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The Flower Kings: By Royal Decree

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On March 4, 2022, “Inside Out Music” label released “By Royal Decree”, the fifteenth Flower Kings (The) studio album.

Personnel:

  • Roine Stolt – vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, ukulele, Portuguese guitar, nylon guitar, additional keyboards, orchestration, mixing
  • Hasse Fröberg – vocals, 12-string acoustic guitar
  • Zach Kamins – organ, piano, synthesizers, orchestrations
  • Jonas Reingold – fretted bass, fretless bass
  • Michael Stolt – bass, Moog Taurus pedalboard, backing vocals
  • Mirko DeMaio – drums, percussion, additional orchestration
  • Aliaksandr Yasinski – accordion
  • Jonas Lindberg – bass
  • Rob Townsend – saxophones
  • Hasse Bruniusson – acoustic and electronic percussion
  • Jannica Lund – backing vocals
  • Lasse Hallbäck – engineer
  • Kevin Sloan – artwork
  • Thomas Ewerhard – layout
  • Lilian Forsberg, Patrick Marek – photography

Track listing:

  1. The Great Pretender
  2. World Gone Crazy
  3. Blinded
  4. A Million Stars
  5. The Soldier
  6. The Darkness in You
  7. We Can Make It Work
  8. Peacock on Parade
  9. Revolution
  10. Time the Great Healer
  11. Letter
  12. Evolution
  13. Silent Ways
  14. Moth
  15. The Big Funk
  16. Open Your Heart
  17. Shrine
  18. Funeral Pyres

Roy Orbison: Crying

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In January 1962, “Monument” label released “Crying”, the third Roy Orbison studio album. It was recorded February – November 1961, at “RCA Victor Studio B” in Nashville, Tennessee, and was produced by Fred Foster.

Personnel:

  • Roy Orbison – vocals, guitar
  • Boudleaux Bryant, Fred Carter Jr., Grady Martin, Hank Garland, Harold Bradley, Joe Tanner, Ray Edenton, Scotty Moore – guitar
  • Bill Pursell, Floyd Cramer – piano
  • Charlie McCoy – harmonica
  • Bob Moore – bass
  • Buddy Harman, John Greubel – drums
  • Boots Randolph, Harry Johnson – saxophone
  • Cam Mullins, Karl Garvin – trumpet
  • Brenton Banks, Cecil Brower, Dorothy Walker, George Binkley, Lillian Hunt, Solie Fott, Suzanne Parker, Vernal Richardson, Wilda Tinsley – violin
  • Howard Carpenter – viola
  • Byron Bach – cello
  • Bill Porter – recording
  • Tommy Strong – engineer
  • Guy Fletcher – mastering
  • Boudleaux Bryant – liner notes

Track listing:

All tracks by Roy Orbison and Joe Melson, except where noted.

  1. Crying
  2. The Great Pretender – Buck Ram
  3. Kice Hurts – Boudleaux Bryant
  4. She Wears My Ring – Felice & Boudleaux Bryant
  5. Wedding Day
  6. Summersong
  7. Dance
  8. Lana
  9. Loneliness
  10. Let’s Make a Memory
  11. Nite Life
  12. Running Scared

Brian Eno: Taking Tiger Mountain

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In November 1974, “Island” label released “Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)”, the second Brian Eno album. It was recorded in September 1974, at “Island Studios” in London, and was produced by Brian Eno.

Personnel:

  • Brian Eno– vocals, electronics, snake guitar, keyboards
  • Phil Manzanera– guitar, production assistance
  • Brian Turrington – bass guitar, piano
  • Freddie Smith – drums
  • Phil Collins– drums
  • Robert Wyatt– percussion, backing vocals
  • Andy Mackay– brass
  • Portsmouth Sinfonia– strings
  • Randi and the Pyramids – chorus
  • The Simplistics – chorus
  • Polly Eltes – vocals
  • David Hill – Ampex ATR 2Ch Tape playback with ARIA electronics
  • Peter Schmidt– oblique strategies, album cover art
  • Rhett Davies– engineer
  • Denny Bridges (AIR) – engineer
  • Robert Ash – engineer assistant
  • Jon Walls (AIR) – engineer assistant
  • Simon Heyworth – mastering
  • Nicholas Pearson – special aide
  • Bill Kelsey – special equipment
  • John Bonis – typography, lettering

Track listing:

All tracks by Brian Eno, except where noted.

  1. Burning Airlines Give You So Much More
  2. Back in Judy’s Jungle
  3. The Fat Lady of Limbourg
  4. Mother Whale Eyeless
  5. The Great Pretender
  6. Third Uncle – Brian Eno, arranged by Brian Turrington
  7. Put a Straw Under Baby
  8. The True Wheel – Brian Eno, Phil Manzanera
  9. China My China
  10. Taking Tiger Mountain