''High January'' is the ninth album by Canadian music artist Marker Starling (
Chris A. Cummings
Chris A. Cummings (born 29 May 1969), known professionally as Marker Starling (and formerly as Mantler), is a Canadian songwriter and musician.
Early career
Born in Toronto, Cummings studied classical piano from age 7 to age 20, and wrote song ...
), released on . It is composed entirely of original material, being produced for the first time by
Sean O'Hagan, whose previous work with
Stereolab,
The High Llamas and
Microdisney
Microdisney were an Irish rock band formed in Cork in 1980. They were founded and led by songwriters Cathal Coughlan (keyboards, vocals) and Sean O'Hagan (guitar). Originally typeset as Micro Disney, the band had become Microdisney by the tim ...
brought extensive experience to helping achieve a fully-realized Marker Starling sound.
Laetitia Sadier, also of Stereolab, contributes vocals to two tracks, "Waiting for Grace" and "Starved for Glamour".
Tim Sendra of AllMusic wrote in his review, – ..."this is serious mood music and Cummings made a fine choice by picking a producer who knows how to sustain a consistent mood, and by bringing along his crack band to back him."
Track listing
Side 1
# High January
# Wait The Night
# Drop And Pierce
# Waiting For Grace
Side 2
# Move It On
# Starved For Glamour
# Coin of the Realm
# A Little Joy
Personnel
*Vocals – Laetitia Sadier
*Backing Vocals – Connor Blundell, Mason Le Long, Nicholas Krgovich
*Drums – Euan Rodger
*Guitar – Andy Whitehead
*Bass – Joe Carvell
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Artwork
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Layout – Sharmila Banerjee
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Engineer,
Audio mixing,
Programming (Synthesizer) –
Andy Ramsay
Stereolab are an English people, Anglo-French people, French avant-pop band formed in London in 1990. Led by the songwriting team of Tim Gane and Lætitia Sadier, the group's music combines influences from krautrock, lounge music, lounge and 19 ...
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Mastering – Noel Summerville
*Producer, Mixing, Bass,
Electric Organ ohner Symphonic 30N Synthesizer
oland System 100 Programming – Sean O'Hagan
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Recording engineer
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dditional– Mason Le Long
*Written-By,
Electric piano
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MI Electric organ owrey MicroGenie Synthesizer
olina String Ensemble Synthesizer
oland System 100 Electric Piano
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Electric Piano
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ASP
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Places
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* Aspe (''Asp'' in Valencian), Alicante, Spain
* Asp Lake, a lake in Minnesota
Animals
* Asp (fish)
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Vocals – Chris A. Cummings
Recorded At – Press Play Studios /
Mastered At – 3345 Mastering /
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Tin Angel Records /
Copyright (c) – Tin Angel Records
References
External links
*Waiting For Grace (Official Video
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