Les Fleurs du mal (Léo Ferré album)

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
(1957)		 La Chanson du mal-aimé
(1957)

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 decicated 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.

Track listing

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

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