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Essra Mohawk Essra Mohawk 1974 us elegant avant jazzy funk smooth rock 2010 bonus tracks edition Philadelphian Essra Mohawk is best known as the answer to the trivia question: �Who was the first female Mother (of Invention)?� She joined Frank Zappa and the band in 1967. Her name was Sandy Hurvitz back then, although Zappa dubbed her �Uncle Meat� for obscure reasons. But Mohawk had been in the music business for several years before her association with the Mothers at age 19. She recorded a single for Liberty when just 16 years old (�The Boy with the Way�, b-side �Memory of Your Voice�) and wrote songs recorded by the Shangri-Las and Vanilla Fudge. In 1969, Mohawk, nee Hurvitz, put out her first solo album, Sandy�s Album Is Here at Last!, on Zappa�s Bizarre record label. The record went basically unproduced (fellow Mother Ian Underwood is credited) and suffers from poor sound quality and other technical issues. Collectors� Choice has recently reissued this album and Mohawk�s next two re...

Essra Mohawk Essra 1976 us beautiful silk art groovy rock 2003 japan release Listening to my early albums, there seems to be a progression from ballads to uptempos that took place over the years. My first album is all ballads, my second album, Primordial Lovers, has a few rnidtempos and uptempos, and my third album is half ballads and half uptempos. This album, my fourth, is very different from the ones before it in that there are only two ballads: �Summersong� and �Hello Winter�. I seem to have switched  gears from ballads to uptempos as though I were gaining some kind of momentum. On the original vinyl release, "Summersong" appeared on one side of the record and "Hello Winter" was on the other side, just like winter and summer are opposite seasons. "People Will Talk" appears twice (two different versions), the serious version began side one and the album ended with the sitly version. One day in the studio while recording my vocals, I spontaneously began ...