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John Cale: Mercy

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On January 20, 2023, “Double Six Records” label released “Mercy” the seventeenth John Cale studio album. It was recorded in 2022, at “Arm Studios”, EastWest Studios” and “Vox Studios” in Los Angeles, “Snap Studios” in London, and was produced by Nita Scott and John Cale.

Personnel:

  • John Cale – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, bass guitar, piano, keyboards, vintage keyboards, synthesizer, drums, percussion, additional strings, string arrangements, noises, Swarmatron, drone
  • Weyes Blood – vocals
  • Amelia Meath – vocals
  • Tei Shi – vocals
  • Lias Saoudi – vocals
  • Dustin Boyer – guitar, rhythm guitar, bass guitar, noises, backing vocals
  • Nick Sanborn – acoustic guitar
  • Dev Hynes – acoustic guitar
  • Adam J. Harmer – guitar, backing vocals
  • Actress – synthesizers, effects
  • Laurel Halo – additional vocals, synthesizer, effects
  • Brian Weitz – synthesizer
  • Joey Maramba – bass guitar, bowed bass
  • Ian Walker – double bass
  • Deantoni Parks – acoustic and electronic drums, timpani, additional synthesizer
  • Jack Everett – acoustic drums, backing vocals
  • Tony Allen – acoustic drums
  • Nita Scott – additional drums, additional percussion, additional drum programming, backing vocals
  • Marissa Kuney – violin
  • Jenny Takamatsu – violin
  • Eric Gorfain – violin
  • Caroline Buckman – viola
  • Leah Katz – viola
  • Rodney Wirtz – viola
  • Matt Fish – cello
  • Nathan Saoudi – Juno, backing vocals
  • Destani Wolf – backing vocals
  • Tokimonsta – effects
  • Dustin Boyer – engineer, mixing, additional production
  • Nita Scott – mixing
  • Mikaelin Bluespruce – mixing
  • Seven Davis Jr – mixing
  • Tokimonsta – mixing
  • Justin Raisen – mixing
  • Mike Bozzi – mastering
  • Actress – additional production
  • Abby Portner – artwork
  • Rob Carmichael – design

Track listing:

All tracks by John Cale.

  1. Mercy
  2. Marilyn Monroe’s Legs (Beauty Elsewhere)
  3. Noise of You
  4. Story of Blood
  5. Time Stands Still
  6. Moonstruck
  7. Everlasting Days
  8. Night Crawling
  9. Not the End of the World
  10. The Legal Status of Ice
  11. I Know You’re Happy
  12. Out Your Window

Riverside: ID. Entity

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On January 20, 2023, “Inside Out Music” label released “ID.Entity”, the eighth Riverside studio album. It was recorded in 2022, at “The Boogie Town Studio” in Otwock , Poland, “Serakos Studio” in Warsaw, Poland, and was produced by Mariusz Duda.

Personnel:

  • Mariusz Duda – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, bass guitar
  • Maciej Meller – guitar
  • Michał Łapaj – keyboards, synthesizer, piano, organ
  • Piotr Kozieradzki – drums
  • Jarek Kubicki – cover design

Track listing:

All tracks by Mariusz Duda, except where noted.

  1. Friend of Foe – Mariusz Duda, Michal Lapaj
  2. Landmine Blast
  3. Big Tech Brother
  4. Post-Truth
  5. The Place Where I Belong
  6. I’m Done with You
  7. Self-Aware

Ryuichi Sakamoto: 12

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On January 17, 2023, “Milan” and “Commons” labels released “12”, the twentieth Ryuichi Sakamoto album. It was recorded in 2022, and was produced by Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Personnel:

  • Ryuichi Sakamoto – electronics, keyboards, mixing
  • Matsumura Kazuyuki – mixing
  • Robin Schmidt – mastering
  • Shigeru Buzawa – lacquer cut
  • Lee Ufan – artwork

Track listing:

All tracks by Ryuichi Sakamoto.

  1. 20210310
  2. 20211130
  3. 20211201
  4. 20220123
  5. 20220202
  6. 20220207
  7. 20220214
  8. 20220302 – Sarabande
  9. 20220302
  10. 20220307
  11. 20220404
  12. 20220304

Circa Waves: Never Going Under

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On January 13, 2023, “Lower Third” and “PIAS Recordings” labels released “Never Going Under”, the fifth Circa Waves studio album. It was recorded in 2022, and was produced by Kieran Shudall.

Personnel:

  • Kieran Shudall – vocals, guitar, keyboards
  • Joe Falconer – vocals, guitar
  • Sam Rourke – vocals, bass guitar, keyboards
  • Colin Jones – vocals, drums
  • Dan Grech-Marguerat – mixing
  • Matty Green – mixing
  • Caesar Edmunds – mixing
  • Robin Schmidt – mastering
  • Connor Dewhurst – artwork

Track listing:

All tracks by Kieran Shudall, except where noted.

  1. Never Going Under
  2. Do You Wanna Talk
  3. Hell on Earth
  4. Your Ghost
  5. Carry You Home
  6. Northern Town
  7. Electric City
  8. Want It All Today – Kieran Shudall, Sam Rourke
  9. Golden Days
  10. Hold On
  11. Living in the Grey

Gaz Coombes: Turn The Car Around

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On January 13, 2023, “Hot Fruit Records” label released “Turn the Car Around”, the fourth Gaz Coombes studio album. It was recorded in 2022, at “The Cabin” and “Courtyard Studio” in Oxfordshire, UK, and was produced by Ian Davenport and Gaz Coombes.

Personnel:

  1. Gaz Coombes – lead vocals, guitar, bass guitar, piano, synthesizer, drums, percussion, mixing
  2. Nick Fowler – bass guitar, guitar
  3. Garo Nahoulakian – bass guitar, guitar, piano, percussion, piano arrangements
  4. Loz Colbert – drums
  5. Mike Monaghan – congas, percussion
  6. Tomas Greenhalf – saxophone
  7. Amy Ashworth – backing vocals
  8. Emma Brammer – backing vocals
  9. Piney Gir – backing vocals
  10. Willie J. Healey – backing vocals
  11. Matt Colton – mastering 
  12. Steve Stacey – design
  13. Tom Cockram – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Gaz Coombes.

  1. Overnight Trains
  2. Don’t Say It’s Over
  3. Feel Loop (Lizard Dream)
  4. Long Live the Strange
  5. Not the Only Things
  6. Turn the Car Around
  7. This Love
  8. Sonny the Strong
  9. Dance On

Iggy Pop: Every Loser

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On January 6, 2023, “Gold Tooth” and “Atlantic” labels released “Every Loser”, the nineteenth Iggy Pop studio album. It was recorded in 2022, and was produced by Andrew Watt.

Personnel:

  • Iggy Pop – lead and backing vocals
  • Andrew Watt – guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, piano, sequenced drums, percussion, backing vocals
  • Josh Klinghoffer – guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, piano, organ, synthesizer
  • Stone Gossard – guitar
  • Dave Navarro – guitar
  • Duff McKagan – bass guitar
  • Eric Avery – bass guitar
  • Chris Chaney – bass guitar
  • Chad Smith – drums, percussion
  • Travis Barker – drums
  • Taylor Hawkins – drums, percussion, piano
  • Paul LaMalfa – engineer
  • Marco Sonzini – engineer
  • Jimmy Douglass – engineer
  • Devon Corey – engineer
  • Jimmy Davis – additional engineering
  • Alan Moulder – mixing
  • Matt Colton – mastering
  • Tom Herbers – mixing assistant
  • Finn Howells – mixing assistant
  • Caesar Edmunds – mixing assistant
  • Andrew Watt – art direction, photography
  • David J. Harrigan III – art direction, design
  • Raymond Pettibon – cover art
  • Mick Rock – cover photography
  • Vincent Guignet – photography
  • Spenser Anderson – photography
  • Laura Bradley – photography
  • Andrew Watt – executive producer

Track listing:

  1. Frenzy – Iggy Pop, Andrew Watt, Duff Mckagam, Chad Smith
  2. Strung Out Johnny – Iggy Pop, Andrew Watt, Josh Klinghoffer, Chad Smith
  3. New Atlantis – Iggy Pop, Andrew Watt, Duff Mckagam, Chad Smith
  4. Modern Day Ripoff – Iggy Pop, Andrew Watt, Duff Mckagam, Chad Smith
  5. Morning Show – Iggy Pop, Andrew Watt
  6. The News for Andy (interlude) – Iggy Pop, Andrew Watt
  7. Neo Punk – Iggy Pop, Andrew Watt, Josh Klinghoffer, Travis Barker
  8. All the Way Down – Iggy Pop, Andrew Watt, Stone Gossard, Chad Smith
  9. Comments – Iggy Pop, Andrew Watt, Eric Avery, Taylor Hawkins
  10. My Animus – Iggy Pop, Andrew watt
  11. The Regency – Iggy Pop, Andrew Watt, Dave Navaro, Chris Chaney, Taylor Hawkins

Denny Laine

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On December 5, 2023, Brian Frederick Arthur Hines aka Denny Laine died aged 79. He was musician (guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, and harmonica), singer and songwriter, a founder of the Moody Blues, member of Electric String Band, Ginger Baker’s Air Force, Denny Laine and the Diplomats, Denny Laine Band, but was best known as founding member of The Wings. Laine recorded and performed with variety of artists including Mike McGear, Steve Holley, Laurence Juber, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Balls and Linda McCartney. As leader he released twelve albums. In 2018, Laine was inducted into the “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame” as a member of the Moody Blues.

The Smashing Pumpkins: Atum: A Rock Opera In Three Acts

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On November 15, 2022, “Martha’s Music” and “Thirty Tigers” labels released “Atum: A Rock Opera in Three Acts”, the twelfth Smashing Pumpkins (The) studio album. The album was released in three separate installments of 11 songs – “Atum: Act One” was released on November 15, 2022, “Atum: Act Two” was released on January 31, 2023, and “Atum: Act Three” was released on May 5, 2023. It was recorded 2020 – 2022, and was produced by Billy Corgan.

Personnel:

  • Billy Corgan – vocals, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards
  • James Iha – guitar
  • Jeff Schroeder – guitar, keyboards
  • Jimmy Chamberlin – drums
  • Katie Cole – backing vocals
  • Sierra Swan – backing vocals
  • Linda Strawberry – backing vocals
  • Matt Walker – additional incidental programming

Track listing:

Atum: Act One

  1. Atum
  2. Butterfly Suite
  3. The Good in Goodbye
  4. Embracer
  5. With Ado I Do
  6. Hooligan
  7. Steps in Time
  8. When Rain Must Fall
  9. Beyond the Vale
  10. Hooray!
  11. The Gold Mask

Atum: Act Two

  1. Avalanche
  2. Empires
  3. Neophyte
  4. Moss
  5. Night waves
  6. Space Age
  7. Every Morning
  8. To the Grays
  9. Beguiled
  10. The Culling
  11. Springtimes

Atum: Act Three

  1. Sojourner
  2. That Which Animates the Spirit
  3. The Canary Trainer
  4. Pacer
  5. In Lieu of Failure
  6. Cenotaph
  7. Harmageddon
  8. Fireflies
  9. Intergalactic
  10. Spellbinding
  11. Of Wings

Zodeon at Crystal Hall

  1. Simmatar
  2. Magdalena
  3. Saffron
  4. Zope
  5. Huzzah
  6. Automation
  7. Mary Q
  8. Burr
  9. Excelsior
  10. Necromance

Carla Bley

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On October 17, 2023, Lovella May Borg, aka Carla Bley died aged 87. She was composer, musician (piano, organ) and bandleader, one of the most important figures in the free jazz movement of the 1960s. Bley started the record label “JCOA “, who recorded over two dozen important albums between 1966 and 2019, and became a pioneer in the development of independent artist-owned record labels. As leader, she released 29 albums, including her magnum opus, the jazz opera “Escalator over the Hill”.