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Pearl Jam: Dark Matter

On April 19, 2024, “Monkeywrench” and “Republic” labels released “Dark Matter”, the twelfth Pearl Jam studio album. It was recorded in 2023, at “Shangri-La” in Malibu, California, and was produced by Andrew Watt.

Personnel:

  • Eddie Vedder – lead and backing vocals, guitar, piano
  • Mike McCready – guitar, piano
  • Stone Gossard – guitar
  • Jeff Ament – bass guitar, guitar, baritone guitar, backing vocals
  • Matt Cameron – drums, percussion
  • Andrew Watt – guitar, piano, keyboards, backing vocals
  • Josh Klinghoffer – piano, keyboards
  • Mark Smith  – backing vocals
  • Marco Sonzini – engineer
  • Paul LaMalfa – engineer
  • John Burton – additional engineering
  • Tommy Turner – engineer assistant
  • Gregg White – engineering assistant
  • Serban Ghenea – mixing
  • Bryce Bordone – mixing
  • Matt Colton – mastering
  • Chelsea Fodero – production coordination
  • Marc VanGool – guitar technician, studio assistance

Track listing:

All lyrics by Eddie Vedder, all music by Eddie Vedder, Mike McCready, Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament and Andrew Watt, except where noted.

  1. Scared of Fear
  2. React, Respond
  3. Wreckage
  4. Dark Matter
  5. Won’t Tell
  6. Upper Hand
  7. Waiting for Stevie
  8. Running
  9. Something Special – Eddie Vedder, Mike McCready, Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament, Josh Klinghoffer
  10. Got to Give
  11. Setting Sun

Randy Newman: Dark Matter

On August 4, 2017, “Nonesuch” label released “Dark Matter”, the 11th Randy Newman studio album. It was recorded in 2017 and was produced by David Boucher, Mitchell Froom, and Lenny Waronker.

Personnel:

  • Randy Newman– vocals, piano
  • Blake Mills– guitar
  • David Piltch– bass
  • Matt Chamberlain– drums
  • Mitchell Froom– additional keyboards

Track listing:

All tracks by Randy Newman.

  1. The Great Debate
  2. Brothers
  3. Putin
  4. Lost Without You
  5. Sonny Boy
  6. It’s a Jungle Out There
  7. She Chose Me
  8. On the Beach
  9. Wandering Boy

Porcupine Tree: Signify

On September 30, 1996, “Delerium” label released “Signify”, the fourth Porcupine Tree studio album. It was recorded 1995 – 1996, at “No Man’s Land” in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, “The Doghouse”  in Henley-on-Thames,” Katrina & the Waves’ Studio” in Cambridge, and was produced by Steven Wilson.

Personnel:

  • Steven Wilson– vocals, guitars, piano, organ, mellotron, samples,  tapes, banshee guitar, drum programming, chimes, musical boxes, mixing
  • Richard Barbieri- synthesizers, Hammond organ, Prophet V/System 700 electronics, piano, tapes, texture, sequencers
  • Colin Edwin- electric bass, double bass
  • Chris Maitland- voices, drums, cymbals, percussion, vocal harmonies, drum loops, keyboards
  • Terumi – voices
  • Chris Thorpe – mastering
  • John Blackford – art, design

Track listing:

All tracks by Steven Wilson, except where noted.

  1. Bornlivedie – Steven Wilson, Richard Barbieri
  2. Signify
  3. Sleep of No Dreaming
  4. Pagan
  5. Waiting (Phase One)
  6. Waiting (Phase Two)
  7. Sever
  8. Idiot Prayer – Steven Wilson, Colin Edwin
  9. Every Home Is Wired
  10. Intermediate Jesus – Steven Wilson, Richard Barbieri, Colin Edwin, Chris Maitland
  11. Light Mass Prayers – Chris Maitland
  12. Dark Matter (song ends at 8:10; after 19 seconds a hidden track plays)

 

 

Whit Dickey, Mat Maneri, and Matthew Shipp: Vessel in Orbit

On March 24, 2017, “Aum Fidelity” label released “Vessel in Orbit”, album by Whit Dickey, Mat Maneri, and Matthew Shipp. It was recorded March 2016, at “Park West” in Brooklyn, and was produced by Whit Dickey.

Personnel:

  • Matthew Shipp– piano
  • Mat Maneri– viola
  • Whit Dickey– drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Whit Dickey, Mat Maneri and Matthew Shipp.

  1. Spaceship 9
  2. Space Walk
  3. Dark Matter
  4. Galaxy 9
  5. Turbulence
  6. To a Lost Comrade
  7. Space Strut
  8. Hyperspatial