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Gerry Rafferty: Life Goes On

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On November 30, 2009, “Hypertension Music” label released “Life Goes On”, the tenth Gerry Rafferty album, and the last one released in his lifetime. It was recorded in 2009, at  “Icon Studios” in East Sussex, England, “Studio Miraval” in France, “Blue Wave Recording Studios” in St. Philip, Barbados, “Parkgate Studios” in Sussex, England, “Chipping Norton Studios” in Oxfordshire, England, “Tye Farm”, “The Hit Factory”, “Skibo Castle” in Dornoch, Sutherland, Scotland, and was produced by Hugh Murphy and Gerry Rafferty.

Personnel:

  • Gerry Rafferty – lead, harmony and backing vocals, acoustic, electric and high-string guitar, piano, electric piano, organ, synthesizer, programming
  • Bryn Haworth – guitar, slide guitar, bottleneck guitar
  • Hugh Burns – electric guitar
  • Mark Knopfler – electric guitar
  • Jerry Donahue – electric rhythm guitar
  • B. J. Cole – pedal steel guitar
  • Pavel Rosak – keyboards, bass guitar, drums, percussion, brass, marimba, drum programming
  • Kenny Craddock – Hammond organ, keyboards, synthesizer
  • Alan Clark – Hammond organ, keyboards, synthesizer
  • Ian Lynn – keyboards, strings
  • Pino Palladino – bass guitar
  • Mo Foster – bass guitar, fretless bass guitar
  • Giles Twigg – drums, percussion, guitar, bass guitar, reading from Digital Delirium, programming, engineer
  • Arran Ahmun – drums, percussion, hi-hat, cymbal, tambourine, toms, cowbell, congas, talking drum, agogô, finger cymbals
  • Mell Collins – saxophone
  • Arturo Tappin – saxophone
  • Gavyn Wright – strings
  • Andy Patterson – bells, programing, engineer
  • Joe Egan – backing vocals
  • Lianne Carroll – backing vocals
  • Julian Littman – backing vocals
  • Melanie Harrold – backing vocals
  • Nicky Moore – backing vocals
  • Cindy Legall – backing vocals
  • Tamara Marshall – backing vocals
  • Ronnie Rehse – German reading
  • Andrew Jackman – bassoon, horn, oboe, string arrangements
  • Doug Cook – engineer, engineer assistant
  • Brad Davis – engineer
  • Philipe Garcia – engineer
  • Jean Jacques Lemoine – engineer
  • Chris Potter – engineer
  • Dan Priest – engineer, mixing
  • Brian Europe – vocal engineering, engineer assistant
  • Tom Gonzales – vocal engineering
  • Barry Hammond – drum engineering, additional engineering
  • Hugh Murphy – recording, engineer
  • Mike Ross – string recording
  • Tim Young – additional engineering
  • Zahir Kahn – engineer assistant
  • Martin Raymond – engineer assistant

Track listing:

All tracks by Gerry Rafferty, except where noted.

  1. Kyrie Eleison – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  2. The Waters of Forgetfulness – (new edit)
  3. Don’t Speak of My Heart – Gerry Rafferty, Jim Rafferty
  4. Because – John Lennon, Paul McCartney
  5. Everytime I Wake Up (new edit) – Gerry Rafferty, with a reading from Rainer Maria Rilke
  6. Love and Affection (new edit) 
  7. The Land of the Chosen Few (new edit) 
  8. Life Goes On (new edit)
  9. Another World (new edit)
  10. Time’s Caught Up on You (new edit)
  11. Conscious Love
  12. Over My Head
  13. Hang On
  14. It’s Easy to Talk
  15. The Maid of Culmore – traditional
  16. Your Heart’s Desire
  17. Adeste Fidelis – traditional
  18. Silent Night

Belle & Sebastian: Dear Catastrophe Waitress

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On October 6, 2003, “Rough Trade” label released “Dear Catastrophe Waitress”, the sixth Belle & Sebastian studio album. It was recorded in 2003, at “Sarm West Studios” in London, Sarm Hook End” in Checkendon, Oxfordshire, “Berkeley Street Studios” in Glasgow, “Parkgate Studios” in Catsfield, and “Angel Studios” in London, and was produced by Trevor Horn.

Personnel:

  • Stuart Murdoch – vocals, arrangements
  • Stevie Jackson – vocals, guitar, arrangements
  • Chris Keddes – keyboards, arrangements
  • Sarah Martin – violin, arrangements
  • Bob Kildea – bass, guitar, arrangements
  • Dave McGowan – bass, arrangements
  • Mary Scully – double bass
  • Richard Colburn – drums, arrangements
  • Frank Ricotti – percussion
  • Sue Bohling – cor anglaise
  • Jamie Talbot – alto saxophone
  • Philip Todd – alto saxophone
  • Stan Sulzman – alto saxophone
  • Philip Todd – tenor saxophone 
  • Chris Davis – tenor saxophone
  • Jeff Daly – baritone saxophone
  • Derek Watkins – trumpet
  • John Barclay – trumpet
  • Mike Lovatt – trumpet 
  • Noel Langley – trumpet
  • Barnaby Dickinson – tenor trombone
  • Chris Dean – tenor trombone
  • Jeremy Price – tenor trombone
  • Richard Edwards – bass trombone
  • Chris Cowie – oboe
  • Nigel Black – French horn
  • Richard Berry – French horn
  • Helen Keen – flute
  • Kathleen Stevenson – piccolo flute
  • Perry Montague-Mason, Benedict Cruft, Boguslaw Kostecki, Chris Tombling, David Woodcock, Everton Nelson, Gavyn Wright, Jackie Shave, Julian Leaper, Kathy Shave, Patrick Kiernan, Warren Zielinski – violin
  • Anthony Pleeth – cello 
  • David Daniels – cello
  • Martin Loveday – cello
  • Trevor Horn – arrangements
  • Nick Ingman – arrangements
  • Steve Price – recording
  • Julian Mendelsohn – recording
  • Mat Bartram – recording
  • Tim Lambert – additional engineering
  • Phil Tyreman – engineer assistant
  • Dan Vickers – mixing
  • Julian Mendelsohn – mixing
  • Robert Orton – mixing
  • Tony Doogan – additional mixing
  • Michael Bannister – mixing assistant
  • Frank Arkwright – mastering
  • Divine Inc. – design
  • Stuart David – liner notes

Track listing:

  1. Step into my Office, Baby
  2. Dear Catastrophe Waitress
  3. If She Wants Me
  4. Piazza, New York Catcher
  5. Asleep on a Sunbeam
  6. I’m a Cuckoo
  7. You Don’t Send Me
  8. Wrapped Up in Books
  9. Lord Anthony
  10. If You Find Yourself Caught in Love
  11. Roy Walker
  12. Stay Loose

EMF: Cha Cha Cha

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On March 2, 1995, “EMI” label released “Cha Cha Cha”, the third and last EMF studio album. It was recorded in 1994, at “Cinderford” in Sussex, “Biaritz Slouch”, “Parkgate Studios” in Hastings, and was produced by Johnny Dollar.

Personnel:

  • Ian Dench – vocals, guitar, keyboards, programming
  • James Atkin – vocals, guitar, flute, programming
  • Zac Foley – vocals, bass, guitar
  • Derry Brownson – vocals, bass, sampler
  • Mark Decloedt – vocals, drums, percussion
  • Johnny Dollar – additional keyboards, additional programming, mixing
  • Steve Lyon – engineer, mixing
  • Chris Sheldon – mixing
  • Tony Cousins – mastering
  • Kevin Westenberg – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by James Atkin, Ian Dench, Derry Brownson and Mark Decloedt.

  1. Perfect Day
  2. La Plage
  3. The Day I Was Born
  4. Secrets
  5. Shining
  6. Bring Me Down
  7. Skin
  8. Slouch
  9. Bleeding You Dry
  10. Patterns
  11. When Will You Come
  12. West of the Cox
  13. Ballad O’ the Bishop
  14. Glass Smash Jack

Scars: Same

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On August 26, 2002, “Sanctuary” label released the self-titled, debut Scars album (not to be confused with the Edinburgh post-punk group called Scars). It was recorded in 2002, at “Sarm West Studios” and “Music Bank’s Waterloo Sunset Studios” in London, “Sarm Hook End” in Reading, Berkshire, “Parkgate Studios” in Battle, East Sussex, and was produced by Chris Tsangarides and Gary Moore.

Personnel:

  • Gary Moore– vocals, guitars, mixing
  • Cass Lewis– bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Darrin Mooney– drums
  • Chris Tsangarides– engineer, mixing
  • Tim Hole, Dan Turner, Drew Roberts, Matt Crawford – engineer assistant
  • Ian Cooper – mastering

 Track listing:

All tracks by Gary Moore, except where noted.

  1. When the Sun Goes Down – Gary Moore, Cass Lewis, Darrin Mooney
  2. Rectify – Gary Moore, Cass Lewis, Darrin Mooney
  3. Wasn’t Born in Chicago
  4. Stand Up – Gary Moore, Cass Lewis, Darrin Mooney
  5. Just Can’t Let You Go
  6. My Baby (She’s So Good to Me)
  7. World of Confusion
  8. Ball and Chain – Gary Moore, Cass Lewis, Darrin Mooney
  9. World Keep Turnin’ Round
  10. Who Knows (What Tomorrow May Bring)

 

 

Patrick Wolf: The Bachelor

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On June 1, 2009, “Bloody Chamber Music” released “The Bachelor”, the fourth Patrick Wolf studio album. It was recorded 2008 -2009, at ”Parkgate Studios” in Battle Hastings, “Olympic Studios”, “Assault and Battery Studios”, “The Dairy”, “Bankside Lofts”, “Ken Thomas’s House”, “The Fritzl Dungeon” in London, “The Hellish Vortex” in Berlin, “Studio de La Reine” in Paris, and was produced by Patrick Wolf.

Personnel:

  • Patrick Wolf – vocals, balalaika, ukulele, electronics, viola, grand piano, organ, harmonium, programming, string arrangements, mixing
  • Thomas White – guitar
  • Nick Haward – bass guitar, double bass
  • Marcello Vig – drums
  • Thomas Bloch – Ondes Martenot
  • Derek Apps – clarinet
  • Debs White, Gillon Cameron, Louisa Aldridge, Sarah Button, Stephen Hussey, Victoria Sutherland – violin
  • Emma Owens, Fiona Leggat, Lucy Morgan – viola
  • Helen Rathbone, Ivan Hussey, Tim Wells, Vicky Matthews – cello
  • Eliza Carthy – vocals, fiddle
  • Rose Marie – Irish whistle
  • David Coulter – saw
  • Aaron Sokell, Amy Stead, Chinique Blackwood, Jenny LaTouche, Patsy McKay, Waleed Isaacs (Gospel Choir) – vocals
  • Alice Davies, Edward Larrikin, Eliza Carthy, Victoria Sutherland, William Pollock (Tribe Vocals) – vocals
  • Fiona Brice,Patrick Wolf, Patsy McKay – conductor choir
  • Fiona Brice – string arrangements
  • Tilda Swinton – narrator
  • Al Lawson, Catherin Marks, Dave Emery*, Jonathan Krisp, Jonathan Shakhovskoy, Ken Thomas, Mark Allaway – engineer
  • Jonathan Shakhovskoy – mixing, co-producer
  • Nick Thornton Jones, Warren Du Preez – artwork, photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Patrick Wolf, except where noted.

  1. Kriegspiel
  2. Hard Times
  3. Oblivion
  4. The Bachelor
  5. Damaris – lyrics from the old Appalachian folk song “Poor Little Turtle Dove”
  6. Thickets
  7. Count of Casualty
  8. Who Will?
  9. Vulture
  10. Blackdown – Patrick Wolf, Alec Empire
  11. The Sun Is Often Out
  12. Theseus
  13. Battle
  14. The Messenger – Patrick Wolf, Alec Empire

Del Amitri: Some Other Suckers Parade

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On June 24, 1997, “A&M” label released “Some Other Sucker’s Parade”, the fifth Del Amitri studio album. It was recorded November 1996 – January 1997, at “The Chapel”, “Parkgate Studios”, and was produced by Mark Freegard.

Personnel:

  • Justin Currie – vocals, bass
  • Iain Harvie – guitar, bass
  • Jon McLoughlin – guitar
  • Andy Alston– keyboard
  • Ashley Soan – drums, percussion
  • The London Session Orchestra– strings
  • Jamie Seyberth – whistle
  • Will Malone– string and brass arrangement

Track listing:

  1. Not Where It’s At – Justin Currie
  2. Some Other Sucker’s Parade – Justin Currie, Jon McLoughlin
  3. Won’t Make It Better – Justin Currie, Iain Harvie
  4. What I Think She Sees – Justin Currie
  5. Medicine – Justin Currie
  6. High Times – Justin Currie, Iain Harvie
  7. Mother Nature’s Writing – Justin Currie, Iain Harvie
  8. No Family Man – Justin Currie
  9. Cruel Light Of Day – Justin Currie
  10. Funny Way To Win – Justin Currie, Iain Harvie
  11. Through All That Nothing – Justin Currie, Iain Harvie
  12. Life Is Full – Justin Currie
  13. Lucky Guy – Justin Currie, Iain Harvie
  14. Make It Always Be Too Late – Justin Currie