Hecate's Angels
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Hecate's Angels is a musical group from Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

 that has been described as having an "arty, futuristic cabaret sound." The group was founded in the mid-1990s by electronic musician and singer Pietra Wexstun
Pietra Wexstun
Pietra Wexstun is an electronic musician and singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, California. She has fronted for the band Hecate's Angels since 1996, and has performed with her husband Stan Ridgway since 1986. She has contributed to all of Ridgway's solo and Drywall albums, performing backing...

, and has released two albums to date.

Members

  • Pietra Wexstun: composition, synthesizer
    Synthesizer
    A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...

    , organ
    Electronic organ
    An electronic organ is an electronic keyboard instrument which was derived from the harmonium, pipe organ and theatre organ. Originally, it was designed to imitate the sound of pipe organs, theatre organs, band sounds, or orchestral sounds....

    , mellotron
    Mellotron
    The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic tape replay keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. It superseded the Chamberlin Music Master, which was the world's first sample-playback keyboard intended for music...

    , autoharp
    Autoharp
    The autoharp is a musical string instrument having a series of chord bars attached to dampers, which, when depressed, mute all of the strings other than those that form the desired chord. Despite its name, the autoharp is not a harp at all, but a chorded zither. -History:There is debate over the...

    , melodica
    Melodica
    The melodica, also known as the "blow-organ" or "key-flute", is a free-reed instrument similar to the melodeon and harmonica. It has a musical keyboard on top, and is played by blowing air through a mouthpiece that fits into a hole in the side of the instrument. Pressing a key opens a hole,...

    , dulcimer
    Appalachian dulcimer
    The Appalachian dulcimer is a fretted string instrument of the zither family, typically with three or four strings. It is native to the Appalachian region of the United States...

    , theremin
    Theremin
    The theremin , originally known as the aetherphone/etherophone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without discernible physical contact from the player. It is named after its Russian inventor, Professor Léon Theremin, who patented the device...

    , lead vocals
  • Pat Answers: guitar
  • Bill Blatt: acoustic bass, background vocals
  • Jeffrey Grennan: brass, woodwinds
  • Elmo Smith: drums, percussion

Guest musicians

  • James T. Hill: drums, percussion
  • Rick King: electric guitar
  • Larry McMurtrey: pedal steel guitar
  • Stan Ridgway
    Stan Ridgway
    Stanard 'Stan' Ridgway is an American multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter known for his distinctive voice, dramatic lyrical narratives, and eclectic solo albums and was the original lead singer of the band Wall of Voodoo...

    : guitar, banjo, harmonica, background vocals
  • Lazlo Vickers: brass

Hidden Persuader (Birdcage, 1996)

1. Oracle
2. Eve's Angle
3. Hidden Persuader
4. Purdah Party
5. Hall Of Mirrors
6. Seduction Of The Minotaur
7. Fence
8. Comatose Dose
9. Rosemary's Baby
10. Pleasure And Pain
11. Somnium Waltz

Saints and Scoundrels (redFLY, 2004)

1. Way With Words
2. Patterns
3. Necklace
4. Femme Fatale
5. Galatea
6. Half Moon Cafe
7. The Innocents
8. Silence
9. Winsome
10. Moon Maid's Lament
11. Shrink Wrapped Soul
12. Appalachian Raga
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