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"About 20 years ago, I came across Charles Baudelaire's works for the first time. At that time, I must confess, it was too dark, morbid and complex for me. Since then, "The Flowers of Evil" became a personal challenge. I waited all these years for the right opportunity to face Baudelaire's "demons" again...With this album, my opportunity arrived and together with Zadoque Lopes, we played with the form and the content, adapted freely the text or, in some cases, omitted a few strophes to shorten the tracks.

Since we have not used some of the poems in full, to be fair to Baudelaire, we are including the whole text on the CD so that the reader can appreciate them in their complete form. As "The Flowers of Evil" encompasses not only these but several other poems, Zadoque and I would be more than happy if our work inspired you to run to the nearest book shop or visit Mr. William A. Sigler link."

CD Track List	The Living Clocks - Flowers of Evil
01. To The Reader 02. Yet Not Satisfied 03. The Clock 04. Forever The Same 05. Get Drunk! 06. Music 07. The Vampire 08. The Enemy 09. Obsession 10. Dance Of Death.	The Living Clocks is: Antonio Celso Barbieri (Keyboards, Sampling and Sequencing) Invited Artist: Zadoque Lopes (Vocals)
All soundtracks composed by A.C.Barbieri except "The Dance of Death" based on the introduction of the song "Read to Rise" (The Tribal Tech album) composed by the band Cortina (Brazil). Charles Baudelaire translations used under permission of Mr. William A. Sigler. Translations copyright© 1999 by William A. Sigler. All rights reserved. Mastered at Hiltongrove Multimedia by Graeme Hardie. All tracks produced, directed and recorded by A.C.Barbieri at Raw Vibe Studios - London, Winter 2001. Cover Design by A.C.Barbieri. Painting "The Convict Prison" (detail in blue) by Van Gogh. Special thanks to William A. Sigler, Mark Ramsden and Powell Jones.