BIRGÉ - SAGE
La Tramontane
GRRR 3039 online, 1982

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Jean-Jacques Birgé plays on two CD by Hélène Sage, Comme une image and Les araignées.
Polyinstrumentist Hélène Sage has belonged to the 15 piece-orchestra of Un Drame Musical Instantané from its creation until its dissolution. She has played with Birgé, Vitet, Gorgé, as duets, sometimes as a quartet as in Trou one can listen here in the unissued concerts by Un D.M.I.
Dedicated to Bri and Pere ;-)
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tracklist / infos / donwloads
n°1 / La Tramontane 1 - 1982 / 33'15
Jean-Jacques Birgé - flute, pocket trumpet, trombone, reed trumpet, synthesizer
Hélène Sage - rainstick, flute in C, piccolo flute, bass clarinet
who present their instruments after each improvisation
with Catalan translation...
Recorded live outside by night at Ordis, Catalonia, 1982
n°2 / La Tramontane 2 - 1982 / 16'00
Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizer, senza ikembé, jaw harp, ambiances, Ordis church bells, reed trumpet, alto saxophone, flutes
Hélène Sage - music box, piano as a percussion and string instrument
who present their instruments after each improvisation
with Catalan translation...
Recorded live outside by night at Ordis, Catalonia, 1982
n°3 / Synthesizer explanations - 1982 / 6'02

Jean-Jacques Birgé - ARP 2600
Recorded live outside by night at Ordis, Catalonia, 1982

n°4 / La Tramontane 3 - 1982 / 23'26
Jean-Jacques Birgé  - church bells, tubular bells, synthesizer, melodica, rhythm box, flute, harmonica, old piano, flexatone
Hélène Sage - percussion, birdcalls, flute and bass flute, vocals, bass clarinet
who present their instruments after each improvisation
with Catalan translation...
Recorded live outside by night at Ordis, Catalonia, 1982
n°5 / Answers to the audience / 12'37
Jean-Jacques Birgé & Hélène Sage with the help of Maria...
n°6 / La Tramontane 4 - 1982 / 15'06
Jean-Jacques Birgé  - synthesizer, ambiances, jaw harp, pocket trumpet, percussion, vocals
Hélène Sage - old piano, flute
who present their instruments after each improvisation
with Catalan translation...
Recorded live outside by night at Ordis, Catalonia, 1982
n°7 / Paris Music Fest in a 2CV - 1982 / 34'56
Jean-Jacques Birgé - flutes, reeds, percussion, electronics
Hélène Sage - flutes, reeds, percussion
Brigitte Dornès - driving
Marianne Bonneau - recording
On June 1982, for the 1st Music Fest in Paris, we had equiped Brigitte's 2CV Citrën with a megaphone, we had opened its roof and we were standing playing through it with musicians in the streets or at their window. This Parisian radio promenade lasts 1h30.
Article on French Blog
n°8 / Uniformation / 11'33
Hélène Sage - flutes, double bass
Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizer, flutes, trumpet 
Marie-Jésus Diaz et Michel Séméniako - printers
Music composed by Jean-Jacques Birgé and Hélène Sage for a dia-show directed by Michel Séméniako around 1982
n°9 / Uniformation Chutes / 2'27
Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizer, flute
Hélène Sage - flute
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