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Muhal Richard Abrams: Streaming

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On October 10, 2006, “Pi Recordings” label released “Streaming”, album by Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis and Roscoe Mitchell (the 26th Muhal Richard Abrams album overall). It was recorded in January 2005, at “Systems Two” in Brooklyn, New York, and was produced by George Lewis, Roscoe Mitchell and Muhal Richard Abrams.

Personnel:

  • Muhal Richard Abrams – piano, horn, percussion, painting
  • Roscoe Mitchell – saxophones, percussion
  • George Lewis – trombone, laptop
  • Rich Lamb – recording
  • Tom Hamilton – recording, mixing
  • Michael Fossenkemper – mastering
  • Figureground – design  
  • Kyle Oddson – photography
  • Seth Rosner – executive producer
  • Yulun Wang – executive producer

Track listing:

All tracks by Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis and Roscoe Mitchell.

  1. Scrape
  2. Bound
  3. Dramaturns
  4. Soundhear
  5. Streaming

Twin Shadow: Same

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On July 9, 2021, “Cheree Cheree” label released the self-titled, fifth Twin Shadow (George Lewis Jr.) album. It was recorded in 2021, at “FAMA Studios”, in Santo Domingo, and was produced by Twin Shadow.  

Personnel:

  • Twin Shadow – vocals, bass guitar, electric guitar, piano, keyboards, saxophone, drums, programming engineer, mixing, executive producer
  • Ray Brady – electric guitar, programming
  • Dominique Xavier Taplin – keyboards
  • Trevor Dandy – vocals
  • Kadhja Bonet – backing vocals
  • D’Angelo Lacy – backing vocals
  • Guillermo Brown – backing vocals
  • Ligia Lewis – backing vocals
  • Wynne Bennett – backing vocals
  • Dave Cooley – mastering
  • Edward Bezalel – executive producer

Track listing:

All tracks by George Lewis, except where noted.

  1. Alemania – George Lewis, William Peacock
  2. Sugarcane
  3. Johnny & Jonnie
  4. Get Closer
  5. Is There Any Love – George Lewis, Edward Bezalel
  6. Gated Windows – George Lewis, Jan Hammer, Ivona Reich
  7. Modern Man
  8. Lonestar – George Lewis, Edward Bezalel
  9. Brown Sugar – George Lewis, Edward Bezalel, Raymond Brady III
  10. I Wanna Be Here (Shotgun) – George Lewis, Edward Bezalel

Bill Laswell: Baselines

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On June 14, 1983, “Elektra” label released “Baselines”, the debut Bill Laswell album. It was recorded in March 1982, at “OAO Studio” in Brooklyn, NY, and was produced by Material.

Personnel:

  • Bill Laswell – Ibanez 8-string, Fender 6-string, Fender Fretless Precision, Music Man Sting Ray, Steinberger bass
  • Michael Beinhorn – Prophet-5, synthesizer, shortwave, tape 
  • Ralph Carney – bass saxophone, contrabass clarinet
  • Fred Frith – guitar, violin
  • George Lewis – trombone
  • Ronald Shannon Jackson – drums
  • Martin Bisi – drums, percussion, recording
  • Phillip Wilson – drums 
  • David Moss – voice, steel drum, percussion
  • Daniel Ponce – congas 
  • Howie Weinberg – mastering

Track listing:

  1. Activate – Michael Beinhorn, Bill Laswell
  2. Work Song – Michael Beinhorn, Bill Laswell, George Lewis
  3. Hindsight – Martin Bisi, Bill Laswell
  4. Uprising – Bill Laswell
  5. Barricade – Michael Beinhorn, Bill Laswell, George Lewis
  6. Upright Man – Michael Beinhorn, Bill Laswell
  7. Moving Target – Michael Beinhorn, Bill Laswell
  8. Lowlands – Michael Beinhorn, Bill Laswell
  9. Conservation – Bill Laswell

Laurie Anderson: Big Science

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On April 19, 1982, “Warner Bros” label released “Big Science”, the debut Laurie Anderson album. Laurie Anderson had previously recorded one side of a 2-LP set titled “You’re the Guy I Want to Share My Money With”, a collaboration released on Giorno Poetry Systems with William S. Burroughs and John Giorno. It was recorded at “You’re the Guy I Want to Share My Money With, and was produced by Laurie Anderson and Roma Baran.

Personnel:

  • Laurie Anderson– vocals, vocoder, Farfisa organ,  percussion, Oberheim OB-Xa, sticks,  violins,  electronics, keyboards, handclaps, whistling, marimba
  • Roma Baran– Farfisa bass, glass harmonica, sticks, handclaps, casiotone, accordion, whistling
  • Perry Hoberman– bottles, sticks, handclaps,  flute, sax, piccolo, backing vocals
  • David Van Tieghem– drums, rototoms, timpani, marimba, percussion
  • Rufus Harley– bagpipes
  • Chuck Fisher– alto and tenor saxophone
  • Bill Obrecht– alto sax
  • Peter Gordon– clarinet, tenor sax
  • George Lewis– trombones
  • Richard Cohen– b-flat clarinet, e-flat clarinet, bass clarinet,  bassoon o, baritone saxophone
  • Leanne Ungar– backing vocals

Track listing:

All tracks by Laurie Anderson.

  1. From the Air
  2. Big Science
  3. Sweaters
  4. Walking & Falling
  5. Born, Never Asked
  6. O Superman (for Massenet)
  7. Example #22
  8. Let X=X/It Tango – (Let X=X; It Tango)