Tag Archives: 2018

Rolo Tomassi: Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It

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On March 2, 2018, “Holy Roar” label released “Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It”, the fifth Rolo Tomassi studio album. It was recorded in 2017, at “The Ranch, Southampton, England, and was produced by Lewis Johns.

Personnel:

  • Eva Spence – lead vocals
  • James Spence – co-lead vocals, electronic keyboards, piano
  • Chris Cayford – electric guitar
  • Nathan Fairweather – electric bass guitar
  • Tom Pitts – drum kit, backing vocals
  • Lewis Johns – vocals, recording, mixing
  • Dom Wright – recording, mixing
  • Brad Boatright – mastering
  • Simon Moody – art, design

Track listing:

All lyrics by Eva Spence and James Spence, all music by Eva Spence, James Spence, Chris Cayfordm Nathan Fairweather and Tom Pitts.

  1. Towards Dawn
  2. Aftermath
  3. Rituals
  4. The Hollow Hour
  5. Balancing the Dark
  6. Alma Mater
  7. A Flood of Light
  8. Whispers Among Us
  9. Contretemps
  10. Risen

Lucy Dacus: Historian

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On March 2, 2018, “Matador” label released “Historian”, the second Lucy Dacus studio album. It was recorded in 2017, at “Trace Horse Studio” and “The Smoakstack” in Nashville, Tennessee, “Montrose Studios” in Richmond, Virginia, and was produced by Jacob Blizard, Lucy Dacus and Collin Pastore.

Personnel:

  • Lucy Dacus – vocals, guitars
  • Jake Finch – drums
  • Miles Huffman – drums
  • Sam Koff – trumpet
  • Steve Cunningham – trumpet
  • John Hulley – trombone
  • Reggie Pace – trombone
  • John Mailander – violin
  • Ben Plotnick – viola
  • Collin Pastore – engineer
  • Scottie Prudhoe – engineer
  • Preston Cochran – engineer
  • Adrian Olsen – engineer
  • John Congleton – mixing
  • Heba Kadry – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Lucy Dacus.

  1. Night Shift
  2. Addictions
  3. The Shell
  4. Nonbeliever
  5. Yours & Mine
  6. Body to Flame
  7. Timefighter
  8. Next of Kin
  9. Pillar of Truth
  10. Historians

Sabra Alizadeh: Scattered Memories

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On February 15, 2018, “Karlrecords” label released “Scattered Memories”, album by Sabra Alizadeh.

Personnel:

  • Sabra Alizadeh – kamancha, kalimba, electronics
  • Rashad Becker – mastering
  • Kaidoh – design
  • Esmail Habibi – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Sabra Alizadeh.

  1. Blood City
  2. Dream
  3. Colors Wove Me in Teheran
  4. Would You Remember Me?
  5. Elegy for Water
  6. Scattered Memories
  7. Ladan Dead End (kamancheh version)
  8. Fever
  9. Greetings to Earthfire
  10. Fluid

Palm: Rock Island

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On February 9, 2018, “Carpark” label released “Rock Island”, the second Palm studio album.

Personnel:

  • Kasra Kurt – vocal, guitar, recording
  • Eve Alpert – guitar
  • Gerasimos Livitsanos – bass
  • Hugo Stanley – drums, recording
  • Matt Labozza – recording, mixing
  • Sarah Register – mastering
  • Carl Rowatti – lacquer cut
  • Greg Burak – cover art
  • Aaron Lowell Denton – design, layout

Track listing:

All tracks by Kasra Kurt, Eve Alpert, Gerasimos Livitsanos and Hugo Stanley.

  1. Pearly
  2. Composite
  3. Dog Milk
  4. Forced Hand
  5. Theme from Rock Island
  6. Bread
  7. Colour Code
  8. Swimmer
  9. Heavy Lifting
  10. 20664
  11. (Didn’t What You Want) Happen

Hookworms: Microshift

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On February 2, 2018, “Domino” label released “Microshift”, the third studio and final Hookworms album. It was recorded in 2017, at “Suburban Home Studios” in Leeds, and was produced by MJ.

Personnel:

  • MJ – vocals, backing vocals, keyboards, synthesizers, recording, mixing
  • JW – guitars
  • EO – guitars, additional percussion, backing vocals
  • MB – bass, modular synthesizer, synthesizers
  • JN – drums, percussion
  • Alice Mérida Richards – additional and backing vocals
  • Christopher Duffin – soprano and tenor saxophone
  • Richard Formby – additional modular synthesizer
  • Tom Woodhead – mastering
  • Louis Byrne – artwork

Track listing:

All lyrics by MJ, all music by MJ, JW, EO, MB and JN, except where noted.

  1. Negative Space
  2. Static Resistance
  3. Ullswater
  4. The Soft Season
  5. Opener
  6. Each Time We Pass – Alice Mérida Richards, MJ, JW, EO, MB, JN
  7. Boxing Day
  8. Reunion
  9. Shortcomings

Better Oblivion Community Center: Same

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On January 24, 2019, “Dead Oceans” label released the self-titled, debut and only Better Oblivion Community Center album. It was recorded in 2018, at “Fivestar” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Phoebe Bridges, Conor Oberst and Andy LeMaster.

Personnel:

  • Phoebe Bridgers – vocals, guitar, electric piano, baritone guitar, photography
  • Conor Oberst – vocals, guitar, baritone guitar, piano, keyboards, , Whirly tube, photography
  • Christian Lee Hutson – guitar, EBow, tambourine, pocket piano
  • Nick Zinner – guitar
  • Nick White – keyboards
  • John Congleton – synthesizer, mixing
  • Nathaniel Walcott – synthesizer
  • Wylie Gelber – bass guitar
  • Anna Butterss – bass guitar, upright bass
  • Andy LeMaster – bass guitar, synthesizer, programming, pocket piano, mellotron, samples, engineer
  • Carla Azar – drums, percussion
  • Griffin Goldsmith – drums, percussion
  • Marshall Vore – percussion
  • Taylor Hollingsworth – sampled voice
  • Bob Ludwig – mastering
  • Nathaniel David Utesch – design, layout
  • Nik Freitas – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Phoebe Bridges and Conor Oberst, except where noted.

  1. Didn’t Know What I Was in For
  2. Sleepwalin’
  3. Dylan Thomas
  4. Service Road
  5. Exception to the Rule
  6. Chesapeake – Phoebe Bridges, Conor Oberst, Christian Lee Hutson
  7. My City
  8. Forest Lawn – Phoebe Bridges, Conor Oberst, Christian Lee Hutson
  9. Big Black Heart – Phoebe Bridges, Conor Oberst, Adam McIlweem Ben Walsh
  10. Dominos – Taylor Hollingsworth

Bobo Stenson Trio: Contra la indecisión

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On January 19, 2018, “ECM” label released “Contra la indecisión”, album by Bobo Stenson Trio (the twelve Bobo Stenson album overall). It was recorded in May 2017, at “Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI Studio” in Lugano, Switzerland, and was produced by Manfred Eicher.

Personnel:

  • Bobo Stenson – piano
  • Anders Jormin – bass
  • Jon Fält – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Anders Jormin, except where noted.

  1. Canción contra la indecisión – Silvio Rodriguez
  2. Doubt Thou the Stars
  3. Wedding Song from Poniky – Béla Bartók
  4. Three Shades of a House
  5. Elégie – Erik Satie
  6. Canción y danza VI – Federico Mompou
  7. Alice – Bobo Stenson
  8. Oktoberhavet
  9. Kalimba Impressions – Bobo Stenson, Anders Jormin, Jon Fält
  10. Stilla
  11. Hemingway Intonations

The Delines: The Imperial

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On January 11, 2019, “Décor” label released “The Imperial”, the second Delines (The) studio album. It was recorded in 2018, at “Flora Recording & Playback”, “B-Side Studios”, “Type Foundry” and “Scenic Burrows” in Portland, Oregon, and was produced by John Morgan Askew.

Personnel:

  • Amy Boone – vocals
  • Willy Vlautin – vocals, guitar
  • Tucker Jackson – pedal steel guitar
  • Cory Gray – keyboards, trumpet, arrangements
  • Freddy Trujillo – vocals, bass
  • Sean Oldham – vocals, percussion

Track listing:

All tracks by Willy Vlautin.

  1. Cheer Up Charley
  2. The Imperial
  3. Where Are You Sonny?
  4. Let’s Be Us Again
  5. Roll Back My Life
  6. Eddie & Polly
  7. Holly the Hustle
  8. That Old Haunted Place
  9. He Don’t Burn for Me
  10. Waiting on the Blue

Fred Hersch & Esperanza Spalding: Alive At The Village Vanguard

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On January 6, 2023, “Palmetto” label released “Alive at the Village Vanguard”, album by  Fred Hersch & Esperanza Spalding. It was recorded in October 2018, at “Village Vanguard” in New York City, and was produced by Fred Hersch and Esperanza Spalding.

Personnel:

  • Fred Hersch – piano
  • Esperanza Spalding – voices
  • James Farber – engineer
  • Geoff Countryman – engineer assistant
  • Tyler McDiarmid – engineer assistant, mixing
  • Nate Wood – mastering
  • Douglas Heusser – design
  • Erika Kapin – photography
  • Missi Callazzo – executive producer

Track listing:

  1. But Not for Me – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
  2. Dream of Monk – Fred Hersch
  3. Little Suede Shoes – Charlie Parker
  4. Girl Talk – Bobbt Troup, Neal Hefti
  5. Evidence – Thelonious Monk
  6. Some Other Time – Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn
  7. Loro – Egberto Gismonti
  8. A Wish – Fred Hersch, Norma Winstone

Alfa Anderson

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On December 17, 2024, Alfa Anderson died aged 78. She was singer and educator, founding member (together with her husband Eruliel Barfield) of the band “Voices of Shalom”, but was best known as the lead singer of the band Chic. She recorded with many famous musicians, among them with Luther Vandross, Lou Rawls, The B-52’s, Jaheim, Roberta Flack, The Roches, Marvin Sease, Odyssey, Doc Powell, Martha Wash, Debbie Gibson, Jennifer Holliday, Ashford and Simpson, Nat Adderley, Roy Buchanan and Dionne Warwick. In 2014, Anderson received the “Global Entertainment Media Arts (G.E.M.A.) Foundation’s Golden Mic Award”, and Citation from the City of Philadelphia for her contributions to music  “Le Freak” (song by Chis) featuring Anderson on the lead vocals, was inducted into the 2015 “Grammy Hall of Fame”. In 2018, the song was added to the “National Recording Registry” by the “Library of Congress”. In 2018, Mayor Hardie Davis Jr. of Augusta, Georgia gave Anderson the Keys to the City and declared May 5 as “Alfa Anderson Day”.