a French progenitor(tress?) of early no wave (writing as Rosa Yemen) and later various new wave, disco, and worldbeat sounds, Lizzy Mercier Descloux certainly did not stick to one style of songwriting. The following song, from her second album (as Lizzy), Mambo Nassau (1981) perhaps best melded her early no-wave and new wave roots with her danceable beats and definitely funk-ified world music consciousness:
