Léo Ferré •ั Les Anarchistes (HD)

Genres : Symphonic, Spoken word, French Pop
Album : L’été 68 (69)
Origin : France
Website : http://www.leo-ferre.com/

Les Anarchistes est une chanson emblématique de Léo Ferré publiée en 1969 sur l'album studio L'Été 68. Elle figure aussi sur le super 45 tours éponyme enregistré au théâtre de Bobino en janvier 1969 et dans la captation quasi-intégrale de ce même récital réalisée en février 1969, publiée sur un double LP la même année.
Cette chanson est considérée comme un de ses classiques.

Léo Ferré (24 August 1916 – 14 July 1993) was a Monegasque poet, composer and a dynamic and controversial live performer whose career in France dominated the years after the Second World War until his death. He released some forty albums over this period, composing the music and the majority of the lyrics. He released many hit singles, particularly between 1960 and the mid-seventies. Some of his songs have become classics of the French chanson repertoire, such as Avec le temps, C’est extra, Jolie Môme or Paris canaille.

Along with Serge Gainsbourg, Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens, he is considered one of the greatest French language singer-songwriters of all time, but unlike Brel and Gainsbourg, or even Charles Aznavour, his songs are very little known in the English-speaking world. Ferré was an anarchist; he may be the greatest French protest singer ever.

Ferré’s lyrics were extremely incisive and tuned in to the issues of the day, but also astonishingly poetic. He mixed revolt with love and melancholy, sophisticated lyricism with slang and shouts, rhyming verse with prose monologues. He moved from music-hall to symphonic music and spoken word, breaking free from the traditional song structure, inventing his own musical territory, powerfully dramatic and unique. He also popularized the French poètes maudits, such as François Villon, Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, and Arthur Rimbaud, as well as great French poets from the 20th century like Guillaume Apollinaire and Louis Aragon, by setting into music many of their poems.