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Wavves: Afraid Of Heights

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On March 26, 2013, “Ghost Ramp” and “Mom + Pop” labels released “Afraid of Heights”, the fourth Wavves studio album. It was recorded in 2012, and was produced by John Hill.

Personnel:

  • Nathan Williams – vocals, rhythm and lead guitar, baritone guitar, keyboards, drums, glockenspiel
  • John Hill – keyboards, programming
  • Stephen Pope – vocals, bass guitar, baritone guitar, rhythm guitar, percussion
  • Jorma Vik – drums
  • Jenny Lewis – vocal

Track listing:

All tracks by Nathan Williams, except where noted.

  1. Sail to the Sun
  2. Demon to Lean On
  3. Mystic – Nathan Williams, Stephen Pope, John Hill
  4. Lunge Forward
  5. Dog – Nathan Williams, Stephen Pope
  6. Afraid of Heights – Nathan Williams, Stephen Pope
  7. Paranoid
  8. Cop
  9. Beat Me Up
  10. Everything Is My Fault – Nathan Williams, John Hill
  11. That’s On Me – Nathan Williams, Stephen Pope
  12. Gimme a Knife
  13. I Can’t Dream

Morrissey: Vauxhall And I

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On March 14, 1994, “Parlaphone” label released “Vauxhall and I”, the fourth Morrissey studio album. It was recorded June – August 1993, at “Hook End Manor” in Oxfordshire, England, and was produced by Steve Lillywhite.

Personnel:

  • Morrissey – vocals, lyrics
  • Alain Whyte – guitars, backing vocals
  • Boz Boorer – guitars, keyboards
  • Jonny Bridgewood – bass
  • Woodie Taylor – drums
  • Chris Dickie – engineer
  • Danton Supple – engineer assistant
  • Greg Ross – art direction
  • Dean Freeman – photography

Track listing:

All lyrics by Morrissey, music as noted.

  1. Now My Heart Is Full – Boz Boorer
  2. Spring-Heeled Jim – Boz Boorer
  3. Billy Budd – Alain Whyte
  4. Hold On to Your Friends – Alain Whyte
  5. The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get – Alain Whyte
  6. Why Don’t You Find Out for Yourself – Alain Whyte
  7. I Am hated for Loving – Alain Whyte
  8. Lifeguard Sleeping, Girl Drowning – Boz Boorer
  9. Used to Be a Sweet Boy – Alain Whyte
  10. The Lazy Sunbathers – Alain Whyte
  11. Speedway – Boz Boorer

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band: Horses In The Sky

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On March 7, 2005, “Constellation” label released “Horses in the Sky”, album by Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band (the fourth Silver Mt. Zion album overall). It was recorded in 2004, at “Hotel2Tango” in Montreal, Quebec, and was produced by Howard Bilerman.

Personnel:

  • Efrim Menuck – voice, guitar, piano, mixing
  • Ian Ilavsky – voice, guitar, harmonium, mixing
  • Jessica Moss – voice, violin, piano, glasses, mixing
  • Thierry Amar – voice, contrabass, glasses, harmonica, mixing
  • Scott Levine Gilmore – voice, drums, percussion, guitar, mandolin, mixing
  • Sophie Trudeau – voice, violin, trumpet, glasses, mixing
  • Beckie Foon – voice, cello, mixing
  • Howard Bilerman – recording, mixing
  • J. F. Chicoine – mastering
  • Luc Paradis – drawings
  • Nadia Moss – side 4 etching
  • Silver Mt. Zion – other collages and scribblings

Track listing:

All tracks by Efrim Menuck, Ian Ilavsky, Jessica Moss, Thierry Amar, Scott Levine Gilmore, Sophie Trudeau and Beckie Foon.

  1. God Bless Our Dead Marines
  2. Mountains Made of Steam
  3. Horses in the Sky
  4. Teddy Roosevelt’s Guns
  5. Hang on to Each Other
  6. Ring Them Bells (Freedom Has Come and Gone)

The KLF: The White Room

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On March 4, 1991, “KLF Communications” label released “The White Room”, the fourth and final KLF (The) studio album. It was recorded 1989 – 1990, at “Trancentral”, “The Village” in Dagenham, “Little Yard” and “Matrix” in London, and was produced by Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond.

Personnel:

  • Jimmy Cauty – performance, programming
  • Bill Drummond – vocals, performance, programming
  • Nick Coler – keyboards, additional programming, backing vocals
  • Maxine Harvey – vocals, backing vocals
  • Black Steel – vocals, scat singing, bass guitar, piano
  • Ricardo Lyte – rap
  • Isaac Bello – rap
  • Tony Thorpe – breaks, samples
  • Duy Khiem – tenor saxophone, clarinet
  • Graham Lee – pedal steel
  • P. P. Arnold – vocals
  • Katie Kissoon – vocals
  • Wanda Dee – sampled vocals
  • Spike Stent – mixing
  • Julian Gordon-Hastings – mixing
  • Arun Chakraverty – mastering

Track listing:

  1. Kylie Said to Jason
  2. 3 a.m. Eternal (pure trance original)
  3. Go to Sleep
  4. Make it Rain
  5. Church of the KLF
  6. No mOre Tears
  7. Build a Fire
  8. The Lovers’ Side
  9. The White Room
  10. Born Free

Miracles: The Fabolous Miracles

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On February 28, 1963, “Tamla” label released “The Fabulous Miracles”, the fourth Miracles (The) studio album. It was recorded in 1962, at “Hitsville USA” in Detroit, and was produced by Smokey Robinson and Berry Gordy Jr.

Personnel:

  • Smokey Robinson – lead vocals, executive producer
  • Ronnie White – backing vocals
  • Bobby Rogers – backing vocals
  • Warren “Pete” Moore – backing vocals
  • Claudette Robinson – backing vocals
  • Marv Tarplin – guitar
  • The Funk Brothers – instrumentation

Track listing:

All tracks by Smokey Robinson, except where noted.

  1. You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me
  2. I’ve Been Good to You
  3. Such Is Love, Such Is Life
  4. I Can Take a Hint – Smokey Robinson, Janie Bradford, Stanley Ossman, Bobby Rogers
  5. Won’t You Take Me Back
  6. A Love She Can Count On
  7. Whatever Makes You Happy – Smokey Robinson, Ronald White
  8. Heartbreak Road – Smokey Robinson, Ronald White
  9. Happy Landing – Smokey Robinson, Ronald White
  10. Your Love

David Ruffin: Same

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In February 1973, “Motown” label released the self-titled, fourth David Ruffin album. It was recorded 1972 – 1973, at “The Sound Suite” in Detroit, and was produced by Robert Eugene Miller.

Personnel:

  • David Ruffin – vocals
  • The Andantes – backing vocals
  • Eddie Kendricks – backing vocals
  • David Van De Pitte – arrangements
  • John Lewis – recording
  • Michael Grace – technical assistant
  • Jim Britt – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Robert Eugene Miller, except where noted.

  1. The Rovin’ Kind
  2. Common Man
  3. I’m Just a Mortal Man
  4. (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want to Be Right – Homer Banks, Carl Hampton, Raymond Jackson
  5. There Will Always Be Another Song To Sing
  6. I Miss You (Part 1) – Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff
  7. Blood Donors Needed (Give All You Can)
  8. A Little More Trust
  9. Go On With Your Bad Self
  10. A Day in the Life of a Working Man – Robert Miller, David Ruffin

Flower Travellin’ Band: Make Up

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In February 1973, “Atlantic” label released “Make Up”, the fourth Flower Travellin’ Band album. It was recorded in 1972, at “Mouri Studio” in Tokyo, “Yokosuka Bunka Kaikan” in Yokosuka, and was produced by Ikuzo Orita and Yuya Uchida.

Personnel:

  • Joe Yamanaka – vocals, percussion
  • Hideki Ishima – acoustic and lead guitar
  • Nobuhiko Shinohara – keyboards
  • Jun Kozuki – bass, acoustic guitar
  • George Wada – drums
  • Yuya Uchida – vocals

Track listing:

  1. All the Days – Hideki Ishima, Joe Yamanaka, Patti
  2. Make Up – Patti, Joe Yamanaka, Hideki Ishima, Nobuhiko Shinohara, Jun Kozuki, George Wada
  3. Look at My Window – Patti, Joe Yamanaka, Hideki Ishima, Nobuhiko Shinohara, Jun Kozuki, George Wada
  4. Slowly But Surely – George Wada, Joe Yamanaka, Patti
  5. Shadow of Lost Days – Goerge Wada, Joe Yamanaka
  6. Broken Strings – Jun Kozuki
  7. Hiroshima – Hideki Ishima, Yoko Nomura
  8. Blue Suede Shoes – Carl Lee Perkins
  9. Satori Pt. 2 – Joe Yamanaka, Hideki Ishima, Nobuhiko Shinohara, Jun Kozuki, George Wada
  10. After the Concert – Joe Yamanaka, Hideki Ishima, Nobuhiko Shinohara, Jun Kozuki, George Wada

Bob James: BJ4

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On February 24, 1977, “CTI” label released “BJ4”, the fourth Bob James studio album. It was recorded November – December 1976, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs, in New Jersey, and was produced by Creed Taylor.

Personnel:

  • Bob James – acoustic piano, Fender Rhodes, clavinet, ARP Odyssey, Oberheim polyphonic synthesizer, arrangements
  • Eric Gale – guitars
  • Gary King – bass
  • Steve Gadd – drums
  • Ralph MacDonald – percussion
  • Eddie Daniels – tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute
  • Romeo Penque – tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, tenor recorder
  • Art Farmer – trumpet, flugelhorn
  • John Frosk – trumpet
  • John Gatchell – trumpet
  • Hubert Laws – flute, alto flute
  • George Marge – alto recorder
  • Sidney Weinberg – oboe, English horn
  • Max Ellen – violin
  • Paul Gershman – violin
  • Harry Glickman – violin
  • Emanuel Green – violin
  • Harold Kohon – violin
  • Charles Libove – violin
  • David Nadien – violin
  • Matthew Raimondi – violin
  • Lamar Alsop – viola
  • Emanuel Vardi – viola
  • Charles McCracken – cello
  • Alan Shulman – cello
  • Rudy Van Gelder – engineer
  • Sib Chalawick – design
  • Carole Kowalchuck – design
  • Wendie Lombardi – cover photography
  • White Gate Art Company – liner photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Bob James, except where noted.

  1. Pure Imagination – Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley
  2. Where the Wind Blows Free
  3. Tappan Zee
  4. Nights Are Forever Without You – Parker McGee
  5. Treasure Island
  6. El Verano

Alice Coltrane: Journey in Satchidananda

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In February 1971, “Impulse!” label released “Journey in Satchidananda”, the fourth Alice Coltrane studio album. It was recorded July – November 1970, at “Village Gate”, and Coltrane’s home studio in Dix Hills, New York, and was produced by Ed Michel and Alice Coltrane.

Personnel:

  • Alice Coltrane – harp, piano
  • Pharoah Sanders – soprano saxophone, percussion
  • Cecil McBee – double bass
  • Charlie Haden – double bass
  • Rashied Ali – drums
  • Tulsi Sen Gupta – tanpura
  • Majid Shabazz – bells, tambourine
  • Vishnu Wood – oud

All tracks by Alice Coltrane.

  1. Journey in Satchidananda
  2. Shiva-Loka
  3. Stopover Bombay
  4. Something About John Coltrane
  5. Isis and Osiris

The Supremes: The Supremes Sing Country, Western & Pop

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On February 22, 1965, “Motown” label released “The Supremes Sing Country, Western & Pop”, the fourth Supremes (The) studio album. It was recorded 1962 – 1965, at “Hitsville U.S.A.” in Detroit, and was produced by Clarence Paul.

Personnel:

  • Diana Ross, Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson – lead and backing vocals
  • Cranford Nix, Sr. – banjo
  • The Andantes – additional backing vocals
  • Lawrence Horn – co-producer

Track listing:

  1. Funny How Time Slips Away – Willie Nelson
  2. My Heart Can’t Take It No More – Clarence Paul
  3. It Makes No Difference Now – Floyd Tillman
  4. You Didn’t Care – Clarence Paul
  5. Tears in Vain – Clarence Paul
  6. Tumbling Tumbleweeds – Bob Nolan
  7. Lazy Bones – Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael
  8. You Need Me – Clarence Paul
  9. Baby Doll – Clarence Paul, Stevie Wonder
  10. Sunset – Clarence Paul, Stevie Wonder
  11. The Man With the) Rock and Roll Banjo Band – Clarence Paul, Berry Gordy, Jr.