Marvin Pontiak | The Legendary Marvin Pontiak Greatest Hits | Album

The Legendary Marvin Pontiac: Greatest Hits is not a genuine compilation of a forgotten bluesman, but a brilliant musical hoax orchestrated by avant-garde jazz icon John Lurie in 1999. Masked behind a tragic backstory of a fictional, institutionalised African-Jewish musician, Lurie used this alter ego to break away from the serious structures of his jazz group, the Lounge Lizards, delivering a record that is as deeply hypnotic as it is absurdly funny.

Artist Website: strangeandbeautiful.com

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Related Artists: John Lurie, The Lounge Lizards