L'homme A La Tete De Chou (Can)

In the autumn of 1974, Serge Gainsbourg discovered Claude Lalanne's striking sculpture of a man with a cabbage head at the Paul Facchetti gallery, a moment that captivated him so completely he later described returning to it repeatedly before finally buying it on impulse, an encounter that became the creative spark for his album L'Homme à tête de chou, now regarded as the other major masterpiece of his discography alongside Histoire de Melody Nelson, and whose depth continues to unfold as the rediscovery of the multitrack tapes recorded in London in the summer of 1976 reveals the remarkable musical architecture supporting Gainsbourg's signature spoken delivery.