Azul Salvaje on violin and Jean Smith on guitar.
Mecca Normal — “Pamela Makes Waves”
Lounge Axe, Chicago, mid-nineties. VHS video-ed off the TV. Zoom H4n TV sound (standard hiss removal).
Mecca Normal — “Frozen Rain” Chicago
Lounge Axe, approximately mid-ninties. VHS video-ed off the TV. Zoom H4n TV sound (standard hiss removal).
Mecca Normal — David Lester
Rhino Records in LA, 1992, Atomic TV
Mecca Normal — No Mind’s Eye
The Family Swan (Kill Rock Stars, 2002)
Mecca Normal — Breathing in the Dark
Mecca Normal (David Lester on guitar and Jean Smith vocals) “Breathing in the Dark” — The Eagle and the Poodle (Matador 1996, re-released on Smarten UP! Records, 2009). Available in iTunes. Peter Jefferies on drums. Film by Jean Smith (in-camera edit, September 20, 2009).
Mecca Normal — Trapped Inside Your Heart
Mecca Normal (David Lester on guitar and Jean Smith vocals) “Trapped Inside Your Heart” — Sitting on Snaps (Matador 1995, re-released on Smarten UP! Records, 2009). Available in iTunes. Film by Jean Smith (September 20, 2009).
Mecca Normal — When You Know
Mecca Normal (David Lester on guitar and Jean Smith vocals) “When You Know” — The Eagle & The Poodle” (Matador 1996, re-released on Smarten UP! Records, 2009). Available in iTunes. Film by Jean Smith (in-camera edit, September 20, 2009).
Mecca Normal Re-releases
Smarten UP! Records began as a How to Change the World Publication (1984) and turned into a record label to release Mecca Normal’s first LP (1986), later re-released by K Records.
The Eagle and the Poodle (Matador 1996)
Who Shot Elvis? (Matador, 1997)
Sitting on Snaps (Matador, 1995)
Mecca Normal — Wasn’t Said
Holocene, Portland, April 2009. Sound recorded by J Free. Video shot by David Bryant.
