Tag Archives: 2020

Irreversible Entanglements: Who Sent You?

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On March 20, 2020, “Don Giovanni” label released “Who Sent You?”, the second Irreversible Entanglements studio album. It was recorded in Marsh 2019, at “Kawari Studios” in Philadelphia, and was produced by Camae Ayewa, Keir Neuringer, Aquiles Navarro, Luke Stewart and Tcheser Holmes.

Personnel:

  • Camae Ayewa – voice, texts
  • Keir Neuringer – saxophone, percussion
  • Aquiles Navarro – trumpet, percussion
  • Luke Stewart – double bass, percussion
  • Tcheser Holmes – drums, congas
  • Zach Goldstein – engineer
  • David Allen – mixing
  • Greg Obis – mastering 

Track listing:

All words by Camae Ayewa, all music by Keir Neuringer, Aquiles Navarro, Luke Stewart and Tcheser Holmes, except where noted.

  1. The Code Noir / Amina – music by Keir Neuringer
  2. Who Sent You – Ritual
  3. No Más – Aquiles Navarro
  4. Blues Ideology
  5. Bread Out of Stone

Nick Jonas: Spaceman

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On March 12, 2021, “Island” label released “Spaceman”, the fourth Nick Jonas studio album. It was recorded in 2020, at “No Expectations” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Greg Kurstin.

Personnel:

  • Nick Jonas – vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, electric sitar, bass, keyboards, piano, programming
  • Greg Kurstin – guitar, piano, drums, recording
  • Jason Evigan – guitar, keyboards, bass, drums, backing vocal, programming
  • Kevin Jonas – guitar
  • The Monsters & Strangerz – keyboards, drums, programming, vocal producer
  • Joe Jonas – vocals
  • Mozella – backing vocals
  • Ryan Tedder – backing vocals
  • Jackie Gouche – backing vocals
  • Priyanka Chopra-Jonas – backing vocals
  • Davion Farris – backing vocals
  • Julian Berg – recording
  • Gian Stone – recording engineer, vocal producer
  • Jason Evigan – recording, vocal producer
  • Serban Ghenea – mixing, vocal mixing
  • Josh Gudwin – mixing
  • Alex Ghenea – mixing
  • John Hanes – mixing
  • Heidi Wang – mixing assistant
  • Randy Merrill – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Nick Jonas, Greg Kurstin and Mozella, except where noted.

  1. Don’t Give Up On Us
  2. Heights
  3. Spaceman
  4. 2Drunk
  5. Delicious
  6. This Is Heaven
  7. Sexual
  8. Deeper Love – Nick Jonas, Greg Kurstin, Mozella, Michael Jones
  9. If I Fall
  10. Death Do Us Apart
  11. Nervous

Pat Metheny: Road To The Sun

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On March 5, 2021, “BMG Modern Recordings” label released “Road to the Sun”, the 51st Pat Metheny album. It was recorded in 2020, at “John Kilgore Sound and Recording”, “Hanson Recording Studios”, “67 Studio”, “NYC67” in New York City, and was produced by Steve Rodby and Pat Metheny.

Personnel:

  • Pat Metheny – guitar, 42-string Pikasso guitar
  • Jason Vieaux – guitar
  • Los Angeles Guitar Quartet – guitars
  • Pete Karam – recording, mixing, mastering
  • Doyle Partners – artwork, design

Track listing:

All tracks are written by Pat Metheny, except where noted.

Four Paths of Light

  1. Part 1
  2. Part 2
  3. Part 3
  4. Part 4

Road to the Sun

  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
  • Part 4
  • Part 5
  • Part 6
  • Für Alina – Arvo Pärt

Doves: Constellations For The Lonely

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On February 28, 2025, “EMI North” label released “Constellations for the Lonely”, the sixth Doves studio album. It was recorded 2020 – 2024, at “Frank Bough Sound III” in Cheshire, England, and was produced by Dan Austin, Jim Goodwin, Jez Williams and Andy Williams.

Personnel:

  • Jimi Goodwin – lead and backing vocals, bass guitar, guitar, drums; synthesizer, programming
  • Jez Williams – lead and backing vocals, guitar; bass guitar, bass guitar, synthesizer, string arrangement, programming, mixing
  • Andy Williams – lead and backing vocals, drums, percussion, keyboards, harmonica, programming, samples
  • Martin Rebelski – keyboards
  • Fredrik Björling  – drums
  • Belinda Hammond – violin
  • Hannah Groarke-Young – violin
  • Jayne Coyle – viola
  • Elinor Gow – cello
  • Seadna McPhail – engineer
  • Martin King – engineer
  • Dan Austin – mixing
  • Matt Colton – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Jez Williams, Jimi Goodwin, and Andy Williams.

  1. Renegade
  2. Cold Dreaming
  3. In the Butterfly House
  4. Strange Weather
  5. A Drop in the Ocean
  6. Last Year’s Man
  7. Stupid Schemes
  8. Silent Teresa
  9. Orlando
  10. Southern Bell

The Innocence Mission: See You Tomorrow

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On January 17, 2020, “Thérèse Records” label released “See You Tomorrow”, the twelfth Innocence Mission (The) studio album. It was recorded in 2019, and was produced by Mike Bitts, Done Peris and Karen Peris.

Personnel:

  • Karen Peris – vocals, guitars, piano, pump organ, accordion, melodica, low harmonica, electric bass guitar, strings keyboard, mellotron
  • Mike Bitts – upright bass
  • Don Peris – vocals, guitars, drums, timpani

Track listing:

All tracks by Karen Peris, except where noted.

  1. The Brothers Williams Said
  2. On Your Side
  3. Movie
  4. We Don’t Know How to Say Why
  5. St. Francis and the Future
  6. At Lake Maureen
  7. John as Well
  8. This Boat
  9. Mary Margaret in Mid-Air – Don Peris
  10. Stars That Fall Away from Us
  11. I Would Be There

Floral Tattoo: You Can Never Have a Long Enough Head Start

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On December 3, 2020, Floral Tattoo self – released “You Can Never Have a Long Enough Head Start”, bands second album. It was recorded December 2018 – May 2019, at the “Hostilgato House” in Renton, Washington, and at Travis Powell and Alex’s Anderson apartment in Renton, Washington.

Personnel:

  • Alex Anderson – vocals, guitar, keyboards, euphonium, melodica, recording
  • Gwen Power – vocals, guitar, organ, synthesizer, melodica, recording
  • Travis Powell – vocals, bass, recording, engineer, mixing
  • Christian Taylor – drums, percussion, recording
  • Mei’lani Eyre – vocals
  • Nat Puff – vocals
  • Jordan Hailey – bells
  • Alex Viglino – mixing
  • Will Killingsworth – mastering

Track listing:

  1. (Foreword)
  2. Life in Color
  3. Julius & Ethel
  4. She
  5. Oar House
  6. Leaving
  7. Don’t Try Things
  8. (Redding Forest Fire / Fermi)
  9. Danny Be Well
  10. Julius & Ethel, Pt. 2
  11. The Art Of Moving On
  12. (My Life Fell Apart This Year)

Adrianne Lenker: Songs / Istrumentals

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On October 23, 2020, “4AD” label released “Songs” and “Instrumentals”, two Adrianne Lenker studio albums. It was recorded April – May 2020, at “Cabin” in Westhampton, Massachusetts, and was produced by Phil Weinrobe and Adrianne Lenker.

Personnel:

  • Adrianne Lenker – vocals, acoustic guitar, paintbrush, needles of a white pine tree
  • Phil Weinrobe – recording, mixing
  • Scott Hull – mastering
  • Brendan Ford – lacquer cut
  • Diane Lee – front and back cover paintings
  • Sarah Schiesser – design, layout

Track listing:

All tracks by Adrianne Lenker.

Songs track listing:

  1. Two Reverse
  2. Ingydar
  3. Anything
  4. Forwards Beckon Rebound
  5. Heavy Focus
  6. Half Return
  7. Come
  8. Zombie Girl
  9. Not a Lot, Just Forever
  10. Dragon Eyes
  11. My Angel

Instrumentals track listing:

  1. Music for Indigo
  2. Mostly Chimes

Touché Amoré: Lament

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On October 9, 2020, “Epitaph” label released “Lament”, the fifth Touché Amoré studio album. It was recorded in 2020, at the “Bunker Studio” in Brooklyn, New York, “Favorite Gentlemen Studio” in Alpharetta, Georgia, and was produced by Ross Robinson.

Personnel:

  • Jeremy Bolm – vocals
  • Clayton Stevens – acoustic and electric guitar, 12-string guitar
  • Nick Steinhardt – electric guitar, pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar, art direction, design
  • Tyler Kirby – bass, additional guitar
  • Elliot Babin – drums, keyboards, piano
  • Ross Robinson – keyboards, additional engineering
  • Jason Schimmel – keyboards, piano, additional engineering
  • Justice Tripp – backing vocals
  • Julien Baker – backing vocals
  • John Andrew Hull – additional vocals
  • Manchester Orchestra
  • Mike Balboa – engineer
  • Robert McDowell – additional recording 
  • Steve Evetts – mixing
  • Alan Douches – mastering
  • George L Clarke – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Jeremy Bolm, Clayton Stevens, Nick Steinhardt, Elliot Babin and Tyler Kirby, except where noted.

  1. Come Heroin
  2. Lament
  3. Feign
  4. Reminders
  5. Limelight – Jeremy Bolm, Clayton Stevens, Nick Steinhardt, Elliot Babin, Tyler Kirby, Andy Hull
  6. Exit Row
  7. Savoring
  8. A Broadcast
  9. I’ll Be Your Host
  10. Deflector
  11. A Forecast

Eartheater: Phoenix: Flames Are Dew upon My Skin

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On October 2, 2020, “PAN” label released “Phoenix: Flames Are Dew upon My Skin”, the fourth Eartheater studio album.

Personnel:

  • Eartheater (Alexandra Drewchin) – lead vocals, guitar, piano, arrangements, engineer, art direction
  • Ana Navarro – flute
  • Marua del Barrio – flute
  • Adam Markiewicz – violin
  • Belén Pérez – violin 
  • Celia Álvarez – violin
  • Laura Sorribas – cello
  • Marilu Donovan – harp
  • Santiago Latorre – engineer
  • Kiri Stensby – engineer, mixing
  • Heba Kadry – mastering
  • N MRE 08 – design
  • Daniel Sannwald – art direction, photography

Track listing

All tracks by Eartheater.

  1. Airborne Ashes
  2. Metallic Taste of Patience
  3. Below the Clavicle
  4. Burning Feather
  5. How to Fight
  6. Kiss of the Phoenix
  7. Volcano
  8. Fantasy Collision
  9. Mercurial Nerve
  10. Goodbye Diamond
  11. Bringing Me Back
  12. Diamond in the Bedrock
  13. Faith Consuming Hope

Robby Krieger: The Ritual Begins At Sundown

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On August 14, 2020, “The Players Club” label released “The Ritual Begins at Sundown”, the eight Robby Krieger album. It was recorded 2019 – 2020, at “Horse Latitude” and “Lotek Studio” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Robby Krieger, Arthur Barrow and Michael Dumas.

Personnel:

  • Robby Krieger – guitar, painting
  • Tommy Mars – keyboards
  • Arthur Barrow – bass, guitar, synth
  • Chad Wackeman – drums
  • Joel Taylor – drums
  • Brad Dutz – percussion
  • Chuck Manning – saxophone
  • Vince Denham – saxophone
  • Jock Ellis – trombone
  • Adrian Byrns – flute
  • Aeb Byrne – flute
  • Shayna Adler – engineer
  • Michael Dumas – mixing
  • Bob Rice – mastering
  • Roy Koch – layout

Track listing:

  1. What Was That? – Arthur Barrow, Larry Klimas, Robby Krieger, Tom Brechtlein, Tommy Mars
  2. Side Home – Arthur Barrow, Robby Krieger
  3. The Drift – Arthur Barrow, Larry Klimas, Robby Krieger, Tommy Mars
  4. Chunga’s Revenge – Frank Zappa
  5. Hot Head – Arthur Barrow, Larry Klimas, Robby Krieger, Tom Brechtlein, Tommy Mars
  6. Yes, the River Knows – Robby Krieger
  7. The Hitch – Arthur Barrow, Joel Taylor, Robby Krieger, Tommy Mars, Vince Denham
  8. Dr Noir – Arthur Barrow, Joel Taylor, Robby Krieger, Tommy Mars, Vince Denham
  9. Bianca’s Dream – Vince Denham
  10. Screen Junkie – Arthur Barrow, Larry Klimas, Robby Krieger, Tom Brechtlein, Tommy Mars