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Queens of the summer hotel / Aimee Mann.

By: Material type: MusicMusicPublisher number: SE067 | SuperEgo RecordsPublisher: [New York, NY] : SuperEgo Records, [2021]Copyright date: ℗&©2021Description: 1 audio disc (40 min., 12 sec.) : CD audio, stereo ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • performed music
Media type:
  • audio
Carrier type:
  • audio disc
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Contents:
You fall -- Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath -- Give me fifteen -- At the Frick Museum -- Home by now -- Checks -- Little chameleon -- You don't have the room -- Suicide is murder -- You could have been a Roosevelt -- Burn it out -- In Mexico -- Check (reprise) -- You're lost -- I see you.
Production credits:
  • Produced and recorded by Paul Bryan.
Performed by Aimee Mann, vocals, acoustic guitar ; Paul Bryan, vocals ; Jamie Edwards, piano ; with additional musicians.Summary: Aimee Mann started working on a musical, based on the memoir Girl, Interrupted. But it takes years for a Broadway show to get produced. So Aimee ended up going into the studio and recording all the songs for the musical herself, and this is the result.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult CD Adult CD Dr. James Carlson Library CD POP/ROCK Mann, Aimee Available 33111009949393
Adult CD Adult CD Northport Library CD POP/ROCK Mann, Aimee Available 33111009949385
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Not long after Aimee Mann released Mental Illness in 2017, she agreed to provide the songs for a musical adaptation of Girl, Interrupted, the 1993 memoir by Susanna Kaysen that was turned into an Oscar-winning film by James Mangold in 1999. The theatrical production was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, so Mann decided to turn her compositions into Queens of the Summer Hotel, her tenth solo album. Working once again with producer Paul Bryan -- the pair have collaborated ever since 2006's One More Drifter in the Snow -- Mann turns these theatrical tunes into a richly textured record, one that is deep in feeling and controlled in execution. Queens of the Summer Hotel does proceed with the deliberate momentum of a play, opening with the hushed hurry of "You Fall," winding its way through brief interludes and asides, reaching an emotional peak partway through with the stark, resonant "Suicide Is Murder," then settling on the bittersweet denouement of "I See You." Much of the album is given supple, sympathetic orchestrations that feel as intimate as the occasional number containing little more than a piano and voice, the two complementary arrangements giving the album the air of confessions being shared in confidence. Despite its contemplative nature, Queens of the Summer Hotel looks outward -- these were songs designed for the stage, after all. The combination of the airiness of the arrangements and the warmth of Mann's performance is wistfully hopeful, turning Queens of the Summer Hotel into a record that soothes and consoles during moments of uncertainty. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Title from disc surface.

Performed by Aimee Mann, vocals, acoustic guitar ; Paul Bryan, vocals ; Jamie Edwards, piano ; with additional musicians.

Produced and recorded by Paul Bryan.

Songs composed by Aimee Mann.

Strings and woodwinds arranged and conducted by Paul Bryan.

Compact disc.

Aimee Mann started working on a musical, based on the memoir Girl, Interrupted. But it takes years for a Broadway show to get produced. So Aimee ended up going into the studio and recording all the songs for the musical herself, and this is the result.

You fall -- Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath -- Give me fifteen -- At the Frick Museum -- Home by now -- Checks -- Little chameleon -- You don't have the room -- Suicide is murder -- You could have been a Roosevelt -- Burn it out -- In Mexico -- Check (reprise) -- You're lost -- I see you.

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