She's in Europe again, our beloved husky Tucsonian seductress Marianne , performing for crowds in Lyon, France and more in Germany (*sobs*). But she's bringing a touring cd, that you can also download via her Bandcamp ( here ). You only see two tracks, but there's more. Way more. A duet you can't afford to miss, with 'a Belgian friend' with a very distinct singing voice ( *cough* ), there's a remix ( listen here! ), there are several beautiful versions of great MD-tracks like Cayenne and Fugu, and, well, it's Marianne, so what else do you [...]
The lovely Marianne Dissard went to China to play and to record, and she wrote a nice diary about her journey. Below's an excerpt. Read the whole thing here . September 19th – We fly back to Beijing. The taxi drops me at my hostel. I am on my own again. I came to China with a mandate to record an album, "Beijing Three Takes ". I raised a bit of money from my friends, promising a collaboration with Chinese musicians on [...]
Marianne Dissard - L'Abandon Editor's Note: I had the opportunity to first interview Marianne Dissard in the Fall of 2009. The time she took chronicling the details of her career, life and album pointed to the deeply passionate life of this tremendously talented artist. When word of her latest album, L'Abandon , broke, I had an idea in my head of asking her to put together an piece to take our readers behind her artistic curtain in an autobiographical expose. Truth be told, I never got around to [...]
I like to think I'm pretty good at getting some stuff done when I put my mind to it, but Marianne Dissard puts me to shame. Last time we had occasion to talk about her , she was finishing her debut film/Warhol tribute, Lonesome Cowgirls . With that crossed off her list, she's firmly back in the music camp, for now at least. When she came up for air recently, she shared the brand new video for The One And Only (the first single from [...]
Though Messieurs Oliver Fröschke and Rolf Witteler operate from Cologne's Quartier Belge, they have an avid schtick for music from France. True heroes, the German slacker impresarios were among the very first to discover the charm of the Nouvelle Scène Francaise in 2002 – the first Le Pop compilation (featuring Burgalat, Keren Ann and Benjamin B.) was nothing less than a revelation and sold a felt one million copies in my neighborhood. Eight years and four follow-ups later, Le Pop 6 maybe doesn't contain the same sense of wonder, but a bag of goodies all the way, featuring [...]
In October, Marianne Dissard and Françoiz Breut toured the US of A together. Eleven days, eleven shows, 3489 miles. That's a roundtrip Paris-Moscow! Especially for FillesSourires, the girls kept a diary. It's star-studded, it's funny, it's girly, it's a good read. Jour 1 - Bruxelles to Tucson Françoiz : I don't really feel like landing and having to go through the impressive border checkpoint. In Chicago, a charming border agent, a sort of Mickey Rourke (is his hair greased back or just greasy?), asks [...]
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A leggere come musicisti accreditati per un album Joey Burns e John Convertino si suppone si stia parlando del nuovo disco dei Calexico. Non è così. O meglio c'è stato quest'anno un disco (gran bello) dei Calexico ma se stiamo parlando del duo Burns/Convertino è perchè si ergono come deus ex machina dell'esordio di Marianne Dissard . Il primo nelle vesti di co-scrittore, produttore e polistrumentista, il secondo alla batteria. Il disco, cantato interamente in francese e registrato a Tucson, è in effetti quello che un po' si potrebbe immaginare: un disco tex mex, molto vicino [...]
- News da info@frequenzeindipendenti.com - La casella di posta di Frequenze, lasciata un pò allo sbando ultimamente, ha decisamente bisogno di smaltire un pò del suo peso. Sono molte le mail di gruppi nuovi (stranieri soprattutto) e di segnalazioni varie (complete di mp3 e approfondite descrizioni) non lette e/o lasciate alla polvere informatica. Scusateci. Prendiamo questo post come seduta snellente e cogliamo l'occasione per ringraziare tutti (lettori, ascoltatori, etichette e band) per i continui aggiornamenti. Ecco una prima parte di ciò che abbiamo estrapolato da info@frequenzeindipendenti.com dell'ultimo mese. [...]
In this NSFW video from French chanteuse Marianne Dissard (completed with help from Joey Burns of Calexico ), a dozen or so people file into a guestroom at the Congress Hotel in sunny Tucson, AZ. Nothing else really happens, aside from playing, dancing, a dog hanging out...oh yeah, and a couple getting intimate while all of this is going on. The song is wonderful French pop and, even if you can't understand a thing Dissard says, you cannot help swooning at her direct, honey-voiced delivery. (mp3) Marianne Dissard and Joey Burns [...]
In this NSFW video from French chanteuse Marianne Dissard (completed with help from Joey Burns of Calexico ), a dozen or so people file into a guestroom at the Congress Hotel in sunny Tucson, AZ. Nothing else really happens, aside from playing, dancing, a dog hanging out...oh yeah, and a couple getting intimate while all of this is going on. The song is wonderful French pop and, even if you can't understand a thing Dissard says, you cannot help swooning at her direct, honey-voiced delivery. (mp3) Marianne Dissard and Joey Burns - Casey's [...]
Don't worry, I know that for the most part this is going to be a futile post - lost on almost all of you. Given that my taste is fairly mainstream - indie mainstream, but mainstream nonetheless - I am genuinely surprised at the lack of love for this band shown by you, my snide sarcastic smart-arsed disrespectful adoring readers. So, given I know music taste is music taste, and that no amount of rationalisation can really change a gut reaction, I am not writing this post in the [...]
Marianne Dissard (Photo Courtesy A.T. Willett) "Her work has a lovely, mournful lilt, a sort of Parisian blues. Even those of us who don't speak French cannot help but be touched by the stark beauty of her phrasing." LA Weekly I planned on including french-born, Arizona based singer-songwriter Marianne Dissard's beautiful song, "Mercia De Rien Du Tout" on the third installment of Voices of Angels . After listening to it over and over again, I decided it should be Monday's song [...]
Matt Mitchell (he plays guitar) and Marianne Dissard (she doesn't, she sings) form a duo. But they're also solo-artists. And part of bands. And they join each other for special projects. Like the album Christmas in Tuscon, featuring band from the Tucson area playing x-mas songs: Al Perry, Naim Amor, Bob Spasm, Solace Bros., etc. On this album, Matt does a great instrumental rendition of Sleigh Ride, while Marianne (with Matt on guitar) covers Jona Lewie's Stop The Cavalry, with slightly changed lyrics. Marianne Dissard - Stop The Cavalry Matt Mitchell - [...]
Apart from signalling the collapse of civillised society as we know it, graffiti also exists as a legitimate art form. Banksy is currently the most famous proponent of this particular skill, but I rather unjustly dismissed him out of hand when he first began to gain notoriety. Basically, the sort of people I [...]
Ah, the loveliness of the sultry French chanteuse. In fact, between their cheese, their wine, Patrice Evra and their inspirationally deranged voitures, such as the Citroen DS and the Renault 4, I think France might be just about my favourite country in the world. Add the indifferently contemptuous gallic shrug, and there really is no argument. French popular music, on the other hand, often leaves an awful lot to be desired. The bizarre electronic pop in which they have recently specialised doesn't do a lot for me, and things like French rap and hip-hop, like [...]
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