Les Fleurs du mal (Léo Ferré album)

Les Fleurs du mal
Les Fleurs du mal
Studio album by Léo Ferré
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)
Léo Ferré chronology

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.

History[edit]

Track listing[edit]

Texts by Charles Baudelaire. Music composed by Léo Ferré.

Original LP

Side one
No.	Title	Length
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

Side two
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)