Mysterious, mysterious Mary Flower . Enigmatic singer who merely terse sentences when expecting a response developed and vice versa. Is it possible that we know even less about a person after an interview? The evidence in the following lines ...
1) After singing with groups Jazzabilly Blues, The Model Millionaires and Micho Pelo, how do you feel all alone at the controls?
Mary Flower: I always controlled everything.
2) Do you remained in contact with your former players now that you moved to the other side of the country, from Los Angeles to Detroit?
MF: Oh yes . They are all wonderfully talented. I love them.
3) The new album "Baby Unicorn "is a great step forward and a mix of new sounds. Will you tell us about it?
MF: I think we took some risks but in reality it is a jazz album.
4) The song "Baby Unicorn" is it a taste of what you could do later?
MF: Oh no, it's just a comedy skit. But there will certainly be more electronics. I love a guy named Alfred Darlington (Daedelus aka) and, of course, I was always obsessed with music and career Raymond Scott (American composer born in 1908 and died in 1994, it is also the inventor of electronium and clavivox, ed ). And also, who did not want to be Clara Rockmore? ( American musician born in 1911 and died in 1998, it was a theremin virtuoso, ed )
5) At this point, you were drugged when you recorded this song (and if so tell us which, it seems to work)?
MF: No, no drugs. This is the result of twelve hours of singing inside a pyramid. I like to do a song on every album that shows your state of mind after being cooped up for hours in a small room like a madman to work until you die. You can be very sane, everyone cracks at some point. Then you laugh like crazy at you rolling on the ground. After everyone gets up and starts to work normally as if nothing unusual had happened. I think that it is not thy never happened either you do not work enough or you're a robot.
6) How did you know the directory Jazz 30's?
MF: I close my eyes and I travel in time.
7) Do you think your music is nostalgic?
MF: Yes of course but we are also worried about the future.
8) The sleeves of your albums are always great. Do you take special care of the visual aspect? Is it important to you? Is it like creating a little universe?
MF: I hear a lot better than I do but the visuals are so important. The image whose transfer the spirit of the music. This should move the listener. Is it a small world? I do not know. Your top drawer there is a small world?
9) Your hometown of Detroit is very important in the history of American music. Have you been influenced by artists from Detroit? Do you think the influence of Detroit is still as vivid today?
MF: My father is from Detroit, not me. I am a hillbilly climbing fruit trees in the middle of nowhere. The only city I know really, it's Los Angeles. But Detroit has forced me influenced. I grew up with local television in Detroit, Bill Bonds and listening to old Motown records of my father. I also listened a lot of bands like the MC5 and the Amboy Dukes ( the first group of Ted Nugent, ed ). Yes I think that the influence of Detroit is still relevant today. It was Jack White, who made great stuff with Wanda Jackson and others ... Eminem evokes a certain identity of the city. I know nothing about the music of Kid Rock, but my mother taught with her aunts and everyone describes it as "a good boy." We are in 2011 and I think it is on the verge a huge "revival Detroit. The city will be booming again because there's nothing cooler than hitting bottom.
10) What are your favorite singers?
MF: My mother, Eartha Kitt, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Edith Piaf, Lena Horne, Josephine Baker, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Margaret Whiting, Nan Wynn, Patsy Cline, Jane Green, Frank Sinatra, Mildred Bailey, Marilyn Monroe, Bing Crosby, Ruth Brown, Wanda Jackson, Al Bowlly, Annette Hanshaw, Sarah Vaughan, Dolly Parton, Maria Callas, Charles Trenet ... There are too many to list them all ...
11) How did you choose your name Mary Flower?
MF: is my real name.
12) Do you love being on stage? Do you miss it now that you no longer have a band? When was your last concert?
MF: I love being on stage and of course I miss it. My last concert was at the Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood shortly before June 2010. I would go back on stage but first I gotta work. I just love the stage, I'm kind of a little lonely recluse.
13) How do you choose your times?
MF: It the songs I choose. They haunt me.
14) You often write new lyrics, why?
MF: It was done much in the past. It is a tradition that I carry. Besides, I do not change the lyrics, I add a new chapter in history.
15) Do you like writing songs? Do you play an instrument?
MF: I love writing but I'm obsessed with other people's songs. I'm very shy about my own compositions. There are a few on my first record. They are so personal. I write tons of poems and letters. When I was little, I played the flute and now I play Qchord a digital auto-harp. I enjoyed playing the guitar but my hands are too small. And I'm not cool enough to play the ukulele as Ian Whitcombe and Janet Klein.
16) Are you afraid of fame?
MF (laughs): I'm not famous and I do not want to become. If one day I am known, I certainly will change face, I will take a new identity and I will disappear forever ...
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