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James: Hey Ma

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On April 7, 2008, “Fontana” label released “Hey Ma”, the tenth James studio album. It was recorded September – December 2007, at “Château de Warsy” in France, “Hotspur Press” in Manchester, “The Premises” in Hoxton, “Scream” in Brighton, and was produced by Lee Muddy Baker, Tim Booth, Larry Gott, Saul Davies, Mark Hunter, Jim Glennie and Andy Diagram.

Personnel:

  • Tim Booth – lead vocals, art direction
  • Larry Gott – electric, acoustic, slide and e-bow guitars, additional backing vocals, art direction 
  • Saul Davies – electric, acoustic and baritone guitars, violin, additional drums, art direction
  • Mark Hunter – keyboards, programming, art direction
  • Jim Glennie – bass guitars, art direction
  • David Baynton-Power – drums, percussion, art direction
  • Andy Diagram – trumpet, flugelhorn, additional backing vocals 
  • KK – programming
  • Lee Muddy Baker – additional drums, percussion, acoustic and electric guitar, additional backing vocals
  • Rob Kenny – drums
  • Ben Caro – engineer
  • KK – vocal engineer
  • Danton Supple – mixing
  • Jonathon Shakhovskay – mixing 
  • Lee Muddy Baker – mixing 
  • Chris Potter – mastering
  • Love – artwork original concept
  • Antony Crook – photography
  • Julian Ward – Warsky photography

Track listing:

All lyric by Tim Booth, all music by Tim Booth, Larry Gott and Jim Glennie.

  1. Bubbles
  2. Hey Ma
  3. Waterfall
  4. Oh My Heart
  5. Boom Boom
  6. Semaphore
  7. Upside
  8. Whiteboy
  9. 72
  10. Of Monsters & Heroes & Men
  11. I Wanna Go Home

The Go! Team: Get up Sequences Part Two

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On February 3, 2023, “Memphis Industries” label released “Get up Sequences Part Two”, the seventh The Go! Team studio album. It was recorded in 2022, at “Church Road Studio”, “Howard RD”, “Studio 95” in Brighton, England, “Tempermill Studio” in Detroit, Michigan, and was produced by Ian Parton.

Personnel:

  • Ian Parton – vocals, guitars, mixing
  • Niadzi Muzira – vocals, guitars, percussion
  • Sam Dook – guitars
  • Adam Znaidi – bass guitar
  • Jaleesa Gemerts – drums, percussion
  • Ninja – vocals, drums
  • Deanna Wilhelm – vocals, trumpet
  • IndigoYaj – backing vocals
  • Jessie Miller – backing vocals
  • Nitty Scott – backing vocals
  • Star Feminine Band – backing vocals
  • Rian Woods – backing vocals
  • Matt Colton – mastering
  • Luke Insect –design

Track listing:

All tracks by Ian Parton, except where noted.

  1. Look Away, Look Away – Ian Parton, André Balaguemon
  2. Divebomb
  3. Getting to Know (All the Ways We’re Wrong for Each Other)
  4. Stay and Ask Me in a Different Way
  5. The Me Frequency – Ian Parton, André Balaguemon
  6. Whammy-O – Ian Parton, Nitty Scott
  7. But We Keep On Trying
  8. Sock It to Me
  9. Going Nowhere
  10. Gemini
  11. Train Song
  12. Baby

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds: Skeleton Tree

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On September 9, 2018, “Bad Seed Ltd” released “Skeleton Tree”, the sixteenth Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds studio album. It was recorded 2014 – 2016, at “Retreat” in Brighton, UK, “La Frette” in La Frette-sur-Seine, in France, and was produced by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.

Personnel:

  • Nick Cave – vocals and backing vocals, piano, Wurlitzer, synthesizer, vibraphone
  • Warren Ellis – synthesizer, loops, Wurlitzer, piano, baritone tenor guitar, violin, viola, drum treatments, drum loops, backing vocals
  • Martyn Casey – bass
  • Thomas Wydler – drums
  • Jim Sclavunos – percussion, vibraphone, tubular bells, Wurlitzer, backing vocals
  • George Vjestica – acoustic guitar, backing vocals
  • Else Torp – additional vocals
  • Ellie Wyatt – violin
  • Charlotte Glason – viola
  • Joe Giddey – cello
  • Kevin Paul – recording, additional overdubs, mixing
  • Nick Launay – recording
  • Jake Jackson – additional overdubs, mixing
  • Nick Cave – mixing
  • Warren Ellis – mixing
  • Jim Sclavunos – mixing
  • Chris Blakey – mixing assistant
  • Nicolas Quéré – mixing assistant
  • Arnaud Bequet – mixing assistant
  • Jonathan Ratovoarisoa – mixing assistant
  • John Prestage – mixing assistant
  • John Davis – mastering
  • Hingston Studio – design
  • Alwin Küchler – photography

Track listing:

All lyrics by Nick Cave, all music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.

  1. Jesus Alone
  2. Rings of Saturn
  3. Girl in Amber
  4. Magneto
  5. Anthrocene
  6. I Need You
  7. Distant Sky
  8. Skeleton Tree

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

Elbow: Flying Dream 1

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On November 19, 2021, “Polydor” label released “Flying Dream 1”, the ninth Elbow studio album It was recorded in 2021, at “Theatre Royal” in Brighton, England, and was produced by Craig Potter.

Personnel:

  • Guy Garvey – vocals
  • Mark Potter – guitars
  • Craig Potter – keyboards
  • Pete Turner – bass
  • Alex Reeves – drums, percussion
  • Sarah Field – saxophone, clarinet
  • Jesca Hoop – backing vocals
  • Wilson Atie, Adeleye Omotayo and Marit Røkeberg – backing vocals

Track listing:

All lyrics by Guy Garvey, all music by Guy Garvey, Mark Potter, Craig Potter, Pete Turner and Alex Reeves.

  1. Flying Dream 1
  2. After the Eclipse
  3. Is It a Bird
  4. Six Words
  5. Calm and Happy
  6. Come On, Blue
  7. The Only Road
  8. Red Sky Radio (Baby Baby Baby) – contains elements of “Looking Back, I Should Have Been Home More” written by Richard Swift.
  9. The Seldom Seen Kid
  10. What Am I Without You

British Sea Power: Machineries of Joy

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On April 1, 2013, “Rough Trade” label released “Machineries of Joy” the fifth British Sea Power album. It was recorded in November 2012 in Brighton.

Personnel:

  • Phil Sumner
  • Abi Fry
  • Yan Scott Wilkinson
  • Neil Hamilton Wilkinson
  • Martin Noble
  • Matthew Wood

Track listing:

  1. Machineries Of Joy
  2. K Hole
  3. Hail Holy Queen
  4. Loving Animals
  5. What You Need The Most
  6. Monsters Of Sunderland
  7. Spring Has Sprung
  8. Radio Goddard
  9. A Light Above Descending
  10. When A Warm Wind Blows Through The Grass

Initial copies of the album included a bonus EP containing 5 tracks:

  1. Facts Are Right
  2. Fingertips
  3. Baby Grey
  4. Lullaby For What You Are
  5. Chrysanthemum

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Ghosteen

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On October 4, 2019, “Ghosteen Ltd” label released “Ghosteen”, the seventeenth Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds studio album. It was recorded 2018 – 2019, at “Woodshed” in Malibu, “NightBird” in West Hollywood, “Retreat” in Brighton, “Candy Bomber” in Berlin, “Air” in London, and was produced by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.

Personnel:

  • Nick Cave – lead and backing vocals, piano, synthesizer, mixing, design
  • George Vjestica – guitar
  • Warren Ellis – synthesizer, loops, flute, violin, piano, backing vocals
  • Martyn Casey – bass
  • Thomas Wydler – drums
  • Jim Sclavunos – vibraphone, percussion
  • Augustin Viard – ondes Martenot
  • Kaushlesh “Garry” Purohit – tablas
  • Bruce White – first viola
  • Nick Cooper – first cello
  • Mary Scully – first double bass
  • Ben Foster – string arrangement, conducting
  • Sam Thompson – string arrangements assistant
  • Lance Powell – recording, mixing
  • Kevin Paul – recording
  • Ben Thackeray – recording
  • Jake Jackson – recording
  • Alex Csak – recording assistant
  • Kaushlesh “Garry” Purohit – recording assistant
  • Richard Biethan – recording assistant
  • Ingo Krauss – recording assistant
  • Oliver Klemp – recording assistant
  • John Prestage – recording assistant
  • Warren Ellis – mixing
  • Andrew Dominik – mixing
  • John Armstrong – mixing assistant
  • Chris Gehringer – mastering, lacquer cutting
  • Tom duBois – cover art
  • Hingston Studio – design
  • Matthew Thorne – photography

Track listing:

All lyrics by Nick Cave, all music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.

  1. Spinning Song
  2. Bright Horses
  3. Waiting for You
  4. Night raid
  5. Sun Forest
  6. Galleon Ship
  7. Ghosteen Speaks
  8. Leviathan
  9. Ghosteen
  10. Fireflies
  11. Hollywood

Bat for Lashes: Two Suns

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On April 2, 2009, “The Echo Label” and “Parlaphone” labels released “Two Suns”, the second Bat for Lashes (Natasha Khan) studio album. It was recorded 2008 – 2009 in California, New York City, London, Brighton and Wales,  and was produced by Natasha Khan and David Kosten.

Personnel:

  • Natasha Khan – lead and backing vocals, synths, drum programming, guitar, piano, harmonium, hands, percussion, string machine, drums, bass synth, vibraphone, organ, engineering, art direction, booklet artwork, concept
  • Ben Christophers – marxophone, pianochord, synths, guitar, phonofiddle
  • Caroline Weeks – synths, bells, flute, handclaps, percussion, backing vocals
  • Kath Mann – saw, violin, viola, backing vocals
  • Alex Thomas– drums, percussion, timpani
  • David Kosten– drum programming, synths, percussion, synth drone, toms, fingers
  • Devin Maxwell – timpani
  • Abi Fry– viola
  • Adem– sampled wine glasses
  • Chris Keating– drum programming
  • Devon Dunaway – backing vocals
  • Robert Roseberry Jr. – backing vocals
  • Matt Lawrence – vocal recording (Scott Walker’s vocals)
  • Mike Nesci – engineer
  • Matt Boynton – engineer
  • Tom Asselin – engineer
  • David Wrench– engineer
  • David Kosten – engineer, mixing
  • Brian Thorn – engineer assistant
  • Tim Bader – engineer assistant
  • Mark Eastwood – mixing assistant
  • Tony Hornecker – set design
  • Andrew Murabito – design
  • David Benjamin Sherry– cover photography
  • Dan Sanders – photographic production

Track listing:

All tracks are written by Natasha Khan, except where noted.

  1. Glass
  2. Sleep Alone
  3. Moon and Moon
  4. Daniel
  5. Peace of Mind
  6. Siren Song
  7. Pearl’s Dream
  8. Good Love
  9. Two Planets
  10. Travelling Woman
  11. The Big Sleep

 

Cornershop: Hold on it Hurts

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On January 31, 1994, “Wiiija” label released “Hold On It Hurts”, the debut Cornershop album. It was recorded in 1993, at “Suite 16” in Rochdale, “The Green Room” in Brighton, “Stayfree” in Leicester, “West Orange” in Preston, and was produced by John Wills, John Robb and Tjinder Singh.

Personnel:

  • Tjinder Singh– vocals, bass
  • Avtar Singh – guitar
  • Ben Ayres – vocals, guitar
  • Wallis Healey – guitar
  • Anthony “Saffs” Saffery – sitar, keyboards
  • David Chambers – drums
  • Emma Davies – keyboards
  • Alastair Dickins – clarinet
  • Raj Patel – dholki
  • Dale Shaw – vocals
  • Richard Whelan – engineer
  • Andy Green – engineer
  • Kevin Reverb– engineer
  • Rob – engineer
  • Charlie – engineer
  • Rex – engineer
  • Mike Marsh – mastering
  • Malcolm Maybury – photography
  • Lloyd Thomas – inner sleeve art

 Track listing:

All lyrics by Tjinder Singh, all music by Tjinder Singh, Avtar Singh, Ben Ayres, Wallis Healey, Anthony “Saffs” Saffery and David Chambers.

  1. Jason Donovan/Tessa Sanderson
  2. Kalluri’s Radio
  3. Readers Wives
  4. Change
  5. Inside Rani
  6. Born Disco; Died Heavy Metal
  7. Counteraction
  8. Where D’U Get Your Information
  9. Tera Mera Pyar
  10. You Always Said My Language Would Get Me into Trouble

 

 

British Sea Power: Let the Dancers Inherit the Party

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On March 31, 2017, “Golden Chariot” label released “Let the Dancers Inherit  the Party”, the seventh British Sea Power album. It was recorded in 2016, at “Brighton Electric Recording Studios” in Brighton, and was produced by Cam Blackwood.

Personnel:

  1. Jan Scott Wilkinson – vocals, guitar
  2. Martin Noble – guitar
  3. Neil Hamilton Wilkinson – vocals, guitar, bass
  4. Matthew Wood – drums
  5. Phil Sumner – cornet, keyboards
  6. Abi Fry – viola
  7. Grace Wilcock – background vocals
  8. Cam Blackwood – drum programming, engineer, mixing
  9. Josh ‘Hoagie’ Harrison, Liam Thorne – engineer
  10. Nick Watson – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Jan Scott Wilkinson, Martin Noble, Neil Hamilton Wilkinson, Matthew Wood, Phil Sumner and Abi Fry.

  1. Intro
  2. Bad Bohemian
  3. International Space Station
  4. What You’re Doing
  5. The Voice of Ivy Lee
  6. Keep on Trying (Sechs Freunde)
  7. Electrical Kittens
  8. Saint Jerome
  9. Praise for Whatever
  10. Want to Be Free
  11. Don’t Let the Sun Get in the Way
  12. Alone Piano