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My Brightest Diamond: This Is My Hand

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On September 16, 2014, “Asthmatic Kitty” label released “This Is My Hand”, the fifth My Brightest Diamond album.  It was recorded in 2014, and was produced by Zac Rae and Shara Worden.

Personnel:

  • Shara Worden– vocals, guitar, keyboards, drum programming, kalimba, wind and choral arrangements
  • Casey Foubert – guitar, keyboards, autoharp, percussion, interruptions
  • Zac Rae – keyboards, guitar, percussion, drum programming
  • Timo Andres– piano, celesta
  • Chris Bruce – bass guitar
  • Earl Harvin– drums, drum machine
  • Brian Wolfe – drums, percussions
  • Jason Treuting – glockenspiel
  • Hideaki Aomori – alto saxophone, clarinet
  • CJ Camerieri – trumpet, horn
  • Michael Davis– trombone
  • Alex Sopp – flute
  • Megan Levin – harp
  • Khorikos Choir – gang vocals
  • DM Stith – vocal
  • Zac Rae – choir, vocal editing, drums recording
  • Shara Worden – choir recording, vocals editing
  • John Smerek, Joel Hamburger – choir recording
  • Lawson White – vocals editing
  • Pat Dillett – winds recording
  • David Groener – winds recording assistant
  • Casey Foubert, Giovanni Nicoletta – drums recording
  • Husky Hoskulds – mixing, mastering
  • DM Stith – layout, design
  • Bernd Preiml – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Shara Worden except where noted.

  1. Pressure
  2. Before the Words
  3. This Is My Hand
  4. Lover Killer – Helga Davis, Shara Worden, Zac Rae
  5. I Am Not the Bad Guy – Helga Davis, Shara Worden
  6. Looking at the Sun – Earl Harvin, Shara Worden
  7. Shape
  8. So Easy
  9. Resonance – Earl Harvin, Shara Worden
  10. Apparition – Shara Worden, Zac Rae, lyrics by Stéphane Mallarmé

Sufjan Stevens: Illinoise

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On July 5, 2005, “Asthmatic Kitty” label released “Illinois” (Sufjan Stevens Invites You To: Come On Feel the Illinoise), the fifth Sufjan Stevens studio album. It was recorded 2004 – 2005, at “The Buddy Project” in New York City, and various locations in New York City, and was produced by Sufjan Stevens.

Personnel:

  • Sufjan Stevens – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, piano, Wurlitzer, bass guitar,  oboe, alto saxophone,  flute,  banjo,  glockenspiel, accordion, vibraphone, alto, sopranino, soprano, and tenor recorders, Casiotone MT-70, sleigh bells,  shaker,  tambourine, triangle, electronic organ,  drums, arrangements,  engineer, recording
  • James McAlister – drums, drum engineering
  • Craig Montoro – trumpet, backing vocals
  • Julianne Carney – violin
  • Rob Moose – violin
  • Marla Hansen – viola
  • Maria Bella Jeffers – cello
  • The Illinoisemaker Choir – clapping, backing vocals
  • Daniel and Elin Smith – clapping, backing vocals
  • Katrina Kerns – backing vocals
  • Shara Worden– backing vocals
  • Matt Morgan – backing vocals
  • Alan Douches – mastering
  • Jon Galloway – remix
  • Tom Eaton
  • Jennifer Hoover
  • Katrina Kerns
  • Beccy Lock
  • Tara McDonnel
  • Divya Srinivasan – artwork

Track listing:

All tracks by Sufjan Stevens.

    1. Concerning the UFO Sighting near Highland, Illinois
    2. The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience but You’re Going to Have to Leave Now, or, ‘I Have Fought the Big Knives and Will Continue to Fight Them Until They Are Off Our Lands!
    3. Come On! Feel the Illinoise!” (Part I: The World’s Columbian Exposition – Part II: Carl Sandburg Visits Me in a Dream)
    4. John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
    5. Jacksonville
    6. A Short Reprise for Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, but for Very Good Reasons
    7. Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Step Mother!
    8. One Last ‘Whoo-Hoo!’ for the Pullman!!
    9. Go! Chicago! Go! Yeah!
    10. Casimir Pulaski Day
    11. To the Workers of the Rock River Valley Region, I Have an Idea Concerning Your Predicament, and It Involves Tube Socks, a Paper Airplane, and Twenty-Two Able-Bodied Men
    12. The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
    13. Prairie Fire That Wanders About
    14. A Conjunction of Drones Simulating the Way in Which Sufjan Stevens Has an Existential Crisis in the Great Godfrey Maze
    15. The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!
    16. They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhh!
    17. Let’s Hear That String Part Again, Because I Don’t Think They Heard It All the Way Out in Bloomington–Normal
    18. In This Temple as in the Hearts of Man for Whom He Saved the Earth
    19. The Seer’s Tower
    20. The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders Part I: The Great Frontier – Part II: Come to Me Only with Playthings Now
    21. Riffs and Variations on a Single Note for Jelly Roll, Earl Hines, Louis Armstrong, Baby Dodds, and the King of Swing, to Name a Few
    22. Out of Egypt, into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and I Shake the Dirt from My Sandals as I Run