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Blur: The Ballad Of Darren

On July 21, 2023, “Parlaphone” label released “The Ballad of Darren”, the ninth Blur studio album. It was recorded January – May 2023, at “Studio 13” in London and Devon, and was produced by James Ford.

Personnel:

  • Damon Albarn – lead and backing vocals, keyboards, piano
  • Graham Coxon – lead and backing vocals, guitar
  • Alex James – bass guitar
  • Dave Rowntree – drums, backing vocals
  • James Ford – keyboards
  • Chris Storr – trumpet
  • Danny Marsden – trumpet
  • Alistair White – trombone
  • Nichol Thompson – trombone
  • Kotono Sato – violin
  • Sarah Tuke – violin
  • Ciara Ismail – viola
  • Izzi Dunn – cello
  • Samuel Egglenton – engineer, additional production
  • Mat Bartram – strings engineering, brass engineering
  • Giacomo Vianello – engineering assistant
  • Luke Pickering – engineering assistant
  • David Wrench – mixing
  • Grace Banks – mixing assistant
  • Matt Colton – mastering
  • Martin Parr – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree.

  1. The Ballad
  2. St. Charles Square
  3. Barbaric
  4. Russian Strings
  5. The Everglades (for Leonard)
  6. The Narcissist
  7. Goodbye Albert
  8. Far Away Island
  9. Avalon
  10. The Heights

Paul Weller: Fat Pop (Volume 1)

On May 14, 2021, “Polydor” label released “Fat Pop (Volume 1)”, the sixteenth Paul Weller studio album. It was recorded in 2020, at “Black Barn Studios” in Surrey, UK.

Personnel:

  • Paul Weller – lead and backing vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, bass, piano, Mellotron, Hammond organ, Rhodes, harp, Wurlitzer electric piano, synthesizer, drums, percussion, clapping
  • Steve Cradock – acoustic and electric guitar, lap steel guitar, slide guitar, harp, percussion, timpani, tubular bells, bass , string arrangements  
  • Steve Pilgrim – acoustic and electric guitar, drums, conga, clapping
  • Anthony Brown – electric guitar
  • Steve Brookes – slide guitar
  • Charles Rees – synthesizer, Moog bass, synth bass, Hammond organ, Mellotron, percussion, sound effects, drum programming
  • Jan Kybert – Hammond organ, synthesizer, Mellotron, sound effects, percussion, programming
  • Tom Doyle – electric piano, keyboards, Wurlitzer, drum programming
  • Andy Crofts – bass, acoustic bass guitar, electric guitar, keyboards, melodica, timpani, clapping, synthesizer,  organ, zither
  • Tom Heel – Moog bass, backing vocals
  • Ben Gordelier – drums, percussion, clapping
  • Paraorchestra – orchestra
  • Paul Wright – sarangi
  • Jacko Peake – soprano and tenor saxophone
  • Anthony Gaylard – tenor saxophone 
  • Phil Veacock – saxophone
  • Steve Trigg – trumpet, horn arrangements
  • Dave Boraston – trumpet
  • Kotono Sato – violin
  • Antonia Pagulatos – violin
  • Stella Page – viola
  • Katy Cox – cello
  • Lia Metcalfe – vocals
  • Andy Fairweather Low – vocals, backing vocals
  • Leah Weller – backing vocals
  • Hannah Peel – string arrangements
  • White Label – string arrangements
  • Charles Rees – editing, engineer, mixing
  • Fiona Cruickshank – engineer
  • Jan Kybert – mixing
  • Matt Colton – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Paul Weller, except where noted.

  1. Cosmic Fringes
  2. True – Paul Weller, Lia Metcalfe
  3. Fat Pop – Paul Weller, Jan Kybert
  4. Shades of Blue – Leah Weller, Paul Weller
  5. Glad Times – Paul Weller, Tom Doyle, Anthony Brown
  6. Cobweb/Connections
  7. Testify – Paul Weller, Andy Fairweather Low
  8. That Pleasure
  9. Failed
  10. Moving Canvas
  11. In Better Times
  12. Still Glides the Stream – Paul Weller, Steve Cradock

Michael Kiwanuka: Love & Hate

On July 15, 2016, “Polydor” label released “Love & Hate”, the second Michael Kiwanuka studio album. It was recorded in 2016, and was produced by Danger Mouse (Brian Burton), Inflo and Paul Butler.

Personnel:

  • Michael Kiwanuka – lead and backing vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, lead guitar, bass, piano
  • Inflo – piano, bass, drums, backing vocals
  • Brian Burton – bass, synth pad, piano, organ, percussion
  • Graham Godfrey – drums, percussion, hand claps, tape machine FX, backing vocals
  • Paul Butler – percussion, cello, trumpet, electric guitar, keys, drum machines, clavinet, Moog, piano, Yamaha CS-80, backing vocals
  • Miles James – electric guitar
  • Pete Randall – double bass, Fender bass VI, backing vocals
  • Gary Plumley – flute, saxophone
  • James Bateman – saxophone
  • Andy Parkin – violin
  • Wired Strings
    • Jenny Sacha – violin 
    • Gillon Cameron, Anna Croad, Sally Jackson, Patrick Kieman, Eleanor Mathieson, Kotono Sato, Debbie Widdup – violin
    • Natalia Bonner – violin
    • Kerenza Peacock – violin
    • Emma Owens – viola 
    • Nzomi Cohen – viola
    • Becky Jones – viola
    • Rosie Danvers – cello, string arrangements
    • Bryony James – cello
    • Richard Pryce – double bass
  • Huw White – string arrangements 
  • Paul Boldeau, Phebe Edwards, LaDonna Harley-Peters – backing vocals
  • Paul Butler – engineer, mixing
  • Kennie Takahashi – engineer, mixing
  • Richard Woodcraft – engineer, strings engineer, mixing
  • Todd Monfalcone – engineer, mixing assistant
  • Dave Granshaw – engineer
  • Jon McMullen – engineer, mixing
  • Samur Khouja – engineer
  • Guy Davie – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Michael Kiwanuka.

  1. Cold Little Heart
  2. Black Man in a White World
  3. Falling
  4. Place I Belong
  5. Love & Hate
  6. One More Night
  7. I’ll Never Love
  8. Rule the World
  9. Father’s Child
  10. The Final Frame

Bobby Gillespie: Utopian Ashes

On July 2, 2021, “Silvertone Records” label released “Utopian Ashes”, album by Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth. It was recorded in 2021, at “Le Mob Studio” in London, and was produced by Brendan Lynch, Bobby Gillespie and Andrew Innes.

Personnel:

  • Bobby Gillespie – vocals, string arrangements
  • Jenny Berh – vocals
  • Andrew Innes – acoustic and electric guitar, bass guitar, mellotron, string arrangements
  • John Hostile – acoustic and electric guitar, bass guitar
  • Martin Duffy – piano, electric piano, organ, vibraphone
  • Darrin Mooney – drums, percussion
  • Jim Hunt – saxophone
  • Dominic Glover – trumpet
  • Gita Langley – violin
  • Jess Murphy – violin
  • Rosie Langley – violin
  • Amy Stanford – viola
  • Kotono Sato – viola
  • Amy Langley – cello, string arrangements
  • Tristan Keyte – harp
  • Brendan Lynch – mixing
  • Max Heyes – mixing
  • John Davis – mastering
  • Monster Chetwynd – painting
  • Matthew Cooper – design

Track listing:

  1. Chase It Down
  2. English Town
  3. Remember We Were Lovers
  4. Your Heart Will Always Be Broken
  5. Stones of Silence
  6. You Don’t Know What Love Is
  7. Self-Crowned king of Nothingness/You Can Trust Me Now
  8. Living a Lie
  9. Sunk In Reverie

Paul Weller: On Sunset

On July 3, 2020, “Polydor” label released “On Sunset”, the fifteenth Paul Weller studio album. It was recorded in 2019, at “Black Barn Studios” in Surrey, England, and was produced by Jan Kybert and Paul Weller.

Personnel:

  • Paul Weller – lead and backing vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, electric sitar, bass, piano, Rhodes, synths, mellotron, mellotron vibes, mellotron strings, Hammond organ, percussion, claps, Wurly, monotron, samples
  • Steve Brookes – lead and electric guitar
  • Steve Cradock – acoustic and electric guitar, Moog
  • Josh McClorey – acoustic and electric guitar
  • Steve Pilgrim – acoustic guitar, backing vocals
  • Jan Stan Kybert – drum programming, keys programming, glockenspiel, sound effects, claps, loops, synth bass, Yak, synths, bells, bass synths, canon, drum fills
  • Mick Talbot – Hammond organ
  • Tom Van Heel – piano, drum fills, backing vocals
  • Charles Rees – eminent organ, Moog, Mad Hammond, Ambient FX
  • Jim Jupp – synths
  • Andy Crofts – bass, Moog, mellotron, backing vocals
  • Ben Gordelier – drums, percussion, drum programming, electric guitar
  • Paraorchestra – orchestra
  • Ca Julie Gros – lead and backing vocals
  • Camilla Staveley-Taylor – backing vocals
  • Emily Staveley-Taylor – backing vocals
  • Jessica Staveley-Taylor – backing vocals
  • Col3trane – additional vocal
  • Dave Boraston – trumpet
  • Steve Trigg – trumpet
  • Chris Storr – trumpet, flugel, post horn
  • John Thirkell – trumpet, flugel
  • Lee Thompson – saxophone solo
  • Anthony Gaylard – tenor saxophone
  • Jessamy Holder – baritone saxophone
  • Phil Veacock – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, clarinet
  • Alistair White – trombone, bass trombone, euphonium
  • Andy Ross – flute, backward flute
  • Paul Speare – flute
  • Jim Lea – violin
  • Antonio Pagulatos – violin, backing vocals
  • Kotono Sato – violin, backing vocals
  • Stella Page – viola, backing vocals
  • Izzi Dunn – cello, backing vocals
  • Magic Mod – claps

Track listing:

All tracks by Paul Weller.

  1. Mirror Ball
  2. Baptiste
  3. Old Father Tyme
  4. Village
  5. More
  6. On Sunset
  7. Equanimity
  8. Walkin’
  9. Earth Beat
  10. Rockets

The Good, The Bad & The Queen: Merrie Land

On November 16, 2018, “Studio 13” label released “Merrie Land”, the second and final studio The Good, the Bad & the Queen studio album. It was recorded 2017 – 2018, at “Studio 13” in London, and was produced by Tony Visconti, Damon Albarn, Tony Allen, Paul Simonon, and Simon Tong.

Personnel:

  • Damon Albarn – lead vocals, ARP synthesizer, Farfisa organ, keyboards, mellotron, organ, piano, theremin, percussion, engineer
  • Paul Simonon – lead and backing vocals, bass, percussion, creative director, artwork
  • Simon Tong – lead and backing vocals, guitar
  • Tony Allen – guitar, drums
  • Tony Visconti – vocals, engineer
  • The Demon Strings – strings
  • Antonia Pagulatos – violin
  • Kotono Sato – violin
  • Stella Page – viola
  • Isabelle Dunn – cello
  • Kate St. John – oboe, Cor Anglais
  • Michael “Bami” Rose – saxophone
  • Lucas Petter – trombone
  • Chris Storr – trumpet
  • Eddie “Tan Tan” Thornton – trumpet
  • Gareth Humphreys – bassoon
  • Gerry Diver – tin whistle
  • Owain Arwel Davies – choir arrangements, conductor
  • Stephen Sedgwick – engineer, mixing
  • John Davis – mastering
  • Robert Gordon McHarg III – art direction
  • Chris Musto – layout
  • Herbert Mason – cover photography

Track listing:

All lyrics by Damon Albarn, all music by Damon Albarn, Tony Allen, Paul Simonon, Simon Tong and Tony Visconti.

  1. Introduction
  2. Merrie Land
  3. Gun to the Head
  4. Nineteen Seventeen
  5. The Great Fire
  6. Lady Boston
  7. Drifters & Trawlers
  8. The Truce of Twilight
  9. Ribbons
  10. The last Man to Leave
  11. The Poison Tree

BNQT: Volume 1

On April 28, 2017, “Dualtone” label released “Volume 1”, the debut BNQT studio album. It was recorded in 2017, at “Redwood Studios” in Denton, Texas, and was produced by Eric Pulido, Ben Bridwell, Alex Kapranos, Fran Healy and Jason Lytle.

Personnel:

  • Eric Pulido – vocals, guitar
  • Ben Bridwell – vocals, guitar, bass
  • Alex Kapranos – vocals, guitar
  • Fran Healy – vocals, guitar, piano, harmonica, banjo, sitar, drums
  • Jason Lytle – vocals, guitar, keyboards
  • Dave Deshazo, Scott Lee, Aaron McClellan – bass
  • Ruby Amanfu, Katrina Cain – vocals
  • Devin Eddleman – alto and tenor saxophone
  • Dave Monsch – tenor saxophone
  • Spenser Liszt – baritone saxophone
  • Micah Bell – piccolo trumpet, trumpet
  • Pete Clagget – trumpet
  • David Pierce – trombone, horn arrangements
  • Fiona Brice – violin, string arrangements
  • Stephen Hussey – violin
  • Kotono Sato – viola
  • Vicky Matthews – cello
  • Jesse Chandler – horn arrangements
  • Julian Simmons – engineer
  • Matt Pence – mixing, mastering
  • Sebastiaan Bremer – artwork

Track listing:

  1. Restart – Eric Pulido, Jesse Chandler, Joey McClellan, McKenzie Smith
  2. Unlikely Force – Ben Bridwell
  3. 100 Million Miles – Jason Lytle
  4. Mind of a Man – Fran Healy
  5. Hey Banana – Alex Kapranos
  6. Real Love – Eric Pulido, Jesse Chandler, Joey McClellan, McKenzie Smith
  7. Failing at Feeling – Jason Lytle
  8. LA on My Mind – Fran Healy
  9. Tara – Ben Bridwell
  10. Fighting the World – Alex Kapranos