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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 Counting Crows (Geffen), Toad The Wet Sprocket (Columbia),
Peter Case, Williams Brothers (Warner Bros.), Jeremy Toback (RCA),
Mike Ireland (Sub Pop), to name a few. Marvin has released three
solo albums for Restless Records and is currently working on the
next series of records while producing various Regional America
artists including Chicago-based artist Adam.
Current Credits:
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.
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
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