Marc and the Mambas

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Marc and the Mambas was a pop-group formed by Marc Almond as an off-shoot project from Soft Cell. Marc and the Mambas forever can be considered the blueprint for Marc Almond's solo career. As Soft Cell developed into an excellent mix of pop and electronic "dark" dance music, Marc and the Mambas picked up there - but more and more got rid of the dance beat. While their first album still was searching for its own voice - with a mix of ballads with and without dance beats, Torment and Toreros was an incredible mix of Vaudeville, French chanson, goth sensibility, guitar noise, piano, string sections and a singing hero that went mad during the course of this album. Marc Almond later noted ironically, this album was an attempted suicide put on vinyl, and in a way it was. However, looking back at it almost 25 years later, it still goes strong, since there was never anything like that before and after. Interesting was on top of that the group as such was an outfit that was closer to a jazz outfit rather than a rock group. The band members changed from album to performance and back each time something new was started. The only really consisting members were Marc Almond, of course, and Annie Hogan. Further members, such as Billy McGee and Martin McCarrick went later on to join Marc for his first solo efforts (called Marc Almond and the Willing Sinners). But Martin McCarrick left for Siouxsie and the Banshees in 1987, and the rest of that band (then called La Magia) dissolved in 1988

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Torment and Toreros

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Three Black Nights Of Little Black Bites

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Trials Of Eyeliner: Anthology 1979-2016

Torment and Toreros (disc 2)

Torment and Toreros (disc 1)

Torment and Toreros (CD1)

Marc And The Mambas - Untitled

Torment and Toreros (CD2)

Torment & Toreros

Hits And Pieces – The Best Of Marc Almond & Soft Cell (Deluxe)

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