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Suzy Mangion

music making from the other side of the mountain

About Me

SUZY MANGION IS LOOKING FOR SHOESTRING (OR SO) FILMMAKERS OR FILMTRYERS TO MAKE SHORT FILMS OF ANY KIND FOR HER NEW ALBUM "THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN". ANYONE INTERESTED IN COLLABORATING, PLEASE EMAIL!Starting from a cupboard with a piano & a drumkit in it, Durham City, England, Suzy began her public music-making as one half of school boy-girl band George in 1994. George released a number of acclaimed secret pop records on vinyl collector labels Earworm & Bad Jazz in the late 90s, and eventually released their debut album The Magic Lantern on Pickled Egg records in 2003. An EP, All Good Things, was released in Spain on Lejos Discos, and the 2005 George album A Week of Kindness was released on both labels.Suzy also appeared on the Piano Magic album Writers Without Homes (4AD), and has recorded 2 albums with Arbol - an eponymous debut (Indus Sonica), and Dreams Made of Paper (Lejos Discos). Last year she made a guest appearance on the Big Eyes Family Players's Do The Musiking.THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN is Suzy's first solo album and was recorded in Jan-July 2006. It will be released very soon, on Pickled Egg. She is also one half of THE WINTER JOURNEY.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/14/2006
Band Website: pickled-egg.co.uk
Band Members: Suzy Mangion
Influences: twin peaks, stars of the lid, elvis, mama cass, tindersticks, elliot smith, guy maddin, low, nico, velvet underground, eric satie, louis malle, paul auster, a hawk and a hacksaw, kraftwerk, max ernst, library recordings, defunct adverts, ennio morricone, nick cave, barbara kirby mason's first piano tunes, joan baez, harry belafonte, casio rap-man, anthony carmichael, harry nilsson, randy newman, alan price, the beatles, paul mcartney, claude debussy, tomita, derek griffiths, leonard cohen, jean cocteau, 1969 hamlyn recipe cards, the percussion trolley, the beach boys, dennis wilson, wendy carlos, hymns as i imagine them to be, red house painters, smog, picture box and many, many tv themes, jeff & tim buckley, stereolab, nina simone, serge gainsbourg, jane birkin, brigitte bardot, anna karina, abba, kurt weill, bob fosse, rachels, rene magritte, tangerine dream, buddy holly, sapore di mare, cocteau twins, roland barthes, valerie and her week of wonders, abbc, tape recorders, bits and pieces, bix beiderbecke, nancy & lee, ludwig II, joseph cornell, james bond & john barry, nick drake, mahalia jackson, les mysteres de voix bulgares, franz kafka, js bach, e nesbit, burt bacharach, diagrams & maps, crowded house, mary hopkin, donovan, komeda, astrud gilberto, stevie wonder, laurel & hardy, bernard herrmann, moondog, michael nyman, radiohead, performance, tom waits, air, pink floyd, the prisoner, bjork, aphex twin, vernon elliot, broadcast, rumpy pumpy music, miles davis, belle & sebastian, walter benjamin, tintin, columbo, barry adamson, jacques brel, maurice ravel
Sounds Like: bric-a-brac electronics & clockwork melody, old-time pop, an abandoned seaside amusement park, a frosty morning, DH Lawrence's bad dreams, a slow dance in a junk shop, joni mitchell & nico's xmas wurlitzer special, english fireside reverie, primitive electronica, music box waltz, rather wicker man-esque, hymns & carols, Arbol & The Winter Journey
Record Label: Pickled Egg (UK) Lejos Discos (Spain)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Limbotown

stop We've packed away our music room and all those boxes are ready for a new home to make music in. All my records since All Good Things (which was recorded back in 2001) and even the demos for The M...
Posted by Suzy Mangion on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:29:00 PST

Song for May

My song for May is small and perhaps neat. I love small fragment songs, I love the way they join spaces of music together. Compass Song is me, my voices, and my plastic bird whistling away 2002. At t...
Posted by Suzy Mangion on Sat, 12 May 2007 05:21:00 PST

new song for april

Summer came early this weekend. I send into this hot night a new song from The Other Side of the Mountain, a song which I wrote to remind me of listening to the Sapore di Mare tape on family car journ...
Posted by Suzy Mangion on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:00:00 PST

All Is Good

Why Warrington Museum is good... because it is a surprise, because there are drawers upon drawers of fossils and every mineral known to man. Because there is a secret room called The Curator's St...
Posted by Suzy Mangion on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 04:56:00 PST