Les Fleurs du mal (Léo Ferré album)

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.

Track listing
Texts by Charles Baudelaire. Music composed by Léo Ferré.


 * Original LP

Personnel

 * 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