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Irene_Rible on 05/30/2010 at 09:00AM
Paris via Tuscon: Marianne Dissard’s Paris One Takes
Marianne Dissard is a native of France who has been living in Tuscon, Arizona for the past two decades. She came to America for film school in the early nineties, a time when she began filming Drunken Bees, a documentary about the Tuscon band Giant Sand. In Tuscon she found a musical kinship with artists such as Naim Amor of the Amor Belhom Duo and Joey Burns and John Convertino of Calexico, who helped write and produce many of the songs featured on the Paris One Takes compilation of Dissard’s work.
Aside from her French collaborator and contemporary Françoiz Breut, the closest musical comparison to Dissard is Lhasa de Sela. Both artists make the unlikely fusion of Calexico’s alternative mariachi music, with the sultry, brooding tradition of a classic old world chanteuse. My heart sunk when I discovered that Lhasa de Sela died at the beginning of this year. Perhaps unfair to Dissard, but as I listened to this album, I couldn’t help but feel Lhasa’s spirit haunting in the background, like watching an actor bring an icon back to life in a biopic.
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