Mehr Licht ! Bernard VITET

GRRR 1003 lp, 1979

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Solo of the trumpet player without his trumpet ! Reed trumpet, dragon (balafon type percussion and keyboard of bells), violin, reed... for Mehr Licht !, L'ange du bizarre, Le diable dans le beffroi, La machine de Marly. The first solo album of Vitet (the only real solo of his whole discography) since the mythic La Guêpe on Futura (recently reissued).

Interview of Bernard Vitet (external link) about Mehr Licht ! (in French)

Music : Bernard Vitet
Published in 1979 on LP Mehr Licht ! (GRRR 1003)
Sound: Daniel Deshays
Cover by Vitet from a picture by Isabelle Marmande

n°1 / Mehr Licht ! / 8'43

Bernard Vitet - Bb piccolo trumpet (sopranino saxophone mouthpiece)
Recorded in Vitet's staircase, 8 rue Charles Weiss, Paris, in 1979
"Mehr Licht!" are Goethe's last words on his deathbed

n°2 / L'ange du bizarre / 8'43

Bernard Vitet - dragoon (a kind of huge balafon and small bells keyboard)
Daniel Deshays - reportage
Recorded in Vitet's studio, 7 rue Charles Weiss, Paris, and in the Puces de Saint-Ouen in 1979
"The Angel of the Odd" is the title of a satirical short story by Edgar Allan Poe

n°3 / Le diable dans le beffroi / 16'00

Bernard Vitet - violin
Recorded at Ircam in 1979, in a room which will become later an anechoic chamber
and in Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet Church on the day of Marie
"The Devil in the Belfry" is the title of a satirical short story by Edgar Allan Poe

 

n°4 / La machine de Marly / 7'26

Bernard Vitet - reed instrument made out of a plastic tube with three holes
The Blackbird - himself
Recorded in 1979 near the railroad in Marly-le-Roi
The machine de Marly (external link) used to bring the water from the Seine to the Château de Versailles