Tag Archives: 2024

Sam Wilkes, Craig Weinrib And Dylan Day: Same

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On July 17, 2024, “Leaving Records” label released the self-titled Sam Wilkes, Craig Weinrib and Dylan Day album. It was recorded in 2024 and was produced by Dylan Day, Sam Wilkes and Craig Weinrib.

Personnel:

  • Dylan Day – electric guitar, arrangements, mixing
  • Sam Wilkes – bass guitar, arrangements, recording, mixing
  • Craig Weinrib – drums, arrangements
  • Mark Chaleski – mastering

Track listing:

  1. Standing in the Doorway
  2. Too Young to Go Steady
  3. How Insensitive
  4. Rain
  5. Snow
  6. When I Can Read My Titles Clear
  7. I’ll Find a Way (To Carry It All)

Jonathan Richman: Only Frozen Sky Anyway

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On July 4, 2025, “Blue Arrow” label released “Only Frozen Sky Anyway”, the 18th Jonathan Richman album. It was recorded in 2024, at “The Mountain Studio” in Marin County, California, and was produced by Jonatham Richman, Nicole Montalbano and Jerry Harrison.

Personnel:

  • Jonathan Richman – lead vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Tommy Dunbar – acoustic guitar
  • David Alvarez – acoustic guitar
  • Tommy Larkins – drums
  • Don Spindt – drums
  • Nicole Montalbano – strings
  • Jake Sprecher – backing vocals
  • Marty Parker – backing vocals
  • Kenny Parker – backing vocals

Track listing:

All tracks by Jonathan Richman, except where noted.

  1. I Was Just a Piece of Frozen Sky Anyway
  2. But We Might Try Weird Stuff
  3. Night Fever – Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb, Robin Gibb
  4. You Need Me Too
  5. The Dog Star
  6. Se Va Pa’volver
  7. That Older Girl
  8. Little Black Bat – Jonathan Richman, Mauro Vacca
  9. O Guitar
  10. David & Goliath
  11. The Wavelet – Paramahansa Yogananda
  12. I Am the Sky – Paramahansa Yogananda

Casiopea: Right Now

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On July 3, 2024, “Hats Unlimited” label released “Right Now”, the 36th Casiopea album. It was recorded in 2024, and was produced by Issei Noro, Kiyomi Otaka, Toshihiro Naruse and Yoshihiro Imai.

Personnel:

  • Issei Noro – guitar
  • Kiyomi Otaka – keyboards
  • Yoshihiro Naruse – bass
  • Yoshihiro Imai – drums

Track listing:

  1. The Time Has Come
  2. The Hopeful World
  3. Which Way
  4. No Place Like Here
  5. Challengers
  6. Admiration
  7. Hour of the Rainbow
  8. 90’s A Go Go
  9. Look Up the Stars
  10. Happiness

Madeleine Peyroux: Let’s Walk

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On June 28, 2024, “Thirty Tigers” label released “Let’s Walk”, the tenth Madeleine Peyroux album. It was recorded August – September 2023, at “The Clubhouse” in Rhinebeck, New York, and was produced by Elliot Scheiner, Jon Herington and Madeleine Peyroux.

Personnel:

  • Madeleine Peyroux – vocals, guitar
  • Jon Herington – vocals, guitar, bass guitar, mandolin, marimba, synth
  • Andy Ezrin – piano, Hammond organ, Vox Continental organ, harmonium, Rhodes electric piano, Wurlitzer organ, orchestral bells
  • Paul Frazier – bass guitar
  • Graham Hawthorne – drums, percussion
  • Stan Harrison – clarinet
  • Catherine Russell, Cindy Mizelle, Keith Fluitt – vocals
  • Elliot Scheiner – engineer, mixing
  • Matthew Scheiner – engineer
  • Ebru Yildiz – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Jon Herington and Madeleine Peyroux.

  1. Find True Love
  2. How I Wish
  3. Let’s Walk
  4. Please Come on Inside
  5. Blues for Heaven
  6. Et Puis
  7. Me and the Mosquito
  8. Nothing Personal
  9. Showman Dan
  10. Take Care

Fuubutsushi: Meridians

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On June 27, 2024, “Cached Media” label released “Meridians”, the debut Fuubutsushi album. It was recorded 2021 – 2023, in California, Colorado, Illinois, Missouri, Pennsylvania.

Personnel:

  • Chaz Prymek – acoustic and electric guitar, bass guitar, double bass, field recording, recording
  • Mathew Sage – piano, keyboards, synthesizer, harmonica, accordion, guitar, field recording, recording
  • Patrick Shirosihi – vocals, alto and tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, accordion, glockenspiel, melodica, field recording, recording
  • Chris Jusell – violin, mandolin, marimba, vibraphone, recording
  • Amber Navran – mixing
  • Sean McCann – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Chaz Prymek, Mathew Sage, Patrick Shirosihi and Chris Jusell.

Pacific

  1. Blue Rose
  2. Hamilton
  3. Distance Learner
  4. Tenel Ka (First Crush)

Mountain

  • Prelude to New Flora
  • New Flora
  • Circulating Air
  • Light in the Annex

Central

  • Midori
  • Nora Nora
  • Pool Tile Blue
  • Barrel Duet

Eastern

  1. Wonder Years
  2. Spent for Light
  3. Meridians

Q: WeirdOs

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On June 21, 2024, “Speedy Wunderground” label released “WeirdOs”, the debut Q album. It was recorded in 2014, and was produced by Dan Carey.

Personnel:

  • Joe Henwood – baritone saxophone
  • Tash Keary – drums

Track listing:

  1. Intro
  2. 176
  3. TV Dinners
  4. Wheezy
  5. Micro
  6. Cosmo
  7. Green Shirt
  8. Whammy
  9. Sugarfish
  10. Slap Juice

Caroline Shaw & Quartet So Percussion: Rectangles and Circumstance

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On June 14, 2024, “Nonesuch” label released “Rectangles and Circumstance”, album by Caroline Shaw and Quartet So Percussion. It was recorded August – September 2023, at “Big Mercy Studio” and “Figure 8 Recording” in Brooklyn, “Guilford Sound” in Guilford, “Princeton University” in Princeton, and was produced by Jonathan Low.

Personnel:

  • Caroline Shaw – vocals
  • Sō Percussion – ensemble
  • Adam Sliwinski, Eric Cha-Beach, Jason Treuting, Josh Quillen – percussion
  • Jonathan Low – engineer, editing, mixing
  • Matt Poirer – engineer, editing, additional mixing
  • Dave Snyder,. Matt Hall – engineer assistant
  • Josh Bonati – mastering
  • Ben Tousley – design
  • Daniel Kukla – photography
  • Anja Schütz – artists photography
  • Adam Sliwinski – liner notes

Track listing:

  1. Rectangles and Circumstance
  2. Sing On
  3. Silently Invisibly
  4. And So
  5. The Parting Glass
  6. Slow Motion
  7. Who Turns Out the Light
  8. Like a Drum
  9. This
  10. To Music

Van Morrison: Remebering Now

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On June 13, 2025, “Exile Productions” and “Virgin” labels released “Remembering Now”, the 47th Van Morrison studio album. It was recorded in 2024, and was produced by Van Morrison.

Personnel:

  • Van Morrison – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, saxophone
  • Dave Keary – acoustic and electric guitar, lap steel guitar, bouzouki, backing vocals
  • Richard Dunn – Hammond organ, Rhodes, backing vocals
  • Stuart McIlroy – piano
  • John McCullough – piano, Hammond organ
  • Nicky Scott – bass
  • Pete Hurley – bass
  • Colin Griffin – drums, percussion, backing vocals
  • Eamon Ferris – drums
  • Alan “Sticky” Wicket – percussion
  • Joanne Quigley – bandleader
  • Paul O’Reilly – saxophone
  • Mike Barkley – trumpet, saxophone
  • Seth Lakeman – violin
  • Fews Ensemble – strings
  • Crawford Bell – backing vocals
  • Dana Masters – backing vocals
  • Kelly Smiley – baritone and backing vocals
  • Jolene O’Hara – backing vocals
  • Pete Wallace – backing vocals
  • Chantelle Duncan – backing vocals
  • Teena Lyle – backing vocals
  • Ben McAuley – engineer, mixing
  • Tony Cousins – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Van Morrison.

  1. Down to Joy
  2. If It Wasn’t for Ray
  3. Haven’t Lost My Sense of Wonder
  4. Love, Lover and Beloved
  5. Cutting Corners
  6. Back to Writing Love Songs
  7. The Only Love O Ever Need Is Yours
  8. Once in a Lifetime Feelings
  9. Stomping Ground
  10. Memories and Visions
  11. When the Rains Came
  12. Colourblind
  13. Remembering Now
  14. Stretching Out

IZZ: Collapse The Wave

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On June 11, 2024, “Doone records” released “Collapse the Wave”, the 13th IZZ album. It was recorded in 2023, at “Underground Studios” in South Salem, New York, and was produced by Tom Galgano.

Personnel:

  • Tom Galgano – vocals, keyboards, arrangements, engineer, mixing
  • Laura Meade – vocals, arrangements
  • Paul Bremner – acoustic and electric guitar, arrangements
  • John Galgano – vocals, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, arrangements
  • Brian Coralian – drums, electronic drums, percussion, arrangements
  • Greg DiMiceli – drums, percussion, arrangements
  • Joe Lambert – mastering
  • Julie Morris – cover art, animation
  • Diandra Muley – design
  • Uladzimir Taukachau – photography
  • Jonah Mejia – IZZ logo

Track listing:

  1. We Are the 3rd – lyrics by John Galgano, Tom Galgano, music by Brian Coralian, Greg DiMiceli, John Galgano, Laura Meade, Tom Galgano
  2. So Many Voices – Tom Galgano
  3. Brace for Impact – lyrics by John Galgano, Paul Bremner, music by Brian Coralian, John Galgano, Paul Bremner
  4. Deep Inside – John Galgano
  5. Collapse the Wave – lyrics by John Galgano, Tom Galgano, music by John Galgano, Paul Bremner, Tom Galgano
  6. Sometimes Sublime – lyrics by Paul Bremner, music by Laura Meade, Paul Bremner. Tom Galgano
  7. There’s Hope! – lyrics by Brian Coralian, Tom Galgano, music by Brian Coralian, Greg DiMiceli, Tom Galgano, John Galgano
  8. Brethren – music by Brian Coralian, Greg DiMiceli, Paul Bremner
  9. Not About Me – music by Tom Galgano
  10. Soak Up the Sunlight – lyrics by John Galgano, music by Greg Di Miceli, Tom Galgano
  11. And We Will Go – John Galgano

Beatie Wolfe & Brian Eno: Luminal

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On June 6, 2025, “Verve” label released “Luminal”, album by Beatie Wolfe and Brian Eno. It was recorded in 2024, and was produced by Beatie Wolfe and Brian Eno.

Personnel:

  • Beatie Wolfe – vocals, guitars, omnichord, synthesizers, keys, melodica, design
  • Brian Eno – synthesizers, keys, slide guitar, bass, Omnichord, backing vocals
  • Dean Martin Hovey – mastering
  • Jeff Powell – lacquer cut
  • Nick Robertson – design

Track listing:

All tracks by Beatie Wolfe and Brian Eno.

  1. Milky Sleep
  2. Hopelessly at Ease
  3. My Lovely Day
  4. Play On
  5. Shhh
  6. Suddenly
  7. A Ceiling and a Lifeboat
  8. And Live Again
  9. Breath March
  10. Never Was It Now
  11. What We Are