UN DRAME MUSICAL INSTANTANÉ
Poisons
GRRR 3033 online, 1976/1977

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24 hours of unissued music!

From 1976 to 1977, Un Drame Musical Instantané, featuring Jean-Jacques BIRGÉ, Bernard VITET et Francis GORGÉ, records improvisations which titles are all named from poisons. In 1977, singer TAMIA has joined the trio for one year.

All these recordings made by Jean-Jacques Birgé , 7 rue de l'Espérance, Paris (except Strychnine which was recorded live at France Musique for Les astronotes/Non écrites by Pierre Lattès and Joséphine Markovits).
The Drame always prefered to call these improvisations "instantaneous compositions" in opposition to "preliminary compositions".
Birgé's synthétiseur is an ARP 2600.
Gorgé's guitar is a Gibson SG Standard and his bass a Fender Precision.

Photo - Thierry Dehesdin

Film directed by Emmanuelle K for free TV channel Antène 1 on Blog!

tracklist / infos / donwloads
n°1 / Poisons 1A: acide urique (1976/12/18) / 11'53

Jean-Jacques Birgé
Bernard Vitet

All instruments we could get there: trumpet Bb, flugel horn, alto sax, flutes, synthesizer, tapes, brake, 2 amplified violins, etc.

n°2 / Poisons 1B (1976/12/18) / 4'49

Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizer ARP 2600, melodica
Bernard Vitet - piccolo trumpet

n°3 / Poisons 1Ca (1976/12/18) / 7'51

Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizer ARP 2600, voice
Bernard Vitet - flugel horn, alto sax

n°4 / Poisons 1Cb (1976/12/18) / 7'31

Jean-Jacques Birgé - violin, melodica, ARP 2600, vocals
Bernard Vitet - brake, percussion, flugel horn

n°5 / Poisons 1Cc (1976/12/18) / 14'34

Jean-Jacques Birgé - sheng, ARP 2600, plunderphonics, alto sax, tapes, melodicas
Bernard Vitet - violin, whistle, flute

n°6 / Poisons 1D (1976/12/16) / 17'35

Jean-Jacques Birgé - alto sax, ARP 2600, reed, percussion, flute, toy piano, radio
Bernard Vitet - double bombarde, alto sax, koto, horn
Agnès Birgé - passage

n°7 / Laudanum 1 (1976/12/21) / 15'45

Jean-Jacques Birgé - metallophone, flute, vocals, synthesizer, alto sax, electronics, brake
Bernard Vitet - violin, trumpet in Bb, reed trumpet, bells, percussion
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar

n°8 / Laudanum 2 (1976/12/21) / 15'55

Jean-Jacques Birgé - melodicas, violin, percussion, vocals, senza ikembé, radiophonie, reed, flute
Bernard Vitet - zither, brake, vocals, synthesizer, flugel horn, plastic saxophone
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar, brake

n°9 / Très toxique (1976/12/21) / 32'14

Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizer, castanets, woodblocks, birdcalls, alto sax, guitar, mandoline, tape, vocals, tenor flute, bells, electric metronome, horns, bendir, brake, triangle, metallophone, zheng, lion's roar, flugel horn
Bernard Vitet - percussion (tambourines, bendir), birdcalls, alto sax, trumpet in Bb, reed trumpet, ole!, zheng, amplified violin, brake
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar, bells
Gala - dog

n°10 / Deux bulles d'air (1977/01/16) / 4'26

Jean-Jacques Birgé - alto sax, violin, percussion, trumpet, synthesizer
Bernard Vitet - brake, violin, reed trumpet, percussion

n°11 / Ethanol (1977/01/16) / 23'51

Jean-Jacques Birgé - electric bass, LP (Une femme est une femme), alto sax, flutes, tricolore, castanets, synthesizer, stylomaracas, musical hammer, tubomaracas, maracas, bicycle, birdcall, violin
Bernard Vitet - violin, flugel horn, aluminium plate, French horn, flutes, cows,vocals , maracas, toy-piano, triangle
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar & bass, flute, lion's roar, plastic trumpet

n°12 / Trop d'adrénaline nuit (1977/01/16, complete) / 41'51

Jean-Jacques Birgé - melodica alto & soprano, synthesizer, vocals, tape (Le chemin de Rio), alto saxophone, violin, plastic trumpet, hou-kin, bird toy, percussion, tenor flute, Bb trumpet, tricolore, jazzflute, jaw harp, senza ikembé
Bernard Vitet - flugel horn, Bb trumpet, plastic clarinet & saxophone, percussion, violin, alto saxophone, bird toy, vocals, toy-piano, mandoline, elecric bass
Francis Gorgé - elecric bass & guitar,horn , plastic trumpet

n°13 / He has been bitten by a snake (1977/02/27) / 31'18

Jean-Jacques Birgé - radio, synthesizer, violin, French horn, tenor flute ///acoustic guitar, percussion, mandoline, stool, toy-piano, tape (Strange Cargo), alto sax, cythare, synthesizer, tricolore, double reed, kena, soprano melodica
Bernard Vitet - (late) /// piccolo trumpet, flugel horn, vocals, alto sax, double bombarde, violin
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar & bass /// idem, flute, percussion, plastic trumpet, violin, clarina
Recorded by JJB, 7 rue de l'Espérance, Paris

n°14 / Le bacille de Yersin (1977/02/27) / 34'06

Jean-Jacques Birgé - violin, cassettophone, synthesizer, alto sax (in the role of Henri Mercier), sleigh bells, flutes, maracas, hands, lion's roar, flu , French horn, steel drum, rattle, cow, alto melodica, zheng
Bernard Vitet - violin, vocals, reed trumpet, flugel horn, gong, double bombarde, plastic sax, alto sax
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar & basse, tambourine, plastic trumpet, bells

n°15 / Glotin (1977/03/01) / 32'52

Tamia - vocals, French horn, plastic sax, balls
Jean-Jacques Birgé - cassettophone, synthesizer, alto sax, flutes, percussion, violin, reed trumpet, flugel horn, clarina, soprano melodica, birdcall, dialogue
Bernard Vitet - flugel horn, reed trumpet, double bombarde, violon amplifié, sax alto, plastic sax, percussion, toy-piano, aluminium plate, bendir, synthesizer, dialogue, stairs...
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar & basse, flugel horn, plastic trumpet, zheng

n°16 / L'éther (1977/03/02) / 31'30

Jean-Jacques Birgé : alto sax, flutes, plastic sax and trumpet, melodica, mouth organ, vocals, jaw harp, mandoline, metallophone, synthesizer, LP, handkerchief, percussion
Bernard Vitet : piccolo trumpet, double bombarde, flutes, plastic saxophone, harmonica, vocals, triangle, rattle, tambourine
Francis Gorgé : electric guitar and bass, plastic trumpet, horn, birdcalls, rattle, balafon
Louis Ferdinand Céline : baryton martin

n°17 / Le poison des orties (1977/03/02) / 33'40

Jean-Jacques Birgé : synthesizer, tape,vocals , alto sax, flugel horn, reed trumpet, tenor flute, clarina, tricolore, amplified violin, zither, acoustic guitar, senza ikembé, metallophone, rattle, gong, horn, crickets, maracas, cows, toy-piano, harmonica
Bernard Vitet : flugel horn, double bombarde, nose flute, alto sax, vocals, amplified violin, emery, tambour de basque, percussion
Francis Gorgé : electric guitar and bass, toy-piano, maracas, jazzo-flute, vocals

n°18 / Poisons 2 (1977/03/02) / 31'20

"Ce trio à cordes" (6'10)
Jean-Jacques Birgé : amplified violin + tape (feat. Jean-André Fieschi, Agnès Clément...)
Bernard Vitet : amplified violin
Francis Gorgé : electric bass
"Poisons 2" (25'10)
Jean-Jacques Birgé : French horn, steel drum, harmonica / alto sax / stylophone, metronome, synthesizer, inanga, vocals, double bombarde, fluhel horn / vocals + bande
Bernard Vitet : bugle (water mute) - match, toy-piano, plastic sax, cows, mouth  - zheng, horn, French horn - vocals
Francis Gorgé : zheng, harmonica, flute, clochettes - guitar, mouth - acoustic and electric guitars, vocals -  vocals

n°19 / Cyaprémasone (1977/03/04) / 34'45
Tamia - vocals, plastic sax, flute
Jean-Jacques Birgé - radio, synthesizer, alto saxophone, tape, vocals, amplified violin, sleigh bells, marble bendir, melodica, reed trumpet, ringbell, zheng, tenor flute
Bernard Vitet - flugel horn, vocals, double bombarde, alto saxophone, aluminium plate, nuts, amplified violin, flute, triangle
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar et bass, lion's roar, plastic trumpet
n°20 / La jusquiame (1977/03/06) / 34'05

Jean-Jacques Birgé - percussions, harmonica, horn, voix, synthesizer, melodica, radio, tenor, alto saxophone, tubomaracas / alto saxophone / amplified violin
Bernard Vitet - French horn, amplified violin, mandoline, alto saxophone, flugel horn, radio, guiro, vocals / double bombarde / thumb piano
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar and bass, jazzoflute, horn, tambourine, claves, sleigh bells / electric guitar / bells, anklung, sleigh bells
Phase initiatique (28'40) - Phase méditative (2'25) - Phase ultime (3'00)

n°21 / Androctonus Australis (1977/03/08) / 35'40
Jean-Jacques Birgé - vocals, alto saxophone, flugel horn, Tunisian double reed, harmonica, amplified violin, synthesizer, LP, zither , toy-piano, metal, jaw harp
Bernard Vitet - flugel horn, reed trumpet, double bombarde, plastic sax, amplified violin, vocals and whistle, birdcalls, percussions
Francis Gorgé - electric bass and guitar, plastic trumpet, percussions
n°22 / La gangrène a.k.a. Au pied de la lettre (1977/03/08) / 23'30

Jean-Jacques Birgé - percussions + vocals (Tout homme détient dans ses mains son destin), saw, synthesizer, alto saxophone, jaw harp, mandoline
Bernard Vitet - percussions + vocals (Un coup de dés jamais n'abolit le hasard), violin, zheng
Francis Gorgé - percussions + electric guitar and basse

Hommage to Jean Vigo

n°23 / De l'alcool de bois (1977/11/03) / 39'25
Tamia - vocals, bells, soprano melodica
Jean-Jacques Birgé - vocals, synthesizer, tape, flute, percussions, alto saxophone, nose flute, amplified violin, alto melodica, whitle, lion's roar
Bernard Vitet - flugel horn, double bombarde, French horn, mandoline, alto saxophone, amplified violin, reed trumpet, toy-piano, anklung, vocals, flugel horn (water mute)
Francis Gorgé - electric bass and guitar, birdcalls, clarina, tambourine, maracas, bells

n°24 / Digitaline (1977/03/11) / 30'20
Tamia - vocals, toy-piano, melodica, bells, French horn
Jean-Jacques Birgé - vocals, synthesizer, harmonica, flugel horn with double reed, double reed, tambourine, jaw harp, box of sweets, bendir with marble, alto saxophone
Bernard Vitet - flugel horn, flute , maracas, plastic sax, reed trumpet, double bombarde, bass, violin, match, percussions
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar and bass, departure, bells, tap
n°25 / Oeufs crus marinés au citron et aux épices (1977/04/01) / 32'10
Tamia - vocals, rhaïta, plastic sax, castanets
Jean-Jacques Birgé - poisoned, synthesizer, tapes  (KB, electronics, radio "Lobotomie" and phone call by Jean-André Fieschi), pocket trumpet, vocals, alto saxophone, flute, bike, gong, amplified violin, zheng
Bernard Vitet - poisoned, flugel horn, French horn, bombarde, vocals, brake, violin, zheng, percussions
Francis Gorgé - guitar, bass, French horn
n°26 / Protoxyte d'azote (1977/04/01) / 30'21
Tamia - vocals, melodica soprano, rhaïta, crotales, guiro
Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizer, vocals, whistle, pocket trumpet, flugel horn, tenor flute, melodica alto, mandoline, water, percussions, stool, stairs, blade
Bernard Vitet - reed trumpet, muted pocket trumpet, alto saxophone, amplified violin, vocals, double bombarde, small bells, match
Francis Gorgé - guitars, bass, rhaïta, pocket trumpet, cigar
n°27 / Absinthe (1977/04/05) / 46'15
Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizer, tape, alto sax (in 1, 2, 3 or 4 pieces), reed trumpet, pocket trumpet (with or without double reed), Yougoslavian double flutes, vocals, electric  razor, zheng, percussions, amplified violin, melodica
Bernard Vitet - flugel horn (with or without double reed), Bb French horn, alto sax,funnel , double bombarde, percussions, toy-piano, vocals, amplified violin...
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar and bass, brake and amplified violin, double reed trumpet, vocals...
n°28 / Belladone (1977/08/04) / 43'15

Jean-Jacques Birgé
1 - zither, synthesizer, tape Bruits III, tricolore and alto saxophone
2 - synthesizer, tape, alto saxophone, (voice), piano pedal, small bells ; piccolo trumpet
3 - harmonica (Ring Mod + S/H), voice, funnel, pocket trompette
4 - (voix), birdcall, synthesizer (NG), tape, rhaïta
Bernard Vitet
1 - flugel horn
2 - mecanic bird, (voice), stylophone, pause
3 - "ophicléide" on alto sax, (voice)
4 - amplified violin, flugel horn with double reed

Francis Gorgé
1 - inanga and percussions (musical hammer, maracas, senza ikembé, siren, bendir), electric guitar (and bass)
2 - electric bass, (voice), plastic trumpet ; pocket trumpet
3 - amplified violin (pizz), funnel
4 - percussions (mouth, lion's roar, horn, tambourine, maracas)

Crescendo (14'15) - Marche (12') - Danse (12') - Crime paysan (5')
Note : Sony TC355, MX12, Yamaha Monomix, 2 Shure 565, 2 AKG D202CS

n°29 / De l'acétone dans une chaussette (1977/04/19) / 33'23
Jean-Jacques Birgé - alto saxophone, pocket trumpet, French horn, rhaïta, Swedish flute, tricolore, violin, radio, synthesizer, bendirs, vocals... and a bottle !
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar et bass, violin, French horn, jazzoflute, mirliton, bottles, percussions, vocals...
on a libretto by Birgé, Gorgé and Maeterlinck
n°30 / La myrthe (1977/04/22) / 36'10
Jean-Jacques Birgé - alto saxophone, French horn, harmonica, jaw harp, pocket trumpet, synthesizer, radiocassette (Le tombeau hindou + FM), mixer, violin, voix, percussions
Bernard Vitet - flugel horn, pocket trumpet (water mute), bombarde, jaw harp, radio, violin, percussions and vocals
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar and bass, flutes, French horn, rhaïta, horn, birdcalls, rattle, crickets...

Just before playing our famous SOLO at Théâtre Mouffetard
n°31 / Goudron, chapter 1 (1977/04/23) / 37'20
Tamia - vocals, toy-piano, pocket trumpet (mute), percussions, horn
Jean-Jacques Birgé -synthesizer, tape (Strange Cargo, news, Le tombeau hindou), vocals, big knife and forks, alto saxophone with bassoon reed, pocket trumpet, French horn, flutes, melodica, harmonica, rhaïta, violin
Bernard Vitet - flugel horn, reed trumpet, French horn, flute, plastic sax, violin,keys zither (arco), toy-piano, vocals...
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar and bass, violin, vocals...
n°32 / Goudron, chapitre 2 (1977/04/23) / 39'05
Tamia - vocals, bamboos, little drum, guiro, electric bass
Jean-Jacques Birgé -synthesizer, radio, alto saxophone, mouth organ, melodica, flugel horn , kena, funnel, jaw harps, violin, mandoline, bendirs, vocals
Bernard Vitet - alto saxophone, bombarde, French horn, vocals, mouthpiece, violin (mute), maracas on toy-piano, bendirs, gong, jaw harp
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar and bass, plastic trumpet, French horn, jazzoflute, birdcalls, tricolore, senza ikembé, vocals...
n°33 / Gueuze Lambic Mort Subite (1977/04/26) / 35'45
Tamia - vocals, rhaïta, percussions, toy-piano
Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizer, tapes (Les problèmes de l'Hypertension II), alto saxophone, reed, French horn, pocket trumpet, flutes, melodica alto, vocals, cough, lion's roar, marbles, rice crispies, percussions, hou-kin
Bernard Vitet - violin, flugel horn, French horn, piccolo trumpet, vocals, percussions, toy-piano
Francis Gorgé - guitar, bass, flute, French horn, percussions
n°34 / Eine kleine Nachtmuzik (1977/05/02) / 33'15
Tamia - vocals, balafon, percussions
Jean-Jacques Birgé - rings, toy-piano, synthesizer, clarina, bells & sleigh bells, inanga, vocals, tenor flute, percussions, bike, telephone, alto saxophone,bottles , anklung
Bernard Vitet - flugel horn, vocals, violin, fingers, French horn, anklung, match, plastic sax, percussions, "ophicléide"
Francis Gorgé - guitars, bass, plastic trumpet, percussions, pan flute
n°35 / Penser à aut'chose et à haute voix (1977/07/06) / 29'50
Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizer, reed trumpet, alto saxophone, tape, melodica alto,vocals , brake, percussions, birdcalls, toy-piano & tenor flute on ring modulator
Francis Gorgé - guitar, bass, mellophone, flutes, clarina, amplified violin, ashtray...
Dedicated to Catherine 1
n°36 / Penser à ça tout bas (1977/07/11) / 42'55
Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizer, xylophone, sleigh bells,pocket trumpet , maracas, amplified violin, shower, vocals, lion's roar, alto saxophone, tenor flute, gong & percussions, mandoline & harmonicain ring modulator
Francis Gorgé - bass, guitar, gongs & percussions, horn, vocals, brake, mellophone, zheng, cythare
Dedicated to Catherine 2
n°37 / Penser à fermer le gaz (1977/07/17) / 33'20

Jean-Jacques Birgé - flutes, synthesizer, Pakistanese zither, tricolore, mandoline in ring modulator, Austrian zither, zheng, toy-piano, percussions, harmonica, radio, alto saxophone, vocals (I've got a secret place...), cows, mike, birdcall, melodica alto, French horn, amplified violin, gongs...
Bernard Vitet - brake, amplified violin,mellophone (with or without double reed), gongs, vocals, flugel horn, double bombarde, pocket trumpet, anklung...

n°38 / E330 (1977/07/26) / 20'20
Jean-Jacques Birgé : synthesizer, hou-kin, kora,pocket trumpet , alto sax , vocals, maracas, bells, tambourine, cassette
Bernard Vitet : flugel horn, electric guitar on ring modulator, gongs & bendirs, vocals, sound and composition of the cassette
Francis Gorgé : electric guitar, amplified violin, gongs, metallophone, percussions
n°39 / Acide de batterie d'auto / Lookid (29-30/07/1977) / 41'34

Acide de batterie d'auto (38'50) :
Jean-Jacques Birgé : synthesizer, tapes (Je t'aime, je t'aime / Un D.M.I. with Bernard on violin, Jean-Jacques on inanga), alto sax, pocket trumpet, horn, shower, tenor flute, birdcalls, melodica soprano, jaw harp, vocals, hou-kin, drum, furniture, tubomaracas...
Bernard Vitet : French horn, flugel horn, reed trumpet, gongs, vocals, amplified violin, electric noise, "ophicléïde"
Francis Gorgé : electric guitar (arco), brake, mellophone, horn, jazzoflute, electric work, vocals, percussions (castanets, bells...)
Lookid (2'44) :
Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizer (pocket trumpet, vocals)
Francis Gorgé - percussions

n°40 / Strychnine with Pierre Lattès and Joséphine Markovits (1977/05/07)) / 44'30
Tamia : vocals, rhaïta
Jean-Jacques Birgé : ambiences, synthesizer, hou-kin, vocals, pocket trumpet, nose flute, jaw harps, alto sax, lion's roar, French horn, percussion, reeds, cows, alto melodica, birdcalls, horn, stylophone, siren, tenor flute, violin
Bernard Vitet : Flugel horn, trumpet, alto sax, percussion, bombarde, ophicléïde, piccolo trumpet, reed trumpet, jaw harp, vocals, violin, morse, French horn, horn, piano
Francis Gorgé : electric guitar and bass, birdcalls, acoustic guitar, percussion, French horn, jazzo-flute
Recorded live on the air at France Musique on May 7 1977 for radio show Les astronautes / Non écrites by Pierre Lattès and Joséphine Markovits
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