As Pablo Picasso, Serge Gainsbourg has also had his "blue period". A nod to the cubist painter, it is for this that he gave birth to his Poinçonneur des Lilas", her Song of Prévert or her Intoxicated Man: songs "shore left" as they were called at the time, imbued with a gentle melancholy, in which he adopts the posture of the poet is jaded. A drive unpublished, dated from the end of this artistic period will be put on sale at the independent record stores of france on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Record store Day on 20 June.
read also : Gainsbook: Serge Gainsbourg seen from the insideIn 1964 and 1966, the culmination of this artistic period, Gainsbourg goes to the House of the Radio for two records. The singer, who already enjoys the status of star, book eight titles intimate. Piano or voice only accompanied by a guitar and a bass, he sings The Javanese, Elaeudanla téïtéïa and The Rock de Nerval. Of the securities to the topics we can no longer gainsbouriens (love thwarted, destruction salutary...) marked by the influence of the jazz of his mentor Boris Vian and pianos parisian bars frequented by the Man with the head of cabbage at the beginning of his career.