On September 23, 2025, Daniel Henry Edward Thompson aka Danny Thompson died aged 86. He was musician (upright bass, tea chest bass), songwriter and record producer, member of Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated, led a trio that included John McLaughlin, but was best known as member of Pentangle and long – time collaborator with John Martyn. During his long musical career he recorded and played with a large variety of other musicians, including Richard Thompson, Kate Bush, Tim Buckley, ABC, Skin, Ayuo, Richard Barbieri, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Sam Brown, Graham Coxon, Donovan, Christine Collister, Barbara Dickson, Bick Drake, Everything but the Girl, Marianne Faithfull, Peter Gabriel, Davey Graham, Mara!, Linda Lewis, Mike Landup, Magna Carta, The Chris McGregor Septet, Loreena McKennitt, Ralph McTell, Alison Moyet, Cliff Richard, Dizrhythmia, David Sylvian, Duffy Power, Deva Premal, Andrew Ridgeley, Talk Talk, Loudon Wainwright III, Se. E. Rogie, Darell Scott, Songhai, Vivian Stanshall, Eric Bibb & North Country Far, Hunter Muskett, Mary Hopkin, John Stevens, Alan Holdsworth, Bert Jansch, David Wharnsby, Boo Hewerdine, Tasmin Archer, The Incredible String Band, T. Rex and Rod Stewart. As leader Thompson released seven albums.
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Beth Orton: Weather Alive
On September 23, 2022, “Partisan” label released “Weather Alive”, the eighth Beth Orton studio album. It was recorded in 2022, and was produced by Beth Orton.
Personnel:
- Beth Orton – lead and backing vocals, piano, electric piano, keyboards, loops, MIDI controller, electronics, engineer
- Grey McMurray – electric guitar, backing vocals
- Shahzad Ismaily – electruc guitar, bass, harmonica, synthesizer, percussion
- Francine Perry – synthesizer
- Dustin O’Halloran – synthesizer
- Sam Beste – piano, vibraphone
- Jesse Chandler – instruments
- Tom Herbert – bass
- Ali Friend – double bass
- Chris Vatalaro – bass, drums
- Tom Skinner – drums, drum programming
- Alabaster DePlume – saxophone
- Stuart Bogie – saxophone
- Aaron Roche – trombone
- Fabio Senna – engineer
- Francine Perry – engineer
- Dani Bennet Spragg – engineer
- Craig Silvey – mixing
- Dani Bennett-Spragg – mixing
- Greg Calbi – mastering
- Joe Nino – Hernes – lacquer cut
- Eliot Lee Hazel – creative director, artwork
- Aaron Mitchell – packaging design
Track listing:
All tracks by Beth Orton.
- Weather Alive
- Friday Night
- Fractals
- Haunted Satellite
- Forever Young
- Lonely
- Arms Around a Memory
- Unwritten
The Comet Is Coming: Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam
On September 23, 2022, “Impulse!” label released “Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam”, the third and final Comet Is Coming (The) studio album. It was recorded in 2022, at “Real World Studios” in Box, Wiltshire, and was produced by Danalogue and Betamax.
Personnel:
- Danalogue (Dan Leavers) – keyboards, synthesizers, percussion, field recordings, arrangements, mixing
- Shabaka Hutchings – saxophone, Shakuhachi
- (Betamax) Max Hallett – drums, percussion, drum machine, electronic drums, synthesizer, arrangements, mixing
- Kristian Craig Robinson – recording, additional production
- Daddy Kev – mastering
- Chris Bellman – lacquer cut
- Daniel Martin Diaz – artwork
- Veil Projects – layout
- Tom Arndt – production coordinator
- Dahlia Ambach-Caplin – A&R
Track listing:
All tracks by Shabaka Hutchings, Max Hallett and Dan Leavers.
- Code
- Technicolour
- Lucid Dreamer
- Tokyo Nights
- Pyramids
- Frequency of Feeling Expansion
- Angel of Darkness
- Aftermath
- Atomic Wave Dance
- The Hammer
- Mystik
Marisa Anderson: Still, Here
On September 23, 2022, “Thrill Jockey” label released “Still, Here”, the tenth Marisa Anderson studio album. It was recorded in 2022, and was produced by Marisa Anderson.
Personnel:
- Marisa Anderson – nylon-string guitar, steel-string guitar, electric guitar, pedal steel guitar, requinto guitar, electric piano, synthesizer, arrangements, recording
- Jesse Munro Johnson – mixing
- Amy Dragon – mastering
- Daniel Castrejon – design
- Dante Korinto – photography
Track listing:
All tracks by Marisa Anderson, except where noted.
- In Dark Water
- The Fire This Time
- The Low Country
- Night Art
- Walking
- The Crack Where the Light Gets In
- La Llorona – traditional
- Beat the Drum Slowly – traditional
Alex G: God Save The Animals
On September 23, 2022, “Domino” label released “God Save the Animals”, the ninth Alex G studio album. It was recorded in 2022, at “Headroom Studios” and “Spice House” in Philadelphia, “Sugar House” in New York City, “Clubhouse” in Rhinebeck, New York, Gradwell House Recording” in Haddon Heights, New Jersey, “Watersong Music” in Bowdoinham, Maine, and was produced by Alex G and Jacob Portrait.
Personnel:
- Alex G (Alexander Giannascoli) – vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, drums, engineer
- Samuel Acchione – guitar, banjo
- John Heywood – bass
- Tom Kelly – drums
- Jessica Lea Mayfield – additional vocals
- Molly Germer – strings, additional vocals, string arrangement
- Jacob Portrait – engineer, mixing
- Mark Watter – engineer
- Kyle Pulley – engineer
- Scoops Dardaris – engineer
- Eric Bogacz – engineer
- Connor Priest – engineer
- Steve Poponi – engineer
- Earl Bigelow – engineering
- Anjan Alavandar – engineer assistant
- Isaac Eiger – engineer assistant
- Shubham Mondal – engineer assistant
- Sophie Shalit – engineer assistant
- Heba Kadry – mastering
- Rachel Giannascoli Masciantonio – artwork
Track listing:
All tracks by Alex Giannascoli.
- After All
- Runner
- Mission
- S.D.O.S.
- No Bitterness
- Ain’t It Easy
- Cross the Sea
- Blessing
- Early Morning Waiting
- Immunity
- Headroom Piano
- Miracles
- Forgive
Bruno Pernadas: Those Who Throw Objects at the Crocodiles Will Be Asked to Retrieve Them
On September 23, 2016, “Pataca Discos” label released “Those Who Throw Objects at the Crocodiles Will Be Asked to Retrieve Them”, album by Bruno Pernadas. It was recorded in 2016, at “Estúdio 15A”.
Personnel:
- Bruno Pernadas – vocals, guitar, keyboards, piano, bass, synthesizer, home recording
- Margarida Campelo – vocals, piano, keyboards
- Afonso Cabral, Francisca Cortesão – vocals
- Nuno Lucas – bass
- João Correia – drums, percussion
- João Capinha – alto and tenor saxophone
- Raimundo Semedo – tenor and baritone saxophone
- Diana Mortágua – flute
- Tiago de Sousa – recording, mixing, mastering
- Diogo Duque – flute, trumpet, flugelhorn
- Rita Westwood – artwork
Track listing:
- Poem
- Spaceway 70
- Problem Number 6
- Valley In the Ocean
- Anywhere in Spacetime
- Poem
- Because It’s Hard to Develop That Capacity On Your Own
- Galaxy
- Ya Ya Breathe
- Lachrymose
Peter Gabriel: Up
On September 23, 2002, “Geffen” and “Real World Records” label released “Up”, the seventh Peter Gabriel studio album. It was recorded April 1995 – October 1998, 2000 – 2002, at “Real World” in Box, UK, “The Meduse” in Senegal, “Real World Mobile” in France, “Air” in London, “Hype Studios” in Singapore, and was produced by Stephen Hague and Peter Gabriel.
Personnel:
- Peter Gabriel – vocals, piano, keyboards, JamMan, MPC groove, electronics, organ, bass keys, sampled keyboards, bass guitar, harmonium, Telecaster, crotales, tom–tom, samples, harmonica, reversed strings, string samples, Mellotron, sampled guitar
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan – vocals
- David Rhodes – guitars, electric guitar, backing vocals
- Tony Levin – bass
- Manu Katché – drums
- Dave Power – drums
- Ged Lynch – drums, percussion
- Dominque Mahut – percussion
- Richard Chappell – percussion, treated loop, loop manipulation, programming
- Alex Swift – additional programming
- The London Session Orchestra – strings
- Will Gregory – string arrangements
- Isobel Griffiths – string contractor
- Nick Ingman – orchestrations
- Tchad Blake – tape scratches, groove treatment effects
- Adrian Chivers – backing vocals
- Pete Davis – additional programming
- Blind Boys of Alabama – additional and backing vocals
Track listing:
All tracks by Peter Gabriel, except where noted.
- Darkness
- Growing Up
- Sky Blue
- No Way Out
- I Grieve
- The Barry Williams Show
- My Head Sounds Like That
- More Than This
- Signal to Noise
- The Drop
T. B. Tracheri: Klati I Trkalaj
On September 23, 2001, “Margina” label released “Klati i Trkalaj”, the debut T.B. Tracheri album. It was recorded in 2001, at “Кино Ѓорче Петров”, in Skopje, Macedonia.
Personnel:
- Kircho Arsovski – vocals, guitar
- Ivica Dimitrievik – guitar, backing vocals
- Kiril Arsov – bass, backing vocals
- Andrej Anastasov Daskalovski – drums, backing vocals
- Alen Hadzi-Stefanov – recording
Track listing:
- Trach mantra
- Skopje
- Mrzu starci
- Chedo glava
- Ja sam ubav
- Pica
- Bubashvabe
- Stra mi e
- Dok ne zines
- Heroj
- Mama ne ti dava
- Elton Fucking John
- Nova moda
- Gotov si
- She’s a Bomb
- Kinky
- James Bond te pljuka
- Etiopija
- Untitled
Everything But The Girl: Worldwide
On September 23, 1991, “Blanco y Negro” label released “Worldwide”, the sixth Everything but the Girl studio album. It was recorded in 1991, at “Livingston Recording Studios” in London.
Personnel:
- Tracey Thorn – vocals
- Greg Lester – guitar
- Ben Watt – synthesizer, guitar, synthesizer bass, piano, organ, drum, sound programming, backing vocals
- Damon Butcher – piano
- Peter Murray – organ
- Geoff Gascoyne – bass
- Steve Pearce – bass
- Ralph Salmins – drums, cymbals, percussion
- Vinnie Colaiuta – drums
- Martin Ditcham – percussion
- Dick Oatts – alto and soprano saxophone
- Pete Whyman – tenor saxophone
- James McMillan – flugelhorn, trumpet
- Jerry Boys – engineer
- Richard Haughton – cover photography
Track listing:
- Old Friends – Ben Watt
- Understanding – Tracey Thorn, Ben Watt
- You Lift Me Up – Tracey Thorn
- Talk to Me Like the Sea – Ben Watt
- British Summertime – Tracey Thorn, BenWatt
- Twin Cities – Ben Watt
- Frozen River – Ben Watt
- One Place – Tracey Thorn
- Politics Aside – Ben Watt
- Boxing and Pop Music – Ben Watt
- Feel Alright – Ben Watt
Billy Bragg & Joe Henry: Shine a Light: Field Recordings from the Great American Railroad
On September 23, 2016, “Cooking Viny;” label released “Shine a Light: Field Recordings from the Great American Railroad”, an album of field recordings made by Billy Bragg and Joe Henry, as they performed in waiting rooms and trackside at railway stations on a journey between Chicago and Los Angeles in March 2016. The album was produced by Billy Brag and Joe Henry.
Personnel:
- Billy Bragg – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar
- Joe Henry – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, harmonica
- Ryan Freeland – engineer, mixing
Track listing:
- Rock Island Line – traditional, arranged by Billy Bragg, Joe Henry
- The L&N Don’t Stop Here Any More – Jean Ritchie
- Midnight Special – Huddie Ledbetter
- Railroad Bill – traditional, arranged by Billy Bragg, Joe Henry
- Lonesome Whistle – Hank Williams; Jimmie Davis
- KC Moan – Tewee Blackman
- Waiting for a Train – Jimmie Rodgers
- In the Pines – traditional, arranged by Billy Bragg, Joe Henry
- Gentle on My Mind – John Hartford
- Hobo’s Lullaby – Goebel Reeves
- Railroading on the Great Divide – Sara Carter
- John Henry – traditional, arranged by Billy Bragg, Joe Henry
- Early Morning Rain – Gordon Lightfoot
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