Mambo Nassau

1. Lady O K'pele

2. Room Mate

3. Sports Spootnicks

4. Payola

5. Milk Sheik

6. Funky Stuff

7. Slipped Disc

8. It's You Sort Of

9. Bim Bam Boum

10. Five Troubles Mambo

11. Baisers d'Amants [*]

12. Maita [*]

13. Mister Soweto [*]

14. Sun Is Shinning [*]

15. Corpo Molli Pau Duro [*]

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Reissue of 1981 album from the French New Wave Heroine turned world music pioneer. This album features Sly & Robbie, Wally Badarou and Steve Stanley and an Arto Lindsay cover. Ze Records. Digipak. 2003.

Tracks:

Lady O K'pele
Room Mate
Sports Spootnicks
Payola
Milk Sheik
Funky Stuff
Slipped Disc
It's You Sort Of
Bim Bam Boum
Five Troubles Mambo
Les Baisers D'amants
Maita
Mister Soweto
Sun Is Shining
Corpo Molli Pau Duro

Album Description

Reissue of 1981 album from the French New Wave Heroine turned world music pioneer. This album features Sly & Robbie, Wally Badarou and Steve Stanley and an Arto Lindsay cover. Ze Records. Digipak. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

lizzy lizzy golden throat-.......2006-06-03

I purchased this lp in 81 and it remains a favorite. there are those who could construe lizzy's vocal approach as art school pretension but I always found her hiccuping sub-poetics to be endlessly endearing-(recognizing the Rimbaudian connection may help). Instrumentally the lp is quite strong-Lizzy's vocals being the 5th element-a sort of neo/afro-carib rhythm section led by percussionist wally badarou. enjoy along with press color '79/rosa yemen'78 , however, less sure of her later work.

Irritating.......2006-04-17

I was excited when I first purchased this album because I had never owned a Lizzy Mercier Descloux album before and I knew that she was a cult figure. That said, I was majorly disappointed when I listened to it for the first time. There are no real lyrics to speak of, just Lizzy making weird sounds or repeating words in her heavy French accent that don't make any sense. On top of that, the music is very herky-jerky, stop/start, sputtery, and tends to sound the same track after track. The album was recorded in Nassau, in the Bahamas, and there is a very Bahamas feel to it, but the individual songs are not that different from one another and eventually the overall sound gets irritating. If you are into that sort of thing, then you will love this album, but for me it is all about the lyrics and the voice, and I just can't connect with this album. The songs "Les Baisers D'Amants" and "The Sun Is Shining" are probably the two best on the album. Ze Records is in the process of reissuing all of the albums in Lizzy's repertoire and I'm hoping that the others sound better than this one.

One of maybe three or four of my all-time favorites..........2004-09-04

...I played this so much when it came out on vinyl in '82 that I almost got tossed out of the loft I was living in. Crazy, intelligent music -- all I've had of it the past twenty years or so, since I lost the LP, has been a crummy cassette. Now with the CD out (and with five "new" tracks!) I can listen to it all the time again. Glad I don't have roommates any longer!

Lizzy was just amazing. She died a few months ago, but her timeless music lives on.

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