Trop d'adrénaline nuit UN DRAME MUSICAL INSTANTANÉ

GRRR 2024 (réédition) CD audio, 2001

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The beginning. Totally improvised. Magnifically structured.
Features a percussion trio on a text by Jean Vigo.
A reference.

Jean-Jacques BIRGÉ (synthesizer, vocals, flutes, percussion)
Bernard VITET (trumpets, reeds, violin, percussion)
Francis GORGÉ (guitar, bass guitar, percussion)

Prenons-le / Au pied de la lettre / Trop d'adrénaline nuit
+ Sancta Papaverina (bonus track on cd)

lp GRRR 1002 - lp version out of sale
rec. 1977 - prod. 1979
IMPORTANT: REISSUE NOW AVAILABLE (GRRR 2024)
new master with bonus track (Sancta Papaverina - 17'44")
and a new graphic design by Etienne AUGER

A GIFT!
The pieces you are listening to are two unissued version before editing, far longer than the ones on the LP which lasts 9 and 24 minutes.

From the same period, 24 hours of unissued music on Poisons...

Also on BANDCAMP

Album's player

n°1 / Prenons le (05/02/1977) / 9'20

Jean-Jacques Birgé - percussion, clarina, inanga
Bernard Vitet - flugel horn, French horn
Francis Gorgé - guitar, bass guitar, violin

n°2 / 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°3 / 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
LP and CD versions are only 24'25 long.

n°4 / Sancta Papaverina (01/16/1977) / 17'44

Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizer (ARP 2600), record player, harmonica, jazzoflute, jaw harp, percussion
Bernard Vitet - piccolo trumpet, flugel horn, French horn, whistle, reeds, percussion
Francis Gorgé - bass guitar, guitar
Unissued on the original LP.