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Mucc: Kowareta Piano to Living Dead

On February 13, 2020, “Danger Crue” label released “Kowareta Piano to Living Dead”, the fourteenth Mucc studio album. It was recorded in 2019 at “MIt Studio”, “Bazooka Studio”, “Heide Chiyoda Studio”, “Heide Ishioka Studio” and “Six Inc Studio” in Tokyo, and was produced by Miya.

Personnel:

  • Tatsurou – vocals, art direction
  • Miya – guitar, backing vocals, arrangements, recording, mixing
  • Yukke – bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Satochi – drums, backing vocals
  • Tooru Yoshida – keyboards, piano, organ, photography
  • Miyako – backing vocals
  • Sacchan – backing vocals
  • Sora – backing vocals
  • Yasuyuki Hara – recording
  • Soushi Kaneko, TeruKazu “Teru” Naito – engineer assistant
  • Yasuji “Yasuman” Maeda – mastering
  • Kirari – illustration
  • Taichi Nishimaki – photography
  • Masahiro Oishi – executive producer

Track listing:

All tracks by Miya, except where noted.

  1. Kowareta Piano
  2. Psycho – lyrics by Miya, music by Miya, Yukke
  3. Iris
  4. Vampire
  5. In the Shadows – lyrics by Tatsurou, music by Miya
  6. Dekisou – Tatsurou
  7. Yuri to Tsubasa – lyrics by Tatsurou, Satochi, music by Miya, Satochi
  8. Countdown
  9. Living Dead – Tatsurou

Cabaret Voltaire: The Crackdown

In August 1983, “Some Bizzare, Virgin” labels released “The Crackdown”, the fifth Cabaret Voltaire studio album. It was recorded in 1983, and was produced by Flood, David Ball, Stephen Mallinder, Richard H. Kirk and Alan Fish.

Personnel:

  • David Ball- keyboards, drum programming, tape operation
  • Stephen Mallinder– vocals, bass guitar, trumpet, grand piano
  • Richard H. Kirk– synthesizer, guitar, clarinet, saxophone, shakuhachi, Japanese bamboo flute grand piano
  • Alan Fish – drums, percussion
  • Flood– engineer
  • George Peckham – mastering
  • Ken Prust, Neville Brody – typography
  • Phil Barnes – illustration

Track listing:

All tracks by Richard H. Kirk and Stephen Mallinder.

  1. 24-24
  2. In the Shadows
  3. Talking Time
  4. Animation
  5. Over and Over
  6. Just Fascination
  7. Why Kill Time (When You Can Kill Yourself)
  8. Haiti
  9. Crackdown