Full Moon #13

The spirit of Montmatre

TEXTS:
L'Esperit de Montmatre at the time of Toulouse-Lautrec
The birth of the Montmartre spirit
Le Chat Noir and Les Incoherents
Phillip Dennis Cate
On humor and other profiles of historyforeword by Joan Casas for Fumisme
Alphonse Allais

BACKGROUND MUSIC:
Simply Musettea selection of French accordion songs played by Alexa Sage

SOUND RECORDINGS:
Montmartre, the eternal bohemia of Paris

SONGS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE:
Aristide Bruant - Dans la rue
Yvette Guilbert - À la Villette
Odette Dulac - Les petites bonnes d'hôtel
Paul Lack - Lettre ouverte à Meg
The Buffalo - Le chat noir
Lucien Boyer - Vive l'Express de Normandie

Sound improvisation on readings of À se tordre (Alphonse Allais)

(Image: July 14, 1895, Théophile Alexandre Steinlen)

Produced and produced by Ishak Benavides