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Scorpion: In Trance

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On September 17, 1975, “RCA” label released “In Trance”, the third Scorpions studio album. It was recorded in 1975, at “Dierks Studios” in Stommein, Germany, and was produced by Dieter Dierks.

Personnel:

  • Klaus Meine – vocals
  • Ulrich Roth – vocals, lead and slide guitar
  • Rudolf Schenker – rhythm guitar
  • Francis Buchholz – bass
  • Rudy Lenners – drums
  • Achim Kirschning – keyboards
  • Dieter Dierks – engineer, mixing
  • Michael von Gimbut – photography

Track listing:

All track by Ulrich Roth, except where noted.

  1. Dark Lady
  2. In Trance – Rudolf Schenker, Klaus Meine
  3. Life’s Like a River – Ulrich Roth, Rudolf Schenker, Corina Fortmann
  4. Top of the Bill – Rudolf Schenker, Klaus Meine
  5. Living and Dying – Rudolf Schenker
  6. Robot Man – Rudolf Schenker, Klaus Meine
  7. Evening Wind
  8. Sun in My Hand
  9. Longing for Fire – Rudolf Schenker, Klaus Meine
  10. Night Lights

Saxon: Innocence Is No Exuse

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On September 2, 1985, “Parlaphone / EMI” label released “Innocence Is No Excuse”, the seventh Saxon studio album. It was recorded in 1985, at “Union Studios” in Munich, Germany, and was produced by Simon Hanhart.

Personnel:

  • Biff Byford – vocals, arrangements, mixing
  • Graham Oliver – guitar, arrangements
  • Paul Quinn – guitar, arrangements
  • Steve Dawson – bass guitar, arrangements
  • Nigel Glockler – drums, arrangements
  • Simon Hanhart – recording
  • Keith Nixon – additional recording

Track listing:

  1. Rockin’ Again – Biff Byford, Graham Oliver, Steve Dawson
  2. Call of the Wild – Biff Byford, Paul Quinn, Graham Oliver, Steve Dawson, Nigel Glockler
  3. Back on the Street – Biff Byford, Paul Quinn, Steve Dawson, Nigel Glockler
  4. Devil Rides Out – Biff Byford, Steve Dawson
  5. Rock ‘n’ Roll Gypsy – Biff Byford, Steve Dawson
  6. Broken Heroes – Biff Byford, Steve Dawson
  7. Gonna Shout – Biff Byford, Paul Quinn, Graham Oliver, Steve Dawson, Nigel Glockler
  8. Everybody Up – Biff Byford, Steve Dawson
  9. Raise Some Hell – Biff Byford, Steve Dawson
  10. Give It Everything You’ve Got – Biff Byford, Paul Quinn, Graham Oliver, Steve Dawson, Nigel Glockler

Kraftwerk: Tour De France Soundtracks

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On August 4, 2003, “Kling Klang” label released “Tour de France Soundtracks”, the eleventh and final Kraftwerk studio album. It was recorded in 2003, at “Kling Klang” in Düsseldorf, Germany, and was produced by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider.The album was recorded for the 100th anniversary of the first “Tour de France” bicycle race. 

Personnel:

  • Ralf Hütter – vocals, software synthesizers, sequencing
  • Henning Schmitz – software synthesizers, electronic percussion
  • Fritz Hilpert – software synthesizers, electronic percussion, engineer
  • Florian Schneider – additional vocals, software synthesizers, sequencing

Track listing:

  1. Prologue – music by Ralf Hütter, Florian Schneider, Fritz Hilpert
  2. Tour de France Étape 1 – lyrics by Ralf Hütter, Maxime Schmitt, music by Ralf Hütter, Florian Schneider, Fritz Hilpert
  3. Tour de France Étape 2 – lyrics by Ralf Hütter, Maxime Schmitt, music by Ralf Hütter, Florian Schneider, Fritz Hilpert
  4. Tour de France Étape 3 – lyrics by Ralf Hütter, Maxime Schmitt, music by Ralf Hütter, Florian Schneider, Fritz Hilpert
  5. Chrono – lyrics by Ralf Hütter, Maxime Schmitt, music by Ralf Hütter, Florian Schneider, Fritz Hilpert
  6. Vitamin – lyrics by Ralf Hütter, music by Ralf Hütter, Florian Schneider, Fritz Hilpert
  7. Aéro Dynamik- lyrics by Ralf Hütter, Maxime Schmitt, music by Ralf Hütter, Fritz Hilpert
  8. Titanium – lyrics by Ralf Hütter, Maxime Schmitt, music by Ralf Hütter, Fritz Hilpert
  9. Elektro Kardiogramm – lyrics by Ralf Hütter, music by Ralf Hütter, Fritz Hilpert
  10. La Forme – lyrics by Ralf Hütter, Maxime Schmitt, music by Ralf Hütter
  11. Régéneration – lyrics by Ralf Hütter, Maxime Schmitt, music by Ralf Hütter
  12. Tour de France – lyrics by Ralf Hütter, Maxime Schmitt, music by Ralf Hütter, Florian Schneider, Karl Bartos

Deep Purple: The Battle Rages On…

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On July19, 1993, “RCA” label released “The Battle Rages On…”, the fourteenth Deep Purple studio album. It was recorded May 1992 – March 1993, at “Bearsville Studios” in Bearsville, New York, “Red Rooster Studios” in Tutzing, Germany, “Greg Rike Studios” Tamonte Springs, in Altamonte, Florida, and was produced by Thom Panunzio and Roger Glover.

Personnel:

  • Ian Gillan – lead vocals, congas 
  • Ritchie Blackmore – guitar
  • Jon Lord – keyboards, backing vocals
  • Roger Glover – bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Ian Paice – drums
  • Bill Kennedy – engineer
  • Jason Corsaro – engineer
  • Pat Regan – engineer, mixing
  • Mike Reiter – engineer assistant
  • Wally Walton – engineer assistant
  • Darren Schneider – engineer assistant
  • John Siket – engineer assistant
  • Devin Emke – engineer assistant
  • Peter Beckeman – engineer assistant
  • Mark Conese – engineer assistant
  • George Marino – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan and Roger Glover, except where noted.

  1. The Battle Rages On – Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Jon Lord, Ian Paice
  2. Lick It Up
  3. Anya – Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord
  4. Talk About Love
  5. Time to Kill
  6. Ramshackle Man
  7. A Twist in the Tale
  8. Nasty Piece of Work – Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord
  9. Solitaire
  10. One Man’s Meat

Edgar Froese: Aqua

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On June 27, 1974, “Virgin” and “Brain” labels released “Aqua”, the debut Edgar Froese album. It was recorded November 1973 – March 1974, in Berlin, and was produced by Edgar Froese. It was released in two different mixes, one by “Brain” in Germany, and the other by “Virgin” in the rest of the world.

Personnel:

  • Edgar Froese – piano, keyboards, synthesizers, mellophonium
  • Gunther Brunschen – sounds with artificial head system
  • Tonstudio Pfanz – lacquer cut
  • Monique Froese – design, photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Edgar Froese.

Virgin album

  1. Aqua
  2. Panorphelia
  3. NGC 891
  4. Upland

Brain album

  1. NGC 891
  2. Upland
  3. Aqua
  4. Panorphelia

Swans: The Beggar

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On June 23, 2023. “Mute” label released “The Beggar”, the 16th Swans album. It was recorded in 2023, at “Candy Bomber” in Berlin, Germany, and was produced by Michael Gira.

Personnel:

  • Michael Gira – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, harmonica, art concept, design
  • Kristof Hahn – vocals, lap steel guitar, acoustic and electric guitar
  • Christopher Pravdica – vocals, keyboards, bass guitar, sounds
  • Dana Schechter – vocals, lap steel guitar, piano, bass guitar, sounds
  • Larry Mullins – vocals, drums, percussion, vibraphone, piano, keyboards
  • Phil Puleo – vocals, drums, percussion, fujara, duduk
  • Norman Westberg – additional guitar
  • Ben Frost – piano, keyboards, synthesizer, electric guitar
  • Paul Walfisch – additional piano
  • Jeniffer Gira – backing vocals
  • Laura Carbone – backing vocals
  • Lucy Kruger – backing vocals
  • Ingo Krauss – engineer
  • Doug Henderson – mastering
  • Jasper – lacquer cut
  • Phil Puleo – layout
  • Paul A. Taylor – layout

Track listing:

All tracks by Michael Gira.

  1. Paradise
  2. The Beggar
  3. Los Angeles: City of Death
  4. The Parasite
  5. The Memorious
  6. Michael Is Done
  7. Why Can’t I Have What I Want Anytime That I Want?
  8. Unforming
  9. Ebbing
  10. No More of This

Johnny Hodgest: Johnny Hodhest And His Strings Play The Prettiest Gershwin

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In June 1962, “Verve” label released “Johnny Hodges and His Strings Play the Prettiest Gershwin”, the 16th Johnny Hodges album. It was recorded in November 1958, in Stuttgart, Germany.

Personnel:

  • Johnny Hodges – alto saxophone
  • Horst Jankowski – piano
  • Russ Garcia – string arrangements
  • Wolfram Röhrig – conductror
  • Sheldon Marks – art direction
  • Bill Rotsler – photography
  • Lawrence D. Stewart – liner notes

Track listing:

All tracks by George and Ira Gershwin, except where noted.

  1. Love Is Here to Stay
  2. Nice Work If You Can Get It
  3. ‘S Wonderful
  4. Summertime – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward
  5. Soon
  6. But Not for Me
  7. Somebody Loves Me – George Gershwin, Ballard MacDonald, Buddy DeSylva
  8. They Can’t Take That Away from Me
  9. Someone to Watch over Me
  10. The Man I Love
  11. Oh, Lady Be Good!
  12. They All Laughed

Kraftwerk: Computer World

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On May 11, 1981, “Kling Klang” label released “Computer World” the eight Kraftwerk studio album. It was recorded 1979 – 1981, at “Kling Klang” in Düsseldorf, Germany, and was produced by Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider.

Personnel:

  • Ralf Hütter – voice, vocoder, synthesizer, keyboards, Orchestron, Synthanorma Sequenzer, electronics, software, mixing, cover, original artwork reconstruction, album concept
  • Florian Schneider – vocoder, speech synthesis, synthesizer, electronics, software, mixing, cover, album concept
  • Karl Bartos – electronic drums, software
  • Wolfgang Flür – software
  • Peter Bollis – hardware
  • Hermann J. Poertner – hardware
  • Gerd Rothe – hardware
  • Pit Franke – software
  • Karl Klefisch – software
  • Falk Kübler – software
  • Takeshi Shikura – software
  • Martin Tewis – software
  • Carol Martin – software
  • Tom Lanik – software
  • Doreen D’Agostino – software
  • Marvin Katz – software
  • Bob Krasnow – software
  • Günter Spachtholz – software
  • Joachim Dehmann – software
  • Emil Schult – cover
  • Johann Zambryski – original artwork reconstruction
  • Günter Fröhling – photography

Track listing:

  1. Computer World – lyrics by Ralf Hütter, Florian Schneider, Emil Schult, music by  Ralf Hütter, Karl Bartos
  2. Pocket Calculator – lyrics by Ralf Hütter, Emil Schult, music by  Ralf Hütter, Karl Bartos
  3. Numbers – music by Ralf Hütter, Florian Schneider
  4. Computer World 2 – music by Ralf Hütter, Florian Schneider, Karl Bartos
  5. Computer Love – lyrics by Ralf Hütter, Emil Schult, music by Ralf Hütter, Karl Bartos
  6. Home Computer – lyrics by Florian Scheider, music by Ralf Hütter, Florian Schneider, Karl Bartos
  7. It’s More Fun To Compute – music by Ralf Hütter, Florian Schneider, Karl Bartos

Triumvirat: Mediterranean Tales

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In April 1972, “Harvest” label released “Mediterranean Tales (Across the Waters)”, the debut Triumvirat studio album. It was recorded in January 1972, at “Electrola Studios” in Cologne, Germany, and was produced by Rainer Pietsch.

Personnel:

  • Jürgen Fritz – vocals, chorus, Hammond B3 organ, electric piano, Grand piano, Moog synthesizer
  • Hans-Georg Pape – lead vocals, chorus, bass
  • Hans Bathelt – drums, percussion

Track listing:

  1. Across the Waters – W. A. Mozart, Jürgen Fritz, Hans Bathelt
  2. Eleven Kids – Jürgen Fritz, Hans Bathelt
  3. E Minor 5/9 Minor/5 – Jürgen Fritz
  4. Broken Mirror – Jürgen Fritz

Gary Burton: Easy As Pie

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In March 1981, “ECM” label released “Easy as Pie”, the 32nd Gary Burton album. It was recorded in June 1980, at “Tonstudio Bauer” in Ludwigsburg, Germany, and was produced by Manfred Eicher.

Personnel:

  • Gary Burton – vibraphone
  • Jim Odgren – alto saxophone
  • Steve Swallow – electric bass
  • Mike Hyman – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Chick Corea, except where noted.

  1. Reactionary Tango – Carla Bley
  2. Tweek
  3. Blame It On My Youth – Oscar Levant, Edward Heyman
  4. Summer Band Camp – Mick Goodrick
  5. Isfahan – Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington
  6. Stardancer