Marizane rubbing important elbows

Their unreleased album has been collecting dust for 10 years, but Todd Jaeger and Debbie Shair -- the duo behind the pop act Marizane -- will be keeping company with Brian Wilson, David Bowie, the Byrds, the Smiths, the Ramones and X come March.

That’s when “Mayor of the Sunset Strip,� a documentary chronicling the life of KROQ deejay and rock scenester Rodney Bingenheimer, will open. Marizane performs the movie’s title track, which will appear on the 17-song soundtrack alongside numbers by those rock luminaries. The album will be released March 18 on the Shout! Factory label.

The lyrics to “The Mayor of the Sunset Strip� were penned by the movie’s co-producer (and Dramarama co-founder) Chris Carter, who “originally had Joey Ramone in mind for the job, before he died,� Jaeger says.

The tune represents another small step toward putting Marizane on the map. The band recorded an album, “Hypercube Sideshow,� with producer Tony Visconti (Bowie, T. Rex, Sparks) in the early 1990s, but, Jaeger says, “it has just kind of sat there on the shelf.�

And so, for five years, did the band, while keyboardist Shair tried to overcome thoracic outlet syndrome, a debilitating condition that affects the upper extremities. “I blew my arm out by doing way too much computer work -- I couldn’t even eat with a fork,� she says. “I thought I would never play keyboards again.... It was almost like I had to turn myself off to the idea of music.�

With Shair rehabbed to the point that she can play the piano standing up, Marizane is working on “Cosmosis,� an album they hope to have completed in May. A five-song EP of the band’s glammy pop, “Stage One,� was released in August; it included three of the songs produced by Visconti.

“It’s been such a long process,� Shair says. “It’s very exciting.�