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Nothing comparable, maybe except the Liberation Orchestra !
This album, inspired by Abdulah SIDRAN's poems, puts together fifty artists under the artistic direction of Jean-Jacques BIRGÉ and Corinne LÉONET :
Lindsay COOPER, Henri TEXIER, Dee Dee BRIDGEWATER, le Quatuor BALANESCU, Willem BREUKER, Louis SCLAVIS, Pierre CHARIAL, Mike et Kate WESTBROOK, Linda SHARROCK, Wolfgang PUSCHNIG, Jane BIRKIN, Bulle OGIER, André DUSSOLLIER, Un Drame Musical Instantané, Phil MINTON, Bruno CHEVILLON, Chris BISCOE, Noël AKCHOTÉ, Sébastien TEXIER, Bojan Z, Tony RABESON, Thomas BLOCH, Gérard SIRACUSA, Michèle BUIRETTE, Jean-Jacques BIRGÉ, Bernard VITET, Dean BRODRICK, Brian ABRAHAMS, Carol ROBINSON, Michel GODARD, Emil KRISTOF, Lorre Lynn TRYTTEN, Richard HAYON, Abdullah SIDRAN…
At the benefit of the reconstruction of the National Library of Sarajevo. English, French and Bosnian words.
Un Drame Musical Instantané (Birgé - Vitet)
sung by Dee Bridgewater
with Balanescu String Quartet
Alexander Balanescu - violin
Clare Connors - violin
Andy Parker - viola
Nick Cooper - cello
Text by Abdulah Sidran
Recorded by Dick Katz, The Premises Studio, Londres
and Didier Périer, Studio Acousti, Paris
Mixed by Alain Cluzeau
Un Drame Musical Instantané (Birgé - Vitet)
played by Balanescu String Quartet
Alexander Balanescu - violin
Clare Connors - violin
Andy Parker - viola
Nick Cooper - cello
Recorded by Dick Katz, The Premises Studio, London
Mixed by Alain Cluzeau, Studio Acousti, Paris
Bernard Vitet - trumpet
Michèle Buirette - accordion
Enregistré au Studio GRRR, Paris
Ruins recorded in 1993 by Richard Hayon, Sarajevo
Previously issued on compilation Sarajevo Suite which Jean-Jacques Birgé conceived and produced with Corinne Léonet (L'empreinte digitale ED 13039, 1994)
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