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L'Entredeux (2008)

by Marianne Dissard

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steveinsocal "...A metaphor for the painful burning sensation that the pepper leaves upon the lips, "Cayenne" is a song of betrayal and heartbreak. Poetic imagery describes the desolate salt plains littered with the bleached white bones, glistening in the unforgiving desert sun serving as the analogy to a love that has long since died..."

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    Excited to mark with an actual physical object the 15th ANNIVERSARY of the release in 2008 of my first Tucson studio album, 'L'entredeux'! It's been a while since I made anything 'physical'—and I've only ever made cassette tapes once, back in 2008 or 09 for 'L'entredeux'.

    Here it is then, from my little home to your shiny cassette players... I'm happy to announce a limited-edition 4-cassette tape BOX SET in a wooden box with removable lid, signed & numbered.

    The box set includes my three Tucson trilogy studio albums: 'L'entredeux' (2008), 'L'abandon' (2010), and 'The Cat. Not Me' (2013), plus covers album 'Rappel*le' (2023).

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    'L'entredeux' was released in 2008, followed in 2010 by 'L'abandon' and in 2013, closing the Tucson trilogy, 'The Cat. Not Me'. Composed by Joey Burns, Sergio Mendoza, Christian Ravaglioli, and Naïm Amor, these originals were re-interpreted live in the City Series albums, notably 'Paris One Takes' (2010) and 'Cologne Vier Takes' (2015). An early 2006 demo, 'Dedicated To Your Walls. May They Keep Blooming', the 'Best Of' 2016 compilation 'Cibola Gold' (deluxe CDs still available), and covers albums 'Rappel' (2022) and 'Rappel*le' (2023) with Raphael Mann theraphaelmann.bandcamp.com (plus a few singles, EPs, and oddities) complete the bulk of my releases over these two decades. Most of it is available on Bandcamp and none of it on Spotify (I'm partial to Tidal myself).

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⭕ L'ENTREDEUX ⭕

First studio album by Marianne Dissard, produced, composed, and arranged by Calexico's Joey Burns in Tucson, Arizona in 2008.

🔻 Curious about the demos? Look for that album, recorded at home in 2006 with Joey Burns and Naïm Amor, on my Bandcamp 🔻



⭕ REVIEWS ⭕

“Beautiful and coherent, understated and entrancing” (Blurt) 🔻 “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)

"Enchanting” (Now Toronto) 🔻 “Fabulous. Stunning” (Ottawa Xpress) 🔻 “Very classy, but straightforward too. Hard to characterise, excellent” (Radio3.CBC) 🔻 “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) 🔻 “Striking in its ability to seamlessly fuse styles that seemed previously to be wholly disparate” (Buffalo News) 🔻 “Heart-melting debut” (Philadelphia Weekly)

“The effect is magical” (Democrat&Chronicle) 🔻 “An enchanting listen” (New Haven Advocate) 🔻 “Something like ’70s import movie music. It is delightfully noncommercial and full of risks.” (San Diego Reader) 🔻 “Flush with bluesy overtones and a sultriness that doesn’t veer into lounge-cheese territory.” (Ottawa Citizen) 🔻 “Seductive French lyrics, brooding ballads and a sultry, alternative jazz/neo-lounge vibe” (Washington Post)


⭕ STORY ⭕

French-born Tucson singer & 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.

The cast of collaborators for the recording at Wavelab Studio in Tucson 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 west and the east coasts, and from 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; and French singer Sammy Decoster.

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 testing the waters, learning to perform live — in Tucson and North America first. She has since shared stages with Naïm Amor, Calexico, Françoiz Breut, Howe Gelb, Handsome Family, Alaska In Winter, Flip Grater, Cornershop, Sergio Mendoza Y La Orkesta, Al Foul and many others, including poet Billy Collins, for whom she has become his “chanteuse favorite”!

“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 her 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, from other people’s lyricst to, this time, her own and a singer of two worlds.

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released September 9, 2008

⭕ CREDITS ⭕

Produced by Joey Burns of Calexico

Composed by Joey Burns except 4, 5, 10 by Naïm Amor
Lyrics by Marianne Dissard

🔻 Marianne Dissard - vocals
🔻 Joey Burns - guitars, upright bass, piano, toy piano, wurlitzer, vibes, glockenspiel, keyboards, shaker, organ, tube synth, accordion, mandoline, tambourine,
🔻 John Convertino - drums
🔻 Rob Burger - accordion, jew's harp, cimbalom, organ, bells, orchestron 1, 3, 5, 8, 9, 11, 12
🔻 Naïm Amor - guitars 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, vocals 5, 6
🔻 Mickey Raphael - harmonica 6
🔻 Matt Mitchell - acoustic guitar 3, 8
🔻 Michael Fan - violins 1, 2, 4, 6, 12
🔻 Rose Todaro - violins 1, 2, 4, 6, 12, viola 12
🔻 Vicki Brown - violin, viola, loops 7
🔻 Adrienne DeNike - vocal harmonies 6, 9
🔻 Nick Luca - baritone guitar 9
🔻 Sammy Decoster - vocals 11
French alphabet and lesson from wax cylinder 7
Backyard birds 6

🔻 Recorded by Chris Schultz at Wavelab Studio in Tucson, AZ
🔻 Mixed at Wavelab Studio by Craig Schumacher
🔻 Mastered at Golden Mastering by John Golden

Photos by Tom Willett
Painting by Shana Zimmerman
Layout and design for 2008 release by Carrie Sweet
Cassette design 2023 by Marianne Dissard

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Marianne Dissard

Baroque Sonoran noir chanson from Tucson & now beyond by tumbleweed singer, street photographer, filmmaker, performer & brutally honest author.

Left her home in Tucson, Arizona for a dream boat in England. Drifted to Scotland.

“An eccentric character who releases very fine and wonderful records, in fact so eccentric she once toured the French Pyrénées on foot with a donkey” Marc Riley BBC6
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