FROM DANGEROUS MINDS
FROM HEAVEN WITH LOVE: DOWNLOAD THE BEST OF LIZZY MERCIER DESCLOUX
Lizzy Mercier Descloux was a multi-talented French recording artist who made waves in the New York underground in the 1980s. Perhaps best known for her early 80s no wave-meets-funk output, she found more commercial success later in the decade with a world music inspired sound. The girlfriend and sometime business partner of the entrepreneur Michel Esteban, she was signed to his uber-hip ZE Records, also home to Was (Not Was), Kid Creole & The Coconuts, James White, Suicide and many more. She released three albums and a bunch of singles for the label, before moving on to CBS in 1984.
Unfortunately Lizzy Mercier Descloux passed away in 2004. Since then the re-established ZE Records have been doing a cracking job at re-releasing her older material. Her sound was distinctive - sometimes abrasive, sometimes energetic and always exciting. Now ZE are giving away a twelve track compilation of the best of Descloux’s work called From Heaven With Love, available for the next seven days only from the official ZE website. The only catch is that you sign up to the record label’s mailing list, but really you should consider doing that anyway as their catalog and roster of acts is immense. This is a taster of what is on the comp:
01 • One For The Soul • 3:53
(Mercier Descloux / James Reyne Published by ZE Multimedia Music )
From the album « One For The Soul »
Recorded in Rio de Janeiro 1985
Produced by Adam Kidron
Executive Producer Michel Esteban
Remix 2006 Michel Bassignani
02 • Jim On The Move • 2:32
(Lalo Schifrin Published by Chapell )
From the album « Press Color Expended »
Recorded in N.Y City 1980
Produced by Mercier Descloux
Executive Producer Michel Esteban
03 • Wawa • 2:22
(Mercier Descloux / Mercier Descloux / DJ Banes / Eliasson)
Published by ZE Multimedia Music)
From the album « Press Color Expended »
Recorded in N.Y City 1979
Produced by DJ Banes / Mercier Descloux & Eliason
Executive Producer Michel Esteban
04 • Hard-Boiled Babe • 4:27
(Mercier Descloux / Michel Bassignani /
Published by ZE Multimedia Music )
From the album « Press Color Expended »
Recorded in France 2003
Produced by Michel Bassignani
Executive Producer Michel Esteban
05 • Slipped Disc • 3:42
(Mercier Descloux • Music Phillipe Lemongne
Published by ZE Multimedia Music)
From the album « Mambo Nassau »
Recorded in Nassau 1981
Produced by Steven Stanley & Lizzy Mercier Descloux
Executive Producer Michel Esteban
06 • Milk Sheik • 0:51
(Nino Rota Arranged by Wally Badarou)
From the album « Mambo Nassau »
Recorded in Nassau 1981
Produced by Steven Stanley & Lizzy Mercier Descloux
Executive Producer Michel Esteban
07 • Funky Stuff.mp3 • 4:12
(Lyrics & Music Kool & the Gang)
From the album « Mambo Nassau »
Recorded in Nassau 1981
Produced by Steven Stanley & Lizzy Mercier Descloux
Executive Producer Michel Esteban
08 • L'Eclipse • 3:24
Mercier Descloux Published by ZE Multimedia Music )
From the album « Zulu Rock »
Recorded in South Africa 1983
Produced by Adam Kidron
Executive Producer Michel Esteban
09 • Sun Jive • 2:49
(Lizzy Mercier Descloux Sammy Kiaas Published by ZE Multimedia Music )
From the album « Zulu Rock »
Recorded in South Africa 1983
Produced by Adam Kidron
Executive Producer Michel Esteban
10 • My Funny Valentine • 3:57
( Hart / Rogers. Published by Chapell )
From the album « One For The Soul »
Recorded in Rio de Janeiro 1985
Produced by Adam Kidron
Executive Producer Michel Esteban
Remix 2006 Michel Bassignani
11 • Simply Beautiful • 4:00
(All Green Published by Burlington Music)
From the album « One For The Soul »
Recorded in Rio de Janeiro 1985
Produced by Adam Kidron
Executive Producer Michel Esteban
Remix 2006 Michel Bassignani
12 • The Long Goodbye • 5:23
Mercier Descloux / James Reyne.
Published by ZE Multimedia Music )
From the album « Suspence »
Recorded in London 1988
Produced by John Brand, Mark Cunningham
& Lizzy Mercier Descloux Mercier Descloux
SOUND
This reissue 2011 Selected & Produced by Michel Esteban
Digitaly Remastered 2011 by Charlus de la Salle at South Factory Studio
(p) & © 2011 ZE Records Mundo Ltda
DESIGN
Art Cover Design & Photo by Michel Esteban
