Une saison en enfer

Une saison en enfer is Léo Ferré's last studio album. It sets into music the whole eponymous poem written in 1873 by French poet Arthur Rimbaud. The album was released in 1991 by EPM Musique, for the 100th anniversary of Rimbaud's death, both as double LP and CD. It was reissued in 2000 by Ferré's son's label La Mémoire et la Mer, under a new cover. Unlike his previous musical works on poets such as Apollinaire, Baudelaire, Louis Aragon, or Verlaine and Rimbaud, Ferré chose here bareness in the arrangements to provide the illusion of a half-improvised music and keep the poem's "original spouting strength", and most of all express his own conception of oral poetry by letting himself being only guided by musicality of rimbadian prose itself. Being connected with Rimbaud's poetic themes, Ferré gives an interpretation which "lightens" the meanings of the text.

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