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Elder: Innate Passage

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On November 25, 2022, “Stickman” label released “Innate Passage”, the sixth Elder album. It was recorded in 2022, at “Clouds Hill Studio” in Hamburg, Germany, and was produced by Linda Dag.

Personnel:

  • Nick DiSalvo – vocals, guitar, keyboards
  • Michael Risberg – guitar, keyboards
  • Jack Donovan – bass
  • Georg Edert – drums
  • Fabio Cuomo – additional keyboards
  • Behrang Alavi – additional vocals
  • Linda Dag – recording, mixing
  • Carl Saff – mastering
  • Adrian Dexter – artwork

Track listing:

  1. Catastasis
  2. Endless Return
  3. Coalescense
  4. Merged in Dreams – Ne Plus Ultra
  5. The Purpose

Bonny Light Horseman: Same

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On January 24, 2020, “37d03d” label released the self-titled, debut Bonny Light Horseman studio album.

Personnel:

  • Anaïs Mitchell – vocals, acoustic guitar, arrangements
  • Eric D. Johnson – vocals, acoustic guitar, twelve-string guitar, banjo, piano, harmonica, arrangements
  • Josh Kaufman – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, piano, organ, arrangements
  • Christian Lee Huston – acoustic guitar
  • Aaron Dessner – guitar
  • Jeremy Ylvisaker – twelve string guitar
  • Kate Stables – banjo
  • Kogan Coale – upright bass
  • Jt Bates – drums, percussion
  • Andrew Barr – drums
  • Michael Lewis – vocals, bass, tenor saxophone
  • Barbara Jean Meyers – viola
  • Bella Blasko – vocals
  • Emily Staveley-Taylor – vocals
  • Jessica Staveley-Taylor – vocals
  • Justin Vernon – vocals
  • Lisa Hannigan – vocals
  • Bella Blasko – engineer
  • Jon Low – engineer
  • D. James Goodwin – mixing, mastering
  • Carl Saff – lacquer cut
  • Aaron Lowell Denton – layout, design
  • Annie Beedy – cover photography
  • M.C. Taylor – liner notes

Track listing:

All tracks traditional, except where noted.

  1. Bonny Light Horseman
  2. Deep in Love
  3. The Roving
  4. Jane Jane
  5. Blackwaterside
  6. Magpie’s Nest
  7. Lowlands
  8. Mountain Rain – Anaïs Mitchell, Eric D. Johnson, Josh Kaufman, MC Taylor
  9. Bright Morning Star
  10. 10.000 Miles

Bill Nace: Through A Room

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On November 11, 2022, “Drag City” label released “Through a Room”, the third Bill Nace studio album. It was recorded in 2021, in Philadelphia, and was produced by Cooper Crain and Bill Nace.

Personnel:

  • Bill Nace – electric guitar, tape, hurdy gurdy, pipe, taishōgoto, noises
  • Carl Saff – mastering, lacquer cut
  • Daniel Higgs – artwork

Track listing:

All tracks by Bill Nace.

  1. Intro
  2. Les Echos (Piece for Tuba)
  3. Boil First
  4. E:E
  5. When Orange
  6. Crooked Teeth
  7. The Giant
  8. Ann
  9. Outro

Drop Nineteens: Hard Light

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On November 3, 2023, “Wharf Cat” label released “Hard Light”, the third Drop Nineteens studio albums. It was recorded in 2023, and was produced by Greg Ackell and Steve Zimmerman.

Personnel:

  • Greg Ackell – vocals, guitar, artwork, design
  • Paula Kelley – vocals, guitar
  • Motohiro Yasue – guitar
  • Steve Zimmerman – bass guitar, engineer
  • Pete Koeplin – drums
  • Max Rose – tenor and baritone saxophone, additional engineering
  • Aaron Tap – additional engineering
  • Brian Charles – mixing
  • Carl Saff – mastering

Track listing:

All lyrics by Greg Ackell, all music by Greg Ackell, Steve Zimmerman, Paula Kelley, Motohiro Yasue and Peter Koeplin, except where noted.

  1. Hard Light
  2. Scapa Flow
  3. Gal
  4. Tarantula
  5. The Price Was High
  6. Rose with Smoke
  7. A Hitch
  8. Lookout
  9. Another One Another
  10. Policeman Getting Lost – arranged by Paula Kelley, music and lyrics by the Clientele
  11. T

Andrew Jackson Jihad: Knife Man

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On September 20, 2011, “Asian Man” label released “Knife Man”, the fourth Andrew Jackson Jihad studio album. It was recorded in March 2011, at “Audioconfusion” in Mesa, Arizona.

Personnel:

  • Sean Bonnette – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, kazoo
  • Ben Gallaty – bass guitar, double bass, guitar, percussion, bells, sampler, backing vocals
  • Preston Bryant – drums, lead guitar, piano
  • Deacon Batchelor – drums, percussion, backing vocals
  • Dylan Cook – mandolin, backing vocals
  • Stephen Steinbrink – electric guitar, bells, organ
  • Ben Horowitz – guitar
  • John Martin – organ
  • Shane Kennedy – drums, co-producer
  • Alex Cardwell – backing vocals
  • Beth Lasswell – backing vocals
  • Colin Levy – backing vocals
  • JoJo “Sninja” Martín – backing vocals
  • Jalipaz Nelson – recording, mixing
  • Carl Saff – mastering
  • Stephanie Carrico – photography
  • Sentrock – artwork
  • Jeff Rosenstock – layout

Track listing:

All lyrics by Sean Bonnette and Ben Gallaty, all music by Sean Bonnette, Ben Gallaty, Preston Bryant and Deacon Batchelor.

  1. The Michael Jordan of Drunk Driving
  2. Gift of the Magi 2: Return of the Magi
  3. American Time
  4. Back Pack
  5. Distance Hate, Rain on Me
  6. Fucc the Devil
  7. Hate, Rain on Me
  8. If You Have Love in Your Heart
  9. No One
  10. Sad Song (intermission)
  11. Zombie by the Cranberries by Andrew Jackson Jihad
  12. People II 2: Still Peoplin’
  13. Sorry Bro
  14. Skate Park
  15. Free Bird
  16. Big Bird

Purple Mountains: Same

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On July 12, 2019, “Drag City” label released the self-titled, debut and only Purple Mountains studio album. It was recorded in 2018, at “Jamdek” in Chicago, Illinois, “Thump” in Brooklyn, New York and was produced by Jarvis Taveniere and Jeremy Earl.

Personnel:

  • David Berman – vocals, guitar
  • Aaron Neveu – guitar, bass, drums
  • Kyle Forester – piano, organ, Mellotron, harmonica, melodica
  • Jarvis Taveniere – bass, guitars
  • Jeremy Earl – vocals, drums, guitar, percussion, Mellotron
  • Justin Brown – pedal steel 
  • John Andrews – vocals, organ
  • Chris Stroffolino – Hammond organ
  • Cole Kamen-Green – trumpet
  • Anna St. Louis – vocals
  • Haley Fohr – vocals
  • Jarvis Taveniere – engineer, mixing
  • Cooper Crain – auxiliary recording
  • Peyton Pinkerton – auxiliary recording
  • Carl Saff – lacquer cut
  • Christian Patterson – center photography
  • Cassie Berman – dog photography
  • Dan Koretzky – executive production

Track listing:

All track by David Berman, except where noted.

  1. That’s Just the Way That I Deel
  2. All My Happiness Is Gone
  3. Darkness and Cold
  4. Snow Is Falling in Manhattan
  5. Margaritas at the Mall
  6. She’s making Friends, I’m Turning Stranger
  7. I Loved Being My Mother’s Son
  8. Nights That Won’t Happen
  9. Storyline Fever
  10. Maybe I’m the Only One for Me – David Berman, Dan Auerbach, Gate Pratt

Russian Circles: Guidance

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On August 5, 2016, “Sargent House” label released “Guidance”, the sixth Russian Circles studio album. It was recorded in 2016, at “God City Studio” in Salem, Massachusetts, and was produced by Kurt Ballou.

Personnel:

  • Mike Sullivan – guitar
  • Brian Cook – bass
  • Dave Turncrantz – drums
  • Kurt Ballou – recording, engineer
  • Robert Cheeseman – engineer
  • Carl Saff – mastering
  • Ben Chisholm – design

Track listing:

  1. Asa
  2. Vorel
  3. Mota
  4. Afrika
  5. Overboard
  6. Calla
  7. Lisboa

Bonnie Prince Billy: Made a Place

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On November 15, 2019, “Drag City” label released “Made a Place”, the 23rd Bonnie “Prince” Billy (Will Oldham) album. It was recorded in 2019, at “Downtown Recording” in Louisville, Kentucky, US, and was produced by Mark Nevers.

Personnel:

  • Bonnie “Prince” Billy – vocals, guitar
  • Jacob Duncan – woodwind, keyboards
  • Chris Rodahaffer – banjo, pedal steel guitar
  • Nathan Salsburg – guitar
  • Joan Shelley – vocals
  • Danny Kiely – bass guitar
  • Mike Hyman – drums
  • Cheyenne Mize – fiddle
  • Chris Greenwell – recording
  • Carl Saff – mastering
  • Dan Osborn – layout

Track listing:

All tracks by Bonnie “Prince” Billy.

  1. New Memory Box
  2. Dream Awhile
  3. The Devil’s Throat
  4. Look Backward on Your Future, Look Forward to Your Past
  5. I Have Made a Place
  6. Squid Eye
  7. You Know the One
  8. This Is Far from Over
  9. Nothing Is Busted
  10. Mama Mama
  11. The Glow, Pt. 3
  12. Thick Air
  13. Building a Fire

Bernays Propaganda: Happiness Machine

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On September 28, 2009, “Moonle Records” label released “Happiness Machines”, the debut Bernays Propaganda album. It was recorded in 2009, at “Studio Enterprise” in Skopje, Macedonia, and was produced by Valentino Skenderovski.

Personnel:

  • Vasko Atanasovski – guitar
  • Kristina Gorovska – vocals
  • Saša Pavlović – bass
  • Džano Kuc – drums
  • Valentino Skenderovski – recording, mixing
  • Nenad Trifunovski – recording assistant
  • Carl Saff – mastering
  • Darko Kujundžić – layout, artwork
  • Front cover art taken from Gottfried Helnwein’s “Master Piece American Prayer”
  • Igor Kostov – band photography
  • Katerina Božinovska – liner notes English translation

Track listing:

All lyrics by Kristina Gorovska, except where noted; all music by Vasko Atanasovski.

  1. Kill Me! – lyrics by Vasko Atanasovski
  2. Are You Enjoying Being in Your Own Accompaniment?
  3. Safe Left
  4. A Day Before I Disappear
  5. Everything Will Fall Apart
  6. I Don’t Want to Know
  7. Anonymous Enemy
  8. Homo Or Sapiens
  9. Yuppie Dream
  10. No Translation

Bernays Propaganda: My Personal Holliday

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On May 17, 2010, “Moonlee Records” label released “My Personal Holiday”, the second Bernays Propaganda album. It was recorded in January 2010, at “Youth Cultural Center” and Blla Blla Blla’s studio in Skopje, Macedonia, and was produced by Nenad Trifunovski.

Personnel:

  • Kristina Gorovska – vocals, artwork
  • Vasko Atanasovski – vocals, guitar, keyboards, arranger
  • Nenad Trifunovski – bass, recording, mastering, arranger
  • Džano Kuč – drums, arranger
  • Sasha Pavlovic – arranger
  • Alen Hadzi Stefanov, Goran Stojčevski – recording assistant
  • Carl Saff – mastering
  • Caci Chavdarovska – artwork
  • Igor Kostov – band photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Vasko Atanasovski, except where noted.

  1. Namesti frizura i gladuvaj
  2. Bulldozer
  3. Ovoj den da pomine – lyrics by Kristina Gorovska, Vasko Atanasoski
  4. My Personal Holiday
  5. Preziveav
  6. Se plasam od luge
  7. Blackmail
  8. VIP in Paradise – lyrics by Kristina Gorovska, Vasko Atanasoski
  9. Koga e dovolno – music by lyrics by Kristina Gorovska, Vasko Atanasoski