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Lizzy Mercier Descloux
Zulu Rock
Light In The Attic (LITA 138)
CBS (25936)
Release date: Feb 12, 2016, US
Remastered from original tapes. Housed in heavyweight, tip on-style gatefold with essay by Vivian Goldman and download code including 5 bonus tracks.
“In the course of three albums, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, the rogue poet, artist, and singer-songwriter, traveled on a musical voyage from Manhattan (1979 debut Press Color) to The Bahamas (1981 follow-up Mambo Nassau) and apartheid South Africa (1984’s Zulu Rock) – a controversial cultural boycott in protest of the nation’s racially divided society.
One place Descloux had never visited was the pop charts, but that changed when “Mais Où Sont Passées Les Gazelles? (Where Have The Gazelles Gone?)” – a reworking of a South African Shangaan disco hit – went all the way to the top spot in her native France, giving her a platform and a profile in the land she’d fled many years before. Recorded at Satbel Studios in Johannesburg, the album followed what her mentor Michel Esteban describes as “an extraordinary adventure” through eastern Africa following the footsteps of 19th century poet Rimbaud through Sudan, Ethiopia, the East Coast.
A1
It's All My Imagination
A2
Abyssinia
A3
Mais Où Sont Passées Les Gazelles?
A4
Dolby Sisters Saliva Brothers
A5
L'éclipse
A6
Les Dents De L'Amour
B1
Wakwazulu Kwezizulu Rock
B2
Momo On My Mind
B3
I'm Liquor
B4
Queen Of Overdub Kisses
B5
Sun Jive
B6
All The Same