Marc and the Mambas was a new wave group, formed by Marc Almond, in 1982 as an off-shoot project from Soft Cell. The band's line-up changed frequently, and included Matt Johnson from The The and Annie Hogan, with whom Almond worked later in his solo career.
Marc and the Mambas started Marc Almond's solo career. As Soft Cell's sound developed more into a darker mix of pop and electronic dance music, With Some Bizzare Label Marc and the Mambas cont...
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Marc and the Mambas was a new wave group, formed by Marc Almond, in 1982 as an off-shoot project from Soft Cell. The band's line-up changed frequently, and included Matt Johnson from The The and Annie Hogan, with whom Almond worked later in his solo career.
Marc and the Mambas started Marc Almond's solo career. As Soft Cell's sound developed more into a darker mix of pop and electronic dance music, With Some Bizzare Label Marc and the Mambas continued the dark themes - but built around more complex rhythms.
Their second Some Bizzare released album, Torment and Toreros, contains a mix of ballads, both with and without dance beats, and is an interesting mix of Vaudeville, French Chanson, and goth sensibility, using guitar noise, piano, and string sections. Almond later later described this recording as an "attempted suicide put on vinyl."
Interestingly, the group was closer to a jazz outfit rather than a rock group. Band members changed from album to performance and back each time...
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