Tag Archives: 2020

Lianne La Havas: Same

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On July 17, 2020, “Warner Bros” label released the self-titled Lianne La Havas third album. It was recorded October – December 2019, in London, Bath and New York, and was produced by Lianne La Havas, Matt Hales, Beni Giles, Chris Tabron, Nick Hakim, Sam Crowe and Mura Masa.

Personnel:

  • Lianne La Havas – lead and backing vocals, guitar, snare drums
  • Elroy Powell – vocals
  • Bruno Major – guitar, piano
  • Nick Hakim – electric guitar, Mellotron, Minimoog, Wurlitzer, backing vocals, drum programming
  • Sam Crowe – keyboards, piano, Rhodes, Moog
  • Chris Tabron – keyboards
  • James Wyatt – keyboards, Moog, piano, Rhodes, claps, vocoder, backing vocals, vocal arrangements
  • Burniss Travis – double bass
  • Joe Harrison – bass guitar, guitar, keyboards
  • Yves Fernandez – bass guitar, claps
  • Geordan Reid-Campbell – bass guitar, keyboards, drums, percussion
  • Matt Hales – bass guitar, Rhodes, drum programming
  • Richard Adlam – drums, keyboards, programming
  • Hal Ritson – drums, keyboards, programming
  • Mark Guiliana – drums, percussion
  • Dan See – drums, percussion
  • Homer Steinwess – drums
  • Gareth Lockrane – flute
  • Tim Mcnalley – viola, cello
  • Davide Rossi – violin, viola, cello, string arrangement
  • Paul Castelluzzo – whistle
  • Frida Touray – backing vocals, claps
  • Dan Grech – additional programming
  • Robert Wilkes – engineer, additional vocal recording
  • Daniel Moyler – engineer, additional vocal recording
  • Sam Crowe – engineer
  • Joe Harrison – engineer
  • Homer Steinwess – engineer
  • Geordan Reid-Campbell – engineer
  • Nick Hakim – engineer, recording
  • Bill Malina – engineer
  • Nate Odden – engineer
  • Chris Tabron – engineer, mixing
  • Beni Giles – mixing, additional vocal recording
  • Matt Hales – mixing, vocal engineering
  • Dan Grech – mixing
  • Renaud Letang – mixing
  • Stuart Hawkes – mastering
  • Augusto Sanchez – engineer assistant
  • Brandon Peralta – engineer and mixing assistant
  • Jonny Breakwell – engineer assistant, additional vocal recording

Track listing:

  1. Bittersweet – Lianne La Havas, Matthew Hales, DiFosco Ervin, Jr., Isaac Hayes, Rudy Love
  2. Read My Mind – Lianne La Havas, Matthew Hales, Benjamin Edwards
  3. Green Papaya – Lianne La Havas, Matthew Hales, Samuel Crowe, Frida Touray
  4. Can’t Fight – Lianne La Havas, Matthew Hales, Alexander Crossan
  5. Paper Thin – Lianne La Havas, Matthew Hales
  6. Out of Your Mind (interlude) – Lianne La Havas, Geordan Reid-Campbell
  7. Weird Fishes – Thom Yorke, Johnny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O’Brien, Philip Selway
  8. Please Don’t Make Me Cry – Lianne La Havas, Matthew Hales, Nicholas Hakim
  9. Seven Times – Lianne La Havas, Matthew Hales
  10. Courage – Lianne La Havas, Matthew Hales, Joseph Harrison
  11. Sour Flower – Lianne La Havas, Matthew Hales, Samuel Crowe

John McLaughlin: Liberation Time

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On July 16, 2021, “Abstract Logix” label released “Liberation Time”, the 20th John McLaughlin album. It was recorded 2020 – 2021, in Monaco, Paris, London, Los Angeles and Cairo, and was produced by John McLaughlin.

Personnel:

  1. John McLaughlin – guitar, piano
  2. Julian Siegel – tenor saxophone
  3. Gary Husband – keyboards, drums
  4. Oz Ezzeldin – piano
  5. Roger Rossignol – piano
  6. Sam Burgess – bass
  7. Etienne Mbappe – bass
  8. Jérôme Regard – bass
  9. Vinnie Colaiuta – drums
  10. Jean-Michel Aublette – drums, bass
  11. Ranjit Barot – drums, Konokol vocals
  12. Nicolas Viccaro – drums

Track listing:

  1. As the Spirit Sings – Sam Burgess, Vinnie Colaiuta, Gary Husband, John McLaughlin
  2. Singing Our Secrets – Jean Michel Aublette, John McLaughlin, Roger Rossignol
  3. Lockdown Blues – Ranjit Barot, Gary Husband, Etienne Mbappe, John McLaughlin
  4. Mila repa – John McLaughlin
  5. Right Here, Right Now, Right On – Osam Exeldin, John McLaughlin, Jerome Regard, Julian Siegal, Nicolas Viccaro
  6. Shade of Blue – John McLaughlin
  7. Liberation Time – Sam Burgess, Gary Husband, John McLaughlin

Senses Fail: Hell Is In Your Head

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On July 15, 2022, “Pure Noise Records” label released “Hell Is in Your Head”, the eighth Senses Fail studio album. It was recorded February – September 2020, and was produced by Beau Burchell.

Personnel:

  • Buddy Nielsen – vocals, guitar, programming
  • Gavin Caswell – guitar, bass guitar
  • Dan Trapp – drums
  • Spencer Charnas – vocal
  • SeeYouSpaceCowboy
  • Beau Burchell – engineer, mixing
  • Ken Andrews – mixing
  • Mike Kalajian – mastering
  • Nick Steinhardt – art direction, design
  • Ryan Sanders – art direction, design

Track listing:

All tracks by James Nielsen.

  1. Burial of the Dead
  2. End of the World/A Game of Chess
  3. The Free Sermon
  4. I Am Error
  5. Death by Water
  6. What the Thunder Said
  7. Miles to Go
  8. Lush Rimbaugh
  9. Hell is in Your Head
  10. I’m Sorry I’m Leaving
  11. Grow Away from Me

The Residents: Metal, Meat & Bone: The Songs of Dyin’ Dog

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On July 10, 2020, “Cherry Red” label released “Metal, Meat & Bone: The Songs of Dyin’ Dog”, the 46th Residents (The) album. It is a rock opera with covers of songs by fictional albino blues singer Alvin Snow, also known as Dyin’ Dog. It was recorded 2019 – 2020, and was produced by The Residents and Eric Drew Feldman.

Personnel:

  • The Residents – performance, arrangements
  • Alvin Snow – performance
  • The Mongrels – performance
  • Roland Sheehan – performance
  • Eric Drew Feldman – performance
  • Nolan Cook – guitars
  • Carla Fabrizio – vocals
  • Sivan Lioncub – vocals
  • Peter Whitehead – vocals
  • Rob Laufer – vocals
  • Black Francis – vocals

Track listing:

  1. Bury My Bone – Alvin Snow
  2. Hungry Hound – Alvin Snow
  3. DIE! DIE! DIE! – Alvin Snow
  4. River Runs Dry – Alvin Snow
  5. The Dog’s Dream – Alvin Snow
  6. I Know – Alvin Snow
  7. Pass for White – Alvin Snow
  8. Tell Me – Alvin Snow
  9. Mama Don’t G0 – Alvin Snow
  10. Dead Weight – Alvin Snow
  11. Cold as a Corpse – The Residents
  12. Blood Stains – The Residents
  13. Cut to the Quick – The Residents
  14. She Called Me Doggy – The Residents
  15. Evil Hides – The Residents
  16. Midnight Man – The Residents

Mulatu Astatke & Black Jesus Experience: To Know Without Knowing

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On July 3, 2020, “Agogo Records” label released “To Know Without Knowing”, album by Mulatu Astatke & Black Jesus Experience. It was recorded in 2020, at “Ginger Studios” in Melbourne, “Rolling Stock Recording Rooms” in Collingwood, “BIX Mobile Studio”, and was produced by Ian Dixon and Peter Harper.

Personnel:

  • Mulate Astatke – electric piano, vibraphone, congas
  • Zac Lister – guitar, chorus 
  • Bob Sedergreen – grand piano 
  • Richard Rose – bass
  • James Davies – drums
  • Olugbade Okunade – congas, shaker
  • Kahan Harper – shaker, wood block
  • Peter Harper – tenor saxophone, arrangements
  • Dominique Chaseling – flute
  • Ian Dixon – flugelhorn, trumpet, arrangements
  • Haftu Reda – masinko
  • Enushu Taye – vocals
  • Vida Sunshyne – vocals
  • Addisalem Taye, Corry Harper, Mearge Abate – chorus
  • Elf Tranzporter – MC
  • Liam Monkhouse – MC
  • Jimi Wyatt – engineer
  • Myles Mumford – engineer
  • Zac Lister – engineer
  • Jono Podmore – mixing
  • Kevin Metcalfe – mastering
  • Hendrik Pauler – direct metal mastering
  • Ian Dixon – artwork
  • John Ryrie – artwork
  • Ralf Zitzmann – A&R

Track listing:

  1. Mulatu
  2. Kulun Mankwaleshi
  3. To Know Without Knowing
  4. Mascaram Setaba
  5. Living on Stolen Land
  6. Ambassa Lemdi

Little Kid: Transfiguration Highway

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On July 3, 2020, “Solitaire Recordings” label released “Transfiguration Highway”, album by Little Kid. It was recorded in 2020, at “The Pharmacy” in Toronto, Canada.

Personnel:

  • Kenny Boothby – vocals, piano, acoustic guitar, classical guitar, harmonica, organ, keyboards
  • Brodie Germain – acoustic and electric guitar
  • Megan Lunn – vocals, banjo
  • Paul Vroom – bass, keyboards, percussion
  • Brodie Germain – drums
  • Liam Cole – drums
  • Brigitte Naggar – additional vocals
  • Joel Harrower – whistling
  • James Lee Chiahan – design

Track listing:

  1. I Thought That You’d Been Raptured
  2. What’s in a Name
  3. Transfiguration Highway
  4. Thief on the Cross
  5. All Night (Golden Ring)
  6. Candle Out
  7. Made for Each Other
  8. Close Enough to Kill
  9. Losing
  10. Gill
  11. Pry

Ray LaMontagne: Monovision

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On June 26, 2020, “RCA” label released “Monovision”, the eight Ray LaMontagne studio album. It was recorded in 2020, at “The Big Room”, and was produced by Ray LaMontagne.

Personnel:

  • Ray LaMontagne – vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, keyboards, harmonica, bass, drums, percussion, engineer

Track listing:

All tracks by Ray LaMontagne.

  1. Roll Me Mama, Roll Me
  2. I Was Born to Love You
  3. Strong Enough
  4. Summer Clouds
  5. We’ll Make It Through
  6. Misty Morning Rain
  7. Rocky Mountain Healin’
  8. Weeping Willow
  9. Morning Comes Wearing Diamonds
  10. Highway to the Sun

Klô Pelgag: Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs

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On June 26, 2020, “Secret City Records” label released “Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs”, the third Klô Pelgag studio album, It was recorded in 2019, and was produced by Klô Pelgag and Sylvain Deschamps.

Personnel:

  • Klô Pelgag – vocals, piano, synth, sampler, arrangements, recording
  • François (Zaï) Zaïdan – guitar, synthesizer
  • Sylvain (Sysyllium) Deschamps – guitar, synth, recording
  • Étienne (Baboo) Dupré – bass, guitar, synth
  • Pete (Poud) Pételle – drums, percussion
  • David Carbonneau, Stephane Beaulac – trumpet
  • Renaud Gratton – trombone
  • Jean-Sébastien Vachon – bass trombone, tuba
  • Louis-Pierre Bergeron, Maude Lussier – horn
  • Chantal Bergeron, Fanny Fresard, Frédérique Tanguay-Gagnon, Félix Savignac, Geneviève Clermont, John Corban, Mélanie Bélair, Vanessa Marcoux, Zoé Dumais – violin
  • Julie Boivin, Ligia Paquin, Valérie Arsenault – viola
  • Mariane Bertrand, Marianne Houle – cello
  • Owen Pallett – arrangements
  • Vincent Lauzer – recorder
  • Pierre Girard – mixing
  • Richard Addison – mastering
  • David Beauchemin, Julien Hebert – design
  • Florence Obrecht – painting
  • Marc-Étienne Mongrain – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Klô Pelgag and Sylvain Deschamps.

  1. Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleur
  2. Rémora
  3. Umami
  4. J’aurai les cheveux longs
  5. À l’ombre des cyprès
  6. La Fonte
  7. Soleil
  8. Für Élise
  9. Mélamine
  10. Où vas-tu quand tu dors ?
  11. La maison jaune
  12. Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs II

Hiss Golden Messenger: Quietly Blowing It

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On June 25, 2021, “Merge Records” label released “Quietly Blowing It”, the twelve Hiss Golden Messenger studio album. It was recorded 2020 – 2021, at “Overdub Lane”, “Echo Magic”, “The Shed”, “Starr Sound”, “The Old Pillow Studio”, “The Boom Boom Room”, “Dad’s Bar & Grill”, and was produced by M.C. Taylor.

Personnel:

  • M.C. Taylor – lead vocal, acoustic and electric guitar, additional recording
  • Chris Boerner – electric guitar
  • Buddy Miller – electric guitar
  • Josh Kaufman – acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin
  • Scott Hirsch – lap steel guitar, synthesizer
  • James Wallace – piano, additional recording
  • Devonne Harris – piano, Hammond organ, Wurlitzer, clavinet
  • Alex Bingham – bass, synthesizer
  • Brevan Hampden – drums, percussion
  • Matt McCaughan – drums, percussion, synthesizer
  • Stuart Bogie – saxophone
  • Matt Douglas – saxophone
  • Griffin Goldsmith – singing
  • Taylor Goldsmith – singing
  • Sonyia Turner – singing
  • Zach Williams – singing
  •  Luc Suèr – recording
  • Darryl Norsen – layout, design
  • Chris Frisina – cover photography

Track listing:

All tracks by M.C. Taylor, except where noted.

  1. Way Back in the Way Back
  2. The Great Mystifier
  3. Mighty Dollar
  4. Quietly Blowing It
  5. It Will If We Let It
  6. Hardlytown
  7. If It Comes in the Morning – Anaïs Mitchell, M.C. Taylor
  8. Glory Strums (Loneliness of the Long – Distance Runner)
  9. Painting Houses – Gregory Alan Isakov, M.C. Taylor
  10. Angels in the Headlights
  11. Sanctuary

Fiona Apple: The Idler Wheel…

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On June 19, 2012, “Epic” label released “The Idler Wheel…”, the fourth Fiona Apple studio album. It was recorded 2008 – 2011, at “Stanley” in Los Feliz, California, “NBB” in New York City, and was produced by Charley Drayton and Fiona Apple. in 2020, “Rolling Stone” magazine placed the album at number 213 on its list of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time”.

Personnel:

  • Fiona Apple (credited as “Feedy”) – singins, field recording, loops, truck stomping, dance partner, thighs, percussion, piano, celeste, timpani, voice strings, bass keyboard
  • Charley Drayton (credited as “Seedy”) – baritone vocals, voice of pain, kora, autoharartworkp, truck stomping, dance partner, percussion, Teisco guitar, guitar, bouzouki, marimba, drum set, voice strings, thighs, field recording, pillow, string harp
  • Sebastian Steinberg – acoustic bass, Harmony guitar
  • Maude Maggart – high harmony
  • John Would – recording
  • Eddison Sainsbury – recording
  • Dave Way – mixing
  • Howie Weinberg – mastering
  • Dan Gerbarg – mastering
  • Eric Roinestad – art direction, design

Track listing:

All tracks by Fiona Apple.

  1. Every Single Night
  2. Daredevil
  3. Valentine
  4. Jonathan
  5. Left Alone
  6. Werewolf
  7. Periphery
  8. Regret
  9. Anything We Want
  10. Hot Knife