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His Name Is Alive: Mouth to Mouth

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On April 13, 1993, “4AD” label released “Mouth by Mouth”, the third His Name Is Alive studio album. It was recorded in 1992, and was produced by Warren Defever.

Personnel:

  • Warren Defever – guitar, sampling
  • Karin Oliver – vocals, cello
  • Melissa Elliott – guitar
  • Denise James – vocals
  • Chelle Marie – vocals
  • Karen Neal – vocals
  • Damian Lang – drums
  • Trey Many – drums
  • Elden M. – vocals, sound effects
  • Vaughan Oliver – art direction
  • Chris Bigg – design
  • Colin Gray – photography

Track listing:

  1. Baby Fish Mouth
  2. Lip
  3. Cornfield
  4. In Every Ford – Melissa Elliot
  5. Lord, Make Me a Channel of Your Peace
  6. Drink, Dress and Ink
  7. Where Knock Is Open Wide
  8. Can’t Go Wrong Without You
  9. Jack Rabbits – Melissa Elliot
  10. Sort of
  11. Sick
  12. Blue Moon – Alex Chilton
  13. Ear
  14. Lemon Ocean
  15. The Torso
  16. The Torso – Melissa Elliot
  17. The Dirt Eaters
  18. The Homesick Waltz

His Name Is Alive: Xmmer

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On September 18, 2007, “Silver Mountain Media Group” label released “Xmmer”, the ninth His Name Is Alive album. It was recorded in 2007, and was produced by Warren Defever.

Personnel:

  • Warren Defever – guitar, saxophone, trumpet, drums, kalimba
  • Andrea Morici – vocals
  • Hitoko Sakai – organ, drums, bells
  • Zach Wallace – bass, cello, dulcimer
  • Brett Lyman – drums
  • Eliot Bergman – drums
  • Jean Cook – violin, string arrangements
  • Chris Pattinger, Jamie Easter – drawings
  • Davin Brainard – photography

Track listing:

  1. Young Blood
  2. Go to Hell Mountain
  3. The Wolf Put His Mouth on Me
  4. How Dark Is Your Dark Side
  5. What Color Was the Blood
  6. Oh Miss Flower
  7. Put It in Your Mind
  8. Sangaree
  9. Intra Ultra
  10. Come Out the Wilderness
  11. When You Fall for Someone
  12. Come to Me

His Name Is Alive: Home Is in Your Head

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On September 9, 1991, “4AD” label released “Home Is in Your Head”, the second His Name Is Alive studio album. It was recorded 1989 – 1990, and was produced by Ivo Watts-Russell, John Fryer and Warren Defever.

Personnel:

  • Warren Defever – guitar, pencil guitar, bass, samples
  • Karin Oliver – vocals, guitar
  • Melissa Elliott – guitar, pencil guitar
  • Jymn Auge – guitar, song
  • Denise James – vocals, song
  • Karen Neal – vocals
  • Damian Lang – drums, rainmaker, crashers, bone
  • Ivo Watts-Russell, John Fryer – mixing
  • Gus Shaw – mastering
  • Vaughan Oliver/v23 – art direction, design
  • Dominic Davies – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Warren Defever, except where noted.

  1. Are You Comin’ Down This Weekend?
  2. Her Eyes were Huge Things
  3. The Charmer
  4. Hope Called in Sick [Song of Schizophrenia, Part One]
  5. My Feathers Needed Cleaning [Song of Schizophrenia, Part Two]
  6. The Well [Song of Schizophrenia, Part Three]
  7. There’s Something Between Us and He’s Changing My Words – Bone Machine
  8. The Phoenix, a Pool of Ice
  9. Are We Still Married?
  10. Put Your Finger in Your Eye
  11. Home is in Your Head
  12. Why People Disappear
  13. Here Eyes are Huge
  14. Save the Birds
  15. Chances are We are Mad
  16. Mescalina
  17. Sitting Still Moving Still Staring Outlooking
  18. Very Bad a Bitter Hand
  19. Beautiful and Pointless
  20. Tempe
  21. Spirit and Body
  22. Love’s a Fish Eye
  23. Dreams are of the Body/The Other Body

His Name Is Alive: Livonia

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On June 25, 1990, “4AD” label released “Livonia”, the debut His Name Is Alive album. It was recorded 1985 – 1990, at “Graceland Studios” in New Boston, Michigan, and Warren Defever’s house in Livonia, Michigan, and was produced by Warren Defever, Ivo Watts-Russell, and John Fryer.

Personnel:

  • Warren Defever – guitars, basses, samples
  • Karin Oliver – vocals
  • Angie Carozzo – vocals
  • Jymn Auge – guitar
  • Tracy – bassoon
  • Damian Lang – percussion
  • Ivo Watts-Russell, John Fryer – mixing
  • Vaughan Oliver/v23 – art direction, design
  • Chris Bigg – design assistance
  • Beverly Carruthers – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Warren Defever, Karin Oliver, Angie Carozzo, Jymn Auge, Tracy and Damian Lang.

  1. As We Could Ever
  2. e-nicole
  3. If July
  4. Some and I
  5. fossil
  6. E-Nicole
  7. Caroline’s Supposed Demon
  8. Fossil
  9. reincarnation
  10. You and I Have Seizures
  11. How Ghosts Affect Relationships
  12. Darkest Dreams

His Name Is Alive: Detrola

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On January 24, 2006, “Silver Mountain Media Group” and “Sony-BMG” labels released “Detrola”, the eighth His Name Is Alive album. It was recorded in 2005, at “Brown Rice Studio” in Detroit, Michigan, and was produced by Warren Defever.

Personnel:

  • Warren Defever – vocals, guitar, bass, piano, drums, arrangements
  • Andrea Francesca Morici – vocals
  • Erika Hoffmann – vocals
  • Lovetta Pippen – vocals
  • Jean Cook – vocals
  • Jamie Saltsman – upright bass, bass instrument, strings
  • Scott Goldstein – drums
  • Daniel Piccolo – drums
  • Gentle Jamie – percussion
  • Olman Piedra – percussion
  • Hitoko Shakai – bells, drawing
  • Fender – vocals, saxophone, trumpet
  • Elliot Bergman – bass clarinet, flute, alto saxophone, maracas, piano
  • Faruq Zinji Bey – saxophone
  • Justin Walter – trumpet
  • Jacob Danziger – strings, violin
  • Davin Brainard – drawing
  • Dion Fischer – drawing

Track listing:

All tracks by Warren Defever.

  1. Introduction (The Darkest Night)
  2. After I Leave U (Maybe Again When I Leave U)
  3. I Thought I Saw (Mama Don’t You Think I Know)
  4. In My Dreams (Sometimes Screw)
  5. *C*A*T*S* (Here Forever Always)
  6. Your Bones
  7. You Need a Heart (You Need a Heart to Live)
  8. You and Me
  9. Get Your Curse (Summer Left Your Heart Behind)
  10. Seven Minutes (Seven Minutes In Heaven)
  11. Send My Face (I’ll Send My Face to Your Funeral)

His Name Is Alive: Someday My Blues Will Cover The Earth

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On August 7, 2001, “4AD” label released “Someday My Blues Will Cover the Earth”, the sixth His Name Is Alive album. It was recorded 1998 – 2000 and was produced by Steve King and Warn Defever.

Personnel:

  • Warn Defever – various instruments
  • Fred Thomas – acoustic guitar, bass
  • Steve King – bass
  • Zach Wallace – upright bass
  • Scott Goldstein – drums
  • Brett Lyman – drums, congas
  • Lovetta Pippen – vocals
  • Ida Pearl – violin
  • Jake Danziger – violin
  • Greg Calbi – mastering
  • Vaughan Oliver – art direction, design
  • Lucien Rudaux – images

Track listing:

All tracks by Warn Defever.

  1. Nothing Special
  2. Interlude
  3. Happy Blues
  4. Solitude
  5. Write My Name in the Groove
  6. Your Cheating Heart
  7. Our Last Affair
  8. One Year
  9. Interlude
  10. Karin’s Blues
  11. Are We Still Married?
  12. Someday My Blues Will Cover the Earth
  13. Last Time

His Name Is Alive: Ft. Lake

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On June 22, 1998, “4AD” label released “Ft. Lake” (Fort Lake), the fifth His Name Is Alive album. It was recorded 1997 – 1998 and was produced by Steve King, Chad Gilchrist, Erika Hoffmann, Karin Oliver, Lovetta Pippen, Scott Goldstein, Trey Many and, Warn Defever.

Personnel:

  • Chad Gilchrist – performer
  • Erika Hoffmann – performer
  • Karin Oliver – performer
  • Lovetta Pippen – performer
  • Scott Goldstein – performer
  • Trey Many – performer
  • Warn Defever – performer
  • Andy Krieger – performer
  • Dara – performer
  • Jake – performer
  • Zack – performer
  • Vaughan Oliver – art direction, design
  • Timothy O’Donnell – design
  • Dominic Davies – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Chad Gilchrist, Erika Hoffmann, Karin Oliver, Lovetta Pippen, Scott Goldstein, Trey Many and Warn Defever.

  1. Don’t Glue the World
  2. Everything Takes Forever
  3. The Waitress
  4. No Hiding Place Down Her
  5. Can’t Always Be Loved
  6. Wish I Had a Wishing Ring
  7. Red Haired Girl
  8. Spirit Needs a Spirit Tool
  9. Up Your Legs Forever
  10. How It’s Gotta Be
  11. Always Turn Me On
  12. Rock & Roll Girl from Rock & Roll City
  13. Last American Blues