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Lizzy Mercier Descloux

One For The Soul


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".

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