105 minutes
UNISSUED SONGS
written by Jean-Jacques Birgé and Bernard Vitet
for Elsa (1-10, 12, 24-28, 30) and others (11, 13-23)
after CDs Crasse-Tignasse and Carton
sung by ELSA BIRGÉ :
1. 'Cause I’ve Got Time Only For Love
2. La glace
3. Bouger tes jambes
4. Les étoiles filantes
5. Blair
6. Écris-moi une chanson
12. ¡ Vivan las utopias ! - issued on cd Buenaventura Durruti, nato
30. Écris-moi une chanson (2013 version)
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31. Valse macabre (à Germaine Tllion) - issued on Chroniques de résistance by Tony Hymas, nato (words JJB, music TH)
32. Les années 1950 - parue sur Centenaire de Jean-Jacques Birgé (words JJB, music JJB and Michèle Buirette)
sung by BERNARD VITET :
7. Tout le temps de grandir
8. Éteins
9. Basse-cour
10. Je boude
OTHER SONGS
11. Tes abysses me sont des abîmes (by B.Vitet)
13. Dévisage (by B.Vitet)
14. Les bonhommes et les dames (CD-Rom)
15. Mr. Men and Little Miss (CD-Rom)
16. La chanson des hippos (with Dominique Fonfrède)
17. La patrouille des fourmis (by B.Vitet)
18. Pique-nique (by B.Vitet)
19. Radio Silence (with F.Gorgé)
20. Eux (by J-J.Birgé)
21. Pensez à l'envers (by B.Vitet)
22. Balade ma ballade (by Makiko Sakurai)
23. Bonne nouvelle (spoken song, by B.Vitet)
Recorded at Studio GRRR in 1991 (19), 1992 (1, 20), 1993 (21), 1994 (24-28), 1995 (2-10), 1996 (13, 29), 1997 (11-12), 1998 (20), 2000 (17, 18), 2001 (14-15), 2002 (16), 2018 (32)
Recorded at Radio-France, 1987 (23)
Recorded in Tokyo, 1998 (22)
Recorded live at La Java in Paris, 2013 (30)
Recorded at Salle des Fêtes, Treignac, 2013 (31)
sung by Elsa Birgé
Hervé Legeay - guitar
Bernard Vitet - flugel horn
Jean-Jacques Birgé - machines
English version of CD-Rom Les bonhommes et les dames
Alix Ewandé & Ken Morris - vocals
Jean-Jacques Birgé - machines & effects
Musique : Birgé - Vitet
Recorded by JJB at Studio GRRR, Bagnolet, 2001
Bernard Vitet - vocals
Jean-Jacques Birgé - machines
Text & music by Birgé & Vitet for Les Drôles de Ptites Bêtes
Recorded and mixes by JJB at Studio GRRR, Bagnolet, 2000
Bernard Vitet - vocals
Jean-Jacques Birgé - machines
Text & music by Birgé & Vitet for Les Drôles de Ptites Bêtes
Recorded and mixes by JJB at Studio GRRR, Bagnolet, 2000
sung by Bernard Vitet
Initially recorded for CD Carton, but it was too long and would need a hard rock instrumentation!
Bernard Vitet - voice and piano
Pidgeon Youdi Youpi - himself
Paris, 1987
Elsa Birgé - vocals
Sylvain Bardiau - trumpet (Journal Intime)
Matthias Mahler - trombone (Journal Intime)
Frédéric Gastard - bass saxophone (Journal Intime)
François Corneloup - baritone saxophone
Peter Henning - drums
Tony Hymas - piano
Words by Jean-Jacques Birgé / Music by Tony Hymas
in Tony Hymas Chroniques de résistance
for which Elsa sung 6 other songs
on words by Sylvain Girault, Serge Utgé-Royo,
Marianne Cohn ainsi que The Partisan's Lament
by Emmanule d'Astier de la Vigerie and Anna Marly
(cd nato 4469, 2014)
Jean-Jacques Birgé – music box, Pâte à son, field recording
Elsa Birgé – vocals
Nicolas Chedmail – horn
Michèle Buirette – accordion
with the voices of Jean, Agnès et Jean-Jacques Birgé
Music J-J.Birgé/M.Buirette
Rec. 1958-2018
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