Diabolical Streak by JILL TRACY
"Diabolical Streak" is Jill Tracy's first studio album featuring her fearsome backing ensemble The Malcontent Orchestra.
With nothing but a sultry whisper campaign since its 1999 release, "Diabolical Streak" has become a cult smash being featured on CBS, NBC, PBS, and numerous independent and feature films, and earning the SIBL international grand prize for songwriting.
Canada's Shift Magazine hailed "Diabolical Streak" one of the Top 10 neo-cabaret albums of all time."
The song "Evil Night Together" has become an underground anthem for neo-burlesque, dark cabaret, gothic and modern bellydancers all over the globe. The song was featured prominently on CBS-TV's Navy NCIS, and the movie remake of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."
Showtime Networks chose "Evil Night Together" as DEXTER'S "Final Symphony," a requiem song to promote the series' wildly anticipated last season.
Jill Tracy's acclaimed music video "The Fine Art of Poisoning" (a collaboration with animator Bill Domonkos) has won over 30 film festival awards internationally.
"Like a film noir femme fatale, Jill Tracy is gorgeous; ballerina thin and Victorian porcelain pale.....a stunningly hypnotic performer."
SF BAY GUARDIAN
"One must be careful of Jill Tracy. The pale and shadowy chanteuse quickly draws you in with her noirish compositions; her songs are eerie and enticing, clever and clawing, and replete with gothic glamour. The San Francisco-based New York émigré' likes her fare dark and bloody, sprinkled with cabaret charm, old-time chamber ragtime chops and an almost overpowering sense of seductive gloom."
PACIFIC SUN
"very distinctive and exciting...Jill Tracy sings with the kind of breathy intimacy that will fulfill your dreams of being tortured by beautiful women."
LA WEEKLY
"an elegant and mysterious siren"
VILLAGE VOICE
"...positively poetic...Jill Tracy has made an exquisite, even luscious record with 'Diabolical Streak'...she wraps you with a smoky coo and as you soften under that sophisticated smirk you realize too late she's tied you to the third rail while the cobwebs descend and the seas fill with blood."
SF WEEKLY
"When you hear Jill Tracy's lush, sultry voice and experience the spooky melancholy of her lyrics, you're hooked...you can't escape the haunting and seductive powers of her macabre torch songs. As you listen, your will is no longer your own."
ELECTRONIC MUSICIAN
Tracklist
| 1. | Evil Night Together | 4:35 |
| 2. | The Fine Art of Poisoning | 5:38 |
| 3. | Pulling Your Insides Out | 6:24 |
| 4. | Extraordinary | 6:28 |
| 5. | The Proof | 8:02 |
| 6. | Just the Other Side of Pain | 7:24 |
| 7. | You Leave Me Cold | 3:52 |
| 8. | Doomsday Serenade | 4:26 |
| 9. | Precursor # 7 (For a Levitation) | 0:33 |
| 10. | Diabolical Streak | 8:53 |
Credits
words and music by Jill Tracy
The Malcontent Orchestra:
Jill Tracy: piano, vocals
Alexander Kort: contrabass, violoncello
Daniel Baer: violin
Eric Gebow: drums, percussion, timpani
Nadine Whitfield: bassoon
Eenor: yaili tambour
engineered and produced by Christian Jones
mastering and additional production:
Jeremy Bloch and Sam Burbank
graphic design: Robert Rossello
photography: Brian James
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Jill Tracy will transport you into a seductive and magical realm far beyond the Everyday. The place where we wished we lived. A dark, elegant netherworld full of hidden passageways, wonder cabinets, and opium dens. Of monsters, marvels and mayhem. You know it’s not safe here; but with Jill Tracy as your guide, you’ll be in no hurry to leave.