BIRGÉ - DELAUNAY - NEGRO
Album
GRRR 3122 online, 2024

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Instantaneous compositions recorded live
on October 13, 2024
at Studio GRRR by Jean-Jacques Birgé
in the order they were played,
young Eliott randomly pulling pages from the Album book,
photographs selected by Gabriel Bauret and Grégoire Solotareff,
published by L'école des loisirs,
as themes for the improvisations

“I gave this book to his mother
when she herself was a child!” (JJB)

Cover photo by Manuel Cuadrada, 1950

 

65 minutes

 

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tracklist / infos / donwloads
n°1 / A Merry-Go-Round / 6'31

Catherine Delaunay - clarinet
Roberto Negro - percussion, piano
Jean-Jacques Birgé - Tenori-on, machine
Photo: Izis, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, 1950

n°2 / A Cat / 4'42

Catherine Delaunay - clarinet, percussion
Roberto Negro - piano, percussion
Jean-Jacques Birgé - flute, keyboard
Photo: Neil Winokur, Zorba, 1990

n°3 / Bride and groom / 4'44

Catherine Delaunay - clarinet
Roberto Negro - piano
Jean-Jacques Birgé - keyboard, balloon, jaw harp
Photo : Martin Chambi, Boda de don Julio Gadea, prefecto de l Cuzco, 1930

n°4 / A Tree / 6'51

Catherine Delaunay - clarinet, percussion
Roberto Negro - piano, percussion
Jean-Jacques Birgé - Terra, percussion, birdcalls
Eliott Chedmail - rattles
Photo: Edouard Boubat, L'arbre et la poule, 1950

n°5 / A Fork / 7'31

Catherine Delaunay - clarinet
Roberto Negro - piano, whirly tube
Jean-Jacques Birgé - Wave XT, keyboard, jaw harp
Photo: André Kertész, La fourchette, Paris, 1928

n°6 / A Garage / 7'17

Catherine Delaunay - horn, clarinet
Roberto Negro - music boxes, keyboard, percussion, piano
Jean-Jacques Birgé - Wave XT, rhythm, Lyra-8
Photo: Florian Monheim, Altglaübige Kirche des Walaamer Klosters (1907), Saint-Pétersbourg, 1993

n°7 / A Train Station / 9'14

Catherine Delaunay - clarinet
Roberto Negro - piano
Jean-Jacques Birgé - countryside, harmonica, jaw harp
Photo: Gabriele Basilico, Stazione de Tarvisio, Italie, 1993

n°8 / Lizards / 4'14

Catherine Delaunay - clarinet
Roberto Negro - toy-piano, piano
Jean-Jacques Birgé - Enner
Photo : Gladys, Les lézards, 1985

n°9 / A Lion / 6'51

Catherine Delaunay - clarinet
Roberto Negro - keyboard, percussion
Jean-Jacques Birgé - keyboard, inanga, percussion
Photo: Peter Beard, Lion Blur Motion

n°10 / A Hand / 7'32

Catherine Delaunay - clarinet, hands
Roberto Negro - piano, hands
Jean-Jacques Birgé - keyboard, Terra
Photo : Miyoko Ishiuchi, 1947 n°25 Part time worker, 1990

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