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Peter Gabriel: I/O

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On December 1, 2023, “Real World” label released “I/O”, the tenth Peter Gabriel studio album. It was recorded April 1995 – December 2022, at “Rexall Place” in Edmonton, “Real World” in Wiltshire, “British Grove” and “Copper House” in London, “High Seas” in Johannesburg, “Alfvénsalen” in Uppsala, “Fonoprint” in Bologna, and was produced by Peter Gabriel, Richard Russell and Brian Eno.

Personnel:

  • Peter Gabriel – lead, treated and backing vocals, piano, keyboards, synths, programming, percussion, manipulated charango, glass harp, orchestral arrangements, choir arrangements, design concept
  • David Rhodes – guitars, acoustic and 12 string guitars, backing vocals
  • Katie May – acoustic guitar, percussion, synths, rhythm programming, guitar effects, engineer
  • Richard Evans – mandolin, D whistle
  • Tom Cawley – piano
  • Oli Jacobs – piano, synths, programming, engineer
  • Brian Eno – synths, manipulated guitars, ukulele, percussion, bells, rhythm programming and progressing, electric worms
  • Angie Pollock – synths
  • Tony Levin – basses
  • Don-E – bass synth
  • Ron Aslan – additional synths
  • Manu Katche – drums
  • Steve Gadd – brush loop
  • Ged Lynch – percussion
  • Oli Middleton – percussion
  • Hans-Martin Buff – additional percussion, synths
  • Richard Russell – filtered percussion
  • Evan Smith – saxophone
  • Josh Shpak – trumpet
  • Paolo Fresu – trumpet
  • Linnea Olson – cello
  • Melanie Gabriel – backing vocals
  • Rioghnach Connolly – backing vocals
  • Jennie Abrahamson – backing vocals
  • Richard Chappell – programming
  • Andrew Crowley – trumpet
  • Andy Wood – tenor trombone, euphonium
  • Tracy Holloway – tenor trombone
  • Richard Henry – bass trombone
  • David Powell – tuba
  • David Pyatt, Richard Bissill – French horn
  • Eliza Marshall – flute
  • Everton Nelson, Ian Humphries, Louisa Fuller, Charles Mutter, Cathy Thompson, Natalia Bonner, Richard George, Marianne Haynes, Martin Burgess, Clare Hayes, Debbie Widdup, Odile Ollagnon – violin
  • Bruce White, Fiona Bonds, Peter Lale, Rachel Roberts – viola
  • Ian Burdge, Chris Worsey, Caroline Dale, William Schofield, Tony Woollard, Chris Allan – cello
  • Chris Laurence, Stacey Watton, Lucy Shaw – double basses
  • John Metcalfe – orchestra conductor, orchestral arrangements
  • Everton Nelson – orchestra leader
  • Ed Shearmur – orchestral arrangements
  • The Soweto Gospel Choir: Linda Sambo, Nobuhle Dhlamini, Phello Jiyane, Victoria Sithole – soprano
  • Maserame Ndindwa, Phumla Nkhumeleni, Zanele Ngwenya, Duduzile Ngomane – alto
  • George Kaudi, Vusimuzi Shabalala, Xolani Ntombela, Victor Makhathini – tenor
  • Thabang Mkhwanazi, Goodwill Modawu, Warren Mahlangu, Fanizile Nzuza – bass
  • Phello Jiyane (soprano), Duduzile Ngomane (alto), Vusimuzi Shabalala (tenor), Fanizile Nzuza (bass), Victor Makhathini (male voice Zulu improvisations), Phumla Nkhumeleni (female ululating and chanting) – soloist
  • Bongani (Honey) Ncube – musical director, vocal arrangements
  • Cecilia Rydinger – conductor, choir arrangements
  • Dom Shaw – choir arrangements, engineer assistant
  • Richard Chappell – pre-production engineer
  • Lewis Jones – engineer
  • Jacques Du Plessis – engineer
  • John Foyle – engineer
  • Erland von Heijne – engineer
  • Antonello D’Urso – engineer
  • Faye Dolle – engineer assistant
  • Tom Coath – engineer assistant
  • Luie Stylianou – engineer assistant
  • Tchad Blake – mixing
  • Mark “Spike” Stent – mixing
  • Hans-Martin Buff – Dolby Atmos mixing
  • Matt Colton – mastering
  • Nadav Kander – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Peter Gabriel.

“I/O” digital and CD version track listing (Bright-Side Mix)

  1. Panopticum
  2. The Court
  3. Playing for Time
  4. I/O
  5. Four Kinds of Horses
  6. Road to Joy
  7. So Much
  8. Olive Tree
  9. Love Can Heal
  10. This Is Home
  11. And Still
  12. Live and Let Live

Nico: The End…

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In November 1974, “Island” label released “The End…: the fourth Nico studio album. It was recorded in 1974 at “Sound Techniques” in London, and was produced by John Cale.

Personnel:

  • Nico – lead vocals, harmonium
  • John Cale – bass guitar, xylophone, acoustic guitar, synthesizers, organ, marimba, triangles, cabaça, boobams, glockenspiel,  percussion, piano, electric piano
  • Phil Manzanera – electric guitar
  • Brian Eno – synthesizers
  • Vicki Wood – backing vocals
  • Annagh Wood – backing vocals
  • John Wood – engineer
  • Victor Gamm – engineer

Track listing:

All tracks by Nico, except where noted.

  1. It Has Not Taken Long
  2. Secret Side
  3. You Forget to Answer
  4. Innocent and Vain
  5. Valley of the Kings
  6. We’ve Got the Gold
  7. The End – John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, Jim Morrison
  8. Das Lied der Deutschen – Hoffman von Fallersleben, Joseph Haydn

Pete Sinfield

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On November 14, 2024, Peter John Sinfield died aged 80. He was poet and songwriter, founding member of the band A Bowl of Soup, but was best known as co-founder and lyricist of King Crimson. He wrote lyrics for Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Premiata Forneria Marconi, Angelo Branduardi, Andy Hill, McDonalds and Giles, Robert Sheckley, Brian Eno, Gary Brooker, Nikka Costa, Buck Fizz, Moon Martin, Leo Sayer, Five Star, Flairck, Agnetha Fältskog, Cher, Celine Dion, David Cross, and Ian McDonald. Sinfield released book of lyrics and poems titled “Under the Sky”, and as leader he released one album.

Marianne Faithfull: Easy Come Easy Go

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On November 10, 2008, “Naïve Records” label released “Easy Come, Easy Go”, the 18th Marianne Faithfull album. It was recorded in 2008, “Sear Sound Studio” in New York City, and was produced by Hal Willner.

Personnel:

  • Marianne Faithfull – vocals
  • Barry Reynolds – guitars
  • Marc Ribot – acoustic and electric guitars
  • Keith Richards – vocals, guitar
  • Sean Lennon – vocals, guitars
  •  Gil Goldstein – piano, accordion, arrangements, string direction
  • Brian Mitchell – piano
  • Steve Weisberg – piano, electric piano, celesta, arrangements, conducting
  • Rob Burger – piano, organ
  • Greg Cohen – bass
  • Jim White – drums
  • Joey Baron – drums
  • Art Baron – bass recorder, trombone
  • Doug Wieselman – clarinet, bass clarinet, baritone saxophone
  • Ken Peplowski – bass clarinet
  • Marty Ehrlich – bass clarinet, alto saxophone
  • Lenny Pickett – bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, sarrusophone, double bass
  • Steven Bernstein – glockenspiel, mellophone, alto brass, trumpet
  • Maxin Moston, Rob Moose – violin
  • Warren Ellis – violin, electric violin
  • Michael Nicholas – viola
  • Jane Scarpantoni – cello
  • Chan Marshall – vocals
  • Nick Cave – vocals
  • Antony Hegarty – vocals
  • Rufus Wainwright – vocals
  • Jarvis Cocker – vocals
  • Kate & Anna McGarrigle – backing vocals
  • Cat Power – backing vocals
  • Jean-Baptiste Mondino– art direction, photography

Track listing:

  1. Down from Dover – Dolly Parton
  2. Hold On, Hold On – Neko Case
  3. Solitude – Duke Ellington
  4. The Crane Wife 3 – The Decemberists
  5. Easy Come, Easy Go – Bessie Smith
  6. Children of Stone – Espers
  7. How Many Worlds – Brian Eno
  8. In Germany Before the War – Randy Newman
  9. Ooh Baby Baby – Smokey Robinson
  10. Sing Me Back Home – Merle Haggard
  11. Salvation – Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
  12. Black Coffee – Sarah Vaughan
  13. The Phoenix – Judee Sill
  14. Dear God Please Help Me – Morrissey
  15. Kimbie – Jackson C. Frank
  16. Many a Mile to Freedom – Traffic
  17. Somewhere (A Place for Us) – Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim
  18. Flandyke Shore – traditional

Robert Wyatt: Cuckooland

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In October 2003, “Hannibal” label released “Cuckooland”, the eighth Robert Wyatt studio album. It was recorded in 2003, and was produced by Jamie Johnson and Robert Wyatt.

Personnel:

  • Robert Wyatt – vocals, drums, percussion, piano, trumpet, cornet, cymbals, keyboards
  • Phil Manzanera – vocals
  • Alfreda Benge – vocals, artwork
  • Brian Eno – vocals
  • David Gilmour – guitar
  • Paul Weller – guitar
  • Jennifer Maidman – acoustic guitar, accordion
  • Karen Mantler – vocals, harmonica, piano, keyboards
  • Jamie Johnson – vocals, bass guitar
  • Yaron Stavi – double bass
  • Gilad Atzmon – alto, soprano and tenor saxophones, clarinet, flute
  • Annie Whitehead – trombone

Track listing:

All tracks by Robert Wyatt, except where noted.

  1. Just a Bit
  2. Old Europe – Robert Wyatt, Alfreda Benge
  3. Tom Hay’s Fox
  4. Forest – Robert Wyatt, Alfreda Benge
  5. Beware – Karen Mantler
  6. Cuckoo Madame – Robert Wyatt, Alfreda Benge
  7. Raining in My Heart – Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
  8. Lullaby for Hamza/Silence – Robert Wyatt, Alfreda BengeTrickle Down
  9. Insensatez – Vinicius de Moraes, Antônio Carlos Jobim
  10. Mister E – Karen Mantler
  11. Lullaloop – Alfreda Benge
  12. Life Is Sheep – Karen Mantler
  13. Foreign Accents
  14. Brian the Fox
  15. La Ahada Yalam (No-One Knows) – Nizar Zreik

Warren Ellis And Marianne Faithful: She Walks In Beauty

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On April 30, 2021, “BMG” and “Panta Rei” labels released “She Walks in Beauty”, album by Warren Ellis and Marianne Faithfull. It was recorded in 2020, at “Poptones” in Paris, “The Retreat” in Brighton, and was produced by Warren Ellis.

Personnel:

  • Marianne Faithfull – vocals
  • Warren Ellis – synthesizer, freeze violin, violin, sampler loops, synthesizer, bells, choir vocal, celesta, effects, Boomerang strings samples, alto flute, hyena cello, piano, choral loop, sampler loop treatments, future strings, bass flute, strings, effects loops, engineer
  • Nick Cave – piano, vibraphone 
  • Brian Eno – clarinet, synthesizer, effects, arrangements, engineer
  • Augustin Viard – Ondes Martenot 
  • Head – effects, arrangements, piano engineering, mixing 
  • Vincent Ségal – cello
  • Ben Thackeray – piano engineering
  • Jean-Charles Versari – cello engineering
  • John Davis – mastering
  • Colin Self – artwork
  • Yann Orhan – design
  • Rosie Matheson – photography
  • François Ravard – executive producer

Track listing:

  1. She Walks in Beauty – Lord Byron
  2. The Bridge of Sighs – Thomas Hood
  3. La Belle Dame sans Merci – John Keats
  4. Ode to a Nightingale – John Keats
  5. To Autumn – John Keats
  6. Ozymandias – Percy Bysshe Shelley
  7. The Prelude: Book One Introduction – William Wordsworth
  8. Surprised by Joy – William Wordsworth
  9. To the Moon – Percy Bysshe Shelley
  10. So We’ll Go No More a Roving – Lord Byron
  11. The Lady of Shalott – Alfred Tennyson

Brian Eno: Ambient 4: On Land

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In March 1982, “EG” label released “Ambient 4: On Land”, the eighth Brian Eno studio album. It was recorded in September 1978 – January 1982, and was produced by Brian Eno.

Personnel:

  • Brian Eno – various electronic, acoustic, and ambient elements, artwork, design, text
  • Michael Beinhorn – synthesizer
  • Axel Gros – guitar
  • Michael Brook – guitar
  • Bill Laswell – bass
  • Jon Hassell – trumpet
  • Daniel Lanois – live equalization, engineer
  • Andy Lyden, Barry Sage, Cheryl Smith, John Potoker, Julie Last, Martin Bisi, Neal Teeman – engineer
  • Felipe Orrego – frogs recordings
  • Greg Calbi – mastering
  • Chong-Donnie – typography
  • Robert Quine, Alex Blair, Harold Budd, Laraaji, Danny Lanois – special thanks to

Track listing:

  1. Lizard Point – Brian Eno, Michael Beinhom, Axel Gros, Bill Laswell
  2. The Lost Day
  3. Tal Coat
  4. Shadow
  5. Lantern Marsh
  6. Unfamiliar Wind (Leeks Hills)
  7. A Clearing
  8. Dunwich Beach, Autumn, 1960

John Cale: Caribbean Sunset

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In January 1984, “ZE Records” label released “Caribbean Sunset”, the ninth John Cale studio album. It was recorded in 1983, at “Right Track Recording” in New York City, and was produced by John Cale.

Personnel:

  • John Cale – vocals, keyboards, guitar, mixing
  • Dave Young – guitar, backing vocals
  • Andy Heermans – bass guitar, backing vocals
  • David Lichtenstein – drums, boobams
  • Brian Eno – A.M.S pitch changer (effects)
  • Andy Heermans – engineer
  • Tim “Thilby” Crich – engineer assistant
  • David Schecterson – engineer assistant
  • Rob O’Connor – design
  • Risé Irushalmi Cale – photography
  • Tom Roberts – associate producer

Track listing:

All tracks by John Cale and Dave Young, except where noted.

  1. Hungry for Love
  2. Experiment Number 1 – John Cale
  3. Model Beirut Recital
  4. Caribbean Sunset – John Cale, Larry Sloman
  5. Praetorian Underground
  6. Magazines
  7. Where There’s a Will – John cale, Larry Sloman
  8. The Hunt
  9. Villa Albani – John Cale

Francis Monkman

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On May 12, 2023, Francis Monkman died aged 73. He was musician (keyboards, guitar) and movie score composer, member of bands Sisyphus which evolved in Curved Air, and founding member of band Sky. He recorded and toured with Renaissance, The Shadows, Al Stewart, Lynsey de Paul, Phil Manzanera, Brian Eno and Brian Bennett. As leader, Monkman released 14 albums.  

Phil Manzanera: Diamond Head

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In April 1975, “Island” label released “Diamond Head”, the first Phil Manzanera studio album. It was recorded December 1974 – January 1975, at “Island Studios” in London, and was produced by Phil Manzanera.

Personnel:

  • Phil Manzanera — vocals, acoustic guitar, electric 6 and 12 string guitars, tiple, synthesized guitar, bass, string synthesizer, organ, piano
  • Robert Wyatt — vocals and backing vocals, timbales, cabasa
  • Brian Eno — vocals, treatments, rhythm guitar, piano, percussion
  • Eddie Jobson — strings, fender piano, electric clavinet, synthesizer
  • Dave Jarrett — keyboards
  • John Wetton — vocals, bass, mellotron
  • Bill MacCormick — vocals, bass
  • Brian Turrington — bass
  • Paul Thompson — drums
  • Danny Heibs — percussion
  • Chyke Madu — percussion
  • Sonny Akpan — congas, percussion, bongos, big gong, maracas
  • Charles Hayward — percussion
  • Doreen Chanter — vocals
  • Andy Mackay — soprano and alto saxophone, oboe
  • Ian MacDonald — bagpipes
  • Rhett Davies — engineer
  • Robert Ash — engineer assistant
  • Jon Prew — photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Phil Manzanera, except where noted. 

  1. Frontera – Phil Manzanera, Bill MacCormick, Robert Wyatt
  2. Diamond Head
  3. Big Day – Phil Manzanera, Brian Eno
  4. The Flex
  5. Same Time Next Week – Phil Manzanera, John Wetton
  6. Miss Shapiro – Phil Manzanera, Brian Eno
  7. East of Echo
  8. Lagrima
  9. Alma – Phil Manzanera, Bill MacCormick