n°1 / Les blancs jouent et gagnent / 5'36
Jean-Jacques Birgé - horsemen, harmonizer, brass band
Bernard Vitet - trumpets
Francis Gorgé - percussion
"Funny and inventive, the Drama is a reference on its own...
In the spirit of Frank Zappa." (Compact)
"Like Carl Stalling's cartoon soundtracks." (Cadence)
Vocal pieces featuring the late Frank ROYON LE MÉE in Le poil et la plume (text by Michel TOURNIER) followed by an opera-bouffe where animals play hide and seek with Death ! (libretto by Régis FRANC).
Also on BANDCAMP
LA FOSSE (6 à 13)
opéra-bouffe on a booklet by Régis Franc
commande de Radio France Martine Viard - Miss Rosé (soprano)
Louis Hagen-William - the lion (basse)
With the trio of the Drame :
Jean-Jacques Birgé - the animals + sampler, synthesizers, brass
Bernard Vitet - trumpet, violin
Francis Gorgé - synthesizers, arco, guitar
Avec l'Ensemble de l'Itinéraire :
Véronique Fèvre - clarinets
Patrice Petitdidier - French horn
Jacques Peillon - French horn
Joël Weiss - trombone
Jean Ferry - cello
Isabelle Veyrier - cello
Françoise Gagneux - percussion
Boris de Vinogradov - direction
and in the role of the musicians (in order of appearance): Guy Pannequin, Bernard Pinet, Yves Péneau, Serge Valletti, Maurice Garrel, Christian Marin, Dominique Fonfrède, Guy Piérauld
Enregistré au Studio 103 de Radio France par Madeleine Sola
Collaborateur technique - Jean Michel Sire
Chargé de réalisation - Georges Mousny
Additionnal recordings by Un d.m.i. at Studio GRRR