Cristina - Sleep It Off

Deluxe digipack cd, 16 pages booklet. Cristina, is a singer and writer, best known for her No Wave recordings made for ZE Records around 1980 in New York. A Harvard drop-out and the daughter of a French psychoanalyst and an American illustrator-novelist-playwright, she was working as a writer for The Village Voice when she met Michael Zilkha, who later became her husband. A wealthy heir to England's Mothercare retail empire, Zilkha was just starting ZE Records with Michel Esteban. Zilkha persuaded her to record a song called "Disco Clone", an eccentric pastiche dance record written by Ronald Melrose, a classmate of hers at Harvard. The original recording, released as ZE001, was produced by John Cale and was the first to be issued on the ZE label. A later version featured the uncredited Kevin Kline trying to seduce the breathy Cristina. "Disco Clone" was a cult success and encouraged ZE to release a full-length album in 1980, which was produced by August Darnell (aka Kid Creole). Later, she released a cover of the Beatles' "Drive My Car". She also released a track, "Things Fall Apart", produced by Was (Not Was), on ZE's Christmas Record, in 1981. 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). Her lyrics dryly detailed a world of urban decadence, but the record did not do as well as the debut and Cristina retired to domestic life in Texas.

Tracklisting:

1 What's a Girl To Do
2 Ticket To The Tropics
3 The Lie of Love
4 Quicksand Lovers
5 Rage & Fascination
6 Ballad of Immoral Earnings
7 She Can't Say That Anymore
8 Blue Money
9 Don't Mutilate My Mink
10 He Dines Out On Death
11 Smile
12 Deb Behind Bars
13 Things Fall Apart
14 When You Were Mine
15 Deb Behind Bars alternate version
16 You Rented a Space

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