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| The music Hannah Marcus cut with Mark Kozelek, Tim Mooney for Germany's Normal label makes for a sweet but dark collection. |
Writes Pat Thomas...
Imagine If you will - early 70s Carly Simon on acid, Kendra Smith as a keyboard player, a female singer/songwriter that like Laura Nyro and Judee Sill before her - just can't really be described. Along with myself and few others - such as Steven Roback of the Rain Parade - who wisely added her to his own band Viva Saturn for awhile - San Francisco's Hannah Marcus did some of the best material coming out of there in the 1990s (but was ignored by far too many) - but, I helped her tour and release albums in Germany in that decade and recently holed up for days in the Sunset Marquis Hotel - helping chose the songs to compile this - her first ever "best of compilation" - taken from piles of fab material - see the link below, listen and learn.
The Hannah Marcus Years: 1993-2004 is a representative collection of material she produced over that time period. The compilation includes work Hannah made with members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, drummer/producer Tim Mooney (of Toiling Midgets American Music Club and The Sleepers), Mark Kozelek, and others.
Someone said once about San Francisco in the nineties that you’d go out for a cappuccino and wake up eleven years later. This compilation is largely a psychic travelogue of those eleven years. A solid five years in the middle were spent in LA. The last four pieces were recorded in Montreal at the legendary old Hotel2Tango. But much of the material is psycho-geographically situated ‘Out West’ - specifically in the Bay Area of the mid-to-late 90’s, where the rent was cheap, the books were books, the S&M was DIY, and Meth reigned as devil king in restaurant kitchens. Mopey drummers doted on their candy-apple Mopars. (Speaking here of the late great Tim Mooney.) Dare to explore the dusky hallows of Sadcore and beyond!
Get a copy of The Hannah Marcus Years, 1993-2004 via Bandcamp right here. Listen to a few tracks below.
