tom Lea, Nico Muhly– string arrangements
  • Trevor Spencer – engineer, mixing
  • Vira Byramji, Dave Cerminara, Rouble Kapoor, Bryce Gonzales – additional engineering
  • Bob Ludwig– mastering
  • Ed Steed – illustrations, art direction
  • Sasha Barr – art direction, additional art, design

Track listing:

All tracks by Josh Tillman.

  1. Pure Comedy
  2. Total Entertainment Forever
  3. Things It Would Have Been Helpful to Know Before the Revolution
  4. Ballad of the Dying Man
  5. Birdie
  6. Leaving LA
  7. A Bigger Paper Bag
  8. When the God of Love Returns There’ll Be Hell to Pay
  9. Smoochie
  10. Two Wildly Different Perspectives
  11. The Memo
  12. So I’m Growing Old on Magic Mountain
  13. In Twenty Years or So

Aimee Mann: Mental Illness

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On March 31, 2017, “SuperEgo” label released “Mental Illness”, the ninth Aimee Mann studio album. It was recorded in 2017, and was produced by Paul Bryan. On January 28, 2018, the album won “Grammy Award” for “Best Folk Album”.

Personnel:

  • Aimee Mann– lead vocals, bass, acoustic guitar, percussion
  • Jonathan Coulton– acoustic guitar, backing vocals
  • Jamie Edwards – piano, harmonium, acoustic guitar, 12 string guitar
  • Paul Bryan– bass, backing vocals
  • Jay Bellerose– drums, percussion
  • Eric Gorfain, Marisa Kyney, Amy Wickman, Gina Kronstadt, Terry Glenny, Radu Piepta, Susan Chatman – violin
  • Leah Katz Aaron Oltman, Rodney Wirtz – viola
  • Richard Dodd, John Krovoza, Peggy Baldwin – cello
  • Ted Leo– backing vocals

Track listing:

  1. Goose Snow Cone
  2. Stuck in the Past
  3. You Never Loved Me
  4. Rollercoasters
  5. Lies of Summer
  6. Patient Zero
  7. Good for Me
  8. Knock It Off
  9. Philly Sinks
  10. Simple Fix
  11. Poor Judge

The mavericks: Brand New Day

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On March 31, 2017, “Mono Rundo Recordings” label released “Brand New Day”, the ninth Mavericks (The) studio album. It was recorded in 2017, and was produced by Niko Bolas and Raul Malo.

Personnel:

  • Max Abrams – saxophone, clarinet
  • Roy Agee – trombone
  • Paul Deakin – glockenspiel, drums, timpani, marimba, vibraphone, chimes
  • Julio Diaz – trumpet, percussion
  • Ed Friedland – electric bass, upright bass
  • Michael Guerra- percussion, acoustic guitar, accordion
  • Raul Malo- lead vocals, piano, percussion, electric guitar, acoustic guitar
  • Jerry Dale McFadden – piano, organ
  • Eddie Perez- electric guitar, acoustic guitar
  • Aaron Till – fiddle
  • Scott Vestal- banjo
  • Jay Weaver – double bass
  • Etta Britt, Tiffany Johnson, Ann McCrary, Alfreda McCrary, Regina McCrary – backing vocals
  • Kevin Dresser – design
  • Allen Harrill – photography

Track listing:

  1. Rolling Along
  2. Brand New Day
  3. Easy As it Seems
  4. I Think of You
  5. Goodnight Waltz
  6. Damned (If You Do)
  7. I Will Be Yours
  8. Ride With Me
  9. I Wish You Well
  10. For the Ages

British Sea Power: Let the Dancers Inherit the Party

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On March 31, 2017, “Golden Chariot” label released “Let the Dancers Inherit  the Party”, the seventh British Sea Power album. It was recorded in 2016, at “Brighton Electric Recording Studios” in Brighton, and was produced by Cam Blackwood.

Personnel:

  1. Jan Scott Wilkinson – vocals, guitar
  2. Martin Noble – guitar
  3. Neil Hamilton Wilkinson – vocals, guitar, bass
  4. Matthew Wood – drums
  5. Phil Sumner – cornet, keyboards
  6. Abi Fry – viola
  7. Grace Wilcock – background vocals
  8. Cam Blackwood – drum programming, engineer, mixing
  9. Josh ‘Hoagie’ Harrison, Liam Thorne – engineer
  10. Nick Watson – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Jan Scott Wilkinson, Martin Noble, Neil Hamilton Wilkinson, Matthew Wood, Phil Sumner and Abi Fry.

  1. Intro
  2. Bad Bohemian
  3. International Space Station
  4. What You’re Doing
  5. The Voice of Ivy Lee
  6. Keep on Trying (Sechs Freunde)
  7. Electrical Kittens
  8. Saint Jerome
  9. Praise for Whatever
  10. Want to Be Free
  11. Don’t Let the Sun Get in the Way
  12. Alone Piano