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01. Lizzy Mercier Descloux - It's All My Imagination
02. Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Abyssinia
03. Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Mais oét Passé Les Gazelles
04. Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Dolby Sisters Saliva Brothers
05. Lizzy Mercier Descloux - L'éclipse
06. Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Les Dents de L'Amour
07. Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Wakwazulu Kwezizulu Rock
08. Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Momo on my Mind
09. Lizzy Mercier Descloux - I'm Liquor
10. Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Queen Of Overdub Kisses
11. Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Sun Jive
12. Lizzy Mercier Descloux - All The Same
13. Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Pénélope (French Version)
14. Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Confidente de la Nuit (French Version)
15. Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Cri (French Version)
16. Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Tous Pareils (French Version)
17. Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Wakwazulu Kwezizulu Rock (French Version)
ARTIST
TITLE
Zulu Rock
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
ZE 026CD ZE 026CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
5/2/2006

2016 restock. 2006 reissue. This is the third record Lizzy Mercier Descloux recorded, originally released by CBS Records (France-only) as Gazelles in 1984, now repackaged by Ze Records, including five bonus tracks. After having spent the previous few years promoting the Mambo Nassau album, Lizzy became enamoured of her trips to Africa and its music: highlife, Zairian rumba, Manu Dibango's makossa, King Sunny Adé's Juju music and Fela Kuti's Afrobeat and Julius Levine's African pop. The music you will hear on Zulu Rock is as diverse as the blend of ethnic groups in South Africa itself: it is mbaganga -- which literally means "the poor South-African stew," a musical blend of different local styles and Anglo-Saxon pop. A heavy and emphatic bass line characterizes this sound, with a technique inspired by Zulu guitars. Against all expectations, the record was very well received in France, both by the critics, who awarded it Best Rock Album of the Year, and by the public. "Mais oét Passé Les Gazelles?" went on to be the unlikely hit single of summer 1984. .