Norma Dezmond: vocals & guitars, Olivia Barash: guitars, keys, vocals, arrangements & whatever fits... D.J. Wrong: spinning, sonically booming & tweaking the tracks with a range of musicians based on song styles & mood swings */.*
Influences
Love lost, Lust, Life, Death, Good, Bad and Ugly, Circus Clowns, Shooting Stars Old Films, and Music by Bowie, Rachmaninov, Cole Porter, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Jobim, Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich, The Inkspots, Sate, Howlin' Wolf, Elton John, The Cramps, Mott The Hoople, This Mortal Coil, Nick Cave, The Stooges, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, The Beatles, The Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Queen, Boomtown Rats, Cheap Trick, Stevie Wonder, Jackson 5, Edith Piaf, Pretenders, Patti Smith, X, The Waterboys, The Replacements, Bauhaus, Love & Rockets, Ramones, Bow Wow Wow, Adam & The Ants, Sex Pistols, PIL, DEVO, The Cars, Virgin Prunes, The Buzzcocks, Mudhoney, Nirvana, The Fluid, Elvis Costello, Jane's Addiction, Pixies, Masters Of Reality, Flaming Lips, P J Harvey, Beck, Garbage, Tom Waits, James Hall, Swell, Grandaddy, Weezer, Radiohead, Elliott Smith, The Strokes, The Hives, Eagles Of Death Metal, etc...
Who is Norma Dezmond??.. songstress of another era, transported into the now millennium.
Songwriter/Artist, Olivia Barash (Repo Man) is the driving force behind Dezmond. She can be seen performing her songs in Oliver Stone's, The Doors as well as indie films & t.v.
Are You Tired/You Died, written and produced by Barash, was recently placed over the opening of the award winning short film, Victim.
Next up is the feature film, New Day, which is scheduled to start production in November of 2008.
Olivia has worked on many tracks of hers with record producer, Dave Jerden (Alice In Chains, Jane's Addiction..)
Stay tuned as the story unfolds...... I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4
Good times!I was on the East Coast during Tuff Turph.Now I enjoy looking back at that time. I miss the D.I.Y edge of fashion.Not that it all was cool, I admit there were many fashion messes ... but I still miss it!
Just wanted to say hi, and YES, I miss you like crazy. Just out in Thousand Oaks workin on my 4th, gettin a job and making music...so still busy as ever, but with cool stuff. I will be back out in the Valley, maybe can stop over Wednesday night after Colfax??
