BIRGÉ - GORGÉ
Around Défense de
GRRR 3031 online, 1971/1976

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First Défense de sessions with Birgé and Gorgé took place from March 25 to April 2, 1975. Sessions with Shiroc were recorded August 13 & 14.
These pieces might be recorded before and after the sessions published in LP (their first LP GRRR reiisued by Fauni Gena / Wah Wah and as a CD+DVD by Mio Records), before the foundation of Un Drame Musical instantané. They express their self discovery of their own experimental work.

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n°1 / Bolet Meuble - 1975 / 14'31
Jean-Jacques Birgé - ARP 2600 synthesizer, electric piano, percussion...
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar & bass, percussion…
March 7 1975, Boulogne-Billancourt
two weeks before album Défense de (see crever)
At the beginning one can hear Alex Broutard's voice from film La nuit du phoque
n°2 / CXLII - 1975 / 8'26
Jean-Jacques Birgé - electric piano, ARP 2600 synthesizer, stylophone, flute
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar
February 21 1975, 88 rue du Château, Boulogne-Billancourt
n°3 / Corail 31 - 1975 / 31'42
Jean-Jacques Birgé - ARP 2600 synthesizer, tape, stylophone, vocals, kena
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar
January 22 1975, 88 rue du Château, Boulogne-Billancourt
n°4 / Plasm'en Suisse - 1975 / 25'30
Jean-Jacques Birgé - ARP 2600 synthesizer, flutes, percussion, piano Michelsonne, bande magnétique melodica, cheng
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar, flutes, percussion
5 septembre 1975 at 88
n°5 / L'huître - 1975 / 16'05
Jean-Jacques Birgé - ARP 2600 synthesizer
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar
June 6 1975, 88 rue du Château, Boulogne-Billancourt
n°6 / Troisième finale - 1975 / 2'40
Jean-Jacques Birgé - flute
Francis Gorgé - senza ikembé
Philippe Labat - zheng
Frédéric Stignani - balafon
Friday May 16 1975, 88 rue du Château, Boulogne-Billancourt
n°7 / Ho Chi Minh Ville - 1975 / 21'34
Jean-Jacques Birgé - ARP 2600 synthesizer, zither, flutes, melodica, harmonica, cheng, vocals, bells, marbles, glass percussion
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar, inanga, zither, jazzoflute, flute, melodica, vocals, bells, Chinese blocks
May 2 1975, 88 rue du Château, Boulogne-Billancourt
n°8 / Speed One - 1975 / 12'30
Jean-Jacques Birgé - ARP 2600 synthesizer
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar (plugged on ARP)
April 24 1975, 88 rue du Château, Boulogne-Billancourt
n°9 / Déceptions - 1975 / 2'24
Jean-Jacques Birgé - ARP 2600 synthesizer
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar
Thursday 17 avril 1975, 88 rue du Château, Boulogne-Billancourt
n°10 / C'est le morceau suivant - 1975 / 28'01
Jean-Jacques Birgé - percussion, reed organ, cello, vocals, flutes, electric piano, xylophone, ARP 2600 synthesizer, zither, piano
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar, percussion, piano, inanga, electric bass, electric piano
Michaëla Watteaux - electric guitar, senza ikembé, stylophone, bells
ThursdayApril 3 1975, at Sébastien Bernard's, rue de Prony, Paris
The day after the last take of Défense de by Birgé Gorgé
before they meet Shiroc.
"When we reissued LP Défense de on CD, Meidad Zaharia asked me to find anything by the same band, sounds or pictures. I thought I got it all when we published June Sessions with Shiroc, 6 hours and a half which are on the DVD together with my film La nuit du Phoque. Since then, I found color slides taken by Thierry Dehesdin and a few pieces I had forgotten, specially the ones before we met Shiroc." JJB
n°11 / Des pets de nonnes - 1975 / 16'37
Jean-Jacques Birgé - ARP 2600 synthesizer
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar
March 7 1975, 88 rue du Château, Boulogne-Billancourt
n°12 / Moyeu de Noël 1. Un coup de Groutchmeu - 1974 / 32'06
Jean-Jacques Birgé - ARP 2600 synthesizer
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar (on the ARP)
December 26 1974, 88 rue du Château, Boulogne-Billancourt
n°13 / Moyeu de Noël 2. Zoobliettes - 1974 / 9'10
Jean-Jacques Birgé - ARP 2600 synthesizer
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar
December 26 1974, 88 rue du Château, Boulogne-Billancourt
n°14 / Moyeu de Noël 3. La corde lisse - 1974 / 22'30
Jean-Jacques Birgé - ARP 2600 synthesizer
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar
December 26 1974, 88 rue du Château, Boulogne-Billancourt
n°15 / Moyeu de Noël 4. Une tranche fine - 1974 / 11'42
Jean-Jacques Birgé - ARP 2600 synthesizer
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar
December 26 1974, 88 rue du Château, Boulogne-Billancourt
n°16 / Moyeu de Noël 5. Le petit a et le Grand B - 1974 / 15'34
Jean-Jacques Birgé - ARP 2600 synthesizer
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar
December 26 1974, 88 rue du Château, Boulogne-Billancourt
n°17 / Elle a claqué - 1973 / 45'46

Jean-Jacques Birgé - Farfisa Professional organ, electronics, tapes, alto sax, flutes, siren, jaw-harp, castanets, vocals
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar and bass, synthesizer, jazzo-flute, vocals
with :
Antoine Gerreiro - violin
Philippe Labat - guiro
Thierry Dehesdin - vocals
Improvisation recorded at Nibelle, August 1973, by Jean-Jacques Birgé
Edited at L'Œuf, September 18 1973, by Jean-Jacques Birgé and Francis Gorgé
Subtitle : Il était une fois le petit chaperon rouge...

n°18 / C'est moins riche - 1973 / 19'17
Jean-Jacques Birgé - Farfisa Professional organ, balafon, hammer
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar
Éric Longuet - last guitar chords
May 1973, Boulogne-Billancourt / August 1973, Nibelle
n°19 / Arrabal - 1972 / 2'06
Jean-Jacques Birgé - Farfisa Professional organ
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar
December 1972, Boulogne-Billancourt
n°20 / First Voyage - 1971 / 1'32
EPIMANONDAS
Francis Gorgé - guitar
Edgard Vincensini - bass
Pierre Bensard - drums
Jean-Jacques Birgé - tapes, oscillator
French article on Blog
n°21 / Tempête dans les Hauts-de-Seine I - 1976 / 35'30
Jean-Jacques Birgé - ARP 2600 synthesizer, vocals, alto sax, flute, hou-kin, zheng, percussion, cinematophonie
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar, whistles, clicks
Samples by Carl Mayer, Warner Bros et Jean-André Fieschi
August 29 1976 at 88
n°22 / Tempête dans les Hauts-de-Seine II - 1976 / 42'05
Jean-Jacques Birgé - ARP 2600 synthesizer, vocals, melodicas, alto sax, zheng, zither, percussion, cinematophonie
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar (on ARP), maracas
Samples by James Whale et Jean-André Fieschi
Gilles Thouvenin - one drop of maracas
August 29 1976 at 88
n°23 / Cinq Éthiques Variation II - 1976 / 1'42
Jean-Jacques Birgé - ARP 2600 synthesizer
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar
20 mars 1976 at 88
n°24 / Ça s'appelle Musique - 1976 / 28'58

Annabel Clin - vocals
Jean-Jacques Birgé - vocals (text by Ribemont Dessaignes), tape, mouth organ, ARP 2600 synthesizer, percussion, bicycle, whitles, flutes, jazzoflute, jaw harps, zither
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar, percussion, whitles, jazzoflute, flute
February 8 1976, Boulogne-Billancourt

n°25 / Ça s'appelle Deuxième Partie - 1976 / 28'00
Annabel Clin - vocals
Jean-Jacques Birgé - melodica, vocals, bicycle, ARP 2600 synthétiseur, percussion, tape, flutes, jaw harps, percussion, zither
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar, percussion, jazzoflute
February 8 1976, Boulogne-Billancourt
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