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Poetry, a breathing as a mysterious language … Hervé Lafleur obeyed thereto for a long time, inspired by The Accursed Poets Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Gérard de Nerval … by the Symbolist masterpieces of Gustave Moreau or Surrealist painters like René Magritte, Max Ernst, by Art, Beauty, the Mythology and ancient civilizations, all guided by rock music, new-wave. Born in Reims with rich history bruised, Hervé Lafleur will forever keep its melancholic footprint and will forge his dark romanticism. In 2003, he made a compilation of scattered poetry under a collection entitled « Mon Double Terrible » and sent copies to the parisian publishing houses. This editing attempt failed, this has led to reconsider the way Hervé Lafleur disseminate his poetry. In parallel, taking singing lessons with Armande Altaï allowed him to become aware of the importance of voice, diction and the ability to direct his poetry toward a more theatrical stage expression. On the 8^th of November 2010, Armande Altaï invited Hervé Lafleur on stage during her concert at the Alhambra in Paris for a poetic dialogue excerpt from "The Beauty & The Beast" of Jean Cocteau . Thus was born the project of Sonore Poetries { Mon Double Terrible } ... More than a project ... A breath, a choice of an individual's life, of a free artist... Hervé Lafleur explores the obsessive meanders of the soul, the wanderings, hopes, melancholies. He captures the ephemeral in an insatiable quest for beauty, for absolute, and shapes his poems as shipwrecks or labyrinths. From this alchemical work of sense is born an intimate vision of the world, a dark & romantic poetry. The Sonore Poetries express the desire to break with the isolation of the paper and allow each poem to flourish in its own atmosphere. Thus the voice, the staging and the music of Stathis breathe life to the poems, by delivering this entity in sharing with the public for a strange trip out of time … A poetic art in motion, changing, evolving, experimentation, exploring the different registers of language, from the declamation to the more theatrical via the song, a field of possibles towards artistic collaborations. Thus the encounter in 2003 with Angélique, sculptress, will create two works : the organdy sculpture « The Cities' Barbarian » which Hervé Lafleur was the model, and the Sonore Poetry { Mon Double Organdi } is a tribute composed by Hervé Lafleur for this sculpture and Angélique. In 2011, another project has emerged between the two artists and is being created : a new composite sculpture ... { Le Barbare des Villes - résine et organdi } The scene remains the magic space where Hervé Lafleur reveals his poetic entity. By his voice, his declamation or his singing, his unique gesture, he lives more in his poems set in music, by adorning them with the phantasmic setting of videos, which he creates for each of his sonore poetry. Hervé Lafleur gives life to his Art and becomes his own Double by offering the public a poetic and dreamlike unity of time and place. In April 2016, Hervé Lafleur published his collection of poems {MON DOUBLE TERRIBLE}. In March 2017, Sandrine Deville, creator of the experimental project ORCHIday "Song of an Orchid"contacted Hervé Lafleur, having seen him declaim his sonore poetry, with the desire for an alchemy between the songs of an orchid and the poetic Work of Arthur Rimbaud, whom she admires so. Hervé Lafleur immerses himself immediatly in this poetic collaboration, so happy to bring the sublime poems of Arthur Rimbaud on stage with for baptism the Olatu Talka Festival in San Sebastian on May 21, 2017. In 2019 Hervé Lafleur & Stathis Caucheteux decide to engrave their project of "Diseurs de Songes". They begin recording a double album "Fleurs d'Âmes", in order to perpetuate the concept of alterning sonore poetry & songs. Completed at the end of 2021, they willlaunch a crowdfunding platform to publish the double album "Fleurs d'Âmes"... Photo : Hann.R { Publications & Archives }

HOME NEWS STATHIS HERVE LAFLEUR ALBUM CONCERTS MEMBERSHIP CONTACT LINKS

HERVE LAFLEUR { BIO SONORE POETRY POEMS VIDEOS ART PHOTOS }

Poetry, a breathing as a mysterious language …

Hervé Lafleur obeyed thereto for a long time, inspired by The Accursed Poets Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Gérard de Nerval … by the Symbolist masterpieces of Gustave Moreau or Surrealist painters like René Magritte, Max Ernst, by Art, Beauty, the Mythology and ancient civilizations, all guided by rock music, new-wave.

Born in Reims with rich history bruised, Hervé Lafleur will forever keep its melancholic footprint and will forge his dark romanticism.

In 2003, he made a compilation of scattered poetry under a collection entitled « Mon Double Terrible » and sent copies to the parisian publishing houses. This editing attempt failed, this has led to reconsider the way Hervé Lafleur disseminate his poetry.

In parallel, taking singing lessons with Armande Altaï allowed him to become aware of the importance of voice, diction and the ability to direct his poetry toward a more theatrical stage expression.
On the 8^th of November 2010, Armande Altaï invited Hervé Lafleur on stage during her concert at the Alhambra in Paris for a poetic dialogue excerpt from "The Beauty & The Beast" of Jean Cocteau .

Thus was born the project of Sonore Poetries { Mon Double Terrible } ...

More than a project ... A breath, a choice of an individual's life, of a free artist...

Hervé Lafleur explores the obsessive meanders of the soul, the wanderings, hopes, melancholies. He captures the ephemeral in an insatiable quest for beauty, for absolute, and shapes his poems as shipwrecks or labyrinths.

From this alchemical work of sense is born an intimate vision of the world, a dark & romantic poetry.

The Sonore Poetries express the desire to break with the isolation of the paper and allow each poem to flourish in its own atmosphere.

Thus the voice, the staging and the music of Stathis breathe life to the poems, by delivering this entity in sharing with the public for a strange trip out of time …

A poetic art in motion, changing, evolving, experimentation, exploring the different registers of language, from the declamation to the more theatrical via the song, a field of possibles towards artistic collaborations. Thus the encounter in 2003 with Angélique, sculptress, will create two works : the organdy sculpture « The Cities' Barbarian » which Hervé Lafleur was the model, and the Sonore Poetry { Mon Double Organdi } is a tribute composed by Hervé Lafleur for this sculpture and Angélique.

In 2011, another project has emerged between the two artists and is being created : a new composite sculpture ...

{ Le Barbare des Villes - résine et organdi }

The scene remains the magic space where Hervé Lafleur reveals his poetic entity.
By his voice, his declamation or his singing, his unique gesture, he lives more in his poems set in music, by adorning them with the phantasmic setting of videos, which he creates for each of his sonore poetry.
Hervé Lafleur gives life to his Art and becomes his own Double by offering the public a poetic and dreamlike unity of time and place.

In April 2016, Hervé Lafleur published his collection of poems {MON DOUBLE TERRIBLE}.

In March 2017, Sandrine Deville, creator of the experimental project ORCHIday "Song of an Orchid"contacted Hervé Lafleur, having seen him declaim his sonore poetry, with the desire for an alchemy between the songs of an orchid and the poetic Work of Arthur Rimbaud, whom she admires so.

Hervé Lafleur immerses himself immediatly in this poetic collaboration,
so happy to bring the sublime poems of Arthur Rimbaud on stage with for baptism the Olatu Talka Festival in San Sebastian on May 21, 2017.

In 2019 Hervé Lafleur & Stathis Caucheteux decide to engrave their project of "Diseurs de Songes". They begin recording a double album "Fleurs d'Âmes", in order to perpetuate the concept of alterning sonore poetry & songs. Completed at the end of 2021, they willlaunch a crowdfunding platform to publish the double album "Fleurs d'Âmes"...

Photo : Hann.R

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