Get Your Back Up Off The Wall

by Mark Lesseraux

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This is an album of COVERS. My primary aim when working on all of these songs was to bring things out in them that diverged from the feel and sometimes even from the meanings intended in the original versions.
"You have not danced so badly, my dear,
trying to kiss the Magnificent One. You have actually waltzed with tremendous style,
O my sweet,
crushed angel."
-- Hafiz

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1.	Kiss Them For Me 03:30	info	buy track
2.	Cosmic Dancer/Chariot Choogle 03:14	info	buy track
3.	Get Down On It 03:01	info	buy track
4.	Burning Airlines Give You So Much More 02:52	info	buy track
5.	The Modern Dance 02:49	info	buy track
6.	Lucky Star 03:20	info	buy track
7.	Dancing In The Dark 03:29	info	buy track
8.	Buick MacKane 02:08		buy track
9.	You Dropped A Bomb On Me 03:41	info	buy track
10.	The Soul Of My Suit 02:47	info	buy track
11.	Dancing With Myself 04:04	info	buy track
12.	Running Up That Hill (bonus track) 04:05	info	buy track

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An album of cover songs, most of which have to do with the subject of dance/dancing

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released February 21, 2010

Mark Lesseraux - acoustic guitar, keyboards, percussion, found sounds, vocals
Mazz Swift-Camlet - violins
Jeremiah Hosea - bass
Thom Loubet - electric guitar
Jason DiMatteo - bass
Mark Horan - bass
Jillann Hertel - vocals
John Bollinger - drums

Ivan Pokorny - engineer
Alan J Swift-Camlet - string engineer (track 6)

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Mark Lesseraux New York

Mark’s mother is Irish Catholic. His father was a Russian Jew. In the 2nd grade, Mark veered “off course”… secretly. It is not clear how the "thread" was lost, but it had to do with a botched reading assignment; a chapter in a blue and yellow book left unread. Later, there were 2 nervous system glitches and at least 2 ecstatic dot connecting sessions. Finally, a Need… to sing. ... more

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