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Everything Everything: A Fever Dream

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On August 18, 2017, “RCA” label released “A Fever Dream”, the fourth Everything Everything studio album. It was recorded 2016 – 2017, and was produced by James Ford.

Personnel:

  • Jonathan Higgs – vocals, guitar, keyboards, programming, recording, additional engineering
  • Alex Robertshaw – guitar, keyboards, backing vocals, programming, recording, additional engineering
  • Jeremy Pritchard – bass guitar, programming, backing vocals, recording, additional engineering
  • Michael Spearman – drums, percussion, keyboards, backing vocals, recording, additional engineering
  • Jimmy Robertson – engineering
  • Archie Carter, Luke Gibbs, Ben McClusky, Rob Sellens, Chris Taylor – recording assistants
  • Cenzo Townshend – mixing
  • Joe Mortimer – art direction, design, typography
  • Billy Bull – design, typography
  • John Davis – mastering
  • Paul Phung – photography

Track listing:

  1. Night of the Long Knives
  2. Can’t Do
  3. Desire
  4. Big Game
  5. Good Shot, Good Soldier
  6. Run the Numbers
  7. Put Me Together
  8. A Fever Dream
  9. Ivory Tower
  10. New Deep
  11. White Whale

Van Morrison: No Guru, No Method

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In July 1985, “Mercury” label released “No Guru, No Method, No Teacher”, the sixteenth Van Morrison album. It was recorded in 1985, at “Studio D & Record Plant” in Sausalito, California, “Townhouse Studios” in London, and was produced by Van Morrison.

Personnel:

  • Van Morrison – vocals, guitar
  • Jef Labes- piano, synthesizer, string arrangement
  • Chris Michie- guitar
  • John Platania- guitar
  • David Hayes- bass
  • Baba Trunde (Babatunde Lea) – drums
  • Richie Buckley – soprano and tenor saxophone
  • Martin Drover – trumpet
  • Kate St. John- cor anglais, oboe
  • Teressa “Terry” Adams – cello, string section leader
  • Joseph Edelberg – violin
  • John Tenney – violin
  • Rebecca Sebring – viola
  • Nadine Cox – harp
  • June Boyce – backing vocals
  • Rosie Hunter – backing vocals
  • Bianca Thornton, Jeanie Tracy- backing vocals
  • Mick Glossop, Jim Stern – engineer
  • Lenette Viegas – engineer assistant

Track listing:

All tracks by Van Morrison.

  1. Got to Go Back
  2. Oh the Warm Feeling
  3. Foreign Window
  4. A Town Called Paradise
  5. In the Garden
  6. Tir Na Nog
  7. Here Comes the Knight
  8. Thanks for the Information
  9. One Irish Rover
  10. Ivory Tower