I apologize to those of you who are more tuned in to the beat of progress and history, but I'm blown away by my recent googling of Erica Pomerance. She released You Used to Think on ESP in 1968 and then faded away, her happy weirdness never to be heard again. You Used to Think is a head-scratchin beaut - a healthy stew of 60s New York folk groove, free jazz and awesome drug induced usage of studio technology. I'm a sucker for a double-tracked vocal, and the title track may be my fave use of the ol' double track ever.
I was told, and I believed, that she had disappeared like a puff of the goodsmoke that fomented those tunes. BUT DUDE that is not the case.
Blastitude published a great interview with the lady a few years ago that I apparently missed. She is a documentarian! She lives a normal life in Quebec! She sings to her kids!
The Blastitude interview also has some juicy anecdotes about the album sessions. Apparently it was all recorded in two nights - one with jazz guys and the second a "snowy, acid-laced night." Excellent.
And here is her imdb page - where her best-known film appears to be Dabla! Excision, a film about the movement to stop Female Circumcision.
She's going to be Ms. March in my "Gone Ladies" Calendar for '09.
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