Press Color

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Press Color
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Released1979
Recorded1979
StudioBlank Tapes Studios NYC
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Label ZE
Producer Michel Esteban
Lizzy Mercier Descloux chronology
Press Color
(1979)
Mambo Nassau
(1981)
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Press Color is the debut album of French no wave singer, Lizzy Mercier Descloux. The album has received some critical acclaim, being called "the real thing" by Uncut magazine. [3]

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Lizzy Mercier Descloux unless otherwise noted. The song "Tumor" is more commonly known as "Fever," with the word "fever" replaced by "tumor" in this version's lyrics.

Original release

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. "Tumor" (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

Personnel

Musicians

Guests on "Fire"

Guest on "Mission Impossible"

Guest on "Tumour"

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

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References

  1. Uncut review
  2. Allmusic review
  3. "Music Reviews". Uncut.co.uk. 2012-02-28. Retrieved 2012-03-05.