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Released
  
1979

Press Color (1979)
  
Mambo Nassau (1981)

Release date
  
1979

Label
  
Philips Records

Recorded
  
1979

Artist
  
Lizzy Mercier Descloux

Producer
  
Michel Esteban

Genres
  
No wave, Funk, Post-punk

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Studio
  
Blank Tapes Studios NYC

Similar
  
Lizzy Mercier Descloux albums, No wave albums, Other albums

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Press Color is the debut album of French no wave singer, Lizzy Mercier Descloux. Although largely forgotten the album has received some critical acclaim, being called "the real thing" by Uncut magazine.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Lizzy Mercier Descloux unless otherwise noted.

Side One

  1. "Jim on the Move" (Lalo Schifrin) 2:29
  2. "Aya Mood 3.5" 2:50
  3. "Torso Corso" 1:48
  4. "Wawa" 2:18

Side Two

  1. "Fire" (Arthur Brown) 5:11
  2. "Mission Impossible" (Schifrin) 2:35
  3. "No Golden Throat" 2:38
  4. "Tumor" (Eddie Cooley, John Davenport) 2:57

2003 reissue track listing

  1. "Fire" (Brown) 5:11
  2. "Torso Corso" 1:48
  3. "Mission Impossible" (Schifrin) 2:35
  4. "No Golden Throat" 2:38
  5. "Jim on the Move" (Schifrin) 2:29
  6. "Wawa" 2:18
  7. "Tumour" (Cooley, Davenport) 2:57
  8. "Aya Mood" 2:50
  9. "Mission Impossible 2.0" (Schifrin) 2:20
  10. "Rosa Vertov" (Descloux, D.J. Barnes) 1:43
  11. "Decryptated" (Descloux, Barnes) 1:20
  12. "Herpes Simplex" (Descloux, Barnes) 2:03
  13. "Lacrosse Baron Bic"(Descloux, Barnes) 1:36
  14. "Tso Xin Yu Xin" (Descloux, Barnes) 1:20
  15. "Nina Con Un Tercer Ojo" (Descloux, Barnes) 0:58
  16. "Birdy Num-num" 3:32
  17. "Hard Boiled Babe" 4:28
  18. "Morning High" (Rimbaud /Descloux, Patti Smith) 3:04
  • Tracks 10-15 are originally from the Rosa Yemen EP.
  • Tracks 16-18 are previously unreleased bonus tracks.

    • Musicians

  • Lizzy Mercier Descloux: Lead Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Percussion
  • D.J. Barnes: Guitar, Bass, Percussion, Backing Vocals
  • Erik Elliasson: Guitar, Bass, Keyboards, Drums on « Wawa »
  • Jimmy Young: Drums & Percussion

    • Guest on "Fire"

  • Jack Cavari : Guitars
  • Ken Smith : Bass
  • Bud Maltin : Saxophone
  • Chris Wiltshire, Mary-Jo Kaplan, Ramona Brooks : Backing Vocals
  • Victoria : Percussion
  • Allen Wentz : Synthesizer, Sequenzer

    • Guest on "Mission Impossible"

  • Allen Wentz : Synthesizer, Sequenzer

    • Guest on "Tumour"

  • John Rome : Guitars & Backing Vocals

    • Recorded by Bob Blank & Joe Arlotta at Blank Tapes Studio NYC February 1979
    Arranged, Producer & Mixed by Banes, Elliasson, Mercier Descloux
    Except "Fire" Mixed by Tom Savarese
    Executive Producer Michel Esteban

    Sound

    Original Sound Recording Made by ZE Records © 1978/1979/1980/2003 Executive Producer Michel Esteban This Selection by Lizzy Mercier Descloux & Michel Esteban Producer Michel Esteban p & © 2009 ZE Records Mundo Ltda

    Design

    Art Cover Design by Michel Esteban Photos Credits : Front Cover 12 by Seth Tillet Booklet Pages 2,8,912,12 by Seth Tillet • Page 5 by Edo • Pages 6 & 14 by Michel Esteban • Page 14 : Patti Smith & Lizzy as Isabelle & Arthur Rimbaud Inspiration : Malevitch « Croix Noire » 1920 • Joseph Beuys « Gesundheitshotel » 1979 • Yves Klein « Monochrome Bleu » 1980

    Songs

    1Fire5:11
    2Torso Corso1:47
    3Mission Impossible2:35

    References

    Press Color Wikipedia
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