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Dashboard Confessional: Crooked Shadows

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On February 9, 2018, “Fueled by Ramen” and “Dine Alone Records” labels released “Crooked Shadows”, the seventh Dashboard Confessional studio album. It was recorded in 2017, and was produced by Colin Brittain, Cash Cash, Chad Gilbert, Chris Carrabba, Jonathan Clark and Jonathan Howard.

Personnel:

  • Chris Carrabba – lead vocals, guitar, keyboard
  • Armon Jay – guitar, backing vocals
  • Scott Schoenbeck – bass, keyboard
  • Chris Kamrada – drums, percussion
  • Chrissy Constanza – vocal, piano
  • Lindsey Stirling – violin
  • Jonathan Clark – engineer
  • Jonathan Howard – engineer
  • Cash Cash – mixing
  • Nick Romei – design
  • Allan Geiger – design

Track listing:

  1. We Fight
  2. Catch You
  3. About Us
  4. Heart Beat Here
  5. Belong
  6. Crooked Shadows
  7. Open My Eyes
  8. Be Alright
  9. Just What to Say

Franz Ferdinand: Always Ascending

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On February 9, 2018, “Domino Recording Company” label released “Always Ascending”, the fifth Franz Ferdinand studio album. It was recorded in 2017 at “Motorbass” in Paris, “RAK” in London, and was produced by Philippe Zdar.

Personnel:

  • Alex Kapranos – lead vocals, lead guitar, keyboards, design
  • Dino Bardot – rhythm guitar, backing vocals, design
  • Julian Corrie – keyboards, lead guitar, backing vocals, design
  • Bob Hardy – bass guitar, design
  • Paul Thomson – drums, percussion, backing vocals, design
  • Terry Edwards – saxophone
  • Mike Horner – additional production
  • Pierre Juarez – additional production
  • Sam Potter – extra contribution 
  • Antoine Poyeton – engineer assistant
  • Will Purton – engineer assistant
  • Philippe Zdar – mixing
  • Mike Marsh – mastering
  • Melissa Appleton – Infinity Mirror construction
  • Edwin Burdis – coordination
  • Matthew Cooper – design
  • Alexis Anne Mackenzie – cover art, band collages
  • Sylvan Deleu – photography
  • David Edwards – band collage photos

Track listing:

All tracks by Julian Corrie, Bob Hardy, Alex Kapranos, Dino Bardot and Paul Thomson.

  1. Always Ascending
  2. Lazy Boy
  3. Paper Cages
  4. Finally
  5. The Academy Award
  6. Lois Lane
  7. Huck and Jim
  8. Glimpse of Love
  9. Feel the Love Go
  10. Slow Don’t Kill Me Slow

Chick Corea

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On February 9, 2020, Armando Anthony “Chick” Corea died aged 79. He was musician (piano, keyboards, percussion), composer and bandleader. He is regarded as one of the major piano players to emerge in jazz during the post-John Coltrane era. Recorded and performed with the most important Jazz musicians including Miles Davis, Mongo Santamaria, Willie Bobo, Blue Mitchell, Herbie Mann, Stan Getz, Roy Haunes, Miroslav Vitous, Stanley Clarke, Richard Davis, Joe Farrell, Joe Henderson, Eric Kloss, Hubert Laws, Herbie Mann, Blue Mitchell, John Patitucci, Wayne Shorter, Cal Tjader, Sonny Stitt, Dave Pike, Armando Peraza, Marion Brown, Sadao Watanabe, Larry Coryell, John Surman, Elvin Jones, Rolf Kühn, Airto Moreira, Antony Braxton, Pete La Roca, Al Di Meola, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ron Carter, Gábor Szabó, Donald Byrd, Tete Montoliu, Chaka Khan, Eddie Gomez, Wallace Rooney, Herbie Hancock, Antonio Sanches, Gary Burton and Hiromi Uehara. Corea formed and lead Return to Forever, Circle, Chick Corea Elektric Band, Chick Corea Akoustic Band and Five Peace Band. As leader he released 77 studio and 23 live albums. Corea won 23 “Grammy Awards”.

The Wombats: Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life

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On February 9, 2018, “14th Floor” label released “Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life”, the fourth Wombats (The) studio album. It was recorded in 2017, and was produced by Catherine Marks, Mark Crew, Mathew Murphy, Dan Haggis and Tord Øverland Knudsen.

Personnel:

  • Matthew Murphy – lead vocals, guitars, keyboards
  • Dan Haggis – drums, percussion, keyboards, guitars, backing vocals
  • Tord Øverland Knudsen – bass guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
  • Mark Crew – keyboards
  • Catherine Marks – programming
  • Marius D. Hagan – guitar
  • Kianja – vocals
  • Adam ‘Cecil’ Bartlett – engineer
  • Rob Whiteley – engineer
  • Richie Kennedy – engineer assistant
  • Rich Costey – mixing
  • Martin Cooke – mixing assistant
  • Nicolas Fournier – mixing assistant
  • Vlado Meller – mastering
  • Lucas Donaud – artwork, design

Track listing:

  1. Cheetah Tongue
  2. Lemon to a Knife Fight
  3. Turn
  4. Black Flamingo
  5. White Eyes
  6. Lethal Combination
  7. Out of My Head
  8. I Only Wear Black
  9. Ice Cream
  10. Dip You in Honey
  11. I Don’t Know Why I Like You but I Do

Peace: Happy People

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On February 9, 2015, “Columbia” label released “Happy People”, the second Peace studio album. It was recorded in 2014, and was produced by Jim Abbiss.

Personnel:

  • Harrison Koisser – lead vocals, guitar
  • Douglas Castle – lead guitar
  • Samuel Koisser – bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Dominic Boyce – drums, backing vocals

Track listing:

  1. O You
  2. Gen Strange
  3. Lost on Me
  4. Perfect Skin
  5. Happy People
  6. Someday
  7. Money
  8. I’m a Girl
  9. Under the Moon
  10. World Pleasure

Uri Caine: Blue Wail

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On February 9, 1999, “Winter & Winter” label released “Blue Wail”, the fifth Uri Caine studio album. It was recorded in December 1998, at “Avatar Studios” in New York City, and was produced by Joe Ferla and Stefan Winter.

Personnel:

  • Uri Caine – piano
  • James Genus – bass
  • Ralph Peterson, Jr. – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Uri Caine except where noted.

  1. Honeysuckle Rose – Fats Waller
  2. Loose Trade
  3. The Face of Space
  4. Digature of the Line
  5. Blue Wail
  6. Stain
  7. Sweet Potato
  8. Bones Don’t Cry
  9. Poem for Shulamit
  10. Fireball
  11. Honeysuckle Rose – Fats Waller

Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine: Worry Bomb

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On February 9, 1995, “Chrysalis” label released “Worry Bomb”, the fifth Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine album. It was recorded in 1994, at “The Manor Studio” in Oxfordshire, UK, and was produced by Simon Painter, Jim “Jim Bob” Morrison, Les “Fruitbat” Carter and Wez. It included a limited-edition CD of the live show at “Doma Sportova…Live at Zagreb”, recorded on 20 May 1994.

Personnel:

  • Jim “Jim Bob” Morrison – vocals, guitar
  • Les Fruitbat” Carter – vocals, guitar, bass, keys, programming
  • Wez – drums
  • Steve ‘Barney’ Chase – engineer
  • Mark Hayley – engineer assistant
  • Paul Walton – engineer assistant
  • Dave Garnish – engineer assistant
  • Kevin Metcalf – mastering

Track listing:

  1. Cheap ‘n’ Cheesy
  2. Airplane Food/Airplane Fast Food
  3. Young Offender’s Mum
  4. Gas (Man)
  5. Life And Soul of Party Dies
  6. My Defeatist Attitude
  7. Worry Bomb
  8. Senile Delinquent
  9. Me and Mr. Jones
  10. Let’s Get Tattoos
  11. Going Straight
  12. God Saint Peter and The Guardian Angel
  13. Only Looney Left in Town
  14. Ceasefire

Doma Sportova…Live at Zagreb

  1. Alternative Alf Garnett
  2. Do Re Me So Far So Good
  3. Bachelor for Baden Powell
  4. Re Educating Rita
  5. Only Living Boy In New Cross
  6. Lean On Me I Won’t Fall Over
  7. Granny Farming In The UK
  8. Travis
  9. Sing Fat Lady Sing
  10. Lenny And Terence
  11. Commercial Fucking Suicide

Masters Of Reality: Sunrise on the Sufferbus

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On February 9, 1992, “Chrysalis” label released “Sunrise on the Sufferbus”, the second Masters of Reality studio album. It was recorded in 1991, and was produced by Chris Goss, Ginger Baker and Googe.

Personnel:

  • Chris Goss – vocals, guitars, keyboards
  • Googe – bass, backing vocals
  • Ginger Baker – lead and backing vocals, drums
  • Daniel Rey, Jason Corsaro – co-production

Track listing:

All tracks by Chris Goss, except where noted.

  1. She Got Me (When She Got Her Dress On)
  2. J.B. Witchdance – Ginger Baker, Chris Goss
  3. Jody Sings
  4. Rolling Green
  5. Ants in the Kitchen – Ginger Baker, Chris Goss
  6. V.H.V. – Googe, Chris Goss
  7. Bicycle
  8. 100 Years (Of Tears on the Wind)
  9. T.U.S.A. – Ginger Baker, Googe, Chris Goss, Daniel Rey
  10. Tilt-A-Whirl
  11. Rabbit One
  12. Madonna
  13. Gimme Water – Ginger Baker, Chris Goss
  14. Moon in Your Pocket

Joan As Police Woman: Damned Devotion

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On February 9, 2018,”PIAS Recordings” label released “Damned Devotion”, the seventh Joan as Police Woman album. It was recorded in 2017, and was produced by Joan Wasser, Parker Kindred and Thomas Bartlett.

Personnel:

  • Joan Wasser – vocals, bass, guitar, keyboards, drum programming, engineer
  • Thomas Bartlett – bass, Fender Rhodes, keyboards, engineer
  • Oreon Bloedow – bass
  • Matt Whyte – guitar
  • Benjamin Lazar davis – guitar, bass, keyboards
  • Parker Kindred – vocals, drums
  • Jared Samuel – keyboards
  • Adam Sachs – engineer
  • Dan Millice – mastering
  • Luke Moellman – mixing
  • Stephanie Sidjakov – design
  • David A. Fitschen – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Joan Wasser.

  1. Wonderful
  2. Warning Bell
  3. Tell Me
  4. Steed (For Jean Genet)
  5. Damned Devotion
  6. The Silence
  7. Valid Jagger
  8. Rely On
  9. What Was It Like
  10. Talk About It later
  11. Silly Me
  12. I Don’t Mind