Rosa Yemen - Rosa Yemen EP (1979)

Martine-Elisabeth "Lizzy" Mercier Descloux (16 December 1956 – 20 April 2004) was a French musician, singer-songwriter, composer, actress, writer and painter.

Mercier Descloux grew up in Lyon, France, but returned to her native Paris in her teens to attend art school. With her partner Michel Esteban, she helped establish the store Harry Cover, temple of the punk movement in France, and the new wave magazine Rock News. She struck up friendships with Patti Smith and Richard Hell when visiting New York in 1975, and both contributed material to her first book, Desiderata. She and Esteban moved to New York in 1977, meeting Michael Zilkha, with whom Esteban formed ZE Records.

With guitarist D.J. Barnes (Didier Esteban), Mercier Descloux formed the performance art duo Rosa Yemen, and recorded an eponymous mini-album for ZE Records in 1978. The following year, ZE released her solo debut LP Press Color. Self-taught as a guitarist, she expressed herself as a minimalist within the no wave genre, concentrating on single-note lines combined with wrong-note harmonies and funky rhythms. While the record did not sell well, she did tour the USA and Europe.

The "Rosa Yemen EP" was recorded at Blank Tapes Studio, NYC, in July 1978, producer by Rosa Yemen & Michel Esteban.

Tracklist:

A1 Rosa Vertov
A2 Decryptated
A3 Herpes Simplex
B1 Larousse Baron Bic
B2 Tso Xin Yu Xin
B3 Nina Con Un Tercer Ojo

Rosa Yemen - Rosa Yemen EP (1979)

(320 kbps, cover art included)