Press Kit

** MARIANNE DISSARD **

“Les 50 Français qui marquent l’Amérique” – France-Amérique Magazine

** L’ENTREDEUX **

Coup de Coeur Charles Cros 2009 – Académie Charles Cros, France

Top 10 French Albums of the Decade – DJ Trouble/WFMU, USA, Maks/Filles Sourires, Netherlands, Filles Sourires Blog

Top 10 Chanson Albums of 2009 – Francis Hébert/Voir, Canada

** PARIS ONE TAKES **

“A fantastic album – 4/5 Stars!” – Venus Magazine

“Definitely one of our favorite albums of 2010″ – Lucid Culture

8/10 – Blurt Mag

ENGLISH: “”Enchanting” Now Toronto/Canada “Fabulous. Stunning.” Ottawa Xpress/Canada “She’s just a damn good time.” Seattle Weekly/USA “One of the most poignant and versatile live performers you could ever hope to stumble across. Whether she is crooning in the corner of a Tucson bar or fronting a five-piece collective, Dissard commands an audience unlike many others.” Santa Barbara Independent/USA “Beautiful and coherent, understated and entrancing” Blurt Magazine/USA “Stunning Frenchwoman despite years of living in Tucson, she had great songs, a fine voice and excellent delivery. Very classy, but straightforward too. Hard to characterise, excellent” Radio3.CBC/Canada “Weds the cabaret/chanson tradition with Americana. Where such a mix could easily have come across as contrived in someone else’s hands, Dissard makes both forms sound like they were meant for each other. French may be the language of love, but the emotional punch of the music comes from Dissard’s delivery. So natural is her approach, in fact, that after a short time her French lyrics don’t sound novel or even foreign at all. Clearly, Dissard isn’t pandering to anyone’s yen for exoticism. Instead, she plumbs for the soul of both traditions and re-invents them both.” Rochester City Newspaper/USA “Unusual mixture of French and American Southwestern influences” Tribune Montréal/Canada “Striking in its ability to seamlessly fuse styles that seemed previously to be wholly disparate” Buffalo News/USA “Her stage performances are a seductive mingling of catchy melodies, with her deep, raspy voice emanating a haunting sense of longing.” Art Voice Buffalo/USA “Heart-melting debut that beautifully melds Southwestern noir with the husky, unequivocal whisper of chanson. An intimate and amorous album. What sets Dissard apart from the rest of the chanteuses riding the Francophile wave is her delivery—subtle, slightly spitty and the most effective aphrodisiac since Benjamin Biolay’s Trash Yéyé.” Philadelphia Weekly/USA “A fair presence, a true-to-form throaty alto, and enchanting French lyrics.Marianne’s vocals have been called breathless, but that makes her out to be a lo-fi chanteuse a la premiere dame. I’d say she sounds more like a scaled downTetes Raides. Think of a female performer who embraces the poetry of Leonard Cohen and the litheness of a panther – that’s Marianne Dissard. Live, she performs with an abandon that compliments Calexico’s technique – not AIDS WOLF, try Ida Maria.” Toronto Blog/Canada “The effect is magical” Democrat&Chronicle/USA “An enchanting listen” New Haven Advocate/USA “Something like ’70s import movie music. It is delightfully noncommercial and full of risks.” San Diego Reader/USA “Pick of the Week: Her work has a lovely, mournful lilt, a sort of Parisian blues. Even those of us who don’t speak French cannot help but be touched by the stark beauty of her phrasing.” LA Weekly/USA “There is little to say here; if you don’t fall in love with her from the moment she says hello, then you will have done by the time she finishes the first line of her first song, and if you’re not melting by then, you have a swinging brick instead of a soul. The same kind of ache you get from Lambchop or Alice by Tom Waits- yet sounding like neither of them.” Mitch & Murray/UK “Polished and thoughtful, French and sultry, smoky, beautiful and sad.” Tucson Weekly/USA “Flush with bluesy overtones and a sultriness that doesn’t veer into lounge-cheese territory.” Ottawa Citizen/Canada “Seductive French lyrics, brooding ballads and a sultry, alternative jazz/neo-lounge vibe. Washington Post/USA

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FRANÇAIS: “Cet album est une des merveilles de l’année” Magic/France “Une pop-folk soignée, amoureuse et trainante” Télérama/France “Orfèvre en textes poignants. L’album d’un territoire imprévisible mais très clairement identifié, un album qui fédère des esthétiques et des pratiques parfois tangentes mais jamais unies jusque-là”. Bertrand Dicale/RFI+Chorus/France “Déroutant et captivant” Pariscope/France ““Vaporeux et sensuel. Un murmure, un souffle sexy, la voix de Dissard sait séduire en deux mots. Le premier grand cru de 2009. 4 étoiles****” Voir-Montréal/Canada ““Une Greco de l’Arizona, une Adjani hallucinée au peyote, une Françoise Hardy passée à l’ouest. C’est délicieux et sulfureux, parfois yéyé et tout le temps panoramique, atmosphérique et tout ce que vous voulez en ique.” Le Devoir-Montréal/Canada “”Un pur délice. Difficile à croire, mais le meilleur album francophone ces temps-ci nous vient du sud.”" Voir-Sherbrooke/Canada

GERMAN: “Das dilemma des Wüster-Rockband Calexico besteht darin, dass ihre schönen Lieder doch sehr ähnlich klingen. Welches Wunder frische Ideen oft bewirken, belegt das Album, das Calexico-Co-Chef Joey Burns mit dieser Exil-Französin eingespielt hat. Herrlich verschmelzen da alte europäische Wehmut und Eleganz des Chansons mit der Einsamkeit druchglühter amerikanischer Western-Landschaften” Der Spiegel/Germany “Weil der Himmel in Arizona auch im November unbeirrt in schönstem Blau strahlt, ist die französische Sängerin in die Wüstenstadt Tucson umgesiedelt. Für ihr Debütalbum hat sie die flirrende Sonne des Südwestens mit ihrem französischen Charme verschmolzen. Relaxter Songwriter-Pop, der selbst an trüben Tagen ein wenig Wüstenfeeling verbreitet. Lieblings-song: “Les Draps Sourds”. Myself/Germany