Marianne is currently recording “L’Abandon”, her second ‘official’ studio album and the follow-up to award-winning 2008 first Calexico-produced album “L’Entredeux”.

“L’Abandon” will feature songs co-written by Marianne with Italian composer Christian Ravaglioli . The musicians include Ravaglioli on piano, Canadian guitar player Luke Doucet and Marianne’s Tucson bandmates, including drummer Arthur Vint and Connor Gallaher, Sergio Mendoza (Calexico, Y La Orkesta), Thøger Lund (Giant Sand), Brian Lopez (Mostly Bears), Jon Vila, Silver Thread Trio, Salvador Duran, Gabriel Sullivan and Ruben Moreno.  Jim Waters is engineering, Rhymesayers’ BK-One co-produces and sequences. Joe Mabbott at Hideaway Studios in Minneapolis mixes.

A companion film to “L’Abandon” will be shot in June 2010 in Tucson’s cowtown Keeylocko, as a dustier remake of Andy Warhol’s western movie, “Lonesome Cowboys”.

Watch the trailer here: