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Supertramp: Crisis? What Crisis?

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On September 14, 1975, “A&M” label released “Crisis? What Crisis?”, the fourth Supertramp album. It was recorded 1975, at “A&M Studios” in Los Angeles; “Ramport Studios” and “Scorpio Studios” in London, and was produced by Ken Scott, Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson, John Anthony Helliwell, Dougie Thomson and Bob C. Benberg,.

Personnel:

  • Rick Davies– vocals, keyboards, harmonica
  • Roger Hodgson– vocals, guitars, keyboards
  • John Anthony Helliwell– vocals, wind instruments
  • Dougie Thomson– bass
  • Bob C. Benberg– drums, percussion
  • Richard Anthony Hewson – arrangements
  • Greg Calbi, Jay Messina – mastering
  • John Jansen, Ed Thacker – assistant
  • Fabio Nicoli, Paul Wakefield, Dick Ward – design

Track listing:

All tracks by Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson.

  1. Easy Does It
  2. Sister Moonshine
  3. Ain’t Nobody But Me
  4. A Soapbox Opera
  5. Another Man’s Woman
  6. LadyPoor Boy
  7. Just a Normal Day
  8. The Meaning
  9. Two of Us

 

Interpol: Same

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On September 7, 2010, “Matador Records” label released the self-titled,  fourth Interpol album. It was recorded 2009 – 2010, at “Electric Lady Studios” in new York City, and was produced by Paul Banks, Daniel Kessler, Carlos Dengler and Sam Fogarino.

Personnel:

  • Paul Banks– lead vocals, rhythm guitar
  • Daniel Kessler– lead guitar, piano
  • Carlos Dengler– bass, keyboards
  • Sam Fogarino– drums, percussion
  • Azealia Banks- backing vocals
  • Claudius Mittendorfer – engineer
  • Alan Moulder– mixing
  • Greg Calbi – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Paul Banks, Daniel Kessler, Carlos Dengler and Sam Fogarino.

  1. Success
  2. Memory Serves
  3. Summer Well
  4. Lights
  5. Barricade
  6. Always Malaise (The Man I Am)
  7. Safe Without
  8. Try It On
  9. All of the Ways
  10. The Undoing

Bob Dylan: Modern Times

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On August 29, 2006, “Columbia” label released “Modern Times”, the thirty-second Bob Dylan studio album. It was recorded in February 2006, and was produced by Jack Frost (Bob Dylan pseudonym). In the 2012, “Rolling Stone” magazine ranked the album at number 204 on its list of “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time”. In 2007, Dylan won “Grammy Award” for “Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album” for “Modern Times” and the “Grammy Award” for “Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance” for the song “Someday Baby”.

Personnel:

  • Bob Dylan – vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano
  • Donnie Herron – steel guitar, violin, viola, mandolin
  • Denny Freeman– guitar
  • Stu Kimball – guitar
  • Tony Garnier– bass guitar, cello
  • George G. Receli – drums, percussion
  • Chris Shaw – engineer
  • Tom Aiezza – engineer assistant
  • Sheldon Yellowhair – engineer assistant
  • Greg Calbi– mastering
  • Ted Croner – cover photography (1947 photograph “Taxi, New York at Night”)

Track listing:

All tracks by Bob Dylan.

  1. Thunder on the Mountain
  2. Spirit on the Water
  3. Rollin’ and Tumblin’
  4. When the Deal Goes Down
  5. Someday Baby
  6. Workingman’s Blues #2
  7. Beyond the Horizon
  8. Nettie Moore
  9. The Levee’s Gonna Break
  10. Ain’t Talkin

David Byrne & Brian Eno: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today

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On August 18, 2008, “Todo Mundo” label released “Everything That Happens Will Happen Today”, the second album made in collaboration between  David  Byrne and Brian Eno. It was recorded by Brian Eno in his London home studio through 2006, finished by David Byrne and Leo Abrahams in their New  York  City and London home studios through 2008; additional instrumentation recorded at “Cafe Music Studios” and “Harder Sound” in New York City. At the 51st “Annual Grammy Awards” in February 2009, Stefan Sagmeister won the award for “Best Recording Package”

Personnel:

  • David Byrne – vocals, guitars
  • Brian Eno – lead and backing vocals, bass guitar, electric drums,  Kaoss Pad, keyboards, guitars, , brass, backing vocals, traps, keyboards
  • Leo Abrahams – guitars, percussion, piano, hurdy-gurdy, bass  guitar, Dubreq Stylophone, programming, glockenspiel
  • Jarvis Cocker– guitar
  • Phil Manzanera– guitar
  • Steve Jones– guitars
  • Tim Harries– bass
  • Mauro Refosco– murky pandeiro, cricket shaker, reco reco, peddler’s rattle bongo, conga, tambourine, zabumba, cahon, tamborim, shaker
  • Robert Wyatt– frame drum
  • Seb Rochford– live drums
  • Barry Danielian – brass
  • Dan Levine – brass and arrangement
  • Dave Mann – brass
  • Paul Shapiro– brass
  • Darla Eno – vocals
  • Irial Eno – vocals
  • Melanie Hall QC – backing vocals
  • Patrick Dillett – mixing, live brass and percussion recording
  • Robert Harder – live drum recording
  • Cherif Hashizume – live drum recording
  • Greg Calbi– mastering
  • Sagmeister, Inc.– design
  • Stephan Walter – illustration

Track listing:

All lyrics written by David Byrne; all music by David Byrne (vocals) and Brian Eno (instrumentation), except where noted.

  1. Home
  2. My Big Nurse
  3. I Feel My Stuff
  4. Everything That Happens
  5. Life Is Long
  6. The River
  7. Strange Overtones – Brian Eno, David Byrne, Leo Abrahams
  8. Wanted for Life
  9. One Fine Day
  10. Poor Boy
  11. The Lighthouse

Tame Impala: Currents

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On July 17, 2015, “Modular” label released “Currents”, the third Tame Impala studio album. It was recorded 2012 – 2015, at Kevin Parker’s home studio in Fremantle, Australia, and was produced by Kevin Parker. At the 2015 “ARIA Music Awards”, “Currents” was awarded “Best Rock Album”;  “Album of the Year”; Kevin Parker won “Engineer of the Year” award and “Producer of the Year” and Tame Impala were named “Best Group”

Personnel:

  • Kevin Parker– vocals, all instruments, engineer, mixing
  • Rob Grant – engineer, mixing advisor
  • Greg Calbi– mastering
  • Robert Beatty – design
  • Matthew C. Saville – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Kevin Parker.

  1. Let It Happen
  2. Nangs
  3. The Moment
  4. Yes I’m Changing
  5. Eventually
  6. Gossip
  7. The Less I Know the Better
  8. Past Life
  9. Disciplies
  10. Cause I’m a Man
  11. Reality in Motion
  12. Love / Parnoia
  13. New Person, Same Old Mistakes

Beastie Boys: The Mix-Up

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The Mix Up

On June 26, 2007, “Capitol” label released “The Mix-Up”, the seventh Beastie Boys studio album. The entirely instrumental album was recorded 2006–2007, at  “Oscilloscope Laboratories” in New York City, and was produced by Ad-Rock, MCA, and Mike D. “The Mix-Up” won a “Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album”.

Personnel:

  • Ad-Rock– guitars, engineer, art direction
  • MCA– bass guitar and upright basses, engineer, art direction
  • Mike D– drums, engineer, art direction
  • Money Mark– clavinet, Rhodes, Farfisa
  • Alfredo Ortiz– percussion
  • Jon Weiner – engineer
  • Greg Calbi – mastering
  • Bill McMullen – illustration, package design

Track listing:

  1. B for My Name
  2. 14th Break
  3. Suco de Tangerina
  4. The Gala Event
  5. Electric Worm
  6. Freaky Hijiki
  7. Off the Grid
  8. The Rat Cage
  9. The melee
  10. Dramatically Different
  11. The Cousin of Death
  12. The Kangaroo Rat

Sonic Youth: Rather Ripped

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On June 13, 2006, “Geffen” label released “Rather Ripped”, the fourteen Sonic Youth studio album. It was recorded December 2005 – January 2006, at “Sear Sound” in New York City, and was produced by Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley and John Agnello.

Personnel:

  • Thurston Moore– vocals, guitar, design
  • Lee Ranaldo– vocals, guitar, additional recording
  • Kim Gordon– vocals, bass
  • Steve Shelley– drums
  • TJ Doherty – recording
  • Aaron Mullan – engineer assistant, additional recording
  • Chris Allen – engineer assistant
  • Anthony Fontana – engineer assistant
  • John Agnello– additional recording, mixing
  • Greg Calbi– mastering
  • Christopher Wool– artwork
  • Brandy Flower – design
  • Amanda Decadenet – band photography
  • JP Robinson – front cover design
  • Don Fleming– additional vocal production

Track listing:

All tracks by Sonic Youth.

  1. Reena
  2. Incinerate
  3. Do You Believe in Rapture
  4. Sleepin Around
  5. What a Waste
  6. Jams Run Free
  7. Rats
  8. Turquise Boy
  9. Lights Out
  10. The Neutral
  11. Pink Steam
  12. Or

Yo La Tengo: I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One

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On April 22, 1997, “Matador Records” label released “I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One”, the eighth Yo La Tengo. It was recorded in 1997, at “House of David” in Nashville, “Tennessee” and “Big House” and “Magic Shop” in New York City, and was produced by Roger Moutenot.

Personnel:

  • Ira Kaplan– lead and backing vocals, guitar, keyboards
  • James McNew– lead and backing vocals, bass, guitar, percussion, keyboard
  • Al Perkins – lap steel guitar, pedal steel
  • Georgia Hubley– lead and backing vocals, drums, percussion, keyboards
  • Jonathan Marx – trumpet
  • Greg Calbi– mastering
  • Jad Fair– artwork
  • Steve Thornton – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Ira Kaplan, James NcNew, Al Perkins and Georgia Hubley, except where noted.

  1. Return to Hot Chicken
  2. Moby octopad
  3. Sugarcube
  4. Damage
  5. Stockholm Syndrome
  6. Autumn Sweater
  7. Little Honda – Brian Wilson, Mike Love
  8. Green Arrow
  9. One PM Again
  10. The Lie and How We Told It
  11. Center of Gravity
  12. Spec Bebop
  13. We’re an American Band
  14. My Little Corner of the World – Bob Hilliard, Lee Pockriss

 

Drive-By Truckers: A Blessing and a Curse

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On April 18, 2006, “New West” label released “A Blessing and a Curse”, the sixth Drive-By Truckers album. It was recorded in 2006, at “Fidelitorium” in Kernesville, North Caroline, “Chase Park Transduction” in Athens, Georgia,  and was produced by David Barbe.

Personnel:

  • Mike Cooley – vocals, guitar
  • Patterson Hood – vocals, guitar
  • Jason Isbell – vocals, guitar
  • Shonna Tucker– bass
  • Brad Morgan – drums
  • David Barbe – recording
  • John Agnello – mastering
  • Greg Calbi – mastering
  • Lilla Hood – art direction
  • Wes Freed – painting, artwork
  • Danny Clinch – photography

Track listing:

  1. Feb 14 – Patterson Hood
  2. Gravity’s Gone – Mike Cooley
  3. Easy on Yourself – Jason Isbell
  4. Aftermath USA – Patterson Hood
  5. Goodbye – Patterson Hood
  6. Daylight – Patterson Hood
  7. Wednesday – Patterson Hood
  8. Little Bonnie – Patterson Hood
  9. Space City – Mike Cooley
  10. A Blessing and a Curse – Patterson Hood
  11. A World of Hurt – Paterson Hood

Patti Smith: Twelve

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On April 17, 2007, “Columbia” label released “Twelve”, the seventh Patti Smith album. It was recorded in 2007, and was produced by Patti Smith.

Personnel:

  • Patti Smith– vocals, clarinet
  • Lenny Kaye– guitar
  • Duncan Webster – guitar
  • Jack Petruzelli – guitar
  • Jackson Smith – guitar
  • Tom Verlaine– guitar
  • Rich Robinson – guitar, dulcimer
  • Sam Shepard– banjo
  • Walker Shepard – banjo
  • John Cohen– banjo
  • Luis Resto– piano
  • Tony Shanahan– vocals, bass, keyboards
  • Barre Duryea – bass
  • Flea– bass
  • Paul Nowinski – double bass
  • Jay Dee Daugherty– drums, percussion, accordion
  • Mario Resto – drums
  • Peter Stampfel– fiddle
  • Giovanni Sollima– cello
  • Jesse Smith – backing vocals
  • Emery Dobyns – engineer, mixing
  • Andi Ostrowe – live sound mixing
  • David Bett – art direction
  • Greg Calbi – mastering
  • Steven Sebring– photography

Track listing:

  1. Are You Experienced – Jimi Hendrix
  2. Everybody Wants to Rule the World – Roland Orzabal, Ian Stanley, Chris Hughes
  3. Helpless – Neil Young
  4. Gimme Shelter – Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
  5. Within You Without You – George Harrison
  6. White Rabbit – Grace Slick
  7. Changing of the Guards – Bob Dylan
  8. The Boy in the Bubble – Paul Simon, Forere Motioheola
  9. Soul Kitchen – Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger
  10. Smells Like Teen Spirit – Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic
  11. Midnight Rider – Gregg Allman, Robert Payne
  12. Pastime Paradise – Stevie Wonder
  13. Everybody Hurts (bonus tracks) – Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe