Mazzy Star

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Mazzy Star
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General information
Genre (s) Alternative rock , blues , blues rock
founding 1989
Current occupation
Hope Sandoval
Suki Ewers
Colm Ó Cíosóig
Josh Yenne
former members
David Roback (†)
Jill Emery
Keith Mitchell
William Cooper
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
So Tonight That I Might See
  UK 68 
silver
silver
10/09/1993 (1 week)
  US 36 
platinum
platinum
07/23/1994 (31 weeks)
Among My Swan
  UK 57 11/16/1996 (1 week)
  US 68 11/16/1996 (5 weeks)
Seasons of Your Day
  DE 85 10/11/2013 (1 week)
  UK 24 05/10/2013 (2 weeks)
  US 42 10/12/2013 (3 weeks)
Singles
Fade into you
  UK 48 08/27/1994 (2 weeks)
  US 44 09/03/1994 (20 weeks)
Flowers in December
  UK 40 11/02/1996 (2 weeks)
Into Dust
  UK 47 07/18/2009 (5 weeks)

Mazzy Star is an American alternative rock - band from Los Angeles in 1989 by David Roback (1958-2020) and Hope Sandoval was founded.

biography

David Roback first played as a guitarist in the paisley underground band Rain Parade , but left after the debut album to found the group Clay Allison with Kendra Smith (formerly Dream Syndicate ), which later became Opal . Through a demo recording , he became aware of Hope Sandoval and took her into the group, where she replaced Kendra Smith as singer during the final tour . Other members were Will Glenn (formerly Rain Parade) and Keith Mitchell (formerly Green on Red ). After the group broke up, Roback and Sandoval continued their work as a duo under the name Mazzy Star . Hope Sandoval wrote the lyrics, while David Roback did the composing . In addition, the band consisted of alternating accompanying musicians.

The first record She Hangs Brightly was released in 1990 and featured melancholy, guitar-tuned folk pop, psychedelic pieces and echoes of delta blues and hard rock . The lyrics were dark stories of unhealthy relationships, unfulfilled love or threatened farewell, often cryptic. The second record So Tonight That I Might See continued on this path, only the blues had almost disappeared and the rock part softened. The last official record, Among My Swan , is the musically most homogeneous work by Mazzy Star, with only a few harsh guitar parts and little psychedelia. It mainly contained romantic, spherical songs carried by catchy minor melodies. The last track Look On down from the Bridge is a swan song for the band Mazzy Star, which still exists but has not released any albums for a long time.

It wasn't until 2009 that Hope Sandoval announced in an interview that another Mazzy star album had already been completed. It took another four years for the album, entitled Seasons of Your Day, to be released on September 24, 2013. For the first time, the band was able to place itself in the charts in many European countries.

Mazzy Star's most successful song is Fade into You , which appeared on the 1993 album So Tonight That I Might See and was released as a single with an accompanying video.

Discography

Albums

  • 1990: She Hangs Brightly ( Rough Trade Records , reissued by Capitol Records )
  • 1993: So Tonight That I Might See (Capitol)
  • 1996: Among My Swan (Capitol)
  • 2013: Seasons of Your Day (Rhymes of an Hour Records)
  • 2015: Ghost Highway
  • 2018: Still

Singles

  • 1990: Blue Flower
  • 1993: Five String Serenade
  • 1994: Fade into You
  • 1995: Halah
  • 1996: Flowers in December
  • 2009: Into Dust (download track)
  • 2011: Common Burn / Lay Myself Down
  • 2013: California
  • 2014: I'm Less Here

swell

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE UK US
  2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK US
  3. ↑ US musician Mazzy star co-founder David Roback is dead , Der Spiegel February 26, 2020
  4. ↑ Mazzy star guitarist David Roback is dead , Rolling Stone February 26, 2020
  5. ↑ 1958-2020 Mazzy Star founder David Roback died , by Karl Fluch, Der Standard February 27, 2020
  6. ↑ Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval Returns , Tom Breihan, Pitchfork, July 8, 2009
  7. ↑ Mazzy Star Discography , Hope Sandoval's homepage, accessed on October 12, 2013

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