Les Fleurs du mal (suite et fin)
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| Les Fleurs du mal (suite et fin) | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | April 10, 2008 | |||
| Recorded | Summer 1976 – January 1978 Castellina in Chianti, Italy | |||
| Genre | Chanson | |||
| Length | 58:30 | |||
| Label | La Mémoire et la Mer | |||
| Léo Ferré chronology | ||||
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Les Fleurs du mal (suite et fin) (English: "The Flowers of Evil (last and final)") is an album by
in 1967.History
This
Baudelaire
's death (1867). For unknown reasons, Ferré never completed this project. It remains a piano and a voice, bare and intimate.
Nevertheless, Ferré orchestrated and recorded twos demos here in 1986 (Je te donne ces vers afin que si mon nom and L'Examen de minuit - Bien loin d'ici), to release them on On n'est pas sérieux quand on a dix-sept ans.
Track listing
Texts by Charles Baudelaire. Music composed and played by Léo Ferré at the piano.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Une nuit que j'étais près d'une affreuse Juive" (One night when I lay beside a frightful Jewess...) | 1:55 |
| 2. | "Sépulture" (Sepulchre) | 1:53 |
| 3. | "La Cloche fêlée" (The Broken Bell) | 2:01 |
| 4. | "L'Héautontimorouménos" (The Self-Tormenter) | 2:02 |
| 5. | "À une mendiante rousse" (To a Mendicant Redhead) | 3:35 |
| 6. | "Je n'ai pas oublié, voisine de la ville" (I have not forgotten, near the city...) | 2:08 |
| 7. | "L'Âme du vin" (The Soul of Wine) | 3:42 |
| 8. | "La Fontaine de sang" (The Fountain of Blood) | 2:42 |
| 9. | "Madrigal triste" (Sad Madrigal) | 3:17 |
| 10. | "L'Examen de minuit - Bien loin d'ici" (Midnight Examination of Conscience - Quite Far from Here) | 3:24 |
| 11. | "L'Ennemi" (The Enemy) | 2:36 |
| 12. | "Le Guignon" (Bad Luck) | 2:20 |
| 13. | "Je t'adore à l'égal de la voûte nocturne" (I adore you as much as the nocturnal vault...) | 1:39 |
| 14. | "Avec ses vêtements ondoyants et nacrés" (With her pearly undulating dresses...) | 1:56 |
| 15. | "Le Vampire" (The Vampire) | 1:43 |
| 16. | "Le Parfum" (The Perfume) | 2:26 |
| 17. | "Je te donne ces vers afin que si mon nom" (I give you these verses so if my name...) | 1:24 |
| 18. | "Réversibilité" (Reversibility) | 3:30 |
| 19. | "Le Beau navire" (The Beautiful Ship) | 5:01 |
| 20. | "L'Horloge" (The Clock) | 3:08 |
| 21. | "Le Cygne" (The Swan) | 6:05 |
Credits
- Tape restoration and mastering at Studio La Buissonne
- Cover photography: Hubert Grooteclaes, Nadar
- Package Art & Design: Rinaldo Maria Chiesa & Vital Maladrech
- Liner notes: Mathieu Ferré, Alain Raemackers
- Compiled and Coordinated by Mathieu Ferré & Alain Raemackers
External links
- Album listening & presentation (French)
- ^ Alain Raemackers, liner notes of the album.
