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Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Wawa
Imagine that it's 1979, and you're listening to music that's half no wave, and half funk. For once, it's not Talking Heads, but rather the extraordinary Lizzy Mercier Descloux, fulcrum of the Paris punk scene. She's probably best known for her later activities. In the mid-eighties, she started to work with South African musicians. (Thankfully beating Paul Simon to it.) That was to result in her surprise hit, Mais où Sont Passées les Gazelles?, released in 1984.
But back to '79 and the brilliant Wawa. It's got an authentically '60s rolling surf riff, and some spidery, shattered guitar, and that's about it. It doesn't do anything, it doesn't go anywhere, but it certainly makes itself known while it does hang about. It's just two and a half minutes of funky discord, but it certainly does work. You can find it on her debut solo album Press Color.
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Wawa
Imagine that it's 1979, and you're listening to music that's half no wave, and half funk. For once, it's not Talking Heads, but rather the extraordinary Lizzy Mercier Descloux, fulcrum of the Paris punk scene. She's probably best known for her later activities. In the mid-eighties, she started to work with South African musicians. (Thankfully beating Paul Simon to it.) That was to result in her surprise hit, Mais où Sont Passées les Gazelles?, released in 1984.
But back to '79 and the brilliant Wawa. It's got an authentically '60s rolling surf riff, and some spidery, shattered guitar, and that's about it. It doesn't do anything, it doesn't go anywhere, but it certainly makes itself known while it does hang about. It's just two and a half minutes of funky discord, but it certainly does work. You can find it on her debut solo album Press Color.
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Wawa
