12 ROSA YEMEN

HERPES SIMPLEX

Scholars of post-punk and no-wave may have encountered iconoclastic French artist Lizzy Mercier Descloux, and the five albums she recorded between 1979 and 1988. Before those, she was half of Rosa Yemen with Didier Esteban, recording one 1978 EP in New York for the Ze label. A friendship with Patti Smith maps out the territory, but Descloux is very much her own, startling voice.

Written by Mercier Descloux, Esteban. Published by Ze Records music publishing. ℗&©1978 ZE Records. From Press COLR by Lizzy Mercier Descloux; www.zerecords.com