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Enter Shikari: Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible

On April 17, 2020, “SO Recordings” label released “Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible”, the sixth Enter Shikari studio album. It was recorded 2019 – 2020, and was produced by Rou Reynolds.

Personnel:

  • Rou Reynolds – lead vocals, keyboards, piano, orchestral arrangements, programming, mixing 
  • Rory Clewlow – vocals, guitar, engineer
  • Chris Batten – vocals, bass
  • Rob Rolfe – drums, percussion, drum engineer
  • Pete Fraser – baritone and tenor saxophone
  • Mike Kearsy – tuba 
  • George Fenton – orchestral arrangements
  • Julian Kershaw – orchestral arrangements
  • City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra 
  • Lucie Švehlová – concertmaster 
  • Adam Klemens – conductor 
  • Dan Weller – engineer, production assistant
  • George Perks – engineer
  • Will Flato – engineer
  • Vitek Král – engineer
  • Michal Hradiský – engineer assistant
  • Dan Lancaster – mixing
  • Geoff Swan – mixing
  • Clint Murphy – mixing
  • Rhys May – mixing assistan
  • Prash ‘Engine-Earz’ Mistry – mastering
  • Lavar Bullard – mastering
  • Stuart Hawkes – mastering (vinyl)
  • Ian Johnsen – art direction
  • Stuart Ford – layout
  • Tom Pullen – photography
  • Corinne Cumming – photography assistant

Track listing

  1. The Great Unknown
  2. Crossing the Rubicon
  3. The Dreamer’s Hotel
  4. Waltzing Off the Face of the Face of the Earth (I. Crecendo)
  5. Modern Living
  6. apøcaholics anonymøus (Main Theme in B Minor)
  7. The Pressure’s On
  8. Reprise 3
  9. T.I.N.A.
  10. Elegy for Extincyion
  11. Marionettes (I/ The Discovery of Strings)
  12. Marionettes (II. The Ascent)
  13. Satellites
  14. The King
  15. Waltzing of the Face of the Face of the Earth (II. Piangevole)

Jimmy McGriff: McGriff Avenue

On October 29, 2002, “Milestone” label released “McGriff Avenue”, the 61st Jimmy McGriff album. It was recorded in October 2001, at “Van Gelder Studio”, in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, and was produced by Bob Porter.

Personnel:

  • Jimmy McGriff – Hammond X-B3 organ
  • Gordon Beadle, Bill Easley – tenor saxophone
  • Ronnie Cuber – baritone saxophone
  • Rodney Jones, Melvin Sparks-Hassan – guitar
  • Wilbur Bascomb – bass
  • Bernard Purdie, Don Williams − drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Rodney Jones except where noted..

  1. All About My Girl – Jimmy McGriff
  2. McGriff Avenue
  3. Soul Street – Jimmy Forrest
  4. The Answer Is in the Blues
  5. The Great Unknown – Jimmy McGriff, Ronnie Cuber
  6. Dissertation on the Blues
  7. The Worm – Jimmy McGriff, Sonny Lester, Fats Theus
  8. America the Beautiful – Samuel A. Ward, Katharine Lee Bates

Better Than Ezra: All Together Now

On September 9, 2014, “The End” label released “All Together Now”, the eighth Better Than Ezra studio album. It was recorded in 2014, at “The Hobby Shop” in Highland Park, CA, and was produced by Tony Hoffer.

Personnel:

  • Kevin Griffin– vocals, guitar, keyboards
  • Tom Drummond- bass guitar
  • Michael Jerome-
  • Courtlan Clement – guitar
  • Tony Hoffer – guitar, drums programming, keyboards, engineer, mixing
  • Dave Palmer – piano
  • Jamie Moore – keyboards, backing vocals
  • Sean Hurley – bass
  • Paul Mabury, Travis Aaron McNabb – drums
  • Adam Chance, Shy Carter, Jeremy Lister, Nolan Sipe, Julia Sinclair – backing vocals
  • Christopher Cruz – layout
  • Greg Miles – photography

Track listing:

  1. Crazy Lucky
  2. Gonna Get Better
  3. Undeniable
  4. Insane
  5. Sunflowers
  6. The Great Unknown
  7. Before You
  8. Dollar Sign
  9. One Heart Beating
  10. Diamond In My Pocket
  11. I Fly Away