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Claire Booth - Cocteau's Music [CD] Narek Hakhnazaryan The use of the strangeJean Cocteau was many things: poet, playwright, artist, filmmaker, collaborator, self inventor each description fits, but none is sufficient. His work darts and pivots, one mask slipping as another appears. But beneath the surface, the same fixations recur, especially love, death, dependence and abandonment. This album stays close to his restlessness, touching melodrama, popular culture, prayer, aphorism, dance, cabaret and theatre, as styles collide,