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Marianne Faithfull: Negative Capability

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On November 2, 2018, “Panta Rei” label released “Negative Capability”, twentieth Marianne Faithfull studio album. It was recorded in January 2018, at “La Frette Studios” in Paris, and was produced by Head, Rob Ellis and Warren Ellis.

Personnel:

  • Marianne Faithfull – vocals
  • Nick Cave – backing and additional vocals, piano
  • Rob McVey – guitar, piano, synthesizer, backing vocals
  • Ed Harcourt – piano, bass guitar, baritone guitar, keyboards, Wurlitzer, Rhodes, organ, harmonium, backing vocals
  • Warren Ellis – viola, synthesizer, violin, keyboards, piano, synthesiser bass, alto flute, backing vocals
  • Rob Ellis – drums, percussion, synthesizer, piano, bass synthesizer, glockenspiel, thumbjam synthesizer, backing vocals
  • Yann Orhan – cover art

Track listing:

  1. Misunderstanding – Marianne Faithfull, Rob McVey, Sivert Høyem, Ed Harcourt
  2. The Gypsy Faerie Queen – Marianne Faithfull, Nick Cave
  3. As Tears Go By – Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Andrew Loog Oldham
  4. In My Own Particular Way – Marianne Faithfull, Ed Harcourt, Warren Ellis, Rob McVey
  5. Born to Live – Marianne Faithfull, Ed Harcourt
  6. Witches Song – Marianne Faithfull, Barry Reynolds, Joe Mavety, Steve York, Terry Stannard
  7. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue – Bob Dylan
  8. They Come at Night – Marianne Faithfull, Ed Harcourt
  9. Don’t Go – Marianne Faithfull, Ed Harcourt
  10. No Moon in Paris – Marianne Faithfull, Ed Harcourt

Marianne Faithfull: Before The Poison

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On September 28, 2004, “Anti Records” label released “Before the Poison”, the 16th Marianne Faithfull studio album. It was recorded June – October 2003, at “The Fallout Shelter” and “Mayfair Studio” in London, and was produced by PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, Hal Willner, Rob Ellis and Head.

Personnel:

  • Marianne Faithfull – lead vocal, handclapping
  • PJ Harvey – vocals, backing vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, bass, slide bass, piano, synth
  • Diana Gutkind – piano
  • Adrian Utley – synth bass, bass, acoustic and electric guitar, toy piano, sampling
  • Rob Ellis – drums, percussion, glockenspiel, handclapping, piano, vibraphone, sound effects, string arrangements
  • Catherine Browning – violin
  • Andy Nice – cello
  • Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Martyn P. Casey, Jim Sclavunos – musicians
  • Rik Simpson – recording, engineer assistant, mixing
  • Head – recording, mixing
  • Andrew Rugg- engineer assistant
  • John Dent – mastering
  • Jean Baptiste Mondino – photography

Track listing:

  1. The Mystery of Love – PJ Harvey
  2. My Friends Have – PJ Harvey
  3. Crazy Love – Marianne Faithfull, Nick Cave
  4. Last Song – Marianne Faithfull, Damon Albarn
  5. No Child of Mine – PJ Harvey
  6. Before the Poison – Marianne Faithfull, PJ Harvey
  7. There Is a Ghost – Marianne Faithfull, Nick Cave
  8. In the Factory – Marianne Faithfull, PJ Harvey
  9. Desperanto – Marianne Faithfull, Nick Cave
  10. City of Quartz – Marianne Faithfull, Jon Brion

Warren Ellis And Marianne Faithful: She Walks In Beauty

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On April 30, 2021, “BMG” and “Panta Rei” labels released “She Walks in Beauty”, album by Warren Ellis and Marianne Faithfull. It was recorded in 2020, at “Poptones” in Paris, “The Retreat” in Brighton, and was produced by Warren Ellis.

Personnel:

  • Marianne Faithfull – vocals
  • Warren Ellis – synthesizer, freeze violin, violin, sampler loops, synthesizer, bells, choir vocal, celesta, effects, Boomerang strings samples, alto flute, hyena cello, piano, choral loop, sampler loop treatments, future strings, bass flute, strings, effects loops, engineer
  • Nick Cave – piano, vibraphone 
  • Brian Eno – clarinet, synthesizer, effects, arrangements, engineer
  • Augustin Viard – Ondes Martenot 
  • Head – effects, arrangements, piano engineering, mixing 
  • Vincent Ségal – cello
  • Ben Thackeray – piano engineering
  • Jean-Charles Versari – cello engineering
  • John Davis – mastering
  • Colin Self – artwork
  • Yann Orhan – design
  • Rosie Matheson – photography
  • François Ravard – executive producer

Track listing:

  1. She Walks in Beauty – Lord Byron
  2. The Bridge of Sighs – Thomas Hood
  3. La Belle Dame sans Merci – John Keats
  4. Ode to a Nightingale – John Keats
  5. To Autumn – John Keats
  6. Ozymandias – Percy Bysshe Shelley
  7. The Prelude: Book One Introduction – William Wordsworth
  8. Surprised by Joy – William Wordsworth
  9. To the Moon – Percy Bysshe Shelley
  10. So We’ll Go No More a Roving – Lord Byron
  11. The Lady of Shalott – Alfred Tennyson

Julian Cope: Peggy Suicide

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On April 22, 1991, “Island” label released “Peggy Suicide”, the seventh Julian Cope album. It was recorded in 1990, and was produced by Julian Cope and Donald Ross Skinner.

Personnel:

  • Julian Cope (also credited as DeHarrison and Double DeHarrison) – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, bass guitar, Moog synthesizer, string synthesizer, string arrangements
  • Donald Ross Skinner – bass guitar, electric guitar, keyboards, organ, piano, drums
  • Michael “Moon-Eye” Watts – electric guitar
  • Ron Fair – piano
  • Tim Bran – Hammond organ 
  • Gorby Scott Butterworth – Moog synthesizer
  • Mark “Rooster” Cosby – drums, percussion, congas
  • J.D. Hassinger – electronic and acoustic drums, tambourine
  • Mike Joyce – drums
  • Ronnie Ross – baritone saxophone 
  • Aaf Verkade – trumpet 
  • The William Stukeley Quintet – strings 
  • Dan Levett – cello
  • Lulu Chivers, Edwina Vernon, Camilla Mayer – vocals
  • Hugo Nicolson – recording, mixing
  • Ingmar Kiang – recording
  • Tim Bran – recording
  • Tony Harris – recording
  • Paul Tipler – recording
  • Darina Roche – cover painting
  • Darren Woolford – design
  • Richard Haughton – photography

Track listing:

All tracks bu Julian Cope, except where noted.

  1. Pristeen
  2. Double Vegetation
  3. East Easy Rider
  4. Promised Land
  5. Hanging Out & Hung Up on the Line
  6. Safesurfer
  7. If You Loved me at All – Julian Cope, Donald Ross Skinner
  8. Drive, She Said
  9. Soldier Blu – Julian Cope, Donald Ross Skinner
  10. You
  11. Not Raving But Drowing
  12. Head
  13. Leperskin – Julian Cope, Donald Ross Skinner
  14. Beautiful Love
  15. Western Front 1992 CE
  16. Hung Up & Hanging Out To Dry – Julian Cope, Donald Ross Skinner, Double DeHarrison, J.D. Hassinger
  17. The American Lite – Julian Cope Donald Ross Skinner
  18.  Las Vegas Basemant

The Meat Puppets: No Joke!

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On October 3, 1995, “London” label released “No Joke!”, the ninth Meat Puppets (The) studio album. It was recorded in 1995, at “Phase Four Studio” in Phoenix, Arizona, “Westlake Studio” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Paul Leary, Curt Kirkwood, Chris Kirkwood and Derrick Bostrom.

Personnel:

  • Curt Kirkwood – vocals, guitar, paintings
  • Chris Kirkwood – vocals, bass, illustrations
  • Derrick Bostrom – drums, paintings

Track listing:

All tracks by Curt Kirkwood, except where noted.

  1. Scum
  2. Nothing
  3. Head
  4. Taste of the Sun
  5. Vampires
  6. Predator
  7. Poison Arrow
  8. Eyeball
  9. For Free
  10. Cobbler
  11. Inflatable
  12. Sweet Ammonia
  13. Chemical Garden

Bat for Lashes: The Bride

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On July 1, 2016, “Parlaphone” label released “The Bride”, the fourth Bat for Lashes (Natasha Khan) studio album. It was recorded 2012 – 2015, and was produced by David Baron, Dan Carey, Ben Christophers, Simone Felice, Matt Hales, Head, Natasha Khan and Jacknife Lee.

Personnel:

  • Natasha Khan– vocals, Omnichord, guitars, mandolin, tambourine, Rhodes, drum programming; keyboards,  pocket piano, synth; harp; drums, string arrangements, celesta, vibraphone, bass synth, drum machine; handclaps; art direction, concept
  • Kevin Salem – guitar
  • Dawn Landes– guitar, backing vocals
  • Ben Christophers – vocals, bowed guitar,; bass, sound effects, piano,  recording
  • David Baron– bass, synth, Rhodes, programming, string arrangements, sound effects, recording, mixing
  • Lou Rogai– guitar, bass, backing vocals
  • Leo Taylor– drums
  • Alex Reeves – timpani; drums, percussion
  • Simone Felice – drums, recording
  • Matt Hales–drum programming, recording, synth
  • Sandy Bell – backing vocals
  • Rachael Yamagata– backing vocals
  • Jacknife Lee– programming, recording, sampler, synth
  • Davide Rossi – string arrangements, string recording, strings
  • Dan Carey– programming, recording, synth
  • Pete Hanlon – recording, engineer
  • Head – recording, mixing
  • Tony Cousins – mastering
  • Neil Krug – photography
  • Richard Welland – design
  • Michael Whitham – director of photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Natasha Khan, except where noted.

  1. I Do
  2. Joe’s Dream
  3. In God’s House
  4. Honeymooning Alone
  5. Sunday Love – Natasha Khan, Dan Carey
  6. Never Forgive the Angels
  7. Close Encounters
  8. Widow’s Peak – Natasha Khan, Simone Felice
  9. Land’s End
  10. If I Knew
  11. I Will Love Again – Natasha Khan, Simone Felice, Lou Rogal
  12. In Your Bed

PJ Harvey: Uh Huh Her

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On May 31, 2004, “Island” label released “Uh Huh Her”, the sixth PJ Harvey studio album. It was recorded 2002 – 2003, and was produced by PJ Harvey.

Personnel:

  • PJ Harvey – vocals, guitars, bass, piano, melodica, accordion,  autoharp, engineer, mixing, photography
  • Rob Ellis – drums, percussion, backing vocals
  • Head – backing vocals, engineer, mixing
  • Evelyn Isaac – backing vocals
  • Maria Mochnacz –artwork
  • Rob Crane – artwork

Track listing:

All tracks by PJ Harvey.

  1. The Life & Death of Mr. Badmouth
  2. Shame
  3. Who the Fuck?
  4. Pocket Knife
  5. The Letter
  6. The Slow Drug
  7. No Child of Mine
  8. Cat on the Wall
  9. You Come Through
  10. It’s You
  11. The End
  12. The Desperate Kingdom of Love
  13. Untitled (Seagulls)
  14. The Darker Days of Me & Him

PJ Harvey: Rid Of Me

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On May 4, 1993, “Island” label released “Rid of Me”the second PJ Harvey studio album. It was recorded December 1992 at “Pachyderm Studio” in Cannon Falls, Minnesota, and was produced by Steve Albini and PJ Harvey. “Rolling Stone” magazine ranked the album at number 406 on its list of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time”.

Personnel:

  • PJ Harvey– vocals, guitar, organ, cello, violin
  • Steve Vaughan – bass
  • Rob Ellis– drums, percussion, backing vocals, arrangement
  • Steve Albini– engineer, mixing
  • Head – engineer
  • John Loder– mastering
  • Maria Mochnacz – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Polly Jean Harvey, except where noted.

  1. Rid of Me
  2. Missed
  3. Legs
  4. Rub ’til It Bleeds
  5. Hook
  6. Man-Size Sextet
  7. Highway 61 Revisited – Bob Dylan
  8. 50ft Queenie
  9. Yuri-G
  10. Man-Size
  11. Dry
  12. Me-Jane
  13. Snake
  14. Ecstasy