Description
Juillet 2022
Jean-Jacques Birgé and Lionel Martin decide one day to improvise from sentences of Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges taken at random… This record testifies to an alchemy, two musicians who have never played together, plug in the microphones and tell, tell, find each other… Testimony engraved on vinyl of a short but intense moment.
Lionel uses two loopers and effects pedals, his Keilwerth saxophone being sounded by a cell. Less soberly, Jean-Jacques, in addition to his keyboards,his two Russian synthesizers, the Lyra-8 and The Pipe, and blew, scraped, rubbed, hit all sorts of acoustic instruments
Lionel Martin : tenor sax ;
Jean-Jacques Birgé: keyboards, brake and reed trumpet (Vitet lutherie), percussion, erhu, voice, Jew’s harp, flute, Lyra 8, The Pipe
Jean-Jacques Birgé: born in 1952, he lives in Paris. Music composer, film director, multimedia author, sound designer, writer, Jean-Jacques Birgé was one of the first synthesizers in France in 1973, and with Un Drame Musical Instantané the precursor of the return to the cine-concert in 1976.
Although his first electronic work dates from 1965, he has composed for symphony orchestras as well as freely improvising with musicians from a wide range of backgrounds. For his « radio » creations and his shows, improvisation and preliminary writing merge, original electroacoustic treatments are integrated with traditional instruments to create evocative musical fictions that he calls « musique à propos ».
In addition to some fifty vinyls and CDs, his website drame.org offers 88 unreleased albums (171 hours!) for free listening and downloading.
He has been keeping a daily blog, militant and supportive, for 17 years and gives conferences on the relationship between sound and image.
Lionel Martin: he is a prolific musician and composer who multiplies experiences and projects, pursuing an atypical path.
Even today, he is as much at home at international festivals as he is on the street corner, from which he draws a constantly renewed energy.
He has played and still plays with the great names of jazz, Louis Sclavis, Didier Lockwood, Mario Stantchev, Georges Garzone, as well as with the greats of the punk rock scene, such as Steve Mackay, saxophonist of the Stooges and Iggy Pop. He is the founder of the label Ouch! Records
