It featured:

Billy Corgan (vocals/guitar), formerly of The Smashing Pumpkins. Matt Sweeney (guitar), formerly of the elastic Chavez and Skunk. He has as well played sustaining Cat Power and Guided By Voices, and collaborated by owning Will Oldham on an album. David Pajo (guitar), formerly of Slint, also a thrust behind Papa M. He has as well played by owning Tortoise, Stereolab, Royal Trux and Will Oldham. Paz Lenchantin (bass), also of A Perfect Circle. She has too played using Papa M. Jimmy Chamberlin (drums), formerly of The Smashing Pumpkins.

Ensuing a breakup of the Great Pumpkins, Corgan & Chamberlin joined forces by owning Sweeney to run Zwan. Sweeney recruited Pajo, & a band debuted as a 4-piece around late 2001. Lenchantaround completed a class action in spring 2002.

Widely seen as a vehicle for Corgan's prolific songwriting, Zwan utilized an intricate 3-guitar attack to craft the healthy typically in comparison that of the Great Pumpkins album Siamese Dream, albeit more melodic & shot across using an cheerful gentleness. Zwan performed astir Fifty recently original Corgan songs in its many brief, acclaimed tours, however freed simply of these studio album. A album was largely hold a disappointment for various reasons, including: unfortunate quality, non meeting expectations placed by anterior Great Pumpkins albums, existence to a lesser degree a total of its area talent-caring, & unfortunate production quality that Billy Corgan claimed was designed to "sound like vinyl."

Zwan's breakup

In the Can 27, 2005 edition of Entertainment Weekly, Billy Corgan gave his version of the reasons behind Zwan's breakup.

Discography
Albums
Mary Star of the Sea (January 2003) #3 US, #4 Canada, #33 UK (February 2003 release)

Singles
"Honestly" (February 2003) #28 UK (March 2003 release) "Lyric" (June 2003) #44 UK