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RIP Cristina Monet (Zilkha) Palaci, of ZE Records fame, at 61. From complications of COVID-19. https://youtu.be/9iWpv3oM3VE ">https://youtu.be/9iWpv3oM3...
“Disco Clone” was produced by John Cale and the first to be issued on the ZE label as ZE001 in 1978 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jxbluNcsC0">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
In 1980 she released a cover of Peggy Lee& #39;s "Is That All There Is?" with reworked lyrics. Leiber and Stoller, sued and successfully got it withdrawn for many years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AybvLztacFM">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Cristina& #39;s second album, & #39;Sleep It Off& #39;, was produced by Don Was and released in 1984 with a sleeve design by Jean-Paul Goude (a year before he used the same idea for Grace Jones). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95dky1NnX2w">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
"I had all these ideas about using Latin beats, which I preferred to the lugubrious disco rhythm. I wanted to mix them with cinematic imagery to put a bit of histrionic pizzazz in disco, which I found very anodyne" - Cristina https://youtu.be/0r97ZuK4RPQ ">https://youtu.be/0r97ZuK4R...
"The cornerstone of what I do musically and lyrically is irony. A really depressing lyric has a lot more power if it fights off a jaunty melody." - Cristina (
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Kid Creole & The Coconuts w/ Cristina Monet Palaci & Adriana Kaegi at Galerie Louise Brussels, Belgium 23 October 1980
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📸" title="Camera with flash" aria-label="Emoji: Camera with flash"> Etienne Tordoir. here& #39;s an August Darnell produced song from Cristina& #39;s debut album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxYQZOylb7c">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Etienne Tordoir. here& #39;s an August Darnell produced song from Cristina& #39;s debut album: https://www.youtube.com/watch..." title="Kid Creole & The Coconuts w/ Cristina Monet Palaci & Adriana Kaegi at Galerie Louise Brussels, Belgium 23 October 1980https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📸" title="Camera with flash" aria-label="Emoji: Camera with flash"> Etienne Tordoir. here& #39;s an August Darnell produced song from Cristina& #39;s debut album: https://www.youtube.com/watch..." class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
"There& #39;s nothing wrong with the attitude that life is insurmountably bleak, but that with humour and compassion you can surmount the insurmountable. I think you can do it and you can survive it so long as you keep your sense of humour, especially self-humour." Cristina Monet RIP
" When I cover a song I want to totally re-invent it. Van Morrison does it as a fun song. I wanted to do it as a survive-any-way-you-can-and-still-hope-for-something-better song." Cristina on her cover of Van Morrison& #39;s "Blue Money" https://youtu.be/H3u704tzy88 ">https://youtu.be/H3u704tzy...
