01. La Peau Du Lait
02. Almas Perversas
03. Un Gros chat
04. The One And Only
05. Neige Romaine
06. Le Jour De L’Anniversaire
07. L’exilé
08. Fugu
09. Fondre
10. Ecrivain public
11. Eté, hiver

➔ REVIEWS

► “There literally isn’t a single substandard song here: count this among one of the best dark rock records in recent years.” (Lucid Culture, USA)

► “Quelle richesse, quelle diversité, quelle complexité ! (Le Parisien, France) - Top 2011 albums list

► “Cliff-hanging liaison between Chanson and Rock. Complex and yet stringent, experimental and extravagant, dramatic and sexy” (Musikwoche)

► “Dramatic but never theatrical, forceful but never strident. Finally, perhaps, a female Nick Cave that we can actually believe in” (MetroMag’, Auckland)

► “A hell of a wild ride” (Sunday Star Times, New Zealand)

► “This sophomore album is punk-meets-folk is gritty, energetic and, probably because of the husky French vocals, incredibly sexy” (New Zealand Herald)

► “The erotic charm of French desert-chanson, the power of US-American indie rock and the obsession of jolly Mariachi-brass all fall into place to emerge as a vital mosaic” (Szene, Hamburg)

► “A voice, bearing the intensity of an Edith Piaf, a wild Rodeo of style and feelings” (Piranha)

► “Timeless creation” (Tagesspiegel)

► “A great production, in this year’s highlights” (Culturmag.de)

► “Watch out, pigeonholers: Francophile Pop can grind too.“ (Zitty)

► “Feverish songs, captivating pop anthems and touching ballads” (Schnüss, Bonn)

► “A furious mix” (Kulturnews)

► “Shockingly sanguine” (Westzeit)

► “Simply very entertaining” (Sono)

➔ CREDITS

Produced by Marianne Dissard & Jim Waters

Composed by Christian Ravaglioli except 2 by Marianne Dissard & Christian Ravaglioli

Lyrics by Marianne Dissard except 2 Marianne Dissard & P.P. Pasolini

Co-produced by BK-One

Engineered by Jim Waters at Waterworks Recordings in Tucson, AZ except 1 by JP Sluys at Badabing, Paris

Mixed by Joe Mabbott at Hideaway Studio in Minneapolis, MN

Remastered in 2019 by Jason Mitchell at LOUD Mastering, UK

► Marianne Dissard - Vocals

► Christian Ravaglioli - piano, Rhodes, organ, oboe 2

► Arthur Vint - drums, backup vocals 9, vibraphone 2 & 3, cajon 2

► Thøger Lund - electric bass, upright bass

► Luke Doucet - guitars, backup vocals 9

► Connor Gallaher - lapsteel, guitar, acoustic guitar 8

► Jon Villa - trumpets 2, 10

► Brian Lopez - guitar 1, backup vocals 1, 2, 6

► Salvador Duran - vocals 2, spanish adaptation 7

► Ruben Moreno - trumpets 2, backup vocals 2

► Sergio Mendoza - piano 1, drums 1, marimba, guitar outro 2

► Caroline Isaacs, Gabrielle Pietrangelo, Laura Kepner-Adney - backup vocals 3, 8, 10

► Gabriel Sullivan - backup vocals 10

► Geoff Hidalgo - bass 1

► BK-One - edited radio broadcasts 6

► John Sweeden - bonus track

► Lou Stebner - vocals 10

► Sly Slipetsky - bonus track

► Olivier Samouillan - accordion 1

Hidden bonus track in 2011 CD is 'Le jour de l'anniversaire'

2011 CD artwork by Bjarni Thor Haraldson

2023 cassette artwork by Marianne Dissard from 2011 design

Photos by Scott Christensen, William Coupon, 'Lonesome Cowgirls' movie, and from a photobooth somewhere in the American Midwest

2011 US CD pressing self-released

2011 German CD pressing under license to Le Pop Musik

➔ STORY

L’Abandon features songs co-written by Marianne Dissard and Italian composer Christian Ravaglioli, and demoed over the course of two post-European tours sessions of ten days each in August 2009 and January 2010 in Christian’s home studio in the countryside near Ravenna, Italy.

Full of friends, challenging but catchy, noisy but sweet, more ambitious and experimental than her first, “L’Abandon” is Marianne Dissard’s “Tijuana Moods”, an album written from a relentless two years world tour on the run from heartbreak at the end of her marriage. Just like Mingus’s trip down to Mexico, the escape, however, is not just an hallucinatory rampage. Having “decided to benefit musically” from the escape, Mingus incorporated the sounds and people of the Mexican border town.

Likewise, Marianne invites musicians she met on the road, from Canada’s guitar hero, Luke Doucet to Italian composer Christian Ravaglioli. Her Tucson friends and touring mates Arthur Vint on drums and Thøger Lund (Giant Sand), Sergio Mendoza, Brian Lopez, Connor Gallaher and Gabriel Sullivan, Silver Thread Trio and Salvador Duran all contribute to a sound that is very Tucson yet unmistakably French. A cohesive and ambitious album of contradictions and boisterous energy, while sweet and pensive, this is the album closest to reflecting Marianne’s musical personalities and life experiences.

The album recording took place in Tucson, Arizona in April and May 2010. The studio core band of 6 included Marianne singing, Christian Ravaglioli on piano, Canadian guitar player Luke Doucet and Marianne’s Tucson bandmates, including bassist Thøger Lund (Giant Sand), drummer Arthur Vint and Connor Gallaher on lapsteel and guitar, with cameos by Marianne’s touring bandmates Sergio Mendoza (Orkesta Mendoza, Calexico), Brian Lopez (XIXA) and Gabriel Sullivan (XIXA) as well as by Jon Villa (The Jons), b, Salvador Duran and Ruben Moreno (Mariachi Luz De Luna). Jim Waters engineered and produced with Marianne, Wax Poetics/Rhymesayers’ BK-One co-produced. Joe Mabbott (Brother Ali, Evidence, POS) mixed at Hideaway Studios in Minneapolis. The album was remastered in 2019 by Jason Mitchell at LOUD Mastering, UK, incorporating ‘Doll Circa’ sounding as originally intended by Marianne.

➔ COMPANION FILM

‘Lonesome Cowgirls’, the companion film to L’Abandon, was shot in June 2010 in Tucson’s Cowtown Keeylocko, as a dusty remake of Andy Warhol’s 1968 Tucson western film, Lonesome Cowboys.

Shot in exactly 24hrs on June 12th, 2010 in Ed Keeylocko's Cowtown Keeylocko, a surreal one-saloon desert outpost and working ranch located an hour southwest of Tucson, ‘Lonesome Cowgirls’ is a bawdy 52-min. remake of Andy Warhol’s 1968 Tucson western ‘Lonesome Cowgirls’.

Directed by Marianne Dissard in Cowtown Keeylocko, Arizona

Produced by Marianne Dissard and Megan Cox

Edited by Fabienne Bouville on the MGM film lot in Hollywood

The film was shot using several cameras and sound recorders, a crew of over a dozen local technicians, a cast of over two dozen local people, with over two hundred extras. Perpetual work-in-progress combination of narrative fiction, music videos and conceptual video art piece, the film primarily exists as a companion piece to the album. It provided a treasure chest of footage for music videos as well as for background projection during Marianne's live performances on her 2011 touring in Europe, Turkey, New Zealand, and China.

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