UN DRAME MUSICAL INSTANTANÉ
Socialize (L'argent)
GRRR 3044 online, 1988

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Intégrale with film on YouTube (3h14')

Audio version here (60 minutes + 16 minutes)

1. Property is Robbery (La propriété c’est le vol) 6'49

2. Ulterior Motives (Arrière-pensées) 2'42         

3. Yuppie Club 2'37

4. Young Flesh and Old Fish (Jeune chair et vieux poisson) 7'58

5. Erratic (Mouvements erratiques) 7'07

6. On the Eve of its Decline (Le déclin de l'empire) 8'00

7. Rien ne va plus* 10'43

8. North Eating South Starving* 3’43

9. The Wrong Man (Der falsche Mann)* 9’10

 

10. Extra : interview of Jean-Jacques Birgé and Bernard Vitet by Sophie Barrouyer for radio program "L'Herbier a 100 ans" 16'11

 

Bernard Vitet - trumpets, piano

Francis Gorgé - electric guitar, synthesizers

Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizers, flute, news, vocals

 

Music by Birgé - Vitet - Gorgé

Recorded by Jean-Jacques Birgé, Studio GRRR, Paris, March 2 1988
Edited in October 1989

Dollar by Nicolas Clauss

* Previously issued: “Rien ne va plus” (Dry Lungs 5, 1992, USA), “North Eating South Starving” (NOY 02, 1991, Portugal), “Der falsche Mann” (Out of Depression, 1989, Germany)

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n°1 / Property is Robbery / 6'47

Jean-Jacques Birgé - TV news, synthesizer, sampler, harmonizer
Bernard Vitet - flugel horn
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar, synthesizer

n°2 / Ulterior Motives / 2'42

Jean-Jacques Birgé - vocals, harmonizer
Bernard Vitet - flugel horn
Francis Gorgé - guitare électrique, waltz

n°3 / Yuppie Club / 2'37

Jean-Jacques Birgé - virtual orchestra
Bernard Vitet - bugle
Francis Gorgé - virtual orchestra

n°4 / Young Flesh and Old Fish / 7'58

Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizer
Bernard Vitet - trumpet
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar

n°5 / Erratic / 7'05

Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizer
Bernard Vitet - piano
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar, synthesizer

n°6 / On the Eve of its Decline (Le déclin de l'empire) / 8'00

Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizer, news
Bernard Vitet - flugel horn, piano
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar, waltz

n°7 / Rien ne va plus / 10'43

Jean-Jacques Birgé - news, percussion, synthesizer
Bernard Vitet - percussion, trumpet, reed trumpet
Francis Gorgé - percussion, synthesizer
Previously issued on compilation Dry Lungs 5 (USA), 1992

n°8 / North Eating South Starving - 1991 / 3'39

Jean-Jacques Birgé - vocals, inanga
Bernard Vitet - violin
Francis Gorgé - percussion
Previously issued on compilation A Gnomean Haigonaimean, LP NOY02 (Portugal), 1991

n°9 / Der falsche Mann - 1988 / 9'15

Jean-Jacques Birgé - orchestra
Bernard Vitet - trumpet
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar
Recorded at Studio GRRR, Paris, 1988/01/12
Previously issued on compilation with magazine Out of Depression #12 (Germany), 1988

n°10 / L'argent by Marcel L'Herbier - 1988 / 16'11

Extract of a radio show by Sophie Barrouyer with interview of Jean-Jacques Birgé and Bernard Vitet, music by Un Drame Musical Instantané for Marcel L'Herbier's silent movie, L'argent (1928)
France Culture, 1988

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