Marnie "Songs Hurt Me"

Marnie was a member of the Party Boys. Here she delivers the title track of her great debut album which she recorded together with Philip Drucker (Savage Republic, 17 Pygmies).

Released in Italy on Viva Records in 1990, this album represents what was going on in the late 80’s in LA.

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Il Realismo è Irreale
   “Il mystery mantiene uno spazio libero per rappresentare obliquamente, quasi senza darlo a vedere, frammenti, emozioni…Fanne un mistero se vuoi, ma non un dramma…sapendo che ogni fatto ha molte facce, che tutto è infinitamente ambiguo…” (Paolo Virno)
   “Di questa attitudine disincantata e fantastica allo stesso tempo, Marnie rappresenta il lato malinconico e morbido, gentile grazioso come un’operetta giapponese o cinese (“Shanghai My Heart” è il titolo di una performance di Marnie). Un’altra performance, “Music for Daydreaming”, è concepita come un moderno musical interpretato da creature mitologiche che “liberano una fantasia surreale attraverso chitarre elettriche, una sezione ritmica, danza e linguaggio verbale”, “un imprevedibile mix di rituale e ritmo””. Tutta l’opera di Marnie ruota attorno a un’infaticabile multimedialità (performances, video, film, installazioni, pitura, musica) di cui la musica è solo un aspetto, fra mitologia e tecnologia, una moderna mitologia dietro le sue innumerevoli “personae” e metamorfosi. Fra Party Boys e le sue recenti creazioni si snoda un percorso mentale, analogo a quello di Licher e soci, senza che ci sia un’apparente affinità di stile”
(da Viva Los Angeles II)

Realism is Unreal.
   “The mystery maintains a free space to represent obliquely, almost without revealing them, fragments, emotions…Make it a mystery, if you want, but not a tragedy…knowing that every event has many sides, that everything is infinitely ambiguous…” (Paolo Virno)  
“Of this detached an at the same time fantastical attitude, Marnie represent the melancholic and soft side, gentle and graceful like a Japanese or Chinese operetta (“Shanghai My Heart” is the title of one of Marnie’s representations). Another of her performance, Music for Daydreaming, was conceveid as a modern musical performed by mythological creatures “freeing a surreal imagination through electric guitars, a rhythmic section, dance and verbal language”, “an unforesseable mix of ritual and rhythm”. All of Marnie’s work is characterized by a tireless multimediality (performances, videos, films, exhibitions, painting, music) of which music is only one aspect, between mythology and technology, a modern mythology behind her innumerable personae and metamorphoses. Between the Party Boys and her latest creations winds a mental route, somehow analogous to that of Licher and Co., yet without sharing an obvious style affinity with them”
(from Viva Los Angeles II)

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