View basket “Any Minute Now” has been added to your basket. Zulu Rock Lizzy Mercier Descloux SKU: LITA138LP Barcode: 826853013819 22.00 £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Light In The Attic Released Date: 12th February 2016 Buying Format: 1LP Includes Download Code Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info In the course of three albums, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, the rogue poet, artist, and singer-songwriter, travelled 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. A socially conscious person, Descloux wanted to use her music to draw some attention to the situation in South Africa, even obliquely, but there were musical motivations too – she was tapping into a hot and little-heard dance music in the aforementioned Shangaan disco, Soweto jive and mbaqanga, the style Malcolm McLaren had mined for his mash-up hit “Duck Rock” a year before. The music of South Africa seduced, subsumed, and molded Lizzy, who sounds surer and more swinging than ever before throughout Zulu Rock, but credit must also go to British producer Adam Kidron, then best known for his work with Scritti Politti, who joined Esteban and Descloux for the entire African journey. Lizzy and Adam’s was a battle of wills from the start, but his insistence on getting Lizzy to sing in a more conventional, tuneful way resulted in an emotional, ambitious, creative power struggle that delivered arguably her best vocals yet. In Vivien Goldman’s new liner notes for this reissue, Kidron says: “My first impression of Lizzy was that she couldn’t sing but that she had that crazy Madonna, Neneh Cherry, Nina Hagen attitude thing going on and a magical way with words — a marketer’s gift for getting to the essence of a feeling or idea.” And for once, on this album, the marketing did itself. Artist Lizzy Mercier Descloux Genre Rock And Pop Label Light In The Attic Buying Options 1LP Includes Download Code Format 1LP , Includes Download Code Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings 01 It’s All My Imagination 02 Abyssinia 03 Mais Où Sont Passées Les Gazelles? 04 Dolby Sisters Saliva Brothers 05 L’Éclipse 06 Les Dents de L'Amour 07 Wakwazulu Kwezizulu Rock 08 Momo On My Mind 09 I’m Liquor 10 Queen Of Overdub Kisses 11 Sun Jive 12 All The Same 13 Pénélope (French Version) (Bonus Track)* 14 Confidente de la Nuit (French Version) (Bonus Track)* 15 Cri (French Version) (Bonus Track)* 16 Tous Pareils (French Version) (Bonus Track)* 17 Wakwazulu Kwzizulu Rock (French Version) (Bonus Track)* * Bonus Tracks available download card Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Lizzy Mercier Descloux and more from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Lizzy Mercier Descloux Press Color Rock And Pop | Light In The Attic | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 13th August 2015 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Lizzy Mercier Descloux Press Color £26.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Light In The Attic SKU: LITA134LP Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 13th August 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Lizzy Mercier Descloux Suspence Rock And Pop | Light In The Attic | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 12th February 2016 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Lizzy Mercier Descloux Suspence £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Light In The Attic SKU: LITA140LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 12th February 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Lizzy Mercier Descloux One For The Soul Rock And Pop | Light In The Attic | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 12th February 2016 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Lizzy Mercier Descloux One For The Soul £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Light In The Attic SKU: LITA139LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 12th February 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Chuck Prophet Night Surfer Americana / Country | Yep Roc | 180g, 1LP, Includes CD Released 31st October 2014 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Chuck Prophet Night Surfer £17.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Yep Roc SKU: YEP2406LP Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes CD Released Date: 31st October 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Various Artists Come On Up To The House: Women Sing Waits Rock And Pop | Dualtone | 1LP Released 17th January 2020 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Various Artists Come On Up To The House: Women Sing Waits £24.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Dualtone SKU: 783601 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 17th January 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul Topical Dancer Rock And Pop | Deewee | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 4th March 2022 £24.00 - 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