Celia Mancini - The Celia Mancini Tapes [Leap Decade, NZ]

Brand new sealed  limited edition  reissue from 2023... not many copies made it out of NZ. Proud to have this in the store.

Celia passed away at age 50, a New Zealand underground legend and true force of nature. 

With King Loser, Axel Grinders, Stepford 5, Snapper, Mothertrucker, After Dinner Mints, and Celia's own songs.

The Celia Mancini Tapes is a compilation album of highlights from Celia's personal cassette collection, recorded between the period 1988-98, sourced from 4-track demos, practice room jams and cassette-dubs from long-lost studio session reels. In early January 2017, I helped Celia to collect the tapes from random storage locations that she had stashed them in decades previously, including dusty closets, car-boots, crumbling boxes etc, and then by mid-2017, around 200 of the cassettes had been digitised.

Celia was a well-known New Zealand underground rock musician, and when she sadly passed away at the age of 50 in September 2017, permission from the family was secured to compile a memorial album.

1. Celia Mancini - Torpedo Wave 
2. The After Dinner Mints - Sunny 
3. Celia Mancini - Donny 
4. Celia Mancini - The Yellow and Purple Dress 
5. The Stepford 5 - Stolen Heart
6. King Loser - Hammond Fu 
7. Celia Mancini - New Spy Theme Outro 
8. Snapper - Bad Girl (Lock & Load demo) 
9. Celia Mancini - Celia Goes Into The Void
10. Celia Mancini - Wordless Control
11. The Axel Grinders - Time To Die
12. Mothertrucker - Mistress Christmas