Les Fleurs du mal (English: "The Flowers of Evil") is an album by Léo Ferré, released in 1957 by Odeon Records. It is his first LP dedicated to a poet and this is the first time in popular music history a whole album is dedicated to a dead poet. Léo Ferré has set Baudelaire into music two more times : in 1967 with double album Léo Ferré chante Baudelaire, and with unfinished project Les Fleurs du mal (suite et fin), recorded in 1977 but posthumously released in 2008.
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| Released | 1957 | |||
| Recorded | March 21, 22, 27, 1957 Pathé Magellan Studio, Paris (France) | |||
| Genre | Chanson | |||
| Length | 35:53 | |||
| Label | Odeon Records (1957) La Mémoire et la Mer (2008) | |||
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History
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Track listing
editTexts by Charles Baudelaire. Music composed by Léo Ferré.
- Original LP
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Harmonie du soir" (Evening Harmony) | 2:56 |
| 2. | "Le serpent qui danse" (The Dancing Serpent) | 2:51 |
| 3. | "Les Hiboux" (The Owls) | 2:54 |
| 4. | "Le Léthé" (Lethe) | 3:56 |
| 5. | "Le Revenant" (The Ghost) | 2:01 |
| 6. | "La Mort des amants" (The Death of Lovers) | 3:51 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 7. | "L'Invitation au voyage" (Invitation to the Voyage) | 3:39 |
| 8. | "Les Métamorphoses du vampire" (The Vampire's Metamorphoses) | 3:14 |
| 9. | "À celle qui est trop gaie" (To She Who Is Too Gay) | 3:54 |
| 10. | "La Vie antérieure" (Past Life) | 3:21 |
| 11. | "La Pipe" (The Pipe) | 1:22 |
| 12. | "Brumes et pluies" (Mists and Rains) | 1:58 |
Personnel
edit- Léo Ferré - voice, piano
- Jean-Michel Defaye - piano
- Jean Cardon - accordion
- Barthélémy Rosso - guitar
- Pierre Gossez - tenor saxophone
- Janine de Waleyne - ondes Martenot
- Fred Ermelin - double bass
External links
edit- Album listening & presentation (French)