ALBUM - "L’ENTREDEUX": Lyrics by Marianne Dissard, musics by Joey Burns
except tracks 1,5 & 10 composed by Naïm Amor
Marianne Dissard - vocals
Joey Burns - guitars/bass/etc
John Convertino - drums
Naim Amor - guitar, vocals
Rob Burger - accordion/etc
Mickey Raphael - harmonica
Matt Mitchell - django guitar
Michael Fan, Rose Todaro, Vicki Brown - strings
Nick Luca - barytone guitar
Adrianne DeNike - backup vocals
Sammy Decoster - vocals
Craig Schumacher - mixing engineer
ALBUM - demo to "L'Entredeux": "DEDICATED TO YOUR WALLS, MAY THEY KEEP BLOOMING" Lyrics by Marianne Dissard, musics by Joey Burns
except tracks 9,10 & 11 composed by Naïm Amor
Marianne Dissard - vocals
Joey Burns - guitar/upright bass 1-8
Naim Amor - guitar 9-11
L I V E :
EUROPE FALL 2009:
Brian Lopez - guitar, vocals
Sergio Mendoza - drums
Geoff Hidalgo - bass
Olivier Samouillan - violin
Rob Hecht - violin
EUROPE FALL 2008 to SUMMER 2009:
Marianne Dissard - vocals
Clay Koweek - guitar/vocals
Andrew Collberg - drums
Connor Gallaher - guitar/vocals
Christian Ravaglioli - piano/accordeon
USA EAST COAST/CANADA WINTER 2009:
Marianne Dissard - vocals
Clay Koweek - guitar/vocals
Arthur Vint - drums
USA WEST COAST 2009:
Andrew Collberg - drums
Clay Koweek - guitar
Connor Gallaher - guitar/vocals
Vicki Brown - violin
Mark Growden - accordeon/sax
OTHER PLAYERS 2005-2009:
Matt Mitchell - guitar
Naim Amor - guitars
Thøger Lund - upright bass
Marco Rosano - melodica/clarinet
Will Elliott - slide/backup vocals
Mr. Tidypaws - saxophone
Dimitri Manos - drums
Tommy Larkins - drums
Ian Stapp - upright bass
French Tourist - theremin, samples
Ami Garmon - performance/choreography
Thimo Sander - guitar
Thomas Fietz - drums
Antonio Gramentieri - guitar
LABELS
EUROPE: Le Pop Musik - Rolf Witteler - rolf@lepop.de
US/CANADA/NZ: Trop Exprés Music - mariannedissard@gmail.com
UK: Orchestra Pit - Shaun Hendry - vacilando68@hotmail.com
DISTRIBUTION
EUROPE: Austria: Hoanzl - Benelux: Rough Trade Benelux - Czech Republic: Panther AS - France: Discograph - Greece: V2 - Hungary: Deep Music - Italy: Family Affair - Poland: Isound - Portugal: Vortex - South Africa: Kurse - Spain: K Industria - Switzerland: TBA SA - Sweden: Border Music - Denmark: Voices - Finland: Supersounds - Norway: Voices
USA: Carrot Top Distribution + CDBaby + directly through Marianne Dissard on Ebay, Amazon, paypal using mariannedissard@gmail.com + various stores including Sonic Boom Records, Amoeba, Stinkweeds, BooBoo, etc...
CANADA: FAB - Tom Dunlop - sales4@fab.ca
UK:
WORLD: Hong Kong: Zoo Records - Japan: Art Union - Australia: TBA - New Zealand: Rythmethod
BOOKING
EUROPE: Hotel Lounge - Chris Burr - chris@hotellounge.de
FRANCE: AddItUp - Charlotte Nansot - charlottenansot@additup.fr
US/CANADA: Lost Barrio Artists - Kris Kerry - kris@lostbarrioartists.com
Howe Gelb, Al Foul, Dominique A., Rita Mitsouko, Naim Amor, Amor Belhom Duo, Giant Sand, Eartha Kitt, Calexico, Johnny Cash, Katerine, Jacques Brel, Léo Ferré, Chavela Vargas, Shannon Wright, Joao Gilberto, Billie Holiday, Edith Piaf, Dalida, Gainsbourg, Bob Log III, Nick Drake, Tom Ze, Nina Simone, Elis Regina, Claude Nougaro ... Pierre Guyotat, Ira Gerschwin, Jean Fauque, Michel Deguy, Jorie Graham... Luis Bunuel, Jon Jost, Lodge Kerrigan, Sam Peckinpah... Gary Winogrand... Pina Bausch.
Sounds Like
WORDS
** Top 10 French Albums of the Decade: "L'Entredeux" ** DJ Trouble/WFMU, USA
Maks/Filles Sourires, Netherlands
** "Les 50 Français qui marquent l'Amérique": Marianne Dissard **
Eté 2009 mensuel France-Amérique
ENGLISH: ""Enchanting" Now Toronto/Canada "Fabulous. Stunning." Ottawa Xpress/Canada "She's just a damn good time." Seattle Weekly/USA"One of the most poignant and versatile live performers you could ever hope to stumble across. Whether she is crooning in the corner of a Tucson bar or fronting a five-piece collective, Dissard commands an audience unlike many others." Santa Barbara Independent/USA "Beautiful and coherent, understated and entrancing" Blurt Magazine/USA "Stunning Frenchwoman despite years of living in Tucson, she had great songs, a fine voice and excellent delivery. Very classy, but straightforward too. Hard to characterise, excellent" Radio3.CBC/Canada "Weds the cabaret/chanson tradition with Americana. Where such a mix could easily have come across as contrived in someone else's hands, Dissard makes both forms sound like they were meant for each other. French may be the language of love, but the emotional punch of the music comes from Dissard's delivery. So natural is her approach, in fact, that after a short time her French lyrics don't sound novel or even foreign at all. Clearly, Dissard isn't pandering to anyone's yen for exoticism. Instead, she plumbs for the soul of both traditions and re-invents them both." Rochester City Newspaper/USA "Unusual mixture of French and American Southwestern influences" Tribune Montréal/Canada "Striking in its ability to seamlessly fuse styles that seemed previously to be wholly disparate" Buffalo News/USA"Her stage performances are a seductive mingling of catchy melodies, with her deep, raspy voice emanating a haunting sense of longing." Art Voice Buffalo/USA"Heart-melting debut that beautifully melds Southwestern noir with the husky, unequivocal whisper of chanson. An intimate and amorous album. What sets Dissard apart from the rest of the chanteuses riding the Francophile wave is her delivery—subtle, slightly spitty and the most effective aphrodisiac since Benjamin Biolay’s Trash Yéyé." Philadelphia Weekly/USA"A fair presence, a true-to-form throaty alto, and enchanting French lyrics.Marianne's vocals have been called breathless, but that makes her out to be a lo-fi chanteuse a la premiere dame. I'd say she sounds more like a scaled downTetes Raides. Think of a female performer who embraces the poetry of Leonard Cohen and the litheness of a panther - that's Marianne Dissard. Live, she performs with an abandon that compliments Calexico's technique - not AIDS WOLF, try Ida Maria." Toronto Blog/Canada"The effect is magical" Democrat&Chronicle/USA"An enchanting listen" New Haven Advocate/USA"Something like ’70s import movie music. It is delightfully noncommercial and full of risks." San Diego Reader/USA"Pick of the Week: 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/USA"There is little to say here; if you don't fall in love with her from the moment she says hello, then you will have done by the time she finishes the first line of her first song, and if you're not melting by then, you have a swinging brick instead of a soul. The same kind of ache you get from Lambchop or Alice by Tom Waits- yet sounding like neither of them."Mitch & Murray/UK "Polished and thoughtful, French and sultry, smoky, beautiful and sad." Tucson Weekly/USA"Flush with bluesy overtones and a sultriness that doesn't veer into lounge-cheese territory." Ottawa Citizen/Canada"Seductive French lyrics, brooding ballads and a sultry, alternative jazz/neo-lounge vibe.Washington Post/USA
FRANÇAIS: "Cet album est une des merveilles de l'année" Magic/France "Une pop-folk soignée, amoureuse et trainante" Télérama/France "Orfèvre en textes poignants. L’album d’un territoire imprévisible mais très clairement identifié, un album qui fédère des esthétiques et des pratiques parfois tangentes mais jamais unies jusque-là". Bertrand Dicale/RFI+Chorus/France "Déroutant et captivant" Pariscope/France "“Vaporeux et sensuel. Un murmure, un souffle sexy, la voix de Dissard sait séduire en deux mots. Le premier grand cru de 2009. 4 étoiles****" Voir-Montréal/Canada "“Une Greco de l’Arizona, une Adjani hallucinée au peyote, une Françoise Hardy passée à l’ouest. C’est délicieux et sulfureux, parfois yéyé et tout le temps panoramique, atmosphérique et tout ce que vous voulez en ique.” Le Devoir-Montréal/Canada ""Un pur délice. Difficile à croire, mais le meilleur album francophone ces temps-ci nous vient du sud."" Voir-Sherbrooke/Canada
GERMAN: "Das dilemma des Wüster-Rockband Calexico besteht darin, dass ihre schönen Lieder doch sehr ähnlich klingen. Welches Wunder frische Ideen oft bewirken, belegt das Album, das Calexico-Co-Chef Joey Burns mit dieser Exil-Französin eingespielt hat. Herrlich verschmelzen da alte europäische Wehmut und Eleganz des Chansons mit der Einsamkeit druchglühter amerikanischer Western-Landschaften" Der Spiegel/Germany "Weil der Himmel in Arizona auch im November unbeirrt in schönstem Blau strahlt, ist die französische Sängerin in die Wüstenstadt Tucson umgesiedelt. Für ihr Debütalbum hat sie die flirrende Sonne des Südwestens mit ihrem französischen Charme verschmolzen. Relaxter Songwriter-Pop, der selbst an trüben Tagen ein wenig Wüstenfeeling verbreitet. Lieblings-song: "Les Draps Sourds".Myself/Germany
Available at shows as limited-edition, hand-crafted CDrs & online. Released 11.11.2009 Trop Exprés Music. Full-length live album, mixed by Jim Waters, with Clay Koweek, Connor Gallaher, Vicki Brown and Andrew Collberg. Recorded by Jake @ Hangart. Features cover of "Woman, Who's A Woman" by Naïm Amor.
CDr - WORLD. $10.00, shipping included.
-- "L'ENTREDEUX": CD + LP + CASSETTE -- 2008
Available as CDs (either German pressing or my own signed pressing), LPs (German pressing, almost sold-out! I have a few left), limited-edition of 100 CASSETTES. Releases: Europe/Le Pop Musik, USA, Canada, NZ/Trop Exprés Music.
-- "DRUNKEN BEES": documentary DVD on Giant Sand -- 1994-1996
Directed by Marianne Dissard in Tucson, AZ. www.myspace.com/drunkenbees. Featuring Howe Gelb, John Convertino, Joey Burns, Rainer, Victoria Williams...
Split vinyl, released on Regular Beat, UK with Beirut's collaborator Alaska In Winter. Only a handful left. Pick them up at shows!
-- "LE POP 5": Le Pop Musik Compilation -- 2009
Track "La Peau Du Lait", written by Marianne Dissard & Christian Ravaglioli, from the demo to album "L'Abandon" by Marianne Dissard. Compilation includes Dominique A., Holden, Benjamin Biolay, Sammy Decoster...
-- "BALLADE EN FRANCE": Compilation by Universal Music/Australia -- 2009
With "Les Draps Sourds" from Marianne's album "L'Entredeux", alongside the classics... Serge Gainsbourg, Juliette Greco, Carla Bruni, Benjamin Biolay, etc...
-- "LOVING TAKES THIS COURSE": Tribute to Kath Bloom -- 2009
Contains a cover of Kath Bloom's "It's So Hard" I recorded with Joey Burns on guitar in Tucson. Includes covers by Devendra B, Bill Callahan, Dodos, Scout Nibblett...
Original track "Je & Tu Ne Croient Plus Au Père Noel" recorded with Amparo Sanchez of Amparanoia. Music by Amparo, Lyrics by Marianne. With Marco Rosano. "A European curiosity.. A quirky ballad" Guardian/UK - "Stimmungsvoll Nachdenklichkeit" MonteWelt/Germany
-- "LE POP / LES FILLES": Le Pop Musik Compilation -- 2008
Featuring Françoiz Breut, Coralie Clément, Barbara Carlotti, Fredda, Jeanne Cherhal… Femininer Pop aus Frankreich voller Charme und Charakter.
-- "FILLES FRAGILES": Compilation -- 2008
Cover track "Quand Refleuriront Les Lilas" recorded with Matt Mitchell. Compilation by Guuzbourg, with Jane Birkin, Françoiz Breut, Holden...
-- "CHRISTMAS IN TUCSON": Compilation of Tucson bands -- 2007
Cover track "Stop The Cavalry by Jonna Lewie" recorded with Matt Mitchell, Tommy Larkins, Marco Rosano, Thôger Lund at Jim Waters' studio in Tucson.
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Between Chanson and Americana, Southwestern noir and acoustic French pop, "L'Entredeux" is Marianne Dissard's enchanting debut album, "a moody, captivating album, with roots in Nick Drake's introspection, Francoise Hardy's romanticism and Nina Simone's drama." (Blurt). Produced, composed and performed by Calexico's Joey Burns, with stellar contributions by friends from both continents, including Calexico's John Convertino on drums, Naïm Amor, Rob Burger, Sammy Decoster and, borrowed to Willie Nelson's band, Mickey Raphael, "L'Entredeux" was released worldwide in the Fall 2008, with non-stop touring on both continents, and won France's Académie Charles Cros' Coup De Coeur prize in 2009. A first music video, directed by Marianne in Tucson, features France's pop stars Katerine and Dominique A.
LABELS: Le Pop Musik (Europe) and Marianne's own imprint, Trop Exprès Music (North America, New Zealand, Australia), through distributors F>A>B (exclusive Canada), CDBaby, Carrot Top (USA), Rythmethod (New Zealand). Also available on Ebay and Amazon. BOOKING: Hotel Lounge (Europe), Merda Booking (Italy), AddItUp (France) and Lost Barrio Artists (North America).
ALBUM
Tucson-based, French-born singer and lyricist Marianne Dissard is very glad that her first album, "L'Entredeux", was co-written and produced by Calexico's frontman Joey Burns. He did all the hard work. She just brought him words and a mixtape of favorite songs she hoped would 'inform' her lyrics, and off he went. French-language album "L'Entredeux" was recorded in their hometown of Tucson, Arizona and mixed by Craig Schumacher at Wavelab Studio. The cast of collaborators was drawn from far and close: from Tucson, John Convertino (Calexico) on drums; Naïm Amor (who also composed 3 of the songs) and Matt Mitchell on guitars; singer Adrianne DeNike, violinists Vicki Brown, Rose Todaro and Michael Fan and Nick Luca on guitar. From the road, the east coast and across the Atlantic, Mickey Raphael (Willie Nelson) on harmonica; Rob Burger (Tin Hat Trio, Iron & Wine, Laurie Anderson) on piano, accordion, orchestron, cimbalom and organ; singer Sammy Decoster (Tornado). The end result of Joey's producing and arranging is an album where Chanson sweet talks Americana into serving Marianne's poetic lyrics and husky voice! With sweeping arrangements of strings and overdubs by brilliant collaborators, this is not just another Calexico collaboration. "L'Entredeux" is truly Marianne and Joey’s album, stemming from a long friendship that dates back to the early 90’s and a shared affinity for Mexican food, French wines, old adobe houses and the photographs of Gary Winogrand. Not to mention the recordings of Nick Drake, Nico, Serge Gainsbourg, Django Reinhardt and the western movies of Ennio Morricone and Sam Peckinpah.
The lyrics to "L'entredeux", tender and biting vignettes of love and other little lies, were written by Marianne in the fall 2004, in a borrowed bedroom in the barrio of Tucson, following the first of many tumultuous meltdowns in her 13 years marriage to longtime songwriting collaborator and fellow expatriate Naïm Amor, who nonetheless contributed three songs ("Flashback", "Ce Visage Là" and "L'Embellie") to the collection. Joey Burns sketched the other nine melodies in the intimate setting of his kitchen. Studio recordings began in early 2006 and continued intermittently as Marianne began performing live — in Tucson and on tour in North America. She has since shared stages with Naïm Amor, Calexico, Françoiz Breut, Andrew Collberg, Al Foul and many others, including poet Billy Collins, for whom she has become his "favorite chanteuse"!
"L'entredeux"? The 'in between two'. Is it the space between two countries, two languages, two lovers? The space where one hand lets go and floats free of the old? Hear "L'Entredeux" bow to the past and another continent in the antique wax cylinder recording of a French lesson in track “Merci De Rien Du Tout”. Hear "L'Entredeux" as a nod to Jon Jost's euro-lusting film "All The Vermeers in New York", to Lodge Kerrigan's "Claire Dolan" in the eery "Ce Visage-Là", to Eric Rohmer's lakeside frolicks in "Sans-Façon". In that borrowed bedroom where Marianne wrote the words to this very personal first album, the walls were lined with poetry books. One of them, Ovid's "Metamorphosis", with its invocations of the muse and tragic tales of love and punishment, surprisingly became the companion to her transformation from other people's lyricist to her own. Struggling in between allegiances, Marianne found her escape in these tunes she chose to write in her native language, the language of the intimate, the mother-tongue... maybe also hiding herself behind a language no one immediately around could understand, and, in the process, re-inventing herself once again, this time as a singer of two worlds.
BIO
Calexico fans will recognize Marianne as Madame to Joey Burns' lovestruck gold digger on Calexico's hit single, "Ballad of Cable Hogue" from their 2000 album "Hot Rail". She also duetted with her then-husband Naïm Amor on the 2001 album "Tête A Tête/ABBC" by Amor/Belhom/Burns/Convertino. She is featured, alongside Jane Birkin and Françoiz Breut on the 2007 "Filles Fragiles" CD compiled for Dutch label Essential Dance Music by Guuzbourg and the 2009 Universal Australia compilation "Ballade en France". Marianne contributes, alongside Devendra Barnard and Bill Callahan, to the CD tribute to American folksinger Kath Bloom by Australian label Chapter Music (Feb09) and to compilations that include the "Christmas In Tucson" CD produced by Olivier Mosset with tracks by Bob Log III and Al Foul. For that release, Marianne collaborated with Jonathan Richman's drummer Tommy Larkins to cover the 1980 British hit, "Stop The Cavalry". She also wrote an original Christmas song with Amparo Sanchez of Amparanoia, included in Germany specialty label Trikont's 2008 Christmas compilation. Le Pop Musik has included Marianne in their 2008 "Les Filles Le Pop" compilation and Virgin Australia will release a French-themed compilation with track "Les Draps Sourds". Finally, UK label Regular Beat Recordings released a split 7 inch vinyl with Alaska in Winter, featuring Beirut, on the flipside while Italian band Desing produced another split single, with artwork by Howe Gelb's daughter, Patsy. Again, from Italy, band Sea of Cortez and pianist Christian Ravaglioli collaborated with Marianne on a studio track in the spring 2009 in Tucson, leading to Marianne and Christian co-writing her second album in 2010. A first 7 inch vinyl (4 tracks with bonus 11 tracks digital download) was self-released in the spring 2006, selling out shortly afterwards. The 11 tracks demos to "L'Entredeux", with Joey Burns on guitar, are available as album "Dedicated To Your Walls. May They Keep Blooming", both as AIFF CDr and on I-Tunes. France's prestigious Académie Charles Cros awarded "L'Entredeux" their Coup De Coeur 2009.
Singer, writer of lyrics, poems and short fictions, filmmaker, activist and performance artist, Marianne Dissard was born within sight of the Pyrénées mountains in the South of France but has lived in the American West since the age of 16. Her lyrics are sung by Françoiz Breut, Howe Gelb and Naïm Amor. As a filmmaker, she has directed films for French TV, collaborating with director Robert Kramer and poster artist Robbie Conal, and directed the Giant Sand documentary "Drunken Bees". As a multimedia performance artist with choreographer Ami Garmon, she was exhibited at the Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris (Hiver de L'Amour), then got subsequently invited to reside at the Musée D'Art Contemporain, Marseille by Philippe Vergne (Walker Art Center) and to Foundation Cartier in Paris. During the 2004 US presidential election, Marianne launched the Tucson Suffragettes, a gang of sexy downtown vixens who went after "virgin voters", enlisting the help of Linda Rondstadt, Chuck Bowden, Shepard Fairey, Robbie Conal and the Tucson arts and music community. Now a full-time singer, Marianne, no longer hiding behind a camera or her words, wishes she could have sang with Jean Sablon but hopes she can still duet with Scott Walker one of these days.
VIDEOS + Marianne Dissard/Les Draps Sourds (music video with Katerine, Dominique A.)
+ Marianne Dissard/Live on Les Mots de Minuit, France 2 Television - at 2mn and 1h22mn! + Marianne Dissard/Sans-Façon, Live acoustic on Lavomatik Session I-Musik Nov.2008
+ Calexico/Ballad of Cable Hogue
+ Marianne Dissard/Live on Libération/LibéLabo, France + Le Cargo/Acoustic Session/Paris Oct.2008 + Marianne Dissard / Calexico + Amor Belhom Duo + Amor Belhom Duo/Pulling On A Cig' + Marianne Dissard/Drunken Bees Giant Sand + Marianne Dissard/Tucson Suffragettes + Giant Sand/Searchlight + Marianne Dissard/Live at L'Oblique Montréal
AUDIO + Froggy's Sessions / Radio Aligre / FR
+ Phoning It In / USA
Bonjour Marianne, I am very honoured to be 'ton ami', you make very beautiful music, very very nice. And you found a great band, bless you! I try to come to Mechelen on 23/11, that's not too far from antwerp. Hey thanks again, and see you one of these days live, so long marianne x
I am a fool! I was the girl that paid to watch your show and kept dropping things out of my purse. To make matters worse you were standing there.....and I didn't know it. I would have said hi. I was so embarrassed. You performance was ace last night, hopefully I will see you again!!
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