After the album Léo Ferré sings Verlaine and Rimbaud (1964), you had to be cheeky (ferré!) to dare to wake up once again a “valley sleeper” who didn’t ask for so much. They were nevertheless legion to test the rimbaldian cannon: Brigitte Fontaine, Joan Baez, Charlebois, up to Klaus Kinski. That was enough, right? Never mind, the author-composer-arranger Laurent Guardo heard these damned beautiful words in the mouth of Daniel Lavoie. Goodbye! Power and tenderness, guttural bass, breathtaking highs, our big guy certainly has the stature you need. Guardo and him having already collaborated together, the business could only be made. What it gives, this Daniel Lavoie sings Rimbaud. Cassis river? A certain grandiloquence. Top quality butter, but butter nonetheless. Pomegranate orchestrations, fragrant floral arrangements, gilding. Where we would have hoped for a little “disorder of all the senses”, we obtain roughly predictable. The Cassis River is a stroke of Rimbaud in the water.
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