BIRGÉ
Brut de répondeur
GRRR 3043 online, 1977/1989

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In 1977 answering machines were quite new in France. The whole thing is a kind of strong dramatic cut-up. For a few seconds, sometimes a few minutes, the necessity to go straight to the essential provoques short documentaries which produce the effect of fiction. Some are enigmatic, some crual, there might be an exclusive concert given for only one person... Being alone in front of a machine is like being in front a psychoanalysis! The Sofa Machine. Some will recognize some voices: Colette Magny, Lucilla Galeazzi, Tamia, André Dussollier, Franck Royon Le Mée, Bernard Parmegiani, Steve Stapleton, Laurent Bayle, Claude Tchamitchian,  Jouk Minor, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Dominique Cabrera, Bernard Eisenschitz, Jean-André Fieschi, Henry Colomer, Kent Carter, François Tusques, Henri Texier, Lindsay Cooper, Hélène Sage, etc.
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tracklist / infos / donwloads
n°1 / Announcement Answering Machine JJB 3 - 1982 / 0'23
sic
n°2 / Answering Machine - 1981/1983 / 33'19

With Pierre-Étienne Dornès-Thiébaut, Jean-André Fieschi, Jacques Marugg, Agnès Monteillet, Geneviève Louveau, Hervé Bourde, Francis Gendron, Bernard Vitet, Brigitte Dornès, Jean-Marc Foussat, Daniel Deshays, Marie-Jésus Diaz, Brigitte Dornès, Mercedès Volait, J-A. Fieschi, Bernard Blanc, B. Vitet, Marianne Bonneau, Véronique Berthoneau, B. Dornès, Hélène Sage (accordion and vacuum cleaner), Geneviève Birgé, G. Louveau, B. Vitet, Sheridan Williams, Jouk Minor, J-A. Fieschi, Francis Gorgé, B. Vitet, J-A. Fieschi, Philippe Legris, Serge Martin, H. Sage (vocals and double bass), Dominique Meens, Bruno Girard, H. Sage, PTT, J. Minor, Catherine Bloch, Rep. JJB, C. Bloch, G. Birgé, Horace, Lulla Card, H. Sage, G. Birgé, Papillon, G. Birgé, Philippe Labat, H. Sage, B. Vitet, Rep. JJB, A. Monteillet, M. Bonneau, H. Sage, Emmanuelle K, Dominique Noguez, Hélène Bass, J-A. Fieschi, Anne-Laure Poulain, Colette Magny, H. Sage (piano), Jean-Louis Chautemps, Dino Giannasi, C. Magny, J-A. Fieschi, Lucienne Vitet, Béatrice Soulé, Patrice Petitdidier, Gérard Siracusa, Henry Colomer, B. Dornès, Marie-Noêlle Rio, C. Magny, Jean-Patrick Lebel, Jacques Bidou, H. Sage, C. Magny, Hold-Up, Tamia...
Recorded from December 28 1981 to 1983

n°3 / Announcement Answering Machine JJB 2 - 1981 / 0'35
sic
n°4 / Answering Machine - 1982/1984 / 30'44

With Marie-Noëlle Rio, Colette Magny, Brigitte Dornès, Denis Colin, Kent Carter, Geneviève Louveau, Hélène Sage (piano et tuba), Philippe Labat, Francis Gorgé and G. Cabannes, Brigitte Dornès, Hélène Bass, C. Magny, Jacques Bidou, Agnès Monteillet, B. Dornès, A. Monteillet, Jean Birgé, Michel Séméniako, Dominique Meens, Serge Autogue, Gérard Siracusa, Françoise Degeorges, Guy Brousemiche, Guy Pannequin, Lucilla Galeazzi, F. Degeorges, Bernard Eisenschitz, Geneviève Birgé, Jouk Minor, D. Meens, Catherine Bloch, C. Magny, D. Meens, C. Bloch, C. Magny, D.Meens, G. Cabannes et F. Gorgé, François Tusques, Jean-Pierre Mabille, H. Sage, Bernard Parmegiani, Guy Pannequin, Rep. JJB, B. Dornès, Daniel Deshays, F. Gorgé, Yves Prin, P. Petitdier, Lucilla Galeazzi, Pere Fagès, Bruno Barré, Rep. JJB, J-A. Fieschi, Steve Stapleton, Laurent Bayle, Marianne Bonneau, B. Vitet, Tamia, ? (Casiotone), F. Degeorges, Véronique Bertheneau, Michel Séméniako, Emmanuelle K, D. Meens, F. Gorgé (sequencer), H. Sage, F. Degeorges, H.Sage (Drame's song), G. Birgé, F. Degeorges, G. Cabannes...
Recorded from 1982 to February 1984

n°5 / Announcement Answering Machine JJB 1 - 1981 / 0'37
Sanyo brought back from New York by Luc Barnier
n°6 / Answering Machine - 1984 A / 12'37

Dominique Meens, Hélène Sage (music box and reed), L'Olifant, Jean Birgé, Patrick Roudier, Philippe Legris, Geneviève Cabannes, Roger Tessier, François Tusques, H. Sage, Jouk Minor, Colette Magny, Hélène Bass, Didier Petit, C. Magny, Brigitte Dornès, Jérôme, Yves Robert, Francis Gorgé, Michèle Buirette, D. Meens, B. Dornès, Patrick Schuster, Michel Bastian, J. Birgé, Jacques Bidou, F. Gorgé, Marie-Jésus Diaz, Radio Diffusion Française !…
Recorded in 1984

n°7 / Announcement Answering Machine JJB 5 - 1983 / 0'31
sic
n°8 / Answering Machine - 1984 B / 21'05

Michel Bastian, Yves Prin, Marianne Bonneau, Didier Silhol, Bernard Vitet, Francis Gorgé, M. Bonneau, Jérôme, Phil, Michèle Buirette, Brigitte Dornès, Marie-Noëlle Sabatelli, M. Bastian, Gilles Folques, Emmanuelle K, Pierre Luc, Gérard Menant, Hélène Richard, Thierry Berteau, Patrick Roudier, JJB, Hélène Sage, Claude Tchamitchian, M. Bonneau, Phil, Geneviève Birgé, Véra, F. Gorgé, Manon Gorgé, G. Cabannes, Michèle Cotinaud, B. Vitet, Ghislaine Petit, Daniel Verdier, P. Roudier, F. Gorgé, D. Verdier, Agnès Monteillet, M. Buirette, G. Cabannes, B. Dornès, Didier Petit, Agnès et Estelle Monteillet, Gérard Siracusa, Placide, G. Birgé, F. Gorgé, M. Bonneau, M. Buirette…
Recorded in 1984

n°9 / Annoucement Answering Machine JJB 6 - 1990 / 0'05
Elsa plus cats Lupin and Monsieur Hulot
Announcemens on infinite  loop cassettes
n°10 / Answering Machine - 1987/1989 / 27'32

H. Bass, Jocelyne Leclercq, Dominique Fonfrède, Régis Franc, J. Leclercq, Franck Royon Le Mée, Geneviève Birgé, Segou Seck, Marie-Christine Gayffier, Stéphanie Aubin, Jean Birgé, G. Birgé, Serge Martin, Robert Weiss, G. Birgé, J. Birgé, Pierre-Étienne Dornès, Jean Gaudin, P. Roudier, G. Birgé, Alma Gorgé, Lulla Card, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, L. Card, Agnès Monteillet, Didier Silhol, Jean-Jacques Henry, JJB, F. Gorgé, Michel Polizzi, F. Tusques, Aurélie Ricard, B. Vitet, M. Buirette, F.Gorgé, JJB, Guy Pannequin, André Dussollier, Henri Texier, György Kurtag, H. Sage, Daniel Verdier, Lindsay Cooper, JJB et B. Vitet, Galilée Al Rifaï, Vincent Voisin, Dominique Cabrera, Antony Marschutz, André Ricros...
Recorded 1987-1989

n°11 / Annoucement Answering Machine JJB 7 - 1990 / 0'07
 Jean-Jacques Birgé - harmoniseur
n°12 / Answering Machine - 1977 / 22'06

Jean Birgé, Patrick Roudier followed by conversations of Jean-Jacques Birgé with Henry Colomer, Francis Gorgé, Bernard Vitet, Pierre, Jean-André Fieschi et Claude Thiébaut
Recorded in 1977

n°13 / Announcement Answering Machine JJB 4 - 1983 / 0'29
with Pierre-Étienne Dornès
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