Vaganza
Vaganza was a decidedly excessive/theatrical art-rock-pop duo consisting of multi-instrumentalists David Longworth Wallingford and Quigley.
Dressed in spangled, space-aged, "zoot suit" type apparel, singing in rather brazenly affected voices, and accompanied by more or less a full orchestra (plus much other extraneous instrumentation) on nearly each of the ten tracks on their debut album, the one thing that is for certain is that they were not "of" their time.
Their first unofficial release was a 1994 demo entitled "Are You Willing to Die for Rock 'n' Roll?" The recording cost only $5,000, but was an overproduced and excessive affair all the same. Circulating this demo to various friends and those friends' friends, while decked out in their full regalia Vaganza were eventually able to generate something of an industry buzz even while lacking a live band and being mostly unknown to all.
Their self-titled debut, and only official, album was released in May 1998 on Geffen Records subsidiary Outpost Recordings. The gleefully overwrought longplayer was in part self-produced by Vaganza, with their friend and engineer Greg Frey also producing. It featured in addition to Quigley (vocals, bass, guitar, synthesizers) and Wallingford (vocals, guitar, piano, synthesizers, percussion) many guest musicians, most noteworthy being drummer Joey Waronker who has played drums with Beck, R.E.M. and The Smashing Pumpkins (among many other accomplishments too numerous to list here).
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Vaganza
ALBUMS
- Vaganza released: 1998
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by Pizzicato Five
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by Joseph Arthur
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by As I Lay Dying
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by Zeromancer
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by SocialBurn
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by Blue Monday
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by Range
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by Kylee
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by Faktion
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by Cab Calloway
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by Neeraj Shridhar
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by Safe To Say
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by Shannon Behm
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by Codeine
Vacance
by: Pizzicato Five(Takanami)
Translators: Ed Valdez and Ted Mills
kare to anata to watashi
natsu no kageroo ni tokete yuku
suna no ue hirusagari no koi
taikutsu na hikari no naka
dare mo nani mo iwanai
furui eiga no bamen no yoo
taiyoo ga kogashita jikan
sukoshi zutsu rinkaku?? o ushinau
asobi tsukare
sono ato wa
shinda yoo ni nemuru no
mawaru natsu no taiyoo
mawaru futashika na kisetsu
kare to anata to watashi
soshite itsu ka owaru 'vacance'
'radio' kara nagereru uta wa
sukoshi zutsu rinkaku?? o ushinau
asobi tsukare
sono ato wa
shinda yoo ni nemuru no
mawaru natsu no taiyoo
mawaru futashika na kisetsu
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He and you and I
Melting in the summer heat
on the sand, love in the early afternoon
in the dull light
nobody says anything
like an old movie scene
the time the sun has burned
little by little, our outline fades away
tired from playing
and after we'll
sleep like we're dead
the turning summer sun
the turning uncertain season
He and you and I
and then someday it will end, vacance
throwaway music from the radio
little by little, our outline fades away
tired from playing
and after we'll
sleep like we're dead
the turning summer sun
the turning uncertain season