Jill Tracy

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Jill Tracy
Jill Tracy

Jill Tracy is a singer, pianist, composer, and performance artist based in San Francisco. She has been described by the San Francisco Chronicle as “a femme fatale for the thinking man.” NPR "All Things Considered" has called her “utterly intriguing, transporting you into a magical world solely of her creation.” "My goal is to open the trapdoors, transport the listener into that magical place inside my head," Tracy said in an NPR interview with Susan Stamberg. "I call it the Kingdom of the Mind's Eye."

Jill Tracy states that some of her biggest childhood influences were film score composers such as Bernard Herrmann, and classic suspense tales, including Alfred Hitchcock and Fritz Lang films, Ray Bradbury stories, and Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone.

She is listed in San Francisco Magazine’s Top 100 Creative Forces in the Bay Area.

Diabolical Streak (1999) is the first studio album featuring her back up ensemble The Malcontent Orchestra. “Evil Night Together” from Diabolical Streak was awarded the SIBL international Grand Prize for songwriting. The album was listed among the "Top 10 Neo-Cabaret albums of all time" in Shift magazine. “The Fine Art of Poisoning,” from Diabolical Streak became an animated short film in 2003, a collaboration with Bay Area animator Bill Domonkos. The film has won over 30 film festival awards and continues to screen internationally.[citation needed]

Jill Tracy and The Malcontent Orchestra’s original score to F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent vampire classic Nosferatu debuted live at San Francisco’s Foreign Cinema in 1999 and toured Northern California theatres during Halloween season for five consecutive years. This led to the 2002 CD release Into the Land of Phantoms, selections from the Nosferatu score.

Jill has been working on a new full-length album since early 2006, which will be released sometime in 2007. Jill has said that the songs off of her new album are much more cinematic & heavy than the previous album. New songs include "The Water Flows So Slow", "Haunted by the Thought of You", "Torture", and "In Between Shades."

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[edit] Discography:

[edit] Albums:

  • Quintessentially Unreal (1996)
  • Diabolical Streak (1999)
  • Into The Land of Phantoms (2002)

[edit] Compilations:

  • "Meantime" on Market Street, Best of Café du Nord (live) (2000)
  • "Evil Night Together" on SIBL (Songs Inspired by Literature) Artists for Literacy (2002)

[edit] Films:

  • In the Wake (2001) Jill Tracy narrates the film, the song "Extraordinary" is featured in the score.
  • The Fine Art of Poisoning (2003) short film collaboration/music video project with animator Bill Domonkos
  • Heavy Put Away (2003) appears as nightclub singer, performed piano score, "Evil Night Together" is the film's end title song.
  • Ice Cream Ants (2006) stars as the sinister Mona, performed/composed title song "Pulling Your Insides Out"
  • The Black Dahlia Movie (2007) composed/performed the song "Pulling Your Insides Out."

[edit] TV

  • NAVY NCIS (CBS-TV) Episode "Ravenous"-Jill Tracy's song "Evil Night Together is featured.
  • Jill Tracy played a character in season 2, episode 13 of Scrubs; Elaine, a heart transplant patient who discusses death with JD. In the epilogue of the episode, she performs Colin Hay's Waiting for My Real Life to Begin concerning her own death.

[edit] External links

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