Mazeppa are no more - but the music lives on . . .
Sadly Mazeppa are no more but they leave behind them two great disks and a huge amount of memories. Mazeppa were: Otto Ohlsson - Vocals and Acoustic guitar, Paul Swannell - Piano and Organ, Brad B. Wood - Bass and Phil Holmes - Drums.
Otto has moved to the states and continues to write and perform his solo project - listen to his stuff and find out how he’s doing at www.otto-music.co.uk. Paul’s currently a session pianist with the Leicester band Ist with whom he has recently been recording Toothpick Bridge having played on King Martha previously. To check out their material visit www.istianity.co.uk .
Paul’s also been recording with St. Helens band The Loungs and his string arrangements are on their album We Are The Champ. Paul continues to write original material for a new solo album which he is hoping to complete in the nesr future. Paul can be contacted by emailing paulswannell@hotmail.com.
Since before Mazeppa, Brad has been recording with Conrad Astley as Merchandise and continues to do so. All Merchandise’s output is available on Cityscape Records - go to the Merchandise pages on this site or visit their myspace: www.myspace.com/merchandisetheband
Phil continues to play session drums and write and produce music playing in Hollton which you can hear on their myspace: www.myspace.com/hollton