L'homme à la caméra / La glace à trois faces UN DRAME MUSICAL INSTANTANÉ

gg277 CD, 2020

L’homme à la caméra (Man with a Camera)
Film by Dziga Vertov (1929)
Ouverture à l’iris / Doute / Des mandibules / Désert cuel / Le libre arbitraire / Cosinus / 1er Rendez-vous : Cérémonie / 2ième Rendez-vous : Accident / Du travail / Comment ça va / Le spectacle est dans la salle
Live at Théâtre Déjazet, Paris, January 14th 1984

La glace à trois faces (The Three-Sided Mirror) - previously unissued
Film by Jean Epstein (1927)
Le malheur / Bohême / L’invitation au voyage / Alcools / Lonely Girl / The Boat / Musette / Perfect Crimes
Live at C.A.C. Corbeil-Essonnes, January 11th 1983

Jean-Jacques Birgé conductor, synthesizer, piano, flutes, trombone, jaw harp, vocals, tapes / Bernard Vitet conductor, trumpet, flugel horn, flute, reed trumpet, vocals / Francis Gorgé conductor, guitar, variable tension bass / Hélène Sage vocals, flutes, bass clarinet, tenor sax, birdcalls, original instruments / Magali Viallefond oboe, English horn, flute, vocal plate, cristal organ / Jean Querlier oboe, English horn, alto sax, flute / Youenn Le Berre flutes, electric flute, tenor sax, bassoon / Denis Colin bass clarinet / Patrice Petitdidier French horn / Philippe Legris tuba / Jacques Marugg vibraphone, marimba, tympani, percussion / Gérard Siracusa percussion, marimba, bells / Bruno Barré violin / Bruno Girard violin / Nathalie Baudoin viola / Marie-Noëlle Sabatelli cello / Didier Petit cello, vocals / Hélène Bass cello / Geneviève Cabannes double bass, keyboard, vocals

Music & words by Un Drame Musical Instantané (Birgé–Vitet–Gorgé)
except Des mandibules by Hélène Sage
and L'invitation au voyage by Baudelaire - Duparc - arr.un d.m.i.
Perfect Crimes previously issued on Dry Lungs IV as Pale Driver Killed by a Swallow on a Country Road
New masters by Birgé & Gorgé, SDtudio GRRR, 2019 

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Audio Player

n°1 / Ouverture à l'iris / 6'56

n°2 / Doute / 3'20

sung by Didier Petit

n°3 / Des mandibules / 0'32

n°4 / Désert cruel / 1'05

sung by Geneviève Cabannes

n°5 / Le libre arbitraire / 2'12

spoken by Jean-Jacques Birgé with the whole orchestra

n°6 / Cosinus / 3'51

sung by Bernard Vitet

n°7 / 1er Rendez-vous : Cérémonie / 5'17

n°8 / 2ème Rendez-vous : Accident / 3'02

n°9 / Du travail / 4'56

n°10 / Comment ça va / 5'58

n°11 / Le spectacle est dans la salle / 8'39

n°12 / Le malheur / 10'40

n°13 / Bohême / 2'56

n°14 / L'inviation au voyage / 2'35

sung by Bernard Vitet

n°15 / Alcools / 1'21

n°16 / Lonely Girl / 1'31

n°17 / The Boat / 2'26

n°18 / Musette / 2'25

n°19 / Perfect Crimes / 6'39