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Use mdy dates|date=November 2010Infobox musical artist | name = Zwan| image = Zwan promo 2003.jpg| caption = Zwan in 2003. nowrap|Left to right:nowrap| David Pajo ,nowrap| Billy Corgan ,nowrap| Matt Sweeney ,nowrap| Paz Lenchantin ,nowrap|and Jimmy Chamberlin | image_size = | landscape = yes| background = group_or_band| alias =| origin =| genre = Alternative rock , indie rock , nowrap| dream pop | years_active = 2001–2003| label = Reprise Records|Reprise | associated_acts = nowrap| The Smashing Pumpkins ,nowrap| A PerfectCircle ,nowrap| Slint ,nowrap| Chavez (band)|Chavez | website =| current_members =| past_members = Billy Corgan Matt Sweeney Jimmy Chamberlin David Pajo Paz Lenchantin Zwan was an American alternative rock band that was formed by members of The Smashing Pumpkins , Slint , Tortoise (band)|Tortoise , Chavez (band)|Chavez , and A PerfectCircle . Zwan was started in late 2001 by Billy Corgan , lead singer and guitarist of The Smashing Pumpkins, after the Pumpkins disbanded in December 2000. The band released only one album, entitled Mary Star of the Sea (album)|Mary Star of the Sea . The group disbanded acrimoniously after their 2003 Concert|world tour .
History
Formation and first shows
Following the breakup of the Smashing Pumpkins, Corgan and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin joined forces with Matt Sweeney (formerly of the bands Chavez (band)|Chavez and Skunk) to start Zwan. Corgan had been friends with Sweeney since early in his career and Sweeney was thanked in the liner notes to The Smashing Pumpkins album Siamese Dream . Sweeney recruited David Pajo (member of Slint , David Pajo|Papa M ., Stereolab and many Drag City (record label)|Drag City acts) as a bassist.Gawron, Nolan. "Papa M." The Weekly Dig . December 9, 2003. Available at http://web.archive.org/web/20031223223219/ http://www.weeklydig.com/dig/content/5362.aspx The band debuted as a four-piece in late 2001.
Paz Lenchantin completed the group in spring 2002, at which time Pajo switched to guitar duties.citation needed|date=January 2012 The band initially played low-key shows in California, while slowly touring in small clubs throughout 2001 and 2002.citation needed|date=January 2012 Their first large-scale performance was at WWWN|WKQX 's Jamboree Festival in May 2002, in the Chicago area.citation needed|date=January 2012 Most songs they played during this era did not make it onto their album. November and December 2002 was spent headlining clubs around the midwest and northeast and a series of opening shows in support of Counting Crows .citation needed|date=January 2012
Zwan had two different incarnations. The first, and more common, version, the True Poets of Zwan (or simply "Zwan"), used three guitars, bass guitar, and drums. Zwan's only album, Mary Star of the Sea , is attributed to the True Poets of Zwan in the liner notes.Interview with Matt Sweeney. Mary_Star_of_the_Sea#Deluxe_edition|For Your Love DVD, Mary Star of the Sea
Djali Zwan
Djali Zwan, an acoustic incarnation of Zwan, which also featured cellist Ana Lenchantin , was to film and record the making of a new album in the studio in the fall of 2003, with an album and DVD to be issued in early 2004. Corgan spoke with Rolling Stone about his plans: "We're going to do it Let It Be -style," Corgan said, referring to the documentary about the 1970 The Beatles|Beatles album. "The album would be recorded live, with the cameras rolling. When you get the DVD, you can watch the takes on the album being done." He described the songs he'd written for Djali Zwan as "more folk-driven, rooted in traditional music. I don't want to compromise veins of material to fit into an electric band, which I often did in the Pumpkins. With Djali Zwan, I can write an acoustic song and not worry how it's going to stand up against some rock epic."Fricke, David. " http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/zwan/articles/story/5935234/corgan_unplugs_zwan Corgan Unplugs Zwan". Rolling Stone , May 23, 2003. Retrieved on September 10, 2007. Billy Corgan, Linda Strawberry , and Matt Sweeney came together to create the soundtrack for the movie Spun , directed by Jonas Ackerlund, and were credited as The Djali Zwan.
Break-up
Billy Corgan announced the band had broken up on Chicago's WGN-TV|WGN , on September 15, 2003. "I really enjoyed my experience with Zwan, but at the end of the day, without that sense of deeper family loyalty, it just becomes like anything else," Corgan said.citation needed|date=January 2012 On April 24, 2005 in the Chicago Tribune , Corgan commented briefly on the breakup of the band: "The music wasn't the big problem, it was more their attitude... Sex acts between band members in public. People carrying drugs across borders. Pajo sleeping with the producer's girlfriend while we were making the record."Kot, Greg. " http://www.zwanmusic.org/newsarchive/366.html Billy Corgan comes clean, starts over". Chicago Tribune , April 24, 2005. Retrieved on September 10, 2007.
In the May 27, 2005 edition of Entertainment Weekly , Corgan elaborated on his version of what went wrong:
cquote|Sex and drugs and junk. Tick off the list: heroin, band members having relationships...You don't trust the person next to you. I'm on the bus. I send an email to somebody and I throw my BlackBerry in my little day bag. The next day, my ex-girlfriend calls me screaming. Somebody in the group went into my BlackBerry and forwarded her an e-mail that another girl sends me. I mean, that's the kind of stuff we were dealing with. Pajo denied Corgan's accusations in the same article. "Pretty much everything that he said has been exaggerated and blown out of proportion," he said. "The drug stuff in particular. I know there was no heroin." Adds Lenchantin, "I believe that we were a really good team. I am moving on and onward. I hope that our paths will meet again in peace." Sweeney declined to comment.citation needed|date=January 2012
Discography
Albums
Mary Star of the Sea (album)|Mary Star of the Sea (2003, Reprise Records , #3 US, #4 Canada, #17 Germany,cite web|url= http://www.musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/artist/Zwan/? type=longplay |title=Chartverfolgung / Zwan / Longplay |language=German |work=musicline.de |publisher=PHONONET GmbH |accessdate=2011-04-03 #33 UK)cite book
| first= David | last= Roberts | year= 2006 | title= British Hit Singles & Albums | edition= 19th | publisher= Guinness World Records Limited | location= London | isbn= 1-904994-10-5 | page= 618
Singles
Date
Title
Chart positions
US Modern Rock
US Mainstream Rock
Canadian Top 40 Singles
Germany cite web
UK Singles Chart
November 2002
Honestly "
7
21
17
86
28
June 2, 2003
Lyric "
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References
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External links
http://www.archive.org/details/Zwan Zwan collection at the Internet Archive 's live music archive
Category:American alternative rock groups Category:Musical groups established in 2001 Category:Musical groups disestablished in 2003 Category:Supergroups Category:Musical quintets
