Very glad to know you could connect with M’s creations here David. It will flesh out over time. She also has some links at the footer for some of her other places online (Sue Campbell has been keeping Margot’s web presence alive since the early/mid 90′s).

I have just watched your beautiful video of Margot’s “Dream” on YouTube David (passed on by the very super Sue Campbell). Thank you for doing this! For me, it was very emotional. You have appropriately placed some very powerful imagery here as well as some extraordinarily tasteful obfuscations (can just make out M’s face at times, for example.. or is that me seeing what I want to see? Love it very much.) and your trademark overlays – thank you David – I really appreciate it. I’ll be adding more videos here soon; May I embed it on this site’s video page?

Really glad you could track down a copy of Taste Frank! and it’s a sweet thing that you say you prefer Inhumaninane. Wow, I know Margot would love to know that it was someone’s favourite. She was running out of time, she could have put a dozen different albums together with all her material but “Inhumaninane” is how she wanted it except for also wanting to have lyrics/vocals by Sue and Steve on the reprise of The Secret. I helped her during much of last year to finish it and can say it went in several different explorative directions until eventually, this was the list of tracks that made her feel right each time. She wanted to say different things to different people, throw people, make them think, make it difficult to ‘get into’ but with a pay-load, to have a kind of long-term wow factor built in.. in the future once many now younger people are older, they may find it and understand it also, like her other offerings, a kind of treasure. There are many more unreleased tracks and I hope it’s possible to release those also, including some which nearly ended up on this album.

As you do, I wish she could have been more widely known also. A musical artist was all she could have been. Absolutely agree with you about her “real” delivery. Mostly, the songs came to her fully unpacked and already assembled on delivery – it was up to everyone else to “get it”. One minute there is no song, the next there is a finished song and it can only be one way. Margot would be able to hear a few bars of a new piece of music, close her eyes, contemplate a while and tell you to turn off the sound.. she’d click her fingers and she’d just sing – and it would be just perfect. (I don’t want to think about how many songs never were recorded because she would ‘give birth’ to them at the wrong time or place or the recording gear was not at hand.. she had hand-held voice recorders but even planned conveniences were rarely readied in time). More than a few times, Margot listened, over the phone, through a piece I had recorded and insisted I record her – not only were these in pitch, but when I later laid them over the music they were perfectly in-synch. She got the timing, intent, feel, everything. She then went on to talk about other things as if that was just an incidental moment.. and it was I suppose, to her. These gems struck like lightning. Great words, emotional, authentic, timing. Genius.. and I think I am not alone in wishing we could have worked together more and finished more recordings. Margot was not one to use an eraser or write anything down or over-work it. Mostly, what you hear is raw and real and somehow amazing for those reasons alone.

Big cheers to you Frank and the fantastic Ottawan/Canadian music scene and many thanks to you for keeping her flame alight there! And to David Duchow for so beautifully painting with moving light, added meaning, depth and emotion across the sound-waves sung by Margot! Thank you both.

I’ve just opened comments up on the Inhumaninane release page and will encourage others involved with the album to keep an eye on it and give feedback. Hopefully your questions about the making of the album can be fleshed out there.

Thank you again for posting Frank.

A big thanks to Ben Kross, Bec Shaw, Sue Campbell and Tim Powles for all their help in getting Margot’s gig up and running.