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Marvin Etzioni
producer
l songwriter l musician
History:
Brooklyn-born, LA-raised singer-songwriter-producer
Etzioni is the quintessential artist and visionary.
His resume reads like a virtual "who's who" of
Los Angeles-oriented pop-rock. He is the founding member of local
'80s cow punk band Lone Justice. Marvin is also an in-demand producer,
having worked with Toad
the Wet Sprocket; Peter Case; Counting Crows; Grammy-winning Grey
DeLisle), a collaborator (Maria McKee; Victoria Williams; The Bangles'
Susanna Hoffs), a sideman (T-Bone Burnett; The Dixie Chicks), a
song-writer (Rachel Sweet; Voice Of The Beehive; Jimmy Barnes; The
Williams Brothers) and a soundtrack composer ('The Mediocre Samaritan').
In the '90s Marvin released three solo albums, The Mandolin Man
(1991), Bone (1992) and Weapons Of The Spirit (1994), which were
lavished with praise by the press. And now at last he's back, with
Marvin Country, an album full of ghosts and full of life, and with
songs inspired by faith, love, hope, Depression, Dylan, Kurt Vonnegut
and Harry Teitelbaum, Marvin's grandfather, to whom the album's
dedicated.
Current Credits:
Marvin produced two tracks on New Green Lines for
rising singer/songwriter, Amber
Rubarth The two wrote the track Show Your Weakness which beautifully
showcases Amber's voice.
Singer, songwriter and violinist, Lili Haydn is celebrating
release of her new album Place Between Places on the Nettwerk
label on April 1, 2008.
Etzioni is credited
for finding the essence of her songs on the new album. "Marvin
opened up the arrangements so that I could play more, or be more
emotional, or just more Lili! I never had the courage before this
to strip it down as much as we did, or just record live with a band
in a room. There were almost no synths or loops on the record, which
was different for me," says Haydn. In this collaboration all
the ambient and electronic sounds were actually generated by people,
old guitar pedals, breathing, and bells.
The title of the album comes from a lyric in a previous record by
Haydn, Wounded Dove --"what can you tell me 'bout the place
between places?' "It's (referring to) a place between life
and death, or a moment of awareness outside the cycle of extremes
of joy and pain, neither a major chord nor minor," adds Haydn
who began playing the violin when she was 7.
Etzioni is a frequent speaker at various industry/educational
symposiums and events. "Rock music
suffers when artists aren't being regionally promoted. Think about
it – the Beach Boys, Doors and X in Los Angeles, the Velvet Underground
and Ramones in New York, Clash and Sex Pistols in London – all of
those bands were heavily promoted in their hometown regions way
before they broke nationally and internationally,” says Etzioni.
Marvin is always in the studio writing new material and developing
new artists. He produced singer/songwriter Grey De Lisle's
(she can be heard on children's shows like Rugrats and Scooby Doo)
release "Home Wrecker" featuring a duet with husband,
Murry Hamilton, bassist of the Old 97's
A twist of fate introduced De Lisle to Marvin Etzioni, initially
brought aboard to play mandolin on some songs she wrote. The two
hit if off so well, he immediately became a producer, collaborator
and friend. He has produced each of her three previous self-released
efforts. Grey is now signed to Sugar Hill Records. Marvin also completed
work for Dalton Grant, Adam Levy's Washing Day, Ralston Bowles,
and Peter Salett's In The Ocean Of The Stars CD produced by Salett
with mixes produced by Etzioni.
Marvin Country is the ambitious fourth solo album
by Etzioni already revered in Americana circles. The 19 songs on
this double CD are variously original, traditional, tender, quirky,
emotional and wise. There's backporch country, barroom weepers,
clapboard-church gospel, haunting folk, dusty blues and songs for
which a genre's not yet been named.
On some of them
Marvin goes it alone; a multi-instrumentalist, he plays mandolin,
mandocello, guitar, bass, piano, Mellotron, porchboard and keyboards.
Others feature a distinguished cast of guests - including duets
with Lucinda Williams (a heart-wrenching Lay It On The Table), Steve
Earle (Ain't No Work In Mississippi), Richard Thompson (It Don't
Cost Much), Buddy Miller (Living Like A Hobo), John Doe (The Grapes
Of Wrath), Maria McKee (You Possess Me) and The Dixie Hummingbirds,
who add their uplifting harmonies to You Are The Light, a reprise
of the Americana classic Etzioni wrote for Lone Justice's acclaimed
1985 debut.
l-r: During recording
of "My Summer Song" at Sunset Sound Factory: Lonni Sill,
Adam
Crossley, Asher Lenz (standing), engineer Steven Rhodes and
producer Marvin Etzioni (sitting).
Photo:
By The C
contact:
 e-mail: claris@studoexpresso.com
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818-990-3031
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818-990-3361
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2001 studioexpresso
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