Music | The Art Rimbaud Project

(Produced 2004-2006, released 2006)

The Art Rimbaud Project is the title of a double-CD album with English, German and French songs based on texts by poet Arthur Rimbaud, produced by artists' group ISCH ART of which Tony Caulfield was a member.

In merely 37 years of a life that encompassed a spectrum from exuberantly exhilarating to crushingly tragic, Jean-Nicholas-Arthur Rimbaud (20.10.1854 - 10.11.1891) created a body of poetry and autobiographical texts that were unique and groundbreaking in their time...and still are today.

Arthur Rimbaud's style has influenced a large number of artists throughout the times and still continues to do so over a century after his death. Considered an outcast and rebel by the majority of his era's society, his genius being appreciated by only a few while he lived, Arthur Rimbaud is today acknowledged as a visionary, one of the first proponents of the free verse style and a predecessor to the surrealists.

The intensity and the timeless emotional impact of Arthur Rimbaud's work make his poetry the perfect song lyrics. A project aiming at composing songs based on a selection of Rimbaud's poems was long predestined to be.

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Tony Caulfield did the vocals for some of the songs and is featured in a music video to go with the song Ich Treibe In Die Blaue Ewigkeit which is based on Rimbaud's poem Sensations. To download the music video please visit the Media page.

Moreover, Tony portrayed and voiced Arthur Rimbaud in a flash-animated Arthur Rimbaud biography which is featured on the ARP page of the Voice section of Tony Caulfield.com.

If you like to order The Art Rimbaud Project album online please visit the ARP order page.

The 32-page color booklet contains song lyrics, info on the involved artists, pics,...

The project's official site art-rimbaud.de has been partially sabotaged by an ISCH ART team member, due to lies being spread about Tony Caulfield (For more about that read Tony's second book Du mußt sühnen - Dokumentation eines psychologischen Mordversuchs (You must expiate - Documentation of a psychological murder attempt)).

However the site still features a jukebox, lyrics, (translations of) Rimbaud poems, Rimbaud related info, quotes and many pics, all about most members of ISCH ART, a remix contest, Rimbaud-themed cooking recipes, a poetry box,...and a lot more.

Meanwhile, there is also an Art Rimbaud Project page on myspace, where you can listen to some of the songs.

Music || The Art Rimbaud Project