|
Welcome to Marianne Velvart's songs, lyrics, poetry and stories.
 I was born and raised by grandparents in Budapest, Hungary. I came to live in the South East of London at the age of 12 and at 13 picked up my first guitar. There were no bounds to my obsessive fascination with the English language which I was learning from scratch. At that early stage I didn’t know that the condition was incurable and that I’ve embarked on a lifelong quest after the creative expression of the inexpressible. Hell-bent on pursuing the big questions, I’ve traced instinctive sub-currents in the study of 'being’. and connectedness to the world. Being totally self-taught and with a natural bent for the quirky or surprising in words and tones, a stream of music and poetry came out of an otherwise dysfunctional teenage wrecked by the catastrophic home-life, soul-searching and existential mayhem which characterised my miss-spent youth.Marianne Velvart
 Formerly Marianne Derbyshire by marriage I played a succession of local level Christian events in the 1990's followed by annual concerts at the Greenbelt Festival plus others, radio, arts events and gigs around London's mainstream. The advent of the Paley's Watch collaboration heralded her (comparatively small) body of recorded work out of (the very much larger) whole compliment.Too long on the back burner, the digitalising of some 50 songs is yet to be accomplished. The only record of the said body of work continues to languish on outmoded cassettes keeping good solid and complete melodies, lyrics and harmony work set in aspic.
Back to the Nineties, The band 'Paley’s watch’ recorded a track called "November" for a progressive rock compilation which went John the Baptist-like before the album of the same name. Another recording of theirs appeared on the tribute CD to the late Geoff Mann, followed by a satirical album, brainchild of Marc Catley and the full studio 'concept' album /CD "November", released on Plankton Records in 1994.
I left the band in 1996 to pursue solo work from which a three track demo flowered and died through lack of management, act or non-act of God or 'other' take your pick. Marianne Velvart Band
 In the later 90's I led a promising combo in a tour of gigs around London which proved to be my final endeavour. Alas the group never recorded and thus shall ebb into oblivion save for some cool memories and photos.Like a bitterly short-lived 'encore’, a proposal from Rick Wakeman in 1997 to be signed to his record label "Hope" was heady at first, but ultimately gutting when it crashed through the label's financial debacle. Since the year 2000 I have not played music in public, but produced a (second) collection of poetry and prose titled 'Songs from the abyss of the heart birthing beauty'.
Amongst friends, the now mythical status of the book which I’m writing is owed to its lengthy gestation. Things get in the way but the book is on course. There are fallow phases, sometimes I write it and sometimes 'it’ writes me. In the 6th draft and counting, our paths are increasingly entwined. The work is alive. I live with it like with a complicated lover whom I’m still getting to know, am enchanted by and who is a channel to the wider world. Conversely, it is a child I am rearing, a strange, rare and self-conscious offspring that breaks the collective silence on the nethermost depths of the human heart.
If you find my three tracks – 'On the rooftops, Shadow boxing and Walking on the wall' to your liking, I warmly invite your feedback. I'd describe my music as jazz-funk-blues-rock Latin with dense vocal harmony work. My lyrics tend towards the deep dark chambers of heart and soul, the unabashed joy of beauty in all things and the scintillating, inescapable eternal Mysteries just beyond the reaching fingertip.
 Publications Progressive Rock Archives 1992-1996 (Paley's Watch) PALEY’S WATCH was a Christian Prog Band formed in 1992 by Marc CATLEY (classical guitar, wobbly guitars, vocals) (collaborator with Geoff MANN, ex: TWELFTH NIGHT), Duncan PARSONS (drums, keys, guitars, mandolin, SFX, programming, vocals, production) and Hungarian born Marianne VELVART (guitars, vocals).More... Rick Wakeman RWCC Spring Newsletter April 1997 (Hope Records)
At a Peculiar Angle A collection of poems published by SeaDream Music. Discography
Critics
Songs These demo songs are MP3 music files, which are each approx. 5MB large, and therefore, depending on the speed of your Internet connection, may take some time to download. In order to play these songs a MP3 player, i.e. Microsoft Windows Media Player, Apple QuickTime Player or equivalent, is required. Lyrics The music files and lyrics are free to download and free to play for private use only. If you wish to use my music or lyrics commercially then please Contact Me.
©2012 Marianne Velvart. All rights reserved. |
... a very talented female singer/songwriter by the name of Marianne Velvart. Both Frank Rodgers and Rick met with Marianne after being very impressed with the tapes that she sent the label and hopefully her debut album for Hope should be ready by the summer.