Zwan
| Zwan | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | skirt |
| founding | 2001 |
| resolution | 2003 |
| Website | Archive version of zwan.com |
| Last occupation | |
| Billy Corgan Billy Burke | |
guitar |
David Pajo |
guitar |
Matt Sweeney |
| Jimmy Chamberlin | |
| Paz Lenchantin (from 2002) | |
Zwan was a project founded in 2001 by The Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan , in which he is listed under the pseudonym Billy Burke . The band was disbanded after an album and a tour.
Band history
Zwan was created in 2001 through the merger of ex-Smashing Pumpkins Billy Corgan (vocals, guitar) and Jimmy Chamberlin (drums) with former Skunk and Chavez member Matt Sweeney and David Pajo (guitar / bass, a former member of Slint and Tortoise ) . Paz Lenchantin (bass, formerly A Perfect Circle ) joined the band in April 2002 as a further member.
Such a project had been planned for a long time, however, as Billy Corgan and Matt Sweeney had known each other since working on the Smashing Pumpkins ' debut album , " Gish ". One year after the Pumpkins disbanded , Zwan began touring smaller clubs in the Los Angeles and San Diego area in late 2001 under the names The True Poets of Zwan and The Djali Zwan . During this tour Zwan performed on 4 stages in front of around 500 spectators each and played from a repertoire of over 40 songs, which by the end of the band should grow to an impressive 91 songs, most of which were never released in studio versions. The response was consistently positive, but this was also due to the fact that the intimately arranged mid-concerts were mostly fans of the Smashing Pumpkins .
Finally, work began on the debut, which was released in 2003, and the tour that followed. The Zwan project announced by Corgan at the beginning of 2003 was to split the CD releases into two parallel bands, namely the True Poets of Zwan with electronically amplified music, and The Djali Zwan with purely acoustic music (but with the same line-up) finally no longer implemented. Shortly before their last live appearance in front of an audience at the Nuke Festival in Austria on June 13, 2003, they canceled the remaining shows on the tour. At the end of August, Paz Lenchantin announced her departure, less than a month later the band Zwan only existed in the minds of their fans.
In addition to the album Mary Star of the Sea and single releases of the songs Honestly and Lyric , Zwan contributed to the soundtrack of the film Spun , which has not yet been released on CD. This soundtrack includes u. a. also The Number of the Beast (originally by Iron Maiden heard), which is also to be a B-side on the single to Honestly place.
Zwan is reminiscent of the Smashing Pumpkins , especially through the concise voice of singer Billy Corgan , but cannot be seen as a direct link to them. Corgan always emphasized Zwan's independence and ultimately made this clear musically. Accordingly, Zwan was influenced in many ways by the multifaceted backgrounds of the fellow musicians. Accordingly, the sounds of the debut album did not appear consistently gloomy as on some of the Pumpkins ' albums , but on the contrary even happy to euphoric. There are also clear differences to the Pumpkins in the lyrics of the individual songs . Live, the band stood out for the long, almost progressive jam sessions of the three guitarists.
Discography
Studio albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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| 2003 | Mary Star of the Sea |
DE17 (6 weeks) DE |
AT44 (4 weeks) AT |
CH50 (5 weeks) CH |
UK33 (3 weeks) UK |
US3 (11 weeks) US |
First published: January 28, 2003
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Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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| 2003 | Honestly Mary Star of the Sea |
DE86 (1 week) DE |
- | - |
UK28 (2 weeks) UK |
- |
First published: February 2003
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| Lyric Mary Star of the Sea |
- | - | - |
UK44 (2 weeks) UK |
- |
First published: June 2003
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