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Lizzy Mercier Descloux

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Lizzy Mercier

Martine-Elisabeth Mercier Descloux (16 December 1956 – 20 April 2004) was a French musician, singer-songwriter, composer, actress, writer and painter.

Mercier Descloux grew up in Lyon, France, but returned to her native Paris in her teens to attend art school. With her partner Michel Esteban, she helped establish the store Harry Cover, temple of the punk movement in France, and the new wave magazine Rock News. She struck up friendships with Patti Smith and Richard Hell when visiting New York in 1975, and both contributed material to her first book, Desiderata. She and Esteban moved to New York in 1977, meeting Michael Zilkha, with whom Esteban formed ZE Records.

With guitarist D.J. Barnes (Didier Esteban), Mercier Descloux formed the performance art duo Rosa Yemen, and recorded an eponymous mini-album for ZE Records in 1978. The following year, ZE released her solo debut LP Press Color. Self-taught as a guitarist, she expressed herself as a minimalist within the no wave genre, concentrating on single-note lines combined with wrong-note harmonies and funky rhythms. While the record did not sell well, she did tour the USA and Europe.

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Peel played a couple of tracks by Rosa Yemen in 1979 (see PM145 and PM148 for details) and a few by Lizzy Mercier Descloux as a solo artist in 1980-81, a time when he was showing interest in artists from France, especially if they were connected with the punk movement. After that, however, he seems to have ignored the records she made during the later 1980s, Some of them appeared on major labels such as CBS and Island Records, but none were released in Britain. Eventually, she left the music industry to pursue her other interests.

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Rosa Vertov

Rosa Yemen
Fire

Fire

Lizzy Mercier Descloux

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