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Algiers: The Underside Of Power

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On June 23, 2017, “Matador” label released “The Underside of Power”, the second Algiers studio album. It was recorded June – October 2016, at “Argot Studio”, “Strange Weather” and “Walker Studios”, “Figure 8” in New York, “Goat Farm” in Atlanta, “Real World” in Bath, “Rex Studios” in London, and was produced by Adrian Utley and Ali Chant.

Personnel:

  • Franklin James Fisher – vocals, cello, double bass, drum programming, guitar, keyboards, percussion, piano, sampling, synthesizer, tambourine, Wurlitzer
  • Lee Tesche – cymbals, guitar, harmonium, loop, music box, percussion, prepared guitar, prepared piano, saxophone, synthesizer, backing vocals
  • Ryan Mahan – bass, drum programming, guitar, baritone guitar, sampling, synthesizer, backing vocals
  • Matt Tong – chimes, drones, drums, glockenspiel, guitar, percussion, backing vocals
  • Adrian Utley – drum machine, guitar, Moog bass, synthesizer
  • Ali Chant – guitar, backing vocals
  • Macks Faulkron – guitar, percussion, engineer
  • Ashiya Eastwood – backing vocals
  • Jessica Upton Crowe – backing vocals
  • Travis Ono – backing vocals
  • Alex Weston – engineer
  • Ben Greenberg – engineer, additional production
  • Chris Kyles – engineer
  • Oli Jacobs – engineer
  • Patrick Phillips – engineer
  • Paul Reust – engineer
  • Randall Dunn – mixing
  • Will Smith – mixing assistant
  • Jason Ward – mastering

Track listing:

  1. Walk Like a Panther
  2. Cry of the Martyrs
  3. The Underside of Power
  4. Death March
  5. A Murmur A Sign
  6. Mme Rieux
  7. Cleveland
  8. Animals
  9. Plague Years
  10. Hymn for and Average Man
  11. Bury Me Standing
  12. The Cycle/The Spiral: Time to Go Down Slowly

Michael Nesmith: Nevada Fighter

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In May 1971, “RCA Victor” label released “Nevada Fighter”, the third Michael Nesmith album. It was recorded October 1970 – January 1971, and was produced by Michael Nesmith.

Personnel:

The First National Band:

  • Michael Nesmith – vocals, guitar
  • Red Rhodes – pedal steel guitar
  • John London – bass guitar
  • John Ware – drums
  • Al Casey – guitar
  • James Burton – guitar
  • Glen Hardin – keyboards
  • Michael Cohen – keyboards
  • Joe Osborn – bass guitar
  • Max Bennett – bass guitar
  • Ron Tutt – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Michael Nesmith, except where noted.

  1. Grand Ennui
  2. Propinquity (I’ve Just Begun to Care)
  3. Here I Am
  4. Only Bound
  5. Nevada Fighter
  6. Texas Morning – Mike Murphy, Boomer Castleman
  7. Tumbling Tumbleweeds – Bob Nolan
  8. I Looked Away – Eric Clapton, Bobby Whitlock
  9. Rainmaker – Harry Nilsson, Bill Martin
  10. René – Red Rhodes

Joe Zawinul: Zawinul

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On May 1971, “Atlantic” label released “Zawinul”, the third Joe Zawinul studio album. It was recorded August – October 1970, at “Atlantic Studios” in New York City, and was produced by Joel Dorn.

Personnel:

  • Joe Zawinul – acoustic and electric piano
  • Herbie Hancock – electric piano
  • Earl Turbinton – soprano saxophone 
  • Wayne Shorter – soprano saxophone
  • Woody Shaw – trumpet 
  • Jimmy Owens – trumpet
  • George Davis – flute
  • Hubert Laws – flute
  • Miroslav Vitouš
  • Walter Booker – bass
  • Billy Hart – percussion
  • David Lee – percussion
  • Joe Chambers – percussion
  • Jack DeJohnette – melodica, percussion
  • Gene Paul – engineer
  • Lew Hahn – recording, remixing
  • Ed Freeman – design, photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Joe Zawinul.

  1. Doctor Honoris Causa
  2. In a Silent Way
  3. His Last Journey
  4. Double Image
  5. Arrival in New York

Smog: Red Apple Falls

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On May 20, 1997, “Drag City” label released “Red Apple Falls”, the sixth Smog (Bill Callahan) album. It was recorded October – November 1996, and was produced by Jim O’Rourke and Bill Callhan.

Personnel:

  • Smog (Bill Callahan) – vocals, guitar, piano, Hammond organ, synthesizer, recording
  • Ken Champion – pedal steel guitar
  • James O’Rourke – piano, Hammond organ, Hurdy Gurdy, bass, drums, recording
  • Thymme Jomes – piano, trumpet, drums
  • Matt Weston – drums
  • Robot – drums
  • Donna Marone – French horn
  • Phil Bonnet – engineer assistant

Track listing:

All tracks by Bill Callahan.

  1. The Morning Paper
  2. Blood Red Bird
  3. Red Apples
  4. I Was a Stranger
  5. To Be of Use
  6. Red Apple Falls
  7. Ex-Con
  8. Inspirational
  9. Finer Days

World Party: Bang!

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On April 26, 1993, “Ensign” label released “Bang!”, the third World Party studio album.  It was recorded March 1991 – October 1992, at “Seaview Studios” in London and was produced by Karl Wallinger.

Personnel:

  • Karl Wallinger – vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, programming, recording, design concept, photography assistant
  • Dave Catlin-Birch – vocals, guitar, piano
  • Chris Sharrock – drums
  • Dominic Miller – guitar
  • Guy Chambers – keyboards
  • Karen Ramelise
  • Joe Blaney – additional engineering
  • Steve Lillywhite – mixing, additional production
  • Tim Young – mastering
  • Michael Nash – design concept, artwork
  • Suzie Zamit – design assistant, make-up
  • John Schoonraad – design
  • Steve Wallace – cover photography
  • Judy Price – photography assistant

Track listing:

All tracks by Karl Wallinger, except where noted.

  1. Kingdom Come
  2. Is It Like Today?
  3. What Is Love All About?
  4. And God Said… – Karl Wallinger, Guy Chambers
  5. Give It All Away
  6. Sooner or Later
  7. Hollywood
  8. Radio Days – Karl Wallinger, Guy Chambers, David Catlin-Birch
  9. Rescue Me
  10. Sunshine
  11. All I Gave
  12. Give It All Away (reprise)

Bill Callahan: Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

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On April 14, 2009, “Drag City” label released “Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle”, the second Bill Callahan album by his name. It was recorded August – October 2008, at “The Track Studio” in Plano, Texas, and was produced by Raven,

Personnel:

  • Bill Callahan – vocals, classical guitar, acoustic steel and electric guitar, piano, Hammond organ, keyboards, lettering, drawings
  • Brian Beattie – electric guitar, pump organ, electric piano, keyboards, percussion, string and horn arrangements
  • Jaime Zuverza – electric guitar
  • Bobby Weaver – bass
  • Luis Martinez – drums
  • Deanna Sarkar – soprano vocals
  • Tamara Cauble – violin
  • Douglas Edward – violin
  • Becki Howard – violin
  • Maureen Nilsen – violin
  • Chris Youmans – cello
  • Buffi Jacobs – cello
  • Brian Brown – French horn
  • Heather Test – French horn
  • John Congleton – recording
  • Roger Siebel – mastering
  • Chris Taylor – front photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Bill Callahan.

  1. Jim Cain
  2. Eid Ma Clack Shaw
  3. The Wind and the Dove
  4. Rococo Zephyr
  5. Too Many Birds
  6. My Friend
  7. All Thoughts Are Prey to Some Beast
  8. Invocation of Ratiocination
  9. Faith/Void

Warren Zevon: Learning To Flitch

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On April 13, 1993, “Giant Records” label released “Learning to Flinch”, the second Warren Zevon live album. It was recorded June – October 1992, at various venues in the United States, Europe, New Zealand, and Australia, and was produced by Duncan Aldrich and Warren Zevon.

Personnel:

Warren Zevon – guitar, keyboards, vocals, harmonica

Track listing:

All tracks by Warren Zevon, except where noted.

  1. Splendid Isolation
  2. Lawyers, Guns and Money
  3. Mr. Bad Example – Jorge Calderón, Warren Zevon
  4. Excitable Boy – LeRoy Marinell, Warren Zevon
  5. Hasten Down the Wind
  6. The French Inhaler
  7. Worrier King
  8. Roland Chorale – David Lindell, Warren Zevon
  9. Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner – Davis Lindell, Warren Zevon
  10. Searching for a Heart
  11. Boom Boom Mancini
  12. Jungle Work – Jorge Calderón, Warren Zevon
  13. Piano Fighter
  14. Werewolves of London – LeRoy Marinell, Waddy Wachtel, Warren Zevon
  15. The Indifference of Heaven
  16. Poor, Poor Pitiful Me
  17. Play It All Night Long

The Mothers Of Invention: Ahead Of Their Time

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On March 23, 1993, “Barking Pumpkin” label released “Ahead of Their Time”, the 19th Mothers of Invention (The) album. It was recorded in October 1968, at the “Royal Festival Hall” in London, and was produced by Frank Zappa.

Personnel:

  • Frank Zappa – vocals, guitar, arrangements
  • Ian Underwood – alto saxophone, piano
  • Bunk Gardner – tenor saxophone, clarinet
  • Euclid James “Motorhead” Sherwood – baritone saxophone, tambourine
  • Don Preston – electric piano, odd noises (homemade oscillation boxes)
  • Roy Estrada – vocals, bass guitar
  • Jimmy Carl Black – vocals, drums
  • Arthur Dyer Tripp III – drums, percussion
  • Members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Track listing:

All tracks by Frank Zappa.

Progress?

  1. Prologue
  2. Progress?
  3. Like It or Not
  4. The Jimmy Carl Black Philosophy Lesson
  5. Holding the Group Back
  6. Holiday in Berlin
  7. The Rejected Mexican Pope Leaves the Stage
  8. Undaunted, the Band Plays On
  9. Agency Man
  10. Epilogue

1968 performance

  1. King Kong
  2. Help, I’m a Rock
  3. Transylvania Boogie
  4. Pound for a Brown
  5. Sleeping in a Jar
  6. Let’s Make the Water Turn Back
  7. Harry, You’re a Beast
  8. The Orange County Lumber Truck (Part I)
  9. Oh No
  10. The Orange County Lumber Truck (Part II)

Shoking Blue: Inkpot

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On March 20. 1972, “Pink Elephant” label released “Inkpot”, the fifth Shocking Blue studio album. It was recorded October – December 1971, January 1972, at “Sound Push Studios, Blaricum, Netherlands, and was produced by Mariska Veres, Robbbie van Leeuwen, Cor van der Beek and Henk Smitskamp.

Personnel:

  • Mariska Veres – lead vocals
  • Robbie van Leeuwen – lead and backing vocals, guitar, mandolin
  • Henk Smitskamp – bass guitar
  • Cor van der Beek – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Robbie van Leeuwen, except where noted.

  1. I Ain’t Never – Mel Tillis, Webb Pierce
  2. Navajo Tears
  3. Shadows
  4. Blue Jean
  5. Jambalaya – Hank Williams
  6. Inkpot
  7. Tobacco Road – John D. Loudermilk
  8. Hey
  9. Who Save My Soul
  10. Red Leaves I+II
  11. The Queen
  12. I Melt Like Butter

Diana Krall: All for You: A Dedication to the Nat King Cole Trio

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On March 12, 1996, “Impulse!” label released “All for You: A Dedication to the Nat King Cole Trio”, the third Diana Krall studio album. It was recorded in October 1995, at “Power Station” in New York City, and was produced by Tommy LiPuma.

Personnel:

  • Diana Krall – lead vocals, piano
  • Russell Malone – guitar
  • Benny Green – piano
  • Paul Keller – bass
  • Steve Kroon – percussion
  • Al Schmitt – recording, mixing
  • Doug Sax – mastering
  • Robin Lynch – art direction, design
  • Laurie Goldman – design
  • Tom Tavee – photography
  • Terry Teachout – liner notes

Track listing:

  1. I’m an Errand Girl for Rhythm – Nat King Cole
  2. Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to You – Don Redman, Andy Razaf
  3. You Call It Madness – Gladys Dubois, Con Conrad, Russ Columbo, Paul Gregory
  4. Frim Fram Sauce – Joe Ricardel, Redd Evans
  5. Boulevard of Broken Dreams – Al Dubin, Harry Warren
  6. Baby Baby All the Time – Bobby Troup
  7. Hit That Jive Jack – John Alston, Campbell “Skeets” Tolbert
  8. You’re Looking at Me – Bobby Troup
  9. I’m Thru with Love – Matty Malneck, Gus Kahn, Fud Livingston
  10. Deed I Do – Fred Rode, Walter Hirsch
  11. A Blossom Fell – Howard Barnes, Harold Cornelius, Dominic John
  12. If I Had You – Ted Shapiro, Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly