Amour Anarchie
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| Studio album by Léo Ferré | ||||||||||
| Released | May 1970 (vol. 1) November 1970 (vol. 2) December 1970 (double album) |
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| Recorded | January, March, April, October 1970 Barclay Studio, Paris (France) |
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Chanson French Pop |
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| Length | 92:08 | |||||||||
| Label | Barclay Records | |||||||||
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Amour Anarchie (English: Anarchy Love) is a double album by Léo Ferré, released in 1970 by Barclay Records. With this album, heavily influenced by sexual revolution and considered by critics as one of his finest, containing a whole string of his classics (like Avec le temps, La Mémoire et la Mer, Le Chien, Poète, vos papiers !...), the singer-songwriter begins to blend singing with dynamic spoken word. In 2010, the French edition of Rolling Stone magazine named this album the 24th greatest French rock album (out of 100).
After he had sung in Canada in 1969, Léo Ferré, who was interested in rock music, briefly went to New York City in order to find the right sound for his "new language", used in his insurrectionary poem Le Chien. Initially, a studio session was intended with Jimi Hendrix, who cancelled, being ill. Ferré recorded with John McLaughlin and Billy Cobham, guitarist and drummer of Mahavishnu Orchestra, and Miroslav Vitous, bassist of Weather Report. For some reason, Ferré didn't use this version and re-recorded the track with Zoo, a young French band recently signed on his record label Barclay, going more destructured (irregular beat). In this manifesto song Ferré powerfully uses spoken word to claim his difference and reject societal hypocrisy.
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