Jill Tracy
Jill Tracy is a singer, pianist, composer, and performance artist based in … Read Full Bio ↴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.

1999's Diabolical Streak 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.

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.

Her latest (and fourth) album, The Bittersweet Constrain (2008), explores a heavier, cinematic sonic edge with the addition of instruments such as the sarod, harmonium, and seldom-seen Chapman Stick. The recording also features percussionist Randy Odell, horn player Ralph Carney (Tom Waits/B52's), cellist Erica Mulkey (Rasputina/Unwoman), and violinist Tony Cross (Tarentel).

Produced by Alex Nahas (John Vanderslice/Zoe Keating/LaughingStock), The Bittersweet Constrain has been described by the San Francisco Chronicle as "devastatingly beautiful."

Domonkos served as art director/graphic designer for The Bittersweet Constrain. The CD packaging features Jill Tracy portraiture by Bay Area surrealist photographer Michael Garlington, known for his dreamy macabre imagery shot on vintage film stock.
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Jill Tracy Lyrics


Anything at All I’ll pack up a suitcase and I’ll hide inside your…
Between the Black you’re the enemy of the out because I let you…
Coventry Carol Lullay, lullay My little tiny child By-by, lullay, lullay L…
Diabolical Streak Slave to good intention. Mastermind the great. A victim to…
Doomsday Serenade We'll meet again, my dear, on Doomsday Pigs will be flying…
Evil Night Together I'll hold your hand while they drag the river I'll cuddle…
Extraordinary Oh my dear, you runneth over, With your cup of convoluted…
Haunted By the Thought of You I lock the door and I check it twice Before I…
Hour after Hour You live inside a clock. I feel your hands upon my…
I Can't Shake It No medicine for this malady No snake oil, no gris…
In Between Shades Hey there Mr. Blue I know everything you need Don’t…
Just the Other Side of Pain Those blasted clocks have all run down Oh, does time stand…
Make It Burn What’s the fascination with the flame? I can sense somethin…



O Come O Come Emanuel O come, o come Emmanuel To free your captive Israel That mou…
Petrified As dark as Venus and I want you Huddled close…
Pulling Your Insides Out Baby watch my blood boil To an opalescent blue Better draw t…
Quintessentially Unreal I kinda like the way you move me sleek and slick…
Room 19 There are stains on the walls that won’t come clean…
Sell My Soul Trick me with your pretty things Black horses with their…
The Fine Art of Poisioning it's quite an elaborate scheme the fine art of poisoning the…
The Proof Dear old Mattie Burton She was always so uncertain The mom…
The Water Flows So Slow Immerse me headfirst and I’ll never be afraid Just roll…
Torture So goes the tale of the Brazen Bull A strange device…
Treasure You’re my treasure and my trouble You’re the serum and…
Waiting For My Real Life To Begin Any minute now, my ship is coming in I'll keep…
What Child is This What child is this, who, laid to rest On Mary's lap,…
Where Shadows Fall Night has fallen, and so have we But seduction deceives…
You Kill Me I didn’t mean to blow the lid off I didn’t mean…
You Leave Me Cold I like the way you make me shiver Silver smoke, my…


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