Lizzy Mercier Descloux - One For The Soul (2016)

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Title: One For The Soul
Year Of Release: 2016
Label: Light In The Attic
Genre: Jazz, Pop, New Wave
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 54:15
Total Size: 341 MB
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Tracklist:

01. Lizzy Mercier Descloux – One For The Soul (3:45)
02. Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Simply Beautiful (3:52)
03. Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Fog Horn Blues (3:59)
04. Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Women Don’t Like Me (3:07)
05. Lizzy Mercier Descloux – My Funny Valentine (3:47)
06. Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Sound Of Leblon Beach / Garden Of Alas (4:00)
07. Lizzy Mercier Descloux – God Spell Me Wrong (3:13)
08. Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Off Off Pleasure (2:58)
09. Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Long Voodoo Ago (4:35)
10. Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Queen Of Overdub Kisses (3:47)
11. Lizzy Mercier Descloux – A Word Is A Whah (3:11)
12. Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Scala Saga Samba (4:04)
13. Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Love Streams (2:38)
14. Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Let’s Get It On (5:11)
15. Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Bravado (2:17)

The location, this time, was Rio De Janeiro, a suitably exotic location to follow their sojourn in Soweto given that Brazil had recently emerged from twenty years of dictatorship. But unlike Zulu Rock's broad appropriation of the local sound, One For The Soul borrows very liberally from Brazilian culture. The aim, says Kidron, was to "reimagine the blues", but Lizzy's musical essence was in flux. "A Word Is A Wah" meshes reggae with her beloved accordion, "Women Don't Like Me" is wild, new wave pop, and she even wanders into soul territory, with whispery lounge versions of Al Green's "Simply Beautiful". Most notable is the album's foray into jazz, and the fact that Chet Baker, the master jazz trumpeter, blew his last on "Fog Horn Blues" and the sensuous "Off Off Pleasure".