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RIP Cristina Monet (Zilkha) Palaci, of ZE Records fame, at 61. From complications of COVID-19.
“Disco Clone” was produced by John Cale and the first to be issued on the ZE label as ZE001 in 1978
In 1980 she released a cover of Peggy Lee's "Is That All There Is?" with reworked lyrics. Leiber and Stoller, sued and successfully got it withdrawn for many years.
Cristina's second album, 'Sleep It Off', 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).
"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
"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 (
Rodney On The ROQ Flipside Vol 21, 1980)
Rodney On The ROQ Flipside Vol 21, 1980)
Kid Creole & The Coconuts w/ Cristina Monet Palaci & Adriana Kaegi at Galerie Louise Brussels, Belgium 23 October 1980
Etienne Tordoir. here's an August Darnell produced song from Cristina's debut album:
Etienne Tordoir. here's an August Darnell produced song from Cristina's debut album:
"There'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's "Blue Money"
