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Les déments : Denis Lavant, Lionel Martin,
Jean-Jacques Birgé (double CD)

"An ode to life, a blend of sounds, the strength and beauty of words sublimated by the power and charisma of actor Denis Lavant in a trance with Madsaxx (Lionel Martin)'s saxophone to Jean-Jacques Birgé's unbridled, no-holds-barred music. A rock 'n roll liturgy!"
Following their LP Fictions inspired by Jose Luis Borges, released on the OUCH! label in 2022, Lionel Martin and Jean-Jacques Birgé invite Denis Lavant to join them for a day to improvise together on texts chosen by the actor. It was snowing that day in Paris.
Double CD - Graphic design by Ella & Pitr  

Girls on GRRR

Hundreds of new pieces from GRRR Records are now on line on drame.org... All records by Un Drame Musical Instantané, but also LP and CD by Hélène Sage, Michèle Buirette, Pied de Poule, Dominique Fonfrède, Françoise Toullec, etc.

A new album online
with Catherine Delaunay et Roberto Negro

Album, a new album is available to listen to and download free of charge, recorded live on December 8, 2024 at Studio GRRR by JJB, with Catherine DELAUNAY on clarinet, Roberto NEGRO on piano and JJB...
Also on Bandcamp!

Denis Lavant, Lionel Martin and JJB

Lionel Martin and Jean-Jacques Birgé had been dreaming of this meeting for a long time. All had juggled their schedules, and on November 21, the snowstorm turned into a soundstorm thanks to a recording at Studio GRRR with Denis Lavant. The actor had brought along six incredible texts by little-known French writers, raw, poetic and moving works. The trio played as a live concert, improvising freely as the sound invaded the studio. It was truly rock 'n roll, gripping, electric! Lionel was on tenor sax with effects, Jean-Jacques on keyboard and loads of weird instruments, Denis even punctuated his powerful evocations with a little flute tune, a musical snail or a Tibetan horn. In all, 118 minutes of rare intensity. A record is obviously very tempting ;-)

Another new CD : TCHAK by UDMI

TCHAK, recorded between 1998 and 2000 by Jean-Jacques Birgé, brings together the last recordings of Un Drame Musical Instantané with trumpeter Bernard Vitet, its co-founder in 1976 with Francis Gorgé and him. The guitarist left the group in 1992, but rejoined in 2014. Together with Birgé and writer Dominique Meens, Gorgé is preparing a new album in the fictional spirit of the original group. For TCHAK resembles nothing the Drame had ever produced, which is hardly surprising given the sheer variety and surprise of their works, from their instantaneous compositions to works written for their large band or symphony orchestras, from their film-concerts, for which they were at the origin of this revival, to their particularly eccentric musical theater pieces...

TCHAK is a kind of electro funk that begins with Le silence éternel des espaces infinis m'effraie, a duet between Birgé on machines and Vitet on flugelhorn, whose magnificent sound is legendary. This is followed by six tracks on which they are joined by guitarist Philippe Deschepper and turntablist Nem: Stomp, (roots), Gaza, 1936, Vir-us. Vitet also dabbles in reggy, while Birgé plays synthesizer and sampler, reed trumpet and nose flute, erhu and Theremin.

On Bandcamp

This Drame, here fundamentally instrumental, closes with Machiavel Meeting, recorded live at Glaz'Art during a memorable evening that turned into a riot when so many people could not come in on November 18, 1998, for the launch party of the Machiavel CD. The quartet is joined by Yves Robert on trombone, Hervé Legeay on electric guitar, Didier Petit on cello, Olivier Koechlin on double bass and Étienne Auger on groovebox.

Étienne Mineur designed the superb cover.