Contributors: Manu Chao (instrument)
Personnel: Bertrand Cantat (lyricist), Bertrand Cantat (composer), Denis Barthe (composer), Serge Teyssot-Gay (composer), Jean Paul Roy (composer)
The band was formed in Bordeaux in 1983 by singer Bertrand Cantat, drummer Denis Barthe, guitarist Serge Teyssot-Gay and bassist Frédéric Vidalenc (replaced in 1996 by Jean-Paul Roy). Their first album Veuillez rendre l'âme (à qui elle appartient) (1989) was recognised as one of the best French rock albums ever made, and it produced a hit single: "Aux sombres héros de l'amer", a sea-shanty-like harmonica-driven ballad that uses the metaphor of sailors "lost in the sea" to speak of the 19th century "poètes maudits" and other fellow navigators of existential emptiness. Read more about Noir désir on Last.fm.
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