On May 24, 2023, Anna Mae Bullock aka Tina Turner died aged 83. She was singer, author, dancer and actress, referred to as the “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll”, began her career with Ike Turner’s Kings of Rhythm in 1957. In 1958, under the name Little Ann, she released her first record, “Boxtop”. In 1960, she debuted as Tina Turner with the duet single “A Fool in Love”. The duo Ike & Tina Turner became “one of the most formidable live acts in history”. In the 1980s, Turner made a great comeback, and in the decades that followed she sold over 100 million records worldwide, and became one of the best-selling recording artists of all time. She won twelve “Grammy Awards”, three “Grammy Hall of Fame” awards and a “Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award”. Magazine “Rolling Stone” ranked her among the “100 Greatest Artists of All Time” and the “100 Greatest Singers of All Time”. She was twice inducted into the “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame”, with Ike Turner in 1991 and as a solo artist in 2021. In 2005, she was recipient of the “Kennedy Center Honors” and “Women of the Year” award. As leader Tina Turner released nine albums.
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Gary Numan: Intruder
On May 21, 2021, “BMG” and “The End” labels released “Intruder”, the nineteenth Gary Numan studio album. It was recorded 2020 – 2021, and was produced by Ade Fenton.
Personnel:
- Gary Numan – vocals, keyboards
- Steve Harris – guitars
- Ade Fenton – keyboards, programming, mixing
- Tim Slade – bass
- Gorkem Sen – strings
- Gazelle Twin – backing vocals
- Persia Numan – backing vocals
- Raven Numan – backing vocals
- Nathan Boddy – mixing
- Matt Colton – mastering
Track listing:
All tracks by Gary Numan, except where noted.
- Betrayed
- The Gift
- I Am Screaming
- Intruder
- Is This World Not Enough
- A Black Sun – Gary Numan, Persia Numan
- The Chosen
- And It Breaks Me Again
- Saints and Liars
- Now and Forever
- The End of Dragons
Mdou Moctar: Afrique Victime
On May 21, 2021, “Matador” label released “Afrique Victime”, the fifth Mdou Moctar studio album. It was recorded 2020 – 2021, and was produced by Michael Coltun.
Personnel:
- Mdou Moctar (Mahamadou Souleymane) – vocals, lead guitar
- Ahmoudou Madassane – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
- Michael Coltun – bass guitar, drum machine, backing vocals, recording
- Souleymane Ibrahim – drums, percussion, backing vocals
- Cem Misirlioglu – additional percussion
- Kahlil Smylie, Kasper Frenkel, Matt Schuessler, Rob Schnapf – recording
- Seth Manchester – mixing
- Heba Kadry – mastering
- Robert Beatty – artwork
- Cem Misirlioglu – photography
Track listing:
All tracks by Mdou Moctar.
- Chismiten
- Taliat
- Ya Habibti
- Tala Tannam
- Untitled
- Asdikte Akal
- Layla
- Afrique Victime
- Bismilahi Atagah
Everything Everything: Raw Data Feel
On May 20, 2022, “Infinity Industries” label released “Raw Data Feel”, the sixth Everything Everything album. It was recorded in 2021, at “Eve Studios” in Bredbury, England, and was produced by Kanies & Tom A. D.
Personnel:
- Jonathan Higgs – lead vocals, keyboards, rhythm guitar
- Alex Robertshaw – lead guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
- Jeremy Pritchard – bass guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
- Michael Spearman – drums, backing vocals
- Kanies & Tom A. D. – engineer
- Henry Broadhead – engineer assistant
- Martin King – engineer assistant
- Cenzo Townshend – mixing
- Camden Clarke – mixing assistant
- Jan Ashwell – mixing assistant
- Frank Arkwright – mastering
- Charlotte Audrey – design
- Jonny Costello – design
Track listing:
- Teletype
- I Want a Love Like This
- Bad Friday
- Pizza Boy
- Jennifer
- Metroland is Burning
- Leviathan
- Shark Week
- Cut Up!
- HEX
- My Computer
- Kevin’s Car
- Born Under a Meteor
- Software Greatman
Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few: Cosmic Transitions
On May 12, 2021, “Division” label released “Cosmic Transitions”, the second Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few studio album. It was recorded in September 2020, at “Van Gelder Studio” in New Jersey, and was produced by
Personnel:
- Isaiah Collier – saxophone
- Mike King – piano
- Jeremiah Hunt – bass
- Michael Shekwoaga Ode – drums
Track listing:
- Invocation
- I. Forgiveness
- Part II. Humility
- Part III. Understanding
- Part IV. Truth and Guidance
- Part V. Mercury’s Retrograde
Van Morrison: Latest Record Project, Volume 1
On May 7, 2021, “Exile Production” and “BMG” labels released “Latest Record Project, Volume 1”, the 42nd Van Morrison studio album. It was recorded, in 2020, and was produced by Van Morrison.
Personnel:
- Van Morrison – vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, piano, harmonica, alto saxophone
- Dave Keary – acoustic, electric and classical guitar, mandolin, banjo, backing vocals
- Jim Mullen – electric guitar
- Stuart McIlroy – piano
- Paul Moran – piano, Hammond organ
- Richard Dunn – piano, Hammond organ, clavinet
- Pete Hurley – bass guitar
- Paul Moore – bass guitar
- Gavin Scott – bass guitar
- Mez Clough – drums, backing vocals
- Colin Griffin – drums, percussion
- Jeff Lardner – drums
- Teena Lyle – percussion, vibraphone, backing vocals
- Ben McAuley – percussion
- Chris J White – tenor saxophone
- Alistair White – trombone
- P.J. Proby – vocals
- Chris Farlowe – vocals
- Crawford Bell, Dana Masters, Kelly Smiley – backing vocals
Track listing:
All tracks by Van Morrison.
- Latest Record Project
- Where Have All the Rebels Gone?
- Psychoanalysts Ball
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
- Tried to Do the Right Thing
- The Long Con
- Thank God for the Blues
- Big Lie
- A Few Bars Early
- It Hurts Me Too
- Only a Song
- Diabolic Pressure
- Deadbeat Saturday Night
- Blue Funk
- Double Agent
- Double Bind
- Love Should Come with a Warning
- Breaking the Spell
- Up County Down
- Duper’s Delight
- My Tune After a While
- He’s Not the Kingpin
- Mistaken Identity
- Stop Bitching, Do Something
- Western Man
- They Own the Media
- Why Are You on Facebook
- Jealousy
Sharon Van Etten: We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong
On May 6, 2022, “Jagjaguwar” label released “We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong”, the sixth Sharon Van Etten studio album. It was recorded in 2021, and was produced by Daniel Knowles and Sharon Van Etten.
Personnel:
- Sharon Van Etten – vocals, keyboards, guitar, tambourine, piano, organ, synthesizer, drums, recording
- Devin Hoff – guitar
- Benji Lysaght – guitar
- Zachary Dawes – guitar
- Dave Palmer – piano
- Charley Damski – synthesizer, guitar, glockenspiel
- Daniel Knowles – bass, percussion
- Jorge Balbi – drums, percussion
- Jay Bellerose – drums
- Owen Pallett – strings
- Jorge Balbi – programming
- Daniel Knowles – programming, recording
- Mike Piersante – recording
- Beatriz Artola – mixing
- Joe LaPorta – mastering
Track listing:
All tracks by Sharon Van Etten.
- Darkness Fades
- Home to Me
- I’ll Try
- Anything
- Born
- Headspace
- Come Back
- Darkish
- Mistakes
- Far Away
Arcade Fire: We
On May 6, 2022, “Columbia” label released “WE”, the sixth Arcade Fire studio album. It was recorded 2020 – 2021, at “RAK Studios”, “Wack Formula” and “The Crow’s Nest Studios” in London, “Boombox Studios” and “Marigny Recording Studio” in New Orleans, “Dockside Studio” in Los Angeles, “Sonic Ranch Studios” in Tornilo, Texas, and was produced by Nigel Godrich, Win Butler and Régine Chassagne.
Personnel:
- Régine Chassagne – lead and backing vocals, keyboards, piano, accordion, orchestral arrangements
- Win Butler – lead and backing vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, piano, percussion
- Richard Reed Parry – electric guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals
- Tim Kingsbury – acoustic and electric guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals
- Will Butler – keyboards, bass guitar, backing vocals
- Jeremy Gara – drums, percussion
- Peter Gabriel – additional vocal
- Andre Michot – accordion
- Geoff Barrow – granular synthesis, additional production
- Orlando Primo – congas, djembe
- Willonson Duprate – congas
- Louis Michot – fiddle
- Charlie Gabriel – saxophone
- Mark Braud – trumpet
- Wendell Brunious – trumpet
- Liza Rey – harp
- Paul Beaubrun – sound effects
- Owen Pallett – orchestral arrangements, strings
- Sally Herbert – conductor, additional arrangements
- Helen Gillet – strings
- Harry Hardin – strings
- Matt Rhody – strings
- Sarah Neufeld – strings
- Edwin Farnham Butler IV – whispers
- Josh Tillman – stomps and breaths, additional production
- Romeo Bougere – agogô bell
- Michael Brun – additional synthesis
- Emily Eck – recording
- Eric Heigle – recording, co-producer
- Mikko Gordon – recording, mixing assistant, additional production
- Suvi-Eeva Äikäs – additional recording
- Julia Simpson – additional recording
- Owen Pallett – additional recording
- James Seymour – additional recording
- Mark Lawson – additional recording
- Jerry Ordonez – recording assistant
- Marco Ramirez – recording assistant
- Justin Tocket – recording assistant
- Matt Aguiluz – recording assistant
- Nathanael Graham – recording assistant
- Francesca Edwards – recording assistant
- Joy Stacey – recording assistant
- Pablo Godin – recording assistant
- Felipe Gutierrez – recording assistant
- Craig Silvey – mixing
- Nigel Godrich – mixing
- Dani Bennett Spragg – mixing assistant
- Greg Calbi – mastering
- Steve Fallone – mastering
- Ryan Smith – vinyl mastering
- Steve Mackey – pre-production
- JR – cover image, WE poster image, additional eye photography
- Terry Pastor – airbrush color tinting
- Ping Pong Ping – album graphic design
- Julia Simpson – album creative production
- Alison Green – center image, Polaroids
- IV – “I Guy” Character, handwriting
- Camille Pajot – studio art director
- Rick Rose – digitech
- Fabien Barrau – cover image photo post-production
- Chroma Center – photo printing, post-production
- EHT Collaboration – “Black Hole” image
- Danny Clinch – David Bowie photograph
- Pneuhaus – “Giant Eye”
- Maria Jose Govea – additional photography
- JF Lalonde – additional photography
- Wes Winship – “Acropolis Is Burning” poster
- Don Hertzfeldt – still from World of Tomorrow: Episode 2
- Gift Horst Tintypes – WE poster photo development
Track listing:
All tracks by Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, except where noted.
- Age of Anxiety I
- Age of Anxiety II (Rabbit Hole)
- Prelude
- End of the Empire I-III
- End of Empire IV (Sagittarius A)
- The Lightning I
- The Lightning II
- Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)
- Unconditional II (Race and Religion) – additional writing by Will Butler
- We
John Scofield: Same
On May 6, 2022, “ECM” label released the self-titled, the 46th John Scofield album. It was recorded in August 2021, at “Top Story Studio: in Katonah, New York, and was produced by Manfred Eicher.
Personnel:
- John Scofield – electric guitar, loops, liner notes
- Tyler McDiarmid – engineer
- Christoph Stickel – mastering
- Sascha Kleis – design
- Luciano Rossetti – cover photo
- Manfred Eicher – executive producer
Track listing:
- Coral – Keith Jarrett
- Honest I Do – John Scofield
- It Could Happen to You – Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke
- Danny Boy – traditional
- Elder Dance – John Scofield
- Mrs. Scofield’s Waltz – John Scofield
- Junco Partner – traditional
- There Will Never Be Another You – Harry Warren, Mack Gordon
- My Old Flame – Arthur Johnston, Sam Coslow
- Not Fade Away – Buddy Holly, Norman Petty
- Since You Asked – John Scofield
- Trance De Jour – John Scofield
- You Win Again – Hank Williams
Manchester Orchestra: The Million Masks of God
On April 30, 2021, “Loma Vista” label released “The Million Masks of God”, the sixth Manchester Orchestra studio album. It was recorded in 2020, at “Echo Mountain” in Asheville, North Caroliina, “Favorite Gentlemen” in Atlanta, Georgia, “Sound City” in Los Angeles, “Concord Studios” in New York City, and was produced by Andy Hull, Robert McDowell, Catherine Marks and Ethan Gruska.
Personnel:
- Andy Hull – vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion, engineer
- Robert McDowell – guitar, keyboards, programming
- Ethan Gruska – keyboards, guitar, percussion, programming
- Andy Prince – bass guitar
- Tim Very – drums, percussion
- Caroline Swon – additional vocals
- Catherine Marks – engineer, mixing
- Dowell Gandy – engineer assistant
- Jamie Martens – engineer assistant
- Paul Blakemore – mastering
Track listing:
All tracks by Andy Hull, Robert McDowell, Ethan Gruska, Andy Prince and Tim Very.
- Inaudible
- Angel of Death
- Keel Timing
- Bed Head
- Annie
- Telepath
- Let it Storm
- Dinosaur
- Obstacle
- Way Back
- The Internet
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