Press Color Explained

Press Color
Type:	studio
Artist:	Lizzy Mercier Descloux
Cover:	LizzyMercierDesclouxPressColor.png
Released:	1979
Recorded:	1979
Studio:	Blank Tapes Studios NYC
Length:	22:46
Label:	ZE
Producer:	Michel Esteban
Next Title:	Mambo Nassau
Next Year:	1981

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.^[1]

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

5. "Fire" (Arthur Brown) 5:11
6. "Mission Impossible" (Schifrin) 2:35
7. "No Golden Throat" 2:38
8. "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

• Tracks 10–15 are originally from the Rosa Yemen EP.
• Tracks 16–18 are previously unreleased bonus tracks.

Personnel

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

Guests 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, sequencer

Guest on "Mission Impossible"

• Allen Wentz – synthesizer, sequencer

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 © 1978/1979/1980/2003Executive Producer Michel EstebanThis Selection by Lizzy Mercier Descloux & Michel EstebanProducer Michel Esteban p & © 2009 ZE Records Mundo Ltda

Design

Art Cover Design by Michel EstebanPhotos Credits : Front Cover 12 by Seth TilletBooklet 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 RimbaudInspiration : Malevitch « Croix Noire » 1920 • Joseph Beuys « Gesundheitshotel » 1979 • Yves Klein « Monochrome Bleu » 1980

External links

• Liner Notes Album

Notes and References

1. Web site: Music Reviews . Uncut.co.uk . 2012-02-28 . 2012-03-05.