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Flora Purim: If You Will

On April 29, 2022, “Strut Records” label released “If You Will”, the 27th Flora Purim album. It was recorded at “Astrolábio Studio” and Säo Saruê Label”, in Curitiba, Brazil, “C.A. Studios” and “Click Audio Works”, “San Anselmo Studio” in California, and was produced by Flora Purim.

Personnel:

  • Flora Purim – vocals
  • Diana Purim – vocals
  • Claudia Villela – vocals
  • Grecco Buratto – guitar, backing vocals
  • Filó Machado – acoustic guitar, backing vocals
  • Fabio Nascimento – acoustic guitar
  • José Neto – guitar
  • Bryan Velasco – piano, keyboards
  • Mikka Mutti – keyboards
  • Frank Martin – keyboards
  • Marcio Lomiramda – keyboards
  • Davi Sartori – electric piano
  • Fábio Hess – bass
  • Andre de Santanna – bass
  • Thiago Duarte – bass
  • Gary Brown – bass
  • Léo Nobre – bass
  • Café da Silva – bata
  • Airto Moreira – vocals, percussion, drums
  • Léo Costa – drums
  • Endrigo Bettega – drums
  • Stéphane San Juan – drums
  • Celso Alberti – drums, percussion
  • Stéphane San Juan – drums
  • Filipe Castro – percussion
  • Alberto Lopes – percussion
  • Gibi dos Santos – percussion
  • Krishna Booker – percussion, backing vocals
  • Todd M. Simon – flugelhorn
  • Caro Pierotto – backing vocals
  • Maria Joana – backing vocals
  • Emina Shimanuki – backing vocals
  • Kana Shimunaki – backing vocals
  • Mari Nobre – backing vocals
  • Niura Band – backing vocals
  • Vitor Pinheiro – backing vocals

Track listing:

  1. If You Will – George Duke
  2. This Is Me – Krishna Booker, Diana Purim
  3. 500 Miles High – Chick Corea, Neville Potter
  4. A Flor Da Vida – Mario Moya, Diana Purim
  5. Newspaper Girl – José Neto
  6. Dandara – Felipe Machado, Judith de Souza
  7. Zahuroo – Celso Alberti, José Neto, Claudia Villela
  8. Dois + Dois = Tres – Nuno Mindelis
  9. Lucidez – Krishna Booker, Fabio Nascimento, Diana Purim

Empire Of The Sun: Two Vines

On October 28, 2016, “Virgin EMI” label released “Two Vines”, the third Empire of the Sun studio album. It was recorded 2015 – 2016, at “Studio 161”, “Henson Studios”, “Woody Jackson Studios” in Los Angeles, “Island Sound” in Hawaii, and was produced by  Luke Steele, Nick Littlemore, Peter Mayes and Donnie Sloan.

Personnel:

  • Luke Steele – vocals, bass, guitar, piano, synthesizers
  • Nick Littlemore – vocals, keyboards, drums, percussion, melodica, trombone, clavinet
  • Steve Bach – keyboards
  • Lindsey Buckingham – guitars, backing vocals
  • Evan Frasier – mbira
  • Teddy Geiger– vocals
  • Mito Kasuya – vocals
  • Mark Goldenberg – acoustic guitar
  • Henry Hey– keyboards
  • Tim Lefebvre– bass
  • David Wilder – bass
  • Jake Najor – drums
  • Michael Harris – drum, percussion engineer
  • Dexter Story – slit drums
  • Te’Amir Yohannes Sweeney – slit drums
  • SK Kakraba – gyil
  • Todd M. Simon – marimba, vibraphone
  • Alan Mark Lightner – marimba, xylophone
  • Todd Simon – percussion direction
  • Peter Mayes– engineer, mixing
  • Mike Marsh – mastering
  • Scott Horscroft – production assistance

Track listing:

  1. Before – Luke Steele, Nick Littlemore, Peter Mayes, Henry Hey
  2. High and Low – Luke Steele, Nick Littlemore, Jonathan Sloan
  3. Two Vines – Luke Steele, Nick Littlemore, Jonathan Sloan
  4. Friends – Luke Steele, Nick Littlemore, Peter Mayes, Jonathan Sloan
  5. There’s No Need – Luke Steele, Nick Littlemore, Peter Mayes, Jonathan Sloan
  6. Way to Go – Luke Steele, Nick Littlemore, Tim Lefebvre, Henry Hey
  7. Ride – Luke Steele, Nick Littlemore, Peter Mayes, Henry hey, Wendy Melvoin
  8. Digital Life – Luke Steele, Nick Littlemore, Peter Mayes, John Theodore Geiger II
  9. First Crush – Luke Steele, Nick Littlemore, Peter Mayes, Henry Hey, Jonathan Sloan
  10. ZZZ – Luke Steele, Nick Littlemore, Jonathan Sloan
  11. To Her Door – Luke Steele, Nick Littlemore, Peter Mayes, Jonathan Sloan, Lindsey Buckingham