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Wolf Alice: Blue Weekend

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On June 4, 2021, “Dirty Hit” label released “Blue Weekend”, the third Wolf Alice studio album. It was recorded 2020 – 2021, at “ICP” in Brussels, “Iguana” in London, and was produced by Markus Dravs.

Personnel:

  • Ellie Rowsell – vocals, guitar, piano, bass, programming, Mellotron, synth, Wurlitzer, string arrangement
  • Joff Oddie – acoustic guitar, 12 string classical guitar, classical guitar, guitar, piano, glock, synth, claps, electric upright bass, bass, tenor resonator, backing vocals, programming
  • Theo Ellis – bass, programming
  • Joel Amey – drums, percussion, synth, guitar, Stylophone, claps, backing vocals, programming
  • Iain Berryman – keys, trumpet, glasses, programming
  • Markus Dravs – synth, programming
  • Joel Workman – electric upright bass
  • Owen Pallett – violin, viola, string arrangement
  • Michael Peter Olsen – cello
  • Iain Berryman – engineer, additional production
  • Joel Workman – engineer assistant, additional engineering
  • Charlie Andrew – vocal production, additional vocal production, additional vocal recording 
  • Mark “Spike” Stent – mixing
  • Matt Wolach – mixing assistant
  • Ted Jensen – mastering
  • Jordan Hemingway – creative direction, photography
  • Jamie Reid – art direction
  • Aiden Miller – design

Track listing:

All tracks by Ellie Rowsell, Joff Oddie, Theo Ellis and Joel Amey.

  1. The Beach
  2. Delicious Things
  3. Lipstick on the Glass
  4. Smile
  5. Safe from Heartbreak (If You Never Fall in Love)
  6. How Can I Make it OK?
  7. Play the Greatest Hits
  8. Feeling Myself
  9. The Last Man on Earth
  10. No Hard feelings
  11. The Beach II

Florence And The Machine: How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful

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On May 29, 2015, “Island” label released “How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful”, the third Florence and the Machine studio album. It was recorded 2014 – 2015, at “The Pool”, “Angel”, “Urchin”, “Lightship”, “123”, “Sarm Studio”, and “No. 1 Baltic Place” in London, “Bedrock Rehearsal” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Markus Dravs, Kid Harpoon, John Hill, Paul Epworth, James Ford, Charlie Hugall, Isabella Summers, Brett Shaw and Dan Wilson.

Personnel:

  • Florence Welch – lead and backing vocals, body percussion, stamps, claps, piano, percussion
  • Rob Ackroyd – acoustic and electric guitar, ukulele
  • Leo Abrahams – acoustic and electric guitar 
  • Kid Harpoon – acoustic and electric guitars, bass, piano, CP 70 synth, drums, percussion, bass, brass writing, brass arrangements
  • Alex Beitzke – guitar 
  • Steve Jones – electric guitar 
  • Rusty Bradshaw – piano 
  • Orlando Leopard – piano, bass, harmonium, organ, additional arrangements
  • Iain Berryman – piano, harmonium, acoustic guitar, body percussion, cornet 
  • James Hallawell – Hammond organ, Farfisa, piano, organ
  • Isabella Summers – Rhodes organ, synths, bass, keys, strings, stamps, claps, drums, percussion, programming
  • Robin Baynton – Rhodes organ, piano, organ
  • Mark Saunders – bass
  • Richard Pryce – bass
  • Lucy Shaw – bass 
  • Chris Hayden – drums, percussion
  • Matt Ingram – drums, percussion
  • James Ford – drums, percussion, guitar, bass, piano, keys, synth, programming, woodwind arrangements
  • Paul Epworth – drums, percussion, bass, guitar, synths, organ
  • Charlie Hugall – percussion, programming
  • Brett Shaw – additional percussion
  • Tom Monger – harp 
  • Markus Dravs – glockenspiel, percussion, synths, bass synth, programming, body percussion, electric guitar, woodwind arrangements
  • Janelle Martin – backing vocals
  • Nim Miller – backing vocals
  • Baby N’Sola – backing vocals 
  • John Hill – synths, brass writing, brass arrangements
  • Wayne Francis – saxophone 
  • John Barclay – trumpet, piccolo trumpet
  • Philip Cobb – trumpet, flugel trumpet
  • Andy Crowley – trumpet
  • Tom Rees-Roberts – trumpet
  • Nick Walters – trumpet 
  • Daniel Newell – trumpet, piccolo trumpet, flugel
  • Adman Dayes – trombone 
  • Andy Wood – trombone, Euphonium
  • Richard Edwards – tenor trombone
  • Nigel Black – French horn
  • Pip Eastop – French horn
  • Sam Jacobs – French horn
  • Elise Campbell – French horn
  • Oren Marshall – tuba
  • Eliza Marshall – flute, alto flute
  • Ed Tarrant – Euphonium
  • Rebecca Wood – oboe, Cor Anglais
  • Pete Harrison – bassoon 
  • Pete Prokopiw – harp, cimbalom, programming
  • Will Owen – brass arrangements, string arrangements
  • Ali Helnwein – brass arrangements, string arrangements, strings 
  • Sally Herbert – orchestration, conducting, flute arrangements, brass arrangements, string arrangements, brass orchestration, brass conducting, woodwind arrangements
  • Ian Humphries – violin
  • Ian Belton – violin
  • Emlyn Singleton – violin
  • Patrick Kiernan – violin
  • Julia Singleton – violin
  • John Smart – violin
  • Ann Morfee – violin
  • Natalia Bonner – violin
  • Sonia Slany – violin
  • Gillon Cameron – violin
  • Ciaran McCabe – violin
  • Alison Dods – violin
  • Everton Nelson – violin 
  • Rick Koster – violin 
  • Oli Langford – violin 
  • Bruce White – viola 
  • Nick Barr – viola 
  • Fiona Bonds – viola
  • Ian Rathbone – viola
  • Max Baillie – viola
  • Rachel Robson – viola
  • Ian Burdge – cello
  • Chris Worsey – cello
  • Nick Cooper – cello
  • Sophie Harris – cello
  • Benson – additional keys, programming, flute arrangements, brass arrangements, string arrangements, backing vocals
  • Robin Baynton – engineer, strings recording, brass recording, flute recording, woodwind recording
  • Mat Bartram – brass recording, strings recording, flute recording, engineer
  • Ronan Phelan – brass recording assistant, strings recording assistant, flute recording assistant
  • Joe Kearns – engineer
  • Jimmy Robertson – engineer
  • Charlie Hugall – engineer, mixing
  • Jonathan Sagis – engineer assistant
  • Iain Berryman – engineer assistant, additional engineering
  • Dan Cox – additional engineering
  • Brett Shaw – engineer, mixing
  • Mark “Spike” Stent – mixing 
  • Craig Silvey – mixing 
  • Eduardo de la Paz – mixing assistant
  • Will Donbavand – mixing assistant
  • Ben Roulston – engineer
  • Alex Beitzke – engineer
  • Geoff Swan – mixing assistant
  • John Catlin – mixing assistance
  • Ted Jensen – mastering
  • Tabitha Denholm – creative direction, insert photography
  • Brian Roettinger – art direction
  • Tom Beard – cover photography, insert photography
  • Vincent Haycock – insert photography

Track listing:

  1. Ship to Wreck – Florence Welch, Tom Hull
  2. What Kind of Man – Florence Welch, Tom Hull, John Hill
  3. How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful – Florence Welch, Isabella Summers
  4. Queen of Peace – Florence Welch, Markus Dravs
  5. Various Storms & Saints – Florence Welch, Markus Dravs
  6. Delilah – Florence Welch, Isabella Summers
  7. Long & Lost – Florence Welch, Ester Dean
  8. Caught – Florence Welch, James Ford
  9. Third Eye – Florence Welch
  10. St. Jude – Florence Welch, James Ford
  11. Mother – Florence Welch, Paul Epworth

Kings of Leon: When You See Yourself

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On March 5, 2021, “RCA” label released “When You See Yourself”, the eighth Kings of Leon studio album. It was recorded 2020 – 2021. At “Blackbird Studios” in Nashville, Tennessee, and was produced by Markus Dravs.

Personnel:

  • Caleb Followill – vocals, guitar
  • Matthew Followill – vocals, guitar, synthesizer
  • Jared Followill – vocals, bass, acoustic guitar
  • Nathan Followill – vocals, drums, percussion
  • Liam O’Neil – piano, organ, mellotron, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
  • Timothy Deaux – backing vocals
  • Iain Berryman – engineer
  • Sean Badum – engineer assistant
  • Mark “Spike” Stent – mixing
  • Matt Wolach – mixing assistant
  • Ted Jensen – mastering

Track listing:

  1. When You See Yourself, Are You Far Away
  2. The Bandit
  3. 100.000 People
  4. Stormy Weather
  5. A Wave
  6. Golden Restless Age
  7. Time in Disguise
  8. Supermarket
  9. Claire & Eddie
  10.  Echoing
  11. Fairytale

Mumford & Sons: Babel

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On September 21, 2012, “Island” label released “Babel”, the second Mumford & Sons studio album. It was recorded in 2012, and was produced by Markus Dravs.

Personnel:

  • Marcus Mumford – lead vocals, acousticand electric guitars, drum kit, percussion
  • Ted Dwane – upright bass, electric bass, electric guitar, drum kit, percussion, backing vocals
  • Ben Lovett – piano, keyboards, mellotron, accordion, electric guitar, backing vocals
  • Winston Marshall – lead and backing vocals, banjo, electric banjo, electric bass, electric and resonator guitar
  • Paul Simon– electric guitar, backing vocals
  • Nick Etwell – trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Dave Williamson – trombone
  • Chris Alan – cello
  • Nell Catchpole – violin, viola
  • Ross Holmes – fiddle
  • Richard Martin – percussion
  • Jerry Douglas– dobro, backing vocals

Track listing:

All tracks by Ted Dwane, Ben Lovett, Marcus Mumford and Winston Marshall.

  1. Babel
  2. Whispers in the Dark
  3. I Will Wait
  4. Holland Road
  5. Ghosts That We Knew
  6. Lover of the Light
  7. Lover’s Eyes
  8. Reminder
  9. Hopeless Wanderer
  10. Broken Crown
  11. Below My Feet
  12. Not With Haste

Arcade Fire: Everything Now

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On July 28, 2017, “Sonovox Records” label released “Everything Now”, the fifth  Arcade Fire studio album. It was recorded September 2016 – April 2017, at “Boombox” in New Orleans, “Sonovox” in Montreal and “Gang” in Paris, and was produced by Win Butler, Régine Chassagne, Richard Reed Parry, William Butler, Tim Kingsbury  , Jeremy Gara, Thomas Bangalter, Steve Mackey, Markus Dravs, Geoff Barrow and Eric Heigle.

Personnel:

  • Richard Reed Parry – electric guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals, string arrangements
  • Tim Kingsbury – acoustic and electric guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals, string arrangements
  • Win Butler– vocals, bass guitar, electric guitar, string arrangements
  • Régine Chassagne– vocals, piano, keyboards, keytar, string arrangements
  • William Butler– keyboards, bass guitar, backing vocals, string arrangements
  • Jeremy Gara– drums, string arrangements
  • Owen Pallett– piano, strings, string arrangements
  • Sarah Neufeld– string arrangements, strings
  • Daniel Lanois– pedal steel
  • Thomas Bangalter – synthesizer, programming
  • Geoff Barrow – synthesizer
  • Mark Lawson – MPC
  • Stuart Bogie– saxophone, flute
  • Matt Bauder, Charlie Gabriel– saxophone
  • Patrick Bebey – pygmy flute
  • Willonson Duprate, Jean “Diol Kidi” Edmond – congas
  • Korey Richey – drum machine
  • Rebecca Crenshaw, Helen Gillet – strings
  • Harmonistic Praise Crusade Choir
  • Akia Nevills, Kayla Jasmine – choir vocals, Tracci Lee, Jelly Joseph – choir vocals
  • Eric Heigle – recording
  • Mark Lawson, Iain Berryman, Korey Richey, Florian Lagatta – additional recording
  • Craig Silvey– mixing
  • Max Prior – mixing assistant
  • Greg Calbi– mastering
  • JR– artwork
  • Marc Azoulay, Camille Pajot, Guillaume Cagniard – artwork assistant
  • Ping Pong Ping – design
  • Anton Corbijn– band portrait

Track listing:

All tracks by Win Butler, Régine Chassagne, Richard Reed Parry, William Butler, Tim Kingsbury and Jeremy Gara.

  1. Everything_Now (Continued)
  2. Everything Now – contains elements from “The Coffee Cola Song” written by Francis Bebey
  3. Signs of Life
  4. Creature Comfort
  5. Peter Pan
  6. Chemistry
  7. Infinite Content
  8. Infinite Content
  9. Electric Blue
  10. Good God Damn
  11. Put Your Money on Me
  12. We Don’t Deserve Love
  13. Everything Now (Continued)

The Maccabees: Wall of Arms

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On May 4, 2009, “Fiction” label released “Wall of Arms”, the second Maccabees studio album. It was recorded in 2009, and was produced by Markus Dravs. The album’s cover art was by Boo Ritson.

  • Orlando Weeks – vocals, guitar
  • Hugo White – guitar
  • Felix White – guitar, backing vocals
  • Rupert Jarvis – bass
  • Sam Doyle – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Orlando Weeks, Hugo White, Felix White, Rupert Jarvis and Sam Doyle.

  1. Love You Better
  2. One Hand Holding
  3. Can You Give It?
  4. Young Lions
  5. Wall of Arms
  6. No Kind Words/Bag of Bones Part A
  7. Dinosaurs
  8. Kiss and Resolve
  9. William Powers
  10. Seventeen Hands
  11. Bag of Bones Part B

Kings Of Leon: Walls

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On October 14, 2016, “RCA” label released “Walls”, the seventh Kings of Leon studio album. It was recorded 2015 – 2016, and was produced by Markus Dravs.

Personnel:

  • Caleb Followill– lead and backing vocals, guitar, percussion
  • Matthew Followill– guitar, percussion, backing vocals
  • Jared Followill– bass, percussion, backing vocals
  • Nathan Followill– drums, percussion, backing vocals
  • Liam O’Neil– Clavinet, Jupiter-8, mellotron, minimoog, percussion, piano, prophet synthesizer, synthesizer, Wurlitzer, backing vocals
  • Robin Baynton – engineer
  • Anthony Cairns – assistant assistant
  • Nicolas Essig – engineer assistant
  • Dylan Nelson – engineer assistant
  • Christopher Followill – engineer assistant
  • Spike Stent– mixing
  • Michael Freeman – mixing assistant
  • Britti Himelfarb – mixing assistant
  • Brent Rawlings, Mitch Salle, Jay Schleusener – mixing assistant
  • Geoff Swan – mixing assistant
  • Ted Jensen– mastering
  • Jessica Windsor – assistant assistant

Track listing:

All tracks by Caleb Followill, Nathan Followill, Jared Followill and Matthew Followill.

  1. Waste a Moment
  2. Reverend
  3. Around the World
  4. Find Me
  5. Over
  6. Muchacho
  7. Conversation Piece
  8. Eyes on You
  9. Wild
  10. WALLS

Björk: Homogenic

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On September 22, 1997, “One Little Indian” label released “Homogenic”, the third Björk solo studio album. It was recorded August 1996 – August 1997, at “El Cortijo Studios” in Málaga, Spain, and was produced by Björk, Mark Bell, Guy Sigsworth, Howie B and Markus Dravs.

Personnel:

  • Björk– keyboards, programming, arrangements
  • Mark Bell– keyboards
  • Guy Sigsworth– clavichord, keyboards, pipe organ
  • Yasuhiro Kobayashi– accordion
  • Alasdair Alloy – glass harmonica
  • Alasdair Malloy – glass harmonica
  • Paul Pritchard – bass
  • Paul Gardhaim – bass
  • Mike Brittain – bass
  • Chris Laurence– bass
  • Trevor Morais – drums, electronic drums
  • Frank Ricotti– snare drums
  • Steve Henderson – timbales, tympani
  • Jeffrey Bryant – horn
  • Mike Thompson– horn
  • Vaughan Armon – violin
  • Sigurbjorn Bernhardsson – violin
  • Mark Berrow – violin
  • Ben Cruft – violin
  • Peter Oxer – violin
  • Sigrun Edvaldsdottir – violin
  • Roger Garland – violin
  • Wilfred Gibson– violin
  • Perry Mason – violin
  • Maciej Rakowski – violin
  • Sif Tulinius – violin
  • Una Sveinbjarnardottir – violin
  • Jim McLeod – violin
  • Gavyn Wright– violin
  • Perry Montague-Mason – violin
  • Roger Chase– viola
  • Hrund Hardardottir – viola
  • Bill Hawkes – viola
  • Peter Lale – viola
  • George Robertson – viola
  • Moeidur Anna Sigurdardottir – viola
  • Sigurdur Bjarki Gunnarsson – cello
  • Paul Kegg – cello
  • Helen Liebmann– cello
  • Martin Loveday – cello
  • Jon R. Ornolfsson – cello
  • John Tunnell – cello
  • Helen Tunstall – harp
  • Howie B– programming, mixing
  • Mark Bell– programming, drum programming, crew
  • Danny Joe Brown Band – programming, mixing assistant
  • Richard Brown – programming
  • Marius de Vries– programming
  • Markus Dravs– programming, drum programming, engineer
  • Eumir Deodato– arranger, orchestration, transcription
  • Steve Price – engineer
  • Mark “Spike” Stent– mixing
  • Jason Groucott – mixing assistant
  • Kirsten Cowie – mixing assistant
  • James Loughrey – mixing assistant
  • Sie Medway-Smith – mixing assistant
  • Rob Murphy – mixing assistant
  • Russel Polden – mixing assistant
  • Rebecca Storey – mixing assistant
  • Paul Walton – mixing assistant
  • Jason Westbrook – mixing assistant
  • Alexander McQueen – art direction, design
  • Nick Knight– photography
  • Isobel Griffiths – orchestra contractor
  • Tony Stanton – copyist
  • Katy England – stylist

 Track listing:

  1. Hunter – Björk
  2. Jóga – Björk, Sjón
  3. Unravel – Björk, Guy Sigsworth
  4. Bachelorette – Björk, Sjón
  5. All Neon Like – Björk
  6. 5 Years – Björk
  7. Immature – Björk
  8. Alarm Call – Björk
  9. Pluto – Björk, Bell
  10. All is Full Of Love – Björk

Brian Eno: Nerve Net

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Nerve Net

On September 1, 1992, “Warner Bros” label released “Nerve Net”, the twelve Brian Eno studio album. It was recorded in 1992, and was produced by Brian Eno.

Personnel:

  1. Brian Eno– vocals and voices, organ, synthesizer, bass guitar, guitar, keyboards, tenor saxophone, treatments, African organ, animal sounds, arabesque
  2. Roger Eno– piano, sampling
  3. John Paul Jones– piano
  4. Rod Melvin– piano
  5. Robert Quine– guitar, rhythm guitar
  6. Robert Fripp– guitar
  7. Jamie West-Oram – guitar, rhythm guitar
  8. Romeo WIlliams – bass guitar
  9. John May – voices, speech, speaker, speaking part
  10. Robert Ahwai – guitar
  11. Peter Anderson – guitar
  12. Richard Bailey – drums
  13. Sugarfoot Moffett – drums
  14. Markus Dravs – drums, drum programming, treatments
  15. Cecil Stamper III – drums
  16. Benmont Tench– percussion
  17. Ian Dench– drum loop
  18. Winston Ngukwe – conga
  19. Isaac Osapanin – conga
  20. Wayne Duchamp – alto saxophone
  21. Alice Ngukwe – tenor saxophone
  22. Curtis Pelican – trumpet
  23. Christine West-Oram – vocals
  24. Duchess Nell Catchpole – vocals and voices
  25. John Moorby – voices, speech, speaker, speaking part
  26. Anita Patel – voices, speech, speaker, speaking part
  27. Sunita Patel – voices, speech, speaker, speaking part
  28. Yogish Patel – voices, speech, speaker, speaking part

Track listing:

All tracks by Brian Eno.

  1. Fractal Zoom
  2. Wire Shock
  3. What Actually Happened?
  4. Pierre in Mist
  5. My Squelchy Life
  6. Juju Space Jazz
  7. The Roil, the Choke
  8. Ali Click
  9. Distributed Being
  10. Web
  11. Web (Lascaux Mix)
  12. Decentre

Arcade Fire: The Suburbs

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The Suburbs

On August 2, 2010, “Merge” label released “The Suburbs”, the third Arcade Fire studio album. It was recorded 2008 – 2010, and was produce by  Will Butler, Win Butler, Régine Chassagne, Richard Reed Perry, Sarah Neufeld, Jeremy Gara, Tim Knigsbury and Markus Dravs. “The Suburbs” won “Album of the Year” at the 2011 “Grammy Awards”, “Best International Album” at the 2011 “BRIT Awards”, “Album of the Year” at the 2011 “Juno Awards”, and the 2011 “Polaris Music Prize” for best Canadian album. The album was certified 2 x Platinum in Canada by “CRIA” and Platinum in UK by the “BPI”.

Personnel:

  • Will Butler – vocals, piano, keyboards, synthesizer, bass
  • Win Butler – vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards
  • Richard Reed Parry – double bass, accordion, keyboards, drums, percussion
  • Tim Kingsbury – bass, guitar, piano
  • Jeremy Gara – drums, percussion
  • Régine Chassagne – vocals, piano
  • Sarah Neufeld – violin
  • Sarah Neufeld, Owen Pallett, Richard Reed Parry, Marika Anthony Shaw – strings
  • Clarice Jensen, Nadia Sirota, Yuki Numata, Caleb Burhans, Ben Russell, Rob Moose – additional strings
  • Colin Stetson– saxophones
  • Pietro Amato– French horn
  • Arcade Fire – mixing, arrangement
  • Owen Pallett– string arrangements
  • Mark Lawson – recording
  • Craig Silvey – mixing
  • Nick Launay– additional mixing
  • Marcus Paquin, Don Murnaghan, Noah Goldstein – additional recording
  • Brian Thorn – assistant
  • Brad Bell – assistant
  • Adam Greenspan – assistant
  • Caroline Robert – design
  • Vincent Morisset– art direction
  • Gabriel Jones – photography
  • Joey Matthews, Stephane Fiore – photography assistant

Track listing:

All tracks by Sarah Neufeld, Richard Reed Parry, Jeremy Gara, Win Butler, Will Butler, Régine Chassagne and Tim Kingsbury.

  1. The Suburbs
  2. Ready to Start
  3. Modern Man
  4. Rococo
  5. Empty Room
  6. City With No Children
  7. Half Light I
  8. Half Light II (No Celebration)
  9. Suburban War
  10. Month of May
  11. Wasted Hours
  12. Deep Blue
  13. We Used to Wait
  14. Sprawl I (Flatland)
  15. Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
  16. The Suburbs (continued)