Mahogany

Dream pop music group Mahogany was shaped in Dec 1995 by Allysa Massais and Andrew Prinz, who shared a like for composers such as for example Debussy and rings such as for example Section 25. In Feb 1996, Larry Hofmann of Burnt Locks Records noticed the duo play among its first displays in Lansing, MI, and afterwards released a divide 12″ with fellow Lansing music group Auburn Lull. After Prinz’s sister Marissa became a member of on keyboards, Mahogany released the Dual-Group EP and received airplay for the John Peel off show within the U.K. On the next 2 yrs, they released recordings on Tinseltones, Liquefaction, and Clairecords, along with the EXACTLY WHAT WILL Become of the main element of Cause? EP in 1998, a joint work between Clairecords and Mahogany’s very own label, Disques de Simultanes (Simdisc). Afterwards that season, the band documented its debut full-length, The Imagine a Modern Time, co-released by Clairecords and Burnt Locks (afterwards reissued by Darla in 2001), and included Jesse Rafferty of Asha Vida on percussion. From then on record was documented, Massais remaining Michigan to keep her research in sculpture, as the Prinz siblings documented songs beneath the name Mohagonny. In 1999, they transformed the name back again to Mahogany, while also shifting to Brooklyn, NY, where these were became a member of by programmer Robert Pietrusko and guitarist/vocalist Lorraine Lelis, and started documenting and issuing numerous singles and EPs, which had been collected around the 2005 Darla launch Memory space Column: Early Functions & Rarities 1996-2004. By this time around the band’s lineup experienced transformed substantially and was right now an octet, with Andrew Prinz, Pietrusko, Jason Holmes, Ryan Hancock, Jeremy Scott, Ana Breton, Roy Designs, and Katrina Rudmin all adding to the lush, split sound Mahogany created. Despite the fact that the group’s studio room was damaged into in nov 2005, with the majority of their gear and some of the recordings taken, they pressed on, liberating the two-disc Connection! (which presented some creation help from Cocteau Twins’ Robin Guthrie) the next year.