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Artist: Meri St. Mary
Album: I'm Back
Label: Independent
Playtime: 15:24 min
Genre: Folk
URL:
Rip date: 2009-05-25
Street date: 2009-04-17
Size: 16.80 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 143 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
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When I first became aware of Meri St. Mary it was through her collaboration
with the late Eric "The Rad" Yuncker, who I would rank among the most
creative people I've known. This punk music partnership was the Housecoat
Project and included Erol Cengiz on bass and Michel Schorro on drums. That
Eric chose to work with Meri in crafting the band's material is indicative of
her merits as a songwriter. Punk culture was (and is) an anarchistic,
amorphous mass of individuals bubbling up through the seams of society
bringing with them their skills and talents, as well as their existential
angst, anger and vitality. Art doesn't take place in a vacuum, and given the
space in which to perform and display their talents, as if by gravity, these
fringe elements were brought together. Eric's death at the Mabuhay Gardens
in December of 1985 and Meri's pregnancy signaled an end to one chapter and
the beginning of another. In 1987 "Wide Eye Doo Dat" was released on
Subterranean Records after Meri collaborated with Jay Crawford and Bob
Bartosik in a second incarnation of Housecoat Project. After touring the
United Sttes with thie line-up Housecoat Project recorded their second album
for Subterranean Records entitled "Girlfiend". This piece of work will be
released this year. Meri had an artistic hiatus that lasted into the 1990's
when she teamed up with Rachel Thoele, Mia d'Bruzi and Mark Pino in the band
Sex Is A Witch. Following this collaboration, another hiatus - lasting ten
years - punctuated her public performances. Now with "I'm Back" Meri is
teaming up with Ronni Guitar and Dominique Leslie to showcase four of the
songs she wrote in the post-Housecoat Project era. Though each song is
reflective and semi-autobiographical, the listener will no doubt bring their
own experience to the table when they hear her words. Here is an unfiltered
brew of punk-folk mellowed by age and served up by one of those "Wild Women".
Ian Webster
San Francisco
February 2009
- Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -
01. Montegomery's Song ( 2:54)
02. Oblivion ( 3:20)
03. Tropical Fish ( 5:29)
04. Ashes ( 3:41)
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