Absinthe - La folie verte

by Blood Axis & Les Joyaux de la Princesse

Absinthe - La folie verte cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 2002
  • Label: Athanor
  • Country: France
  • Length: 52:38
  • Community rating: 3.61/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

An unsettling auditory homage to the infamous green spirit, this collaborative project blends crackling historical samples with dark, drone-heavy atmospheres. The resulting soundscape is deeply hypnotic and nocturnal, evoking the hallucinatory decay of the Belle 脡poque.

Genres

Descriptors: alcohol, atmospheric, ambient, droning, minimal, bleak

Tracklist

  1. Folie Verte (I Am The Green Fairy) (3:40)
  2. Symphonie Verte (And Here I Am, An Absintheur...) (4:59)
  3. Minutes D'Absinthe (Let Me Be Mad, Mad With Absinthe) (1:59)
  4. Absinthia Taetra (Opaline) (6:58)
  5. Poison Vert (D'Apr猫s Fr茅d茅ric Barbier) (6:57)
  6. Avec Les Fleurs... Avec L'Absinthe (With Flowers And With Women) (1:58)
  7. Absinthine (D'Apr猫s Emile Duhem) (0:55)
  8. Variations Sur Le Th猫me De Corelli (By Venus And Cupid) (4:05)
  9. Variations Sur Le Th猫me De Corelli (That Night, I Drank Deeply) (13:20)
  10. Princesse Verte (D'Apr猫s Emile Spencer) (5:37)
  11. F茅e Verte, Vous 脢tes Jolie (Chant茅 Par Affre) (2:10)

Credits

  • Blood Axis - primary artist, music by
  • Les Joyaux De La Princesse - primary artist, music by
  • Marie Corelli - lyrics by
  • Eug茅nie Tudy - piano, organ
  • Unknown Artist - lyrics by
  • Ernest Dowson - lyrics by
  • Fr茅d茅ric Barbier - music by
  • Charles Cros - lyrics by

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