Anne DeMarinis
Anne DeMarinis is an American musician and visual artist who also designs album covers. Her work spans alternative rock, indie, and No Wave, and she plays accordion, keyboards, vocals, guitar, and percussion, often using synthesizers such as Oberheim and Synclavier.
In 1981 she helped start the No Wave band Interference with David Linton and Michael Brown. That same year she briefly joined Sonic Youth as a keyboardist, performing for their first show at Noise Fest at the White Columns art space. She contributed vocals (alongside Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore) on three live songs, “Noisefest #1,” “Noisefest #2,” and “Noisefest #3,” and played guitar on “Noisefest #4.” DeMarinis left Sonic Youth before their self-titled debut EP was recorded in December 1981. She also appeared on the Just Another Asshole compilation that year.
DeMarinis appears on Glenn Branca’s instrumental album Symphony No. 1, credited with keyboards and percussion and as a co-producer, with Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo also participating. She is featured on Ten Roir Years alongside Moore and Ranaldo. She has worked with Laurie Anderson on United States Live and Talk Normal: The Laurie Anderson Anthology, and she plays the accordion on the cover compilation Live at the Knitting Factory: Downtown Does the Beatles.
Her later recordings include accordion on Kurt Hoffman's Band of Weeds (1993), on George Cartwright’s Dot, and on Dave Van Ronk’s To All My Friends in Far-Flung Places (1994). She is credited on Robert Een’s Big Joe (1995) and Mr. Jealousy (1998). DeMarinis is listed as art director on Michael Davis’ Trumpets Eleven and Brass Nation, and she plays accordion and serves as art director on Smoke and Mirrors by Steven Elson. In 2006 she appeared on Dave Soldier’s Chamber Music CD, continuing her long-running collaboration across music and visual art.
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