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Ultravox: Brilliant

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On May 25, 2012, “Chrysalis” label released “Brilliant”, the eleventh and final Ultravox studio album. It was recorded September 2010 – December 2011, at “The Lakehouse” in Montreal, Canada, “Environment” in Bath, England, “Sarm” and “Battery” in London, “Studio City Sound” in California, and was produced by Stephen Lipson, Warren Cann, Chris Cross, Billy Currie and Midge Ure.

Personnel:

  • Midge Ure – vocals, guitar, synthesizer, mixing
  • Billy Currie – piano, synthesizer, violin, mixing
  • Chris Cross – bass, synthesizer, mixing
  • Warren Cann – drums, mixing
  • Stephen Lipson – mixing
  • Tom Weir – drum engineering
  • Mazen Murad – mastering
  • Darren Evans – design

Track listing:

All tracks by Midge Ure, Billy Currie and Chris Cross.

  1. Live
  2. Flow
  3. Brilliant
  4. Change
  5. Rise
  6. Remembering
  7. Hello
  8. One
  9. Fall
  10. Lie
  11. Satellite
  12. Contact
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Bruce Hornby and the Range: A Night on the Town

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On May 25, 1990, “RCA” label released “A Night on the Town”, the third and final studio album by Bruce Hornsby and the Range. It was recorded 1989 – 1990, at “Record One” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Don Gehman and Bruce Hornsby.  

Personnel:

  • Bruce Hornsby – lead vocals, grand piano, synthesizer, accordion
  • George Marinelli – guitar, mandolin, backing vocals
  • Joe Puerta – bass, backing vocals
  • John Molo – drums
  • Jerry Garcia – guitar
  • David Mansfield – guitar, violin
  • Béla Fleck – banjo 
  • Jimmie Wood – harmonica
  • Charlie Haden – upright bass
  • Wayne Shorter – saxophone
  • Laura Creamer, Fred White, Bridgette Bryant, Shaun Murphy, Shawn Colvin, David Lasley, Arnold McCuller – backing vocals
  • Ed Thacker – engineer, mixing
  • Eddie King – engineer
  • Steve “Sound” Cormier, Don Gehman – additional engineering
  • Don Bosworth, Robin Laine-Levine, Ted Pattison, John “Chamberlin” Pilatus, Neal Pogue, Chris Winter – engineer assistant
  • Stephen Marcussen – mastering
  • Paul Johnson – keyboard technician
  • Norman Moore, Ria Lewerke – art direction
  • Peter Miller – photography
  • Sharona Sabbag – production coorinator

Track listing:

All tracks by Bruce Hornsby and John Hornsby, except where noted.

  1. A Night on the Town
  2. Carry the Water – Bruce Hornsby
  3. Fire on the Cross
  4. Barren Ground
  5. Across the River
  6. Stranded on Easy Street
  7. Stander on the Mountain – Bruce Hornsby
  8. Lost Soul – Bruce Hornsby
  9. Another Day – Bruce Hornsby
  10. Special Night
  11. These Arms of Mine

Jean-Lyc Ponty: King Kong: Jean-Lyc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa

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On May 25, 1970, “World Pacific” and “Liberty” labels released “King Kong: Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa”, the sixth Jean-Luc Ponty album. It was recorded in October 1969, at “Whitney Studios” in Glendale, California, and was produced by Richard Bock. 

Personnel:

  • Jean-Luc Ponty – electric violin, baritone violectra
  • Frank Zappa – electric guitar, arrangements, conductor
  • George Duke – acoustic and electric piano
  • Buell Neidlinger – double bass 
  • Wilton Felder – Fender Precision electric bass 
  • John Guerin – drums 
  • Arthur Dyer Tripp III – drums 
  • Gene Estes – vibraphone, percussion
  • Ernie Watts – alto and tenor saxophone
  • Ian Underwood – tenor saxophone, orchestra conductor
  • Gene Cipriano – oboe, English horn
  • Arthur Maebe – French horn, tuba 
  • Vincent DeRosa – descant recorder, French horn, descant 
  • Jonathan Meyer – flute
  • Donald Christlieb – bassoon
  • Milton Thomas – viola
  • Harold Bemko – cello
  • Gerald Wilson – conductor
  • Ian Underwood – conductor
  • Dick Kunc – engineer
  • Ron Wolin – art direction, design
  • Leonard Feather – liner notes

Track listing:

All tracks by Frank Zappa, except where noted.

  1. King Kong
  2. Idiot Bastard Son
  3. Twenty Small Cigars
  4. How Would You Like to Have a Head Like That – Jean-Luc Ponty
  5. Music for Electric Violin and Low-Budget Orchestra
  6. America Drinks and Goes Home

Bill Laswell & Submerged: Brutal Calling

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On May 25, 2004, “Avant Records” label released “Brutal Calling”, album by Bill Laswell and Submerged. It was recorded in 2004, at “Died and Went to Hell Studios”, “Orange Music” in West Orange, New Jersey, and was produced by Bill Laswell and Submerged,

Personnel:

  • Bill Laswell – bass guitar, effects, mixing
  • Submerged (Kurt Gluck) – drum programming, effects
  • Robert Musso – engineering
  • James Dellatacoma – engineer assistant
  • Alex Theoret – mastering
  • Michael Fossenkemper – mastering
  • Ikue Mori – design

Track listing:

All tracks by Bill Laswell and Kurt Gluck.

  1. Mass Graves
  2. Tunnel 110
  3. Doctored Intelligence
  4. Not Tomorrow or Never
  5. Decapitation Strike
  6. Whistleblower Body
  7. Lockdown on Bridges and Tunnels
  8. UXO

Bill Laswell: Hashisheen: The End of the Law

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On May 25, 1999, “Sub Rosa” label released “Hashisheen: The End of Law”, the 23rd Bill Laswell album. It was recorded in 1999, and was produced by Peter Backer and Janet Rienstra.

Personnel:

  • Bill Laswell – bass guitar, effects, musical arrangements
  • Jah Wobble – bass guitar, keyboards, spoken word
  • Helios Creed – guitar, effects
  • Nicky Skopelitis – guitar 
  • Oliver Ray – guitar 
  • Paul Schütze – instruments 
  • Techno Animal – instruments 
  • Anton Fier – drums
  • Jaki Liebezeit – drums
  • Neville Murray – bendir, congas
  • Hakim Bey – spoken word
  • Nicole Blackman – spoken word
  • William S. Burroughs – spoken word
  • Anne Clark – spoken word
  • Ira Cohen – spoken word
  • Lizzy Mercier Descloux – spoken word
  • Sussan Deyhim – spoken word
  • Umar Bin Hassan – spoken word
  • Percy Howard – spoken word
  • Genesis P-Orridge – spoken word
  • Iggy Pop – spoken word
  • Patti Smith – spoken word
  • Janet Rienstra – musical arrangements
  • Hugo Scholten – engineer
  • Peter Becker – engineer
  • Mark Ferda – engineer, mixing

Track listing:

  1. First Reading
  2. The Old Man of the Mountain
  3. The Western Lands
  4. The Spilled Cup
  5. Marco Pol’s Tale
  6. Pilgrimage to Cairo
  7. Freya Stark at Alamut
  8. Castles
  9. Hashish Poem
  10. Sinan’s Post
  11.  Assassinations
  12. The Mongols Destroy Alamut
  13. The Divine Self
  14. Morning High
  15. A Quick Trip to Alamut
  16. Slogans
  17. Book of the Highest Initiation
  18.  The Lord of Resurrection
  19. The Assassins
  20. Tale of the Caliph Hakem
  21. The Assassins
  22. Last Reading

Spocks’ Beard: Noise Floor

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On May 25, 2018, “Inside Out Music” label released “Noise Floor”, the thirteenth Spock’s Beard studio album. It was recorded May 2017 – February 2018, at “The Mouse House” in Altadena, California, “Sweetwater” in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and was produced by John Boegehold and Rich Mouser.

Personnel:

  • Ted Leonard – lead vocals, acoustic and electric guitars
  • Alan Morse – electric and acoustic guitars, backing vocals, arranger
  • Ryo Okumoto – keyboards, piano, organ, mellotron
  • Dave Meros – bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Nick D’Virgilio – drums, percussion, backing vocals
  • Eric Gorfain – violin
  • Leah Katz – viola
  • Richard Dodd – cello
  • David Robertson – English horn
  • John Boegehold – arranger
  • Rich Mouser – recording, mixing, mastering
  • Bobby Dellarocco – engineer
  • Markus Riegler – engineer
  • Thomas Ewerhard – design
  • Kat Mueller – photography

Track listing:

  1. To Breathe Another Day – John Boegehold, Ryo Okumoto
  2. What Becomes of Me – John Boegehold
  3. Somebody’s Home – Ted Leonard, Alan Morse
  4. Have We All Gone Crazy Yet – Ted Leonard, Alan Morse
  5. So This Is Life – Stan Ausmus, Alan Morse
  6. One So Wise – Stan Ausmus
  7. Box of Spiders – Ryo Okumoto
  8. Beginnings – Ted Leonard, Ryo Okumoto

Snow Patrol: Wildness

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On May 25, 2018, “Polydor” label released “Wildness”, the seventh Snow Patrol studio album. It was recorded 2016 – 2017, and was produced by Jacknife Lee.

Personnel:

  • Gary Lightbody – lead and backing vocals, guitar, additional programming
  • Nathan Connolly – guitar, backing vocals
  • Johnny McDaid – piano, keyboards, guitar, programming, orchestral arrangement, backing vocals
  • Paul Wilson – bass 
  • Jonny Quinn – drums
  • Jacknife Lee – guitar, keyboards, programming, strings arrangement, bass, backing vocals
  • Davide Rossi – strings arrangement, strings quartet
  • Saran Davies – cello
  • Ben Hulme – French horn
  • Alexandra Ridout – trumpet, flugelhorn

Track listing:

All lyrics by Gary Lightbody; all music by Jacknife Lee, Gary Lightbody, Nathan Connolly, Johnny McDaid, Paul Wilson and Jonny Quinn, except where noted.

  1. Life on Earth
  2. Don’t Give In
  3. Heal Me
  4. Empress
  5. A Dark Switch
  6. What If This Is All the Love You Ever Get?
  7. A Youth Written in Fire
  8. Soon
  9. Wild Horses
  10. Life and Dead – Holger Czukay, Irmin Schmidt, Michael Karoli, Jaki Liebezeit, Jacknife Lee, Gary Lightbody, Nathan Connolly, Johnny McDaid, Paul Wilson, Jonny Quinn

Lunatic Soul: Under the Fragment Sky

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On May 25, 2018, “Kscope” label released “Under the Fragmented Sky”, the sixth Lunatic Soul studio album. It was recorded 2016 – 2018, at “Serakos Studio” in Warsaw, Poland, and was produced by Mariusz Duda, Robert Srzednicki and Magda Srzednicka.

Personnel:

  • Mariusz Duda – vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, percussion, chimes, mixing
  • Wawrzyniec Dramowicz – drums
  • Jarek Kubicki – illustration, layout, design
  • Magda & Robert Srzedniccy – recording, mixing, mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Mariusz Duda.

  1. He Av En
  2. Trials
  3. Sorrow
  4. Under the Fragmented Sky
  5. Shadows
  6. Rising the Night
  7. The Art Of Repairing

Untamed

On May 26, 2015.

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On May 25, 2015, “Nonesuch” label released “The Bad Plus”, album by Joshua Redman and The Bad Plus (the 17th Joshua Redman album). It was recorded in 2015, at “Brooklyn Recording” in New York City, and was produced by Joshua Redman, Reid Anderson, Ethan Iverson and David King.

Personnel:

  • Joshua Redman– saxophone
  • Reid Anderson– bass
  • Ethan Iverson– piano
  • David King– drums

Track listing:

  1. As This Moment Slips Away – Reid Anderson
  2. Beauty has It Hard – David King
  3. County Seat – Ethan Iverson
  4. The Mending – Joshua Redman
  5. Dirty Blonde – Reid Anderson
  6. Faith Through Error – Ethan Iverson
  7. Lack the Faith But Not the Wine – Reid Anderson
  8. Friend of Foe – Joshua Redman
  9. Silence Is the Question – Reid Anderson

 

On May 25, 2018.

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On May 25, 2018, “Nonesuch” label released “Still Dreaming”, the 19th Joshua Redman album. It was recorded in April 2017, at “Sear Sound” in New York City, and was produced by Joshua Redman.

Personnel:

  • Joshua Redman – tenor saxophone, liner notes
  • Brian Blade – drums
  • Scott Colley – bass
  • Ron Miles – cornet
  • Greg Calbi – mastering
  • James Farber– associate producer, engineer
  • Owen Mulholland – assistant engineer
  • John Gall – design
  • Jon Brown – band photo
  • Hans Jörgen Johansen – cover photo
  • Robert Hurwitz – executive producer

Track listing:

  1. New Year – Scott Colley
  2. Unanimity – Joshua Redman
  3. Haze and Aspirations – Scott Colley
  4. It’s Not the Same – Joshua Redman
  5. Blues for Charlie – Joshua Redman
  6. Playing – Charlie Haden
  7. Comme II Faut – Ornette Coleman
  8. The Rest – Joshua Redman