Paz Lenchantin
Paz Lenchantin (born December 12, 1973 in Mar del Plata , Argentina ) is an American musician with Armenian and French roots. When she was four years old, she and her family moved to Los Angeles , California .
Lenchantin is fluent in Spanish and English . She started playing the piano at the age of five. She took violin lessons when she was eight and taught herself to play the guitar when she was twelve . Her sister Ana is also a musician. She often works with her and her younger brother Luciano.
Career as a musician
Lenchantin founded the band A Perfect Circle together with Billy Howerdel, Josh Freese , Troy Van Leeuwen and Maynard James Keenan . She played with them the albums Mer de Noms and Thirteenth Step . Lenchantin later left the group to play with Billy Corgan , Jimmy Chamberlin , Matt Sweeney and David Pajo in the band Zwan . In 2002 Lenchantin founded a new band called The Chelsea with Melissa Auf der Maur ( Smashing Pumpkins and Hole ), Samantha Maloney and Radio Sloan ( The Need ) . This female supergroup only played one show before the musicians went their own way. Lenchantin returned to A Perfect Circle to play the violin and piano on their cover album eMOTIVe (released November 2, 2004, No. 2 on the Billboard 200 ). She also contributed a cover version of The Hollow to aMOTION , a CD / DVD release by A Perfect Circle . In 2005 Lenchantin worked with Entrance on their album Prayer of Death, both as a co-producer and as a bassist and violinist. She was already featured on the previous Entrance album Wandering Stranger (2004). She is now a permanent member of the band; at the same time, she joined the Pixies in late 2013 as the successor to Kim Deal .
Other activities
Lenchantin played the violin on a song from the Queens of the Stone Age album Songs for the Deaf . She played with David Pajo in his band Papa M and contributed the string parts to the album Tanglewood Numbers by the Silver Jews . She was on tour with RTX / Jennifer Herrema from Royal Trux . In 2002, she played on the album The Lonely Position of Neutral from Trust Company , 2005, she played the violin on the song Dividing Lines of Kaura . She also worked and toured with Jarboe from the Swans band . In 2004 she appeared as the bass player in the music video for Passive , a song by A Perfect Circle. Lenchantin played bass on Brightblack's self-titled debut album Morning Light , which was released on Matador Records . She worked with the director Michael Mann in his film Miami Vice and played the violin in various scenes. She played the violin on Melissa Auf der Maur's first solo album Auf der Maur . 2008 Paz on song writing Denial Waits of Ashes Divide with and played violin on Jenny Lewis ' second studio album Acid Tongue , 2009, she played bass on the self-titled album Into The Presence .
In addition to her career as a guest musician in numerous well-known bands, Lenchantin found the time to produce two solo albums, which she sells on her mySpace page.
Discography
- Solo albums
- Yellow mY skYcaptain (2000)
- Songs For Luci (2006)
- with A Perfect Circle
- Mer de Noms (2000) (strings; bass on Sleeping Beauty )
- Thirteenth Step (2003) (strings on Gravity )
- eMOTIVe (2004) (piano, strings)
- aMOTION (2004) (acoustic guitar; piano; strings)
- with Trust Company
- The Lonely Position of Neutral (2002)
- with Zwan
- Mary Star of the Sea (2003)
- with Melissa Auf der Maur
- On the Maur (2004)
- with Silver Jews
- Tanglewood Numbers (2005)
- Brightblack Morning Light (2006) (bass; piano)
- with entrance
- Wandering Stranger (2004)
- Prayer of Death (2006)
- The Entrance Band (2009)
- Guest Posts
- Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf (2002) (Strings on Mosquito Song )
- Kaura - Kaura EP (2005) (violin on Dividing Lines )
- Ashes Divide - Keep Telling Myself It's Alright (2008) (co-author of Denial Waits )
- Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue (2008) (violin on Black Sand )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Enchanting Paz! Interview with Paz Lenchantin. Bassgirl Webzine, October 2006, archived from the original on April 19, 2008 ; accessed on November 12, 2010 (English).
- ↑ a b c d e Aaron: Paz Lenchantin: A Perfect Circle Bassist's New Band & Solo Work. (No longer available online.) SuicideGirls.com, December 12, 2006, archived from the original on September 29, 2007 ; accessed on November 12, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Pixies Hire bassist Paz Lenchantin. rollingstone.com, December 9, 2013, accessed June 16, 2015 .
Web links
- Paz Lenchantin at mySpace (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lenchantin, Paz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American bass player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mar del Plata |