{"title":"Artist: Lizzy Mercier Descloux","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"one-for-the-soul-lizzy-mercier-descloux-lp","title":"One For The Soul","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eKEY FEATURES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRemastered from the original tapes\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEssay by \"Punk Professor\" Vivien Goldman, interviewing key players\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLP Includes download card for full album + 2 bonus tracks\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eRELEASE DESCRIPTION\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy the time poet, singer-songwriter, and artist Lizzy Mercier Descloux recorded 1984’s Zulu Rock, she’d marked herself out as both a globe trotter with more passport stamps than Tintin and a musical innovator whose loose, arty spirit could be applied to styles as varied as no wave, Bavarian oompa and Soweto jive. She’d also established a tight-knit threesome with muse\/former lover Michel Esteban and producer\/on-off lover Adam Kidron, who all reunited to follow Zulu Rock – a surprise hit in her native France – with something that, once again, represented a complete about-turn.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe location, this time, was Rio De Janeiro, a suitably exotic location to follow their sojourn in Soweto given that Brazil had recently emerged from twenty years of dictatorship. But unlike Zulu Rock‘s broad appropriation of the local sound, One For The Soul borrows very liberally from Brazilian culture. The aim, says Kidron, was to “reimagine the blues”, but Lizzy’s musical essence was in flux. “A Word Is A Wah\" meshes reggae with her beloved accordion, “Women Don’t Like Me” is wild, new wave pop, and she even wanders into soul territory, with whispery lounge versions of Al Green’s “Simply Beautiful”. Most notable is the album’s foray into jazz, and the fact that Chet Baker, the master jazz trumpeter, blew his last on “Fog Horn Blues” and the sensuous “Off Off Pleasure”.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRio was to be the last great hurrah of Lizzy and Michel’s global recording adventures, and although work proceeded apace, the experience was often quite tense. \"The sessions were tough work,” says Kidron, in the new liner notes by Vivien Goldman accompanying this deluxe reissue. “Lizzy never quite got singing, no matter how much she drank, and no matter how hard she tried. Chet was very much at the drug-ravaged end of his life and had very little stamina or dexterity left… but there is a deep, sad, lyrical tone to his performances on the album.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSo fraught were the sessions, it’s a miracle that such a cohesive, sparky record emerged. The record-buying public did not agree, and as the album crashed and burned, so did the relationship between its three heroes. Lizzy was, for the first time, about to take on the world alone – and there was but one album left in her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTRACKLIST \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne For The Soul\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSimply Beautiful\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFog Horn Blues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWomen Don't Like Me\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMy Funny Valentine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSound Of Leblon Beach_Garden Of Alas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGod Spell Me Wrong\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOff Off Pleasure\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLong Voodoo Ago\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQueen Of Overdub Kisses\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Word Is A Whah\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScala Saga Samba\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLove Streams\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLet's Get It On\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBravado\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eLISTEN\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eAvailable on Desktop \u0026amp; Mobile\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"352\" width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/2mFJVBVHQTc802YHXCbLgj?utm_source=generator\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Lizzy Mercier Descloux","offers":[{"title":"LP \/ Black","offer_id":42654687133887,"sku":"LITA139-BK","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/6947\/3471\/files\/LITA139-LizzyMercierDescloux-OneForTheSoul.jpg?v=1704688229"},{"product_id":"suspense-lizzy-mercier-descloux-lp","title":"Suspense","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eKEY FEATURES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRemastered from the original tapes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEssay by “Punk Professor” Vivien Goldman, interviewing key players\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLP Includes download card for full album + 6 bonus tracks\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eRELEASE DESCRIPTION\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy the time bohemian singer\/poet\/artist Lizzy Mercier Descloux recorded her fifth album, 1988’s Suspense, she’d enjoyed a recording career that was as far from the clichés of music lore as is possible, flitting between genres, continents, and collaborators, enjoying great success and equally great failure and even stealing the final breaths of master trumpeter Chet Baker for 1986’s One For The Soul.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen she came to make Suspense – reissued here as the final album in our series – she was, for the first time, working without her longtime muse, partner, and manager Michel Esteban, with whom she’d first moved from their native France to New York, where it all began.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe pressure was on to repeat the success of “Mais Où Sont Passées Les Gazelles”, a smash hit in France, and Descloux’s label were keen to make a conventional artist of her, pairing her with John Brand, an in-vogue producer with a style geared to a big, shiny 1980s chart sound—an approach Lizzy had never experienced before, nor intended to. Recorded in Oxfordshire and Wales, it features songs recorded in both French and English, with lyrics by Mark Cunningham, the trumpet player of the avant-garde band MARS, and James Reyne, the Australian artist who co-wrote much of One For The Soul.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Vivien Goldman’s new liner notes, Esteban notes that Suspense sounds “less Lizzy than the other records, less open,” but in splitting herself into two – English and Francophone – the album has two personalities too; oddly, it shines a light on the real Descloux that her cultural experiments never did.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough the initial aim was to make a folky, acoustic album, the pop sound suited the singer, and “A Room In New York” is as fine and sparky as AOR gets. But when early single “Gueule D’Amour\/Cry of Love” stiffed, EMI lost confidence and buried the LP. Bound by her contract to the label, Descloux moved away from music and focused on painting. She eventually settled in Corsica, the French island, where she died, aged 48, of cancer. Descloux’s musical career ended, therefore, with the aptly titled Suspense. It was only a matter of time before this furiously creative artist’s work was re-evaluated, and with these deluxe reissues, that time is now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTRACKLIST \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGueule d'Amour\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCape Desire\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSalomé\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVroom\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eC'est La Voie Lactée\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Long Goodbye\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2 Femmes À La Mer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eL'heure Bleue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOnce Upon A Time Out\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEchec Et Mat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Room In New York\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGypsy Flame (English Version)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLucky Strike Drive (English Version)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlaytime (English Version)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHurricane (English Version)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCalypso Moguls (7 Inch Version)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCalypso Moguls (Tender Dub)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eLISTEN\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eAvailable on Desktop \u0026amp; Mobile\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"352\" width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/5wcIBigr5eq5Y145PjxtzN?utm_source=generator\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Lizzy Mercier Descloux","offers":[{"title":"LP \/ Black","offer_id":42654687166655,"sku":"LITA140-BK","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/6947\/3471\/files\/LITA140-LizzyMercierDescloux-Suspense.jpg?v=1704691979"}],"url":"https:\/\/helixsounds.com\/collections\/artist-lizzy-mercier-descloux.oembed","provider":"Helix Sounds","version":"1.0","type":"link"}