''15 chansons d'avant le déluge, suite et fin'' is a compilation by experimental French singer

Brigitte Fontaine Brigitte Fontaine, (born 24 June 1939) is a singer of avant-garde music. She has employed numerous unusual musical styles, melding rock and roll, folk, jazz, electronica, spoken word poetry, and world. She has collaborated with Stereolab, Mic ...

and French rock singer

Jacques Higelin Jacques Joseph Victor Higelin (; 18 October 1940 – 6 April 2018) was a French pop singer who rose to prominence in the early 1970s. Early life Higelin was born on 18 October 1940. His father, Paul, a railway worker and musician of Alsatian de ...

, released in 1976 on the Productions Jacques Canetti label. It is an album of

Boris Vian Boris Vian (; 10 March 1920 – 23 June 1959) was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer who is primarily remembered for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sulliva ...

-penned songs recorded by Higelin and released on an EP in January 1966 and on an LP shared with Marie-José Casanova, also released in 1966. The nine Brigitte Fontaine songs come from her first album, '' 13 chansons décadentes et fantasmagoriques''. Contrary to the first release co-billed to both artists, 1966's '' 12 chansons d'avant le déluge'', none of the songs are duets. The Fontaine songs were only added to fill in because the Higelin songs were not enough to make an LP.

Track listing

1976 albums Brigitte Fontaine albums {{1970s-album-stub