Suzy Mangion is one of those performers music critics
rave about, but not enough people have heard of.
Suzy Mangion looks good with a beret
Starting from a Durham
cupboard containing only a piano and a drumkit, Suzy began her public
music-making in 1994 as one half of duo George, who released a number of
acclaimed secret pop records on Earworm, Bad Jazz and Pickled Egg Records.
In 2006, Suzy Mangion split George and loaded her
collection of toy keyboards onto her percussion trolley, and went over the
mountain. Which is where we find her now.
Her first solo album, The Other Side Of The Mountain, is
a record of old-fashioned length and unfashionable feeling. Distinctively
intimate production and melancholic song-writing have created an intense and
charming record.
Suzy’s songs explore many styles, but are always unified
by her trademark haunting vocals and complex harmonies. She experiements with
electronics, old and new, mixed with a bricolage of beats, banjos and beat-up
pianos.
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