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 albumLéo 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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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)
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