I want to release the album on CD May 5th 2024 (her Birthday). It will be downloadable on Bandcamp and as a special offer for Collectors the CD will come with an original painting by Marquis de Coco Nut (Size of an LP record) after a drawing I made of Françoise on Lolitas 3rd Album: Fusée d'Amour plus a free download code.You can preorder now by sending an e mail here: marquisdecoconut@hotmail.com

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This is about an album I want to put out, a tribute to my former bandmate and best friend forever Françoise Cactus. Right after Françoise's death, february 17th 2022, I had a very emotianal talk with her longtime partner Brezel Göring and at one point he asked me if I wanted to have this '73 Fender Stratocaster, that I had given her years ago, in memory of her. Since it was a gift it seemed not right to me to take it back. Nevertheless, I remembered one of her guitars that she owned when I met her for the first time 1981 in Berlin, a Framus acoustic guitar. Brezel promised to keep this guitar for me and finally gave it to me as we met summer 2023 in Paris.Then came to me the idea of recording several songs with Françoise's guitar which I would now like to release on a tribute album.

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Françoise Framus Guitar

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About the Trax

Puisque tu t'en vas is a song I wrote in 10 minutes only having a mind to create a song wich would sound very much like our band Lolitas talking about how I feel after her loss.

D'une Rive à l'autre, a song written by Jacno who had callaborated with Françoise and Stereo Total before on at least two great Songs: Mars Rendez Vous and Le Sport

I'm very grateful to Suzanne Landier for her support on vocals for making this Track sound great !

Suzanne Landier

Liberté ou la Mort, I really don't know what else I've could have done except Rock'N'Roll.

When I left France I moved to Berlin decided to form a Rock'N'Roll band with my girlfriend. This is what I did with Françoise, it then led me to the Americas. Special thanks to my friend B.Roy for playing his accordion.

B.Roy

Lipstick Traces, a song outta New Orleans written by Allen Toussaint for Benny Spellman.

Françoise was a big smoker and I saw a lot of her lipstick traces in an ashtray when we lived together in Berlin.

L'Anarchie pour l'UK. I allways found the french version on accordion of Sex Pistols Anarchy in ythe UK hilarious, I just had to do it on Françoise Guitar. We both listened to the Pistols a lot.

Dead or Alive, this one is from my very favourite guitarist and Songwriter Johnny Thunders. I'm very happy to have Lorette Velvette on the Backing Vocals on this one, I met Lorette a long time ago, back in the spring 1992 wheni was hanging out the former Hellcats in Memphis,TN.She didn't hesitate for a second when I asked her to please do a vocal on this track. Many Thanks !

Coco & Lorette Velvette 1992 in Memphis

I $old My $oul for Rock'N'Roll,clearly Françoise devoted her life to music, writing, drawing and even crochet

The Letter refers to our comon friend Alex Chilton who I know really apreciated Françoise, I remember the great time we spent at Alex House in New Orleans and we recorded a couple of songs together wich were released on Stereo totals debut album: Oh Ah. I remember also One day when Alex had a phone call and was asked for Box Top revival show, it sure payed pretty good but other than that, he wasn't really delighted playing this kind of shows so he asked me, by joke, if I knew how to sing The Letter in order to replace him. Remembering this I tried to sing the Letter, a song I actually never liked,and I do really like mine better than the Box Top's

Cayenne, an anarchist song often sung in the prisons of Guyana, I have only covered 3 verses which I can relate to the most. The idea covering this song came from B.Roy, who encouraged me to take this title into my repertoire for its usually a scorcher when he sings it bars.

Wenn ich ein Mädchen wär', originally Wenn ich ein Junge wär'a pop song first sang by italian Singer Rita Pavone, covered and well known by Nina Hagen. Stereo Total also did their cover version. Françoise sang a lot in German since she lived in Berlin and that there was nothing more normal for her than to also sing in Germany with her french accent.

It's the first time on my side that I dare to sing in German

Ghostrider. I love to sing this Suicide/Alan Vega song live. Even with an acoustic guitar, the song has plenty energy.

Le Malheur C'est Moi. A song I wrote in 1987 in which I feel like a black cat who has no place in this world

Mesi Bondye, a Haitian traditional featuring Tcheita Vital with me on the vocals. Tcheita is a Haitian journalist who is dedicated to Haitian culture and is running a web Radio I highly recomand: Haïti Inter

Tcheita Vital

La Fiancée du Pirate: I really wrote this song for François and was first released on Lolitas first album back in 1986. Of course influenced by Nelly Kaplan's movie of the same title,it's how I wanted my bride to be: free, bold and wild !

Touche Moi, we wrote this song together and was the favourite for many Lolitas fans.

The lyrics have now a a very strong meaning to me and it's hard not havinge my best friend I ever had anymore.