Blood Axis & Les Joyaux De La Princesse - Absinthe - La Folie Verte
Blood Axis & Les Joyaux De La Princesse - Absinthe - La Folie Verte
Blood Axis & Les Joyaux De La Princesse – Absinthe - La Folie Verte
Label: Athanor – ATNR 017
Format: CD, Album, Repress
Country: France
Released: Oct 2006
Style: Dark Ambient, Industrial
Absinthe: La Folie Verte (Absinthe: The Green Madness) is a concept album by Blood Axis and Les Joyaux de la Princesse. It is an homage to the cordial absinthe.
It was released by Athanor (Poitiers, France) in 2001 as a digipack CD. In 2002, Athanor released a special limited edition boxset of the same name.
Second pressing with :
* different digipack design : typography / yellow background colour much paler.
* different picture on CD itself.
CD →
1 "Folie Verte (I Am the Green Fairy)" – 3:42
(Green Madness), lyrics by Auteur Anonyme, 1906
2 "Symphonie Verte (And Here I Am, An Absintheur...)" – 4:59
(Green Symphony)
3 "Minutes D'Absinthe (Let Me Be Mad, Mad with Absinthe)" – 2:00
(Minutes of Absinthe), lyrics from Corelli's Wormwood, 1890
4 "Absinthia Tetra (Opaline)" – 6:58
Lyrics by Ernest Dowson
5 "Poison Vert (D'Après Frédéric Barbier)" – 6:57
(Green Poison), song by Frederic Barber
6 "Avec Les Fleurs... Avec L'Absinthe (With Flowers and with Women)" – 1:58
([With Flowers... With Absinthe), lyrics by Charles Cros
7 "Absinthine (D'Après Émile Duhem)" – 0:55
Song music by Émile Duhem
8 "Variations Sur Le Thème De Corelli (By Venus and Cupid)" – 4:05
(Variations on the Theme of Corelli), lyrics from Corelli's Wormwood, 1890
9 "Variations Sur Le Thème De Corelli (That Night, I Drank Deeply)" – 13:20
(Variations on the Theme of Corelli), lyrics from Corelli's Wormwood, 1890
10 "Princesse Verte (D'Après Emile Spencer)" – 5:37
(Green Princess), song music by Emile Spencer
11 "Fée Verte, Vous Êtes Jolie (Chanté Par Affre)" – 2:12
(Green Fairy, You Are Pretty (Sung by Affre))