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ESSRA MOHAWK

SANDY’S ALBUM IS HERE AT LAST
Label GONZO
Catalog HST512CD
Format CD
Discs 1
Category ROCK/POPS
Street Date 2019-04-26
Description
Sandra Elayne Hurvitz is an American singer and songwriter who has been active since the early 1960s when the legendary produce Shadow Morton placed songs of hers with the legendary girl band the Shangri Las. Whilst living in New York she met Frank Zappa who persuaded her to join The Mothers of Invention and also signed her to his Bizarre Records production company. This was her first album released in December 1968. However the following year she married her producer Frazier Mohawk and from then on was known as Essra Mohawk. Although some people have claimed that ‘Essra’ is some bizarre cult name a magical word of power or a native American given name ‘Essra’ is actually an abbreviated form of ‘Sandra’. She was so enamoured of her new Christian name that she retroactively used it for this album which had already been released under her given name. She was scheduled to perform at the Woodstock Festival in August 1969 but her manager missed the turn in the road resulting in them arriving too late to perform. Sadly this seems an encapsulation of her entire career. She has made some fantastic music but always seems to have been in the wrong place at the wrong time.
tracklisting
1. Child
2. Three Hawks
3. All This Time Going By
4. Woman
5. The Sun
6. Many Different Things
7. Youll Dance Alone
8. Tree of Trees
9. Arch Godliness of Purplefull Magic
10. Love Is What Ive Found
11. Life is Scarlet
 

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