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Newsletter November 2023

Fourth newsletter of the year

36th album of the series "Pique-nique au labo"

Fŭtur, a fantastic new album with Bruno Ducret on cello, also on Calabrese lira and guitar, and Olivia Scemama on electric bass ukulele...
Recorded on Novembre 1st 2023 by JJB at Studio GRRR !
Also on Bandcamp !

Birgé à la carte (blanche) on December 1st at Café de Paris

La preuve by Poudingue (LP)

Experimantal rock - 10 songs by Nicolas Chedmail, Frédéric Mainçon and Jean-Jacques Birgé. Beautiful cover by Étienne Mineur. Guest : Benjamin Sanz. Made for LP, it also exists as a "poor" CD.

La preuve is an après-guard action. Most of the people who inspired it are dead or retired. Old teenagers flog their former loves. They bear witness to a bygone era, but joyously embraced, digested and spat out. Everything was still possible. Or possible at last. Psychedelia opened the doors of perception. Romanticism wasn't relegated to a dull formatting, a cheese without a rind. The group Poudingue, which started out ten years ago, has some delectable leftovers. These are the crumbs from purgatory.


The proof (la preuve, in French) is in the pudding (poudingue, in French) is an expression coined by Friedrich Engels meaning that the value, quality or truth of something must be judged on the basis of direct experience or its results. The expression is a modification of an old saying that makes the meaning a little clearer: the proof of the pudding is in the eating.

GRRR 1037 - dist. The Pusher

35th album of the series "Pique-nique au labo"

Listen To The Quiet Flattfisk, a fantastic new album with singer Isabel Sörling, also on electric guitar, and viola player Maëlle Desbrosses, also on double bass...
Recorded on October 8 2023 by JJB at Studio GRRR !
Also on Bandcamp !