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  • From: Tobi Vail <tobi AT killrockstars.com>
  • To: typicalgirls AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [TypicalGirls] Lizzy Mercier Descloux
  • Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 17:21:06 -0700

hello typical girls...you can order the ZE records Lizzy Mercier
Descloux records from kill rock stars now....i have also ordered
Catholic Discipline but we haven't got them in yet. if you have any
other typical girls reissue news, please don't hesitate to email me
suggestions for our store, thanks! here are the links:



Lizzy Mercier Descloux "Press Color" CD $15/LP $13
http://www.buyolympia.com/killrockstars/Item=ZE003
First reissue of this classic debut album, originally issued by Ze in
1979; with the awesome Rosa Yemen Live In N.Y.C July 1978 mini-LP
added, plus 4 bonus tracks (including her stellar 1995 duet with
Patti Smith "Morning High", as released by Bill Laswell). Straddling
the cultural canyon of no-and-new waves like nothing else, this is
one of the most romantically hypnotic albums of the era. "Originally
from Paris, in 1978 Lizzy Mercier Descloux moved permanently to NY
and took a huge empty loft in Soho with friends Michel Esteban &
Patti Smith... They used it as a workshop to play guitar, silkscreen
materials, drawing and photo studio... In the meantime Lizzy started
with DJ Banes a pretty obscure and nervous combo called Rosa Yemen.

Lizzy Mercier Descloux "Mambo Nassau" CD $15
http://www.buyolympia.com/killrockstars/Item=ZE004
First readily available CD issue of Descloux's 2nd album, originally
issued in 1981 by Phillips (France). With 5 bonus tracks (including
Arto Lindsay on 1 track). Fold-out digipak packaging, 16 page booklet
of liner notes/photos. "After touring to promote Press Color, her
debut album, with a funk band, Lizzy Mercier Descloux travelled to
Europe with companion-film-maker Seth Tillett. They worked in Italy
on a serie of short films where she played Anna Magnani, Suzanna
Agnelli, filmed Renzo Rossellini at Cinecitta about the Emerginati
movement, met Federico Fellini during the filming of Cita della
donna, discovered the label Ocora (traditional music from all around
the world) and with all this in mind started writing songs with help
of drummer Bill Perry. In Paris they auditionned many african
musicians cause after wild child funk the idea was to make a record
malaxating african roots music, french buzz vocals, albatross swing
and some bizarre soundtracks. The record was made in Nassau, Bahamas
at Compass point, Island Records studios under kindness support of
Chris Blackwell. Walli Badarou who worked there as a house musician
with Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, joined Lizzy's band. Steve
Stanley a young engineer from Jamaica who was also working on Grace
Jones's album, produced the sound, he later also produced Tom Tom
Club, Third World and lots of Island records.

Lizzy Mercier Descloux "Fire" 12" $9
http://www.buyolympia.com/killrockstars/Item=ZE1204
"Before getting french national fame in 1984 with cult hit, 'Mais où
sont passées les gazelles', Lizzy was in 78 a French boyish poetry
cute girl singer living in New York and used to play in No Wave band
Rosa Yemen. She also used to write in Rock News, one of the very
first French 'Punk' magazine. Her first album Press Color was
recorded in New York with Eric from Marie & Les Garçons. Her covers
of 'Mission Impossible' and Arthur Brown's 'Fire' became club cult
from New York, Tokyo to London. Press Color was released in 10
countries. Her second album was recorded in Nassau Bahamas in Island
Studio Compass Point with collaboration of Walli Badarou and Tom Tom
Club's Chris Stanley. Here's a 12'', a taster of both albums
featuring the tracks 'Fire', 'Funky Stuff' & 2 versions of 'Mission
Impossible".
--
Tobi Vail
Mail Order
Kill Rock Stars
120 State Ave. NE, PMB 418
Olympia, WA 98501 USA
(360) 357-9732, ext 17
fax (360) 357-6408
http://www.killrockstars.com



  • [TypicalGirls] Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Tobi Vail, 07/06/2004

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