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Il N'y A Plus Rien
''Il n'y a plus rien'' (English: There Is No More) is an album by Léo Ferré, released in 1973 by Barclay Records. The general mood here is dark, both exasperated and desperate. History After having inserted two symphonic songs ("Ton style", "Tu ne dis jamais rien") in his mostly pop rock oriented album ''La Solitude'' (1971), after having re-recorded his 1950s oratorio on Guillaume Apollinaire's vast poem '' La Chanson du mal-aimé'' (''"Song of the Poorly Loved"'', 1972), Ferré feels now ready to establish himself as a complete artist, author and musician, who will do without any arrangers' services from now. So here he goes completely symphonic with his own material for the first time (he had gone orchestral before with arranger Jean-Michel Defaye but it was mostly on renowned material by French poets from the 19th century - see '' Verlaine et Rimbaud'' and ''Léo Ferré chante Baudelaire'' albums) and he often replaces singing by intense spoken-word and declamation. This ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Michel Defaye
Jean-Michel Defaye (born 18 September 1932) is a French pianist, composer, arranger and conductor known for his collaboration with French poet and singer-songwriter Léo Ferré. He was born in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne near Paris, on 18 September 1932. Aged ten he entered the Paris Conservatoire and completed his musical training in theory, piano and composition, taking in Nadia Boulanger's accompaniment class. In 1952 he won the Premier Second Grand Prix de Rome and the following year he won second prize in composition for the Belgian Queen Elisabeth competition. As a composer he wrote mostly for brass and especially trombone. As an arranger, he worked during ten years with Léo Ferré. He is mostly known by general public in France today for this body of work. At piano in the Olympia Big Band. Classical works * ''Suite Marine'' * Morceau de Concours I (SG 1–2) * Morceau de Concours II (SG 3–4) * Morceau de Concours III (SG 5) * Deux Danses, for trombone and piano (1954 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French-language Albums
French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien) largely supplanted. French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica and by the ( Germanic) Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders. Today, owing to France's past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French. French is an official language in 29 countries across multiple continents, most of which are members of the ''Organisation internationale de la Francophonie'' (OI ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léo Ferré Albums
Léo is a proper noun in French, meaning lion". Its etymological root lies in the Latin word Leo. Léo is used as a diminutive or variant of the names Léon, Léonard, Léonardon, Leonardo, Léonid, ''Léonor'', '' Léonore'', ''Eléonore'', Léopold and Léonie, and in recent times has been adopted as a fully-fledged given name on its own. The feminine variant is Léa. The following people have the name Léo: In music * Léo Arnaud (1904–1991), French-American film score composer * Léo Chauliac (1913–1977), French jazz pianist, composer and conductor * Léo Daniderff (1878–1943), French composer * Léo Delibes (1836–1891), French composer * Léo Ferré (1916–1993), French poet and singer-songwriter * Léo Marjane (1912–2016), French singer * Léo Missir (1925–2009), French composer * Léo Rispal (born 2000), French singer * Léo Souris (1911–1990), Belgian composer, arranger, planner and conductor * Léo Stronda (born 1992), Brazilian singer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danielle Licari
Danielle Licari is a French singer who was active in the 1960s and 1970s. She's now remembered primarily as the vocalist in Concerto pour une Voix. Career In 1964, she dubbed the singing in the movie ''The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'' for the role of Geneviève Emery, played by Catherine Deneuve. From 1965 to 1967 she sang in the vocal trio Les Fizz with Jackie Castan and Nadine Doukhan, two other ex- Djinns Singers. Backed by Jacques Denjean's orchestra, the band released three EP. In 1968, she recorded "Treize jours en France", composed by Francis Lai; she also recorded a second version of "Love Story" dedicated to her by the same composer. In 1969, she recorded her greatest hit, "Concerto pour une Voix". The album has sold over 15 million copies. In 1972, she submitted her song "Au cœur d'une chanson" to compete in the Eurovision contest representing France. The French committee selected Betty Mars and her song "Come-Comedie" instead. In 1972, she represented France ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Roger Caussimon
Jean-Roger Caussimon (24 July 1918 – 19 October 1985) was a French singer-songwriter and film actor. He appeared in 90 films between 1945 and 1985 but is better known for having worked with poet-singer Léo Ferré. Discography Studio albums * ''Jean-Roger Caussimon chante Jean-Roger Caussimon'' (1970) * ''À la Seine'' (1972) * ''Musique légère'' (1974) * ''Il fait soleil'' (1975) * ''Chanson de l'homme heureux'' (1977) * ''Papy rock'' (1979) Live albums * ''Au théâtre de la Ville'' (1978) Posthumous releases * ''En public à l'Olympia 74'' (1992) * ''Jean-Roger Caussimon au cabaret du Lapin Agile'' (2003) Selected filmography * ''François Villon'' (1945) - Le grand écolier * '' The Last Judgment'' (1945) * ''Pétrus'' (1946) - Milou * '' Destiny Has Fun'' (1946) - Marcel * ''Captain Blomet'' (1947) - Clodomir * ''La fleur de l'âge'' (1947) * ''Le mannequin assassiné'' (1948) - Jérôme * ''Scandals of Clochemerle'' (1948) - Samotras * ''The Murdered Model'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whale Vocalization
Whales use a variety of sounds for communication and sensation. The mechanisms used to produce sound vary from one family of cetaceans to another. Marine mammals, including whales, dolphins, and porpoises, are much more dependent on sound than land mammals due to the limited effectiveness of other senses in water. Sight is less effective for marine mammals because of the particulate way in which the ocean scatters light. Smell is also limited, as molecules diffuse more slowly in water than in air, which makes smelling less effective. However, the speed of sound is roughly four times greater in water than in the atmosphere at sea level. As sea mammals are so dependent on hearing to communicate and feed, environmentalists and cetologists are concerned that they are being harmed by the increased ambient noise in the world's oceans caused by ships, sonar and marine seismic surveys. The word "song" is used to describe the pattern of regular and predictable sounds made by some speci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May 68
Beginning in May 1968, a period of civil unrest occurred throughout France, lasting some seven weeks and punctuated by demonstrations, general strikes, as well as the occupation of universities and factories. At the height of events, which have since become known as May 68, the economy of France came to a halt. The protests reached such a point that political leaders feared civil war or revolution; the national government briefly ceased to function after President Charles de Gaulle secretly fled France to West Germany on the 29th. The protests are sometimes linked to similar movements that occurred around the same time worldwide and inspired a generation of protest art in the form of songs, imaginative graffiti, posters, and slogans. The unrest began with a series of far-left student occupation protests against capitalism, consumerism, American imperialism and traditional institutions. Heavy police repression of the protesters led France's trade union confederations to call ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spoken-word
Spoken word refers to an oral poetic performance art that is based mainly on the poem as well as the performer's aesthetic qualities. It is a late 20th century continuation of an ancient oral artistic tradition that focuses on the aesthetics of recitation and word play, such as the performer's live intonation and voice inflection. Spoken word is a "catchall" term that includes any kind of poetry recited aloud, including poetry readings, poetry slams, jazz poetry, and hip hop music, and can include comedy routines and prose monologues. Unlike written poetry, the poetic text takes its quality less from the visual aesthetics on a page, but depends more on phonaesthetics, or the aesthetics of sound. History Spoken word has existed for many years; long before writing, through a cycle of practicing, listening and memorizing, each language drew on its resources of sound structure for aural patterns that made spoken poetry very different from ordinary discourse and easier to commit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léo Ferré Chante Baudelaire
''Léo Ferré chante Baudelaire'' (English: "''Léo Ferré sings Baudelaire''") is an album by Léo Ferré, released in 1967 by Barclay Records. It is his fourth LP dedicated to a poet, after a first Baudelaire effort in 1957 (''Les Fleurs du mal''), ''Les Chansons d'Aragon'' in 1961, and '' Verlaine et Rimbaud'' in 1964. It is also his second studio double album. Track listing Texts by Charles Baudelaire. Music composed by Léo Ferré. ;Original LP Personnel * The orchestra consists of session musicians hired for the recording Credits * Arranger & orchestra conductor: Jean-Michel Defaye * Director of engineering: Gerhard Lehner Gerhard is a name of Germanic origin and may refer to: Given name * Gerhard (bishop of Passau) (fl. 932–946), German prelate * Gerhard III, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg (1292–1340), German prince, regent of Denmark * Gerhard Barkhorn (1919†... * Executive producer: Jean Fernandez * Artwork: Vanni Tealdi (first edition), Charle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verlaine Et Rimbaud
''Verlaine et Rimbaud'' (English: "''Verlaine and Rimbaud''") is an album by Léo Ferré. It was released in December 1964 by Barclay Records. This album is one of the first studio double albums in popular music history (before Bob Dylan's or Frank Zappa's). Background ''Verlaine et Rimbaud'' is Ferré's third LP entirely dedicated to a poet, after Baudelaire's ''Les Fleurs du mal'' ("''Flowers of Evil''") in 1957 and ''Les Chansons d'Aragon'' ("''Songs of Aragon''") in 1961. Here, Ferré sets into music 10 poems from Arthur Rimbaud and 14 from Paul Verlaine. He considers their two different kind of poetry as a whole and mixes them in the track listing, to underline their mythical love affair. The way classical music 'soundscape' tastefully fits into tuneful and straightforward songs is something of an achievement here. Track listing All songs composed by Léo Ferré. ;Original LP Personnel * – backing vocals (uncredited) * Lionel Gali – violin solo (uncredited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Chanson Du Mal-aimé
''La Chanson du mal-aimé'' (English: ''Song of the Poorly Loved'') is an oratorio composed by Léo Ferré in 1952–53 on Guillaume Apollinaire's eponymous poem. This piece for four soloist singers, choir and orchestra is an example of an oratorio that is not based on a religious subject. It was created on stage in the Opéra de Monte-Carlo (Monaco), on 29 April 1954, then was recorded and released on an LP for the first time in 1957. Ferré recorded an alternate version in 1972, wherein he sang all by himself (and slightly changed the orchestration), instead of using any classical singers. Background Analysis The poem The music Roles * The Poorly Loved (baryton) * The Woman (soprano) * The Angel (soprano) * The Double (baryton) Instrumentation Performance and reception Recordings * Léo Ferré, Orchestre national et chœurs de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Bernard Demigny (the Poor-Loved), Nadine Sautereau (the Woman), Jacques Douai (the Angel), Henri B. Etcheverry (the Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
