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Performer: Kate & Anna McGarrigle
Engineer: Glen Robinson; Maurice Apelbaum; Michel Pepin; Pierre Marchand; Rob Heaney; Roma Baran; Yves Lepage
Producer: Joe Boyd; Michel Pepin; Pierre Marchand
Distributor: Ryko Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Kate McGarrigle (vocals, guitar, banjo, piano, celeste, synthesizer); Anna McGarrigle (vocals, guitar, accordion, clavecin, keyboards, synthesizer); Michel Pepin (guitar, dobro, keyboards, bass, percussion, background vocals); Pat Donaldson (guitar, bass); Andrew Cowan (guitar); Joel Zifkin (violin, background vocals); Gilles Losier (violin); Pierre Marchand (accordion, keyboards, drums); Sylvain Clavet, Mike DiNardo, Gordie Adamson (drums); Martha Wainwright, Lily Lanken (background vocals). Principally recorded at Le Studio Morin Heights, Morin Heights, Canada and Studio Frisson, Montreal, Canada. Personnel: Michel Pepin (vocals, guitar, dobro, keyboards, percussion); Anna McGarrigle (vocals, guitar, banjo, accordion, piano, synthesizer, background vocals); Kate McGarrigle (vocals, guitar, banjo, piano, celesta, synthesizer, background vocals); Joel Zifkin (vocals, violin, background vocals); Martha Wainwright (vocals); Andrew Cowan, Pat Donaldson (guitar); Gilles Losier (violin); Pierre Marchand (accordion, keyboards); Gordon Adamson, Mike DiNardo, Sylvain Clavet (drums); Lily Lanken (background vocals). Audio Mixers: Glen Robinson; Jerry Boys; Joe Boyd; Michel Pepin; Pierre Marchand. Recording information: Radio Canada Studio, Montreal, Canada; Studio Fressom, Montreal, Canada; Studio, Morin Heights. Photographer: Diane Dulude. Six years after their previous album, HEARTBEATS ACCELERATING, Kate and Anna McGarrigle returned with one of their finest, MATAPEDIA. Recorded in the duo's native Montreal, MATAPEDIA features contributions from many of the musicians who have worked with Kate and Anna over the course of two decades. Though the women usually write apart from one another, the title song was written jointly, and is rich with a sense of homeland, time passing, and belonging. Melancholy has always fueled this music's particular beauty, but the melancholy has always been tempered with a dreamer's sense of hope and a romantic's sense of love and caring. While their first two albums remain the works by which Kate and Anna McGarrigle are most well known, MATAPEDIA deserves a place along side them.

Entertainment Weekly (9/6/96, p.76) - "...the spidery-voiced sisters sing on, their homemade music at once rough-hewn and fragile....Every McGarrigles song is its own complex world, like the explosions of frost on a winter window." - Rating: B+ Q (10/96, p.165) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...MATAPEDIA is a great return with beautiful singing, simple instrumentation, good tunes and excellent lyrics. The McGarrigles remain the rock stars who perform songs as if for family and friends..."

Active from the 1970s on, Canadian sisters Kate & Anna McGarrigle possess voices that blend in the magical ways that only those of siblings can, and are both powerfully affecting songwriters. While their music is nominally in the folk-rock vein, their arrangements draw from diverse sources and lend a bracing sense of place, community, and family to their music.

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