Editing Brigitte Fontaine (section)

===1969–1979===
[[File:Areski et Brigitte Fontaine 1974 (5702230463).jpg|thumb|right|200px|Brigitte Fontaine and Areski Belkacem perform together in 1974]] 
Brigitte Fontaine became a major figure in the French underground. In a half-dozen albums,<ref>Yann Plougastel, ''La Chanson mondiale depuis 1945'', Bordas.</ref> the majority of which were released through the independent label Saravah, Fontaine explored different poetic worlds. She renounced the use of rhyme, and using talk-over sometimes, she recorded, with very little means and often on two tracks, songs which addressed topics with humour or gravity, according to the mood, as various as death ("Dommage que tu sois mort"), life ("L’été, l’été"), alienation ("Comme à la radio"), madness ("Ragilia"), love ("Je t’aimerai"), social injustice ("C’est normal"), the inequality of the sexes ("Patriarcat") and racism ("Y' a du lard"). However, she also knew how to make light of herself ("L'Auberge (Révolution)").

Because they sail among pop, folk, electro and world music, the albums ''[[L'Incendie]]'' and ''[[Vous et Nous]]'' by the Areski-Fontaine duo figure among the most unclassifiable records of the French scene. Almost thirty years later, the international audience of these LPs (since re-edited for CD) is comparable to that of the cult record ''[[Histoire de Melody Nelson]]'' by [[Serge Gainsbourg]] and [[Jean-Claude Vannier]], notably due to the enthusiastic remarks made by members of the band [[Sonic Youth]] in the English-speaking press.