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Azure Ray: Hold On Love

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On October 7, 2003, “Saddle Creek” label released “Hold On Love”, the third Azure Ray studio album. It was recorded in 2003, at “Presto! Recording Studios”, and was produced by Eric Bachmann.

Personnel:

  • Orenda Fink – vocals, guitar, trumpet
  • Mike Mogis – pedal steel, engineer, mixing
  • Maria Taylor – vocals, piano, guitar, drums
  • Clark Baechle – drum programming
  • Ben Armstrong – drums
  • Andy LeMaster – additional instrumentation, engineer, mixing
  • Eric Bachmann – additional instrumentation, arrangement, mixing
  • Doug Van Sloun – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor.

  1. The Devil’s Feet
  2. New Resolution
  3. We are Mice
  4. Look to Me
  5. The Drinks We Drank Last Night
  6. Across the Ocean
  7. If You Fall
  8. Sea of Doubts
  9. Dragonfly
  10. Nothing Like a Song
  11. These White Lights will Bend to Make Blue
  12. Hold On Love
  13. Across the Ocean (video)
  14. We are Mice (live)

Bright Eyes: Lifted of the Story in the Soll, Keep Your Ear to the Ground

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On August 13, 2002, “Saddle Creek” label released “Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground”, the fourth Bright Eyes album. It was recorded December 2001 – January 2002, at “Presto!”, in Lincoln, Nebraska, and was produced by Mike Mogis.

Personnel:

  • Conor Oberst– voice, guitar, piano, rhodes, organ
  • Mike Mogis– banjos, bells, hammered dulcimer, vibraphone, glockenspiel, mandolin, guitar, dobro, pedal steel
  • Andy LeMaster– electric guitar, keyboards, vocal harmonies
  • Ted Stevens– electric guitar
  • Maria Taylor– piano, organ, vocal harmonies
  • Matt Maginn, Casey Scott– bass
  • Matt Focht, Clint Schnase, Mike Sweeney– drums
  • Clark Baechle– drums, clarinet
  • Clay Leverett – drums, vocal harmonies
  • Jiha Lee– flute, vocal harmonies
  • Chris Brooks – piano
  • Sean Cole– harmonica
  • Julee Dunekacke– French horn
  • Margaret Fish – bassoon
  • Orenda Fink– trumpet, vocal harmonies
  • Jason Flatowicz– trombone
  • Katie Muth– oboe
  • Tiffany Kowalski– violin
  • Gretta Cohn– cello
  • Todd Baechle, Jenny Lewis, Blake Sennett, Choir – vocal harmonies

Track listing:

  1. The Big Picture
  2. Method Acting
  3. False Advertising
  4. You Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will
  5. Lover I Don’t Have to Love
  6. Bowl of Oranges
  7. Don’t Know When But a Day Is Gonna Come
  8. Nothing Gets Crossed Out
  9. Make War
  10. Waste of Paint
  11. From a Balance Beam
  12. Laura Laurent
  13. Let’s Not Shit Ourselves (To Love and to Be Loved)

Pete Yorn: Back & Fourth

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On June 23, 2009, “Columbia” label released “Back & Fourth”, the fourth Pete Yorn album. It was recorded 2006–2009, in Omaha, Nebraska, and was produced by Mike Mogis.

Personnel:

  • Pete Yorn– lead and backing vocals, acoustic and electric guitar,  percussion
  • Mike Mogis – baritone guitar, electric guitar, hammer dulcimer, mandolin, bowed vibes, e-bow, percussion, vibraphone, Wurlitzer, string arrangements
  • Jonny Polonsky – bajo sexto, 12-string electric guitar, acoustic and electric guitar, nylon string guitar
  • Nate Walcott – Hammond B-3 organ, horn arrangements, piano, tack piano, string arrangements
  • Walt Vincent – keyboard bass, synthesizer bass, Wurlitzer
  • Ben Brodin – Hammond B-3 organ, piano, pump organ, vibraphone, Wurlitzer, bowed vibes,
  • Joe Carnes – bass guitar, upright bass
  • Scott Gaeta – drums
  • Joey Waronker– drums, percussion
  • Tom Hartig – tenor saxophone
  • Darrin Pettit – tenor and baritone saxophone
  • Scott Quackenbush – trumpet
  • Jay Wise – trombone
  • Jason DeWater – French horn
  • Leslie Fagan – flute, alto flute
  • Craig Fuller – tuba
  • Anton Patzner – violin, string arrangements
  • Louis Patzner – cello, string arrangements
  • Orenda Fink – backing vocals
  • Rick Rubin – executive producer

Track listing:

All tracks by Pete Yorn.

  1. Don’t Wanna Cry
  2. Paradise Cove
  3. Close
  4. Social Development Dance
  5. Shotgun
  6. Last Summer
  7. Thinking of You
  8. Country
  9. Four Years
  10. Long Time Nothing New

Conor Oberst: Upside Down Mountain

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On May 19, 2014, “Nonesuch” label released “Upside Down Mountain”, the sixth Conor Oberst studio album. It was recorded in 2014, and was produced by Jonathan Wilson and Conor Oberst. The cover art is a painting by Ian Felice entitled “The Creation of the Bulls”.

Personnel:

  • Conor Oberst – vocals, guitar
  • Jonathan Wilson – vocals, guitars, percussion, keyboards, bass, drums, piano , organ, glockenspiel
  • Andy LeMaster – bass, guitar, voice, percussion, drums, keyboards, backing vocals
  • Blake Mills– vocals, guitars, keyboards, percussion
  • Omar Velasco – guitar
  • Mike Mogis – pedal steel
  • Joshua Grange – pedal steel
  • Macey Taylor – bass
  • Cully Symington – drums, percussion
  • Jason Boesel – drums
  • Ben Brodin – vibraphone
  • Klara Söderberg, Johanna Söderberg – vocals
  • Corina Figueroa Escamilla – vocals
  • Orenda Fink – vocals
  • Nate Walcott – trumpet, piano, organ, keyboard
  • Scott Vicroy – saxophone
  • Pete Madsen – trombone
  • Leslie Fagan – flute
  • John Klinghammer – clarinet
  • Corina Figureoa-Esamilla and Phillip Schaffart – backing vocals

Track listing:

All tracks by Conor Oberst.

  1. Time Forgot
  2. Zigzagging Toward the Light
  3. Hundreds of Ways
  4. Artifact #1
  5. Lonely at the Top
  6. Enola Gay
  7. Double Life
  8. Kick
  9. Night at Lake Unknown
  10. You Are Your Mother’s Child
  11. Governor’s Ball
  12. Desert Island Questionnaire
  13. Common Knowledge

Moby: 18

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On May 14, 2002, “Mute” and “V2” labels released “18”, the sixth Moby studio album. It was recorded 2001 – 2002, and was produced by Moby.

Personnel:

  • Moby – vocals, engineering, mixing, instruments
  • Azure Ray– vocals
  • Freedom Bremner – vocals
  • MC Lyte– vocals
  • Dianne McCaulley – vocals
  • Sinéad O’Connor– vocals
  • Shauna & Lorraine Phillips – vocals
  • Jennifer Price – vocals
  • The Shining Light Gospel Choir – vocals
  • Angie Stone– vocals
  • Tony Dawsey – mastering
  • David Calderley – artwork, design
  • Danny Clinch – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Moby, except where noted.

  1. We Are All Made of Stars
  2. In This World
  3. In My Heart
  4. Great Escape – Moby, Maria Taylor, Orenda Fink
  5. Signs of Love
  6. One of This Mornings
  7. Another Woman – Moby, Barbara Lynn Ozen
  8. Fireworks
  9. Extreme Ways
  10. Jam for the Ladies – Moby, Lana Michele Moorer, Angela Stone, Michael McDermon
  11. Sunday (The Day Before My Birthday) – Moby, Sylvia Robinson
  12. 18
  13. Sleep Alone
  14. At Least We Tried
  15. Harbour
  16. Look Back In
  17. The Rafters
  18. I’m Not Worried at All

Azure Ray: Same

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On January 16, 2001, “Warm Electronic” label released the self-titled, debut  Azure Ray studio album. It was recorded in 2000, and was produced by Eric Bachmann and Brian Causey.

Personnel:

  • Maria Taylor –vocals, guitar
  • Orenda Fink – vocals, guitar
  • Eric Bachmann – guitar, steel guitar, piano, saxophone, tape loops
  • Brian Causey – lap steel guitar, organ, design
  • Andrey Curty – violin
  • Victor Uzur – cello
  • Andy Baker – mastering
  • Chris Bilheimer – design

Track listing:

All tracks by Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink.

  1. Sleep
  2. Displaced
  3. Don’t Make a Sound
  4. Untitled
  5. Another Week
  6. Rise
  7. 4th of July
  8. Safe and Sound
  9. Fever
  10. For No One
  11. How Will You Survive