Marianne Dissard
Title:
L’Entredeux
Rhythmethod
Release
Date: 31st August 2009
Chanson
meets Americana in Marianne
Dissard's heart-melting French-language debut album, co-written &
produced by Joey Burns of Calexico, with John Convertino on drums, Mickey Raphael, Naïm Amor, Rob Burger and scores of Tucson musicians
contributing. Not just another Calexico
intervention, this is truly Marianne and Joey’s album, stemming from a long
friendship rooted in a shared love for the musics of both countries and the
baroque of the American West.
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, Chan Marshall’s bluesy
tones,
and Nina Simone's drama.
Tucson-based, French-born singer and
lyricist Marianne Dissard's debut
album, L'Entredeux, was
co-written and produced by Calexico's frontman Joey Burns in their hometown of Tucson,
Arizona. It is a stunning, sultry
French-language pop album that draws on multiple eras and styles; There’s an
echo of 1960s ye-ye auteurs such as Francoise
Hardy, a healthy dose of classic musette and chanson (as seen through
the filters of the modern Parisian revivalists) and, perhaps more importantly,
the eclectic sensibilities of the 21st Century American indie scene, which
brings successive layers of pop, rock, blues and folk to bear, and gives this
album a distinctive, alluring feel. The all-embracing fluidity of the American
indie scene gives this disc an extra dose of that magical “j'ne c'est
quoi"
Dissard may be best
known for dueting with Calexico on
"The Ballad of Cable Hogue", from Calexico's
Hot Rail (Marianne was Madame to Joey Burns’ lovestruck gold digger) and
Burns (co-producer of L'Entredeux) returns the favor by giving L'Entredeux an arid luster, full of soundtrack
strings, curious accordion, and (Calexico’s) John Convertino's rumbling, shuffling
drums – few drummers have a sound as immediately recognizable as Convertino. Long-time Willie Nelson cohort Mickey Raphael lends high-desert harmonica
to "Sans-Façon", and Amor himself
even adds snappy guitar licks to "L'Embellie" and ""Ce Visage-Là". Burns' Wurlitzer turns "Les Confettis" into
a dark carnival, then ends "Merci de Rien du Tout" with a lengthy sound collage
outro pasted together with pieces of a sampled French
lesson.
The Calexico connection may initially draw some
listeners, but they'll stay because L'Entredeux
is in its own right beautiful and coherent, understated and
entrancing.
Exciting news! We
have been in touch with Marianne who hopes to come to New
Zealand to play some shows before the end of
the year!!!
ph [09] 630
0575 ~ fax (09) 630 1175....
e ~ katie@rhythmethod.co.nz / lucy@rhythmethod.co.nz