GRRR 3068 online, 2013
Jean-Jacques Birgé asked Antonin-Tri Hoang and Edward Perraud to tell each one three dreams. With his it makes nine Dreams and Nightmares to play and improvise live. The tenth was told by a girl in the audience. Every dream was preceded by its story told by every one of us, as waking up and trying to remember.
Recorded live by Benoît Tonnerre at Le Triton on January 31 2013, directly from the mixing table, so acoustic instruments such as drums are lower than reality.
Blog (external link) "J'ai fait un rêve..." (I had a dream)
Article by Gary May in Improjazz n°193 (external link) (March 2013)
Cover by Nicolas Clauss from Leonardo da Vinci's Dream Machine (external link).
65 minutes
Jean-Jacques' nightmare of parallelepipeds is probably a souvenir of his birth. But what is number 7 doing among them?
Jean-Jacques Birgé - reed trumpet, bingo, keyboard
Antonin-Tri Hoang - alto sax
Edward Perraud - drums
Edward, hunter of lions in Africa, is pursued by his own tribe.
Jean-Jacques Birgé - keyboard, reed trumpet, rattle
Antonin-Tri Hoang - bass clarinet, alto sax
Edward Perraud - drums, vocals
To fall asleep Antonin, when he was a child, was singing strange ritual chants while his head was oscillating from left to right...
Jean-Jacques Birgé - flutes, vocals, balloon
Antonin-Tri Hoang - clarinet
Edward Perraud - drums
Days of fever Antonin was seeing snakes moving under the bath mat, plants were becoming carnivorous, the psychedelic trip was dissipated only at dawn.
Jean-Jacques Birgé - Tenori-on, keyboard
Antonin-Tri Hoang - alto sax
Edward Perraud - drums, electronics
Some dreams are conceptual. Edward's refers itself to haïku " I do not know why I love this world in which we came to die. We have all been".
Jean-Jacques Birgé - H3000, hou-kin, vocals
Antonin-Tri Hoang - clarinet, alto sax
Edward Perraud - drums
Next: Jean-Jacques' father would not be dead, he would have built a new life in Greece.
Jean-Jacques Birgé - keyboard, jaw harps
Antonin-Tri Hoang - alto sax
Edward Perraud - drums, electronics
Impossible to sleep. Antonin keeps all night trying to get rid of the orchestra which plays in his head.
Jean-Jacques Birgé - keyboard, H3000
Antonin-Tri Hoang - alto sax, bass clarinet, clarinet
Edward Perraud - drums
In Sarajevo during the siege, Jean-Jacques was falling asleep by counting explosions as others might count sheep. The monsters' shooting up on the hills reminded him Ionisation by Varèse.
Jean-Jacques Birgé - H3000, vocals, harmonica, jaw harp, reed, waldteufel
Antonin-Tri Hoang - alto sax
Edward Perraud - drums, electronics
Edward has always dreamed to put Albrecht Dürer in music :
"In 1525, during the night between Wednesday and Thursday after Whitsuntide, I had this vision in my sleep, and saw how many great waters fell from heaven. The first struck the ground about four miles away from me with such a terrible force, enormous noise and splashing that it drowned the entire countryside. I was so greatly shocked at this that I awoke before the cloudburst. And the ensuing downpour was huge. Some of the waters fell some distance away and some close by. And they came from such a height that they seemed to fall at an equally slow pace. But the very first water that hit the ground so suddenly had fallen at such velocity, and was accompanied by wind and roaring so frightening, that when I awoke my whole body trembled and I could not recover for a long time. When I arose in the morning, I painted the above as I had seen it. May the Lord turn all things to the best."
Jean-Jacques Birgé - keyboard, shipwreck, pocket trumpet, jaw harp
Antonin-Tri Hoang - clarinet, alto sax, bass clarinet
Edward Perraud - drums, electronics
Catalina tells us her dream about two snakes in Colombia... The trio improvises it immediately...
Jean-Jacques Birgé - keyboard, Tenori-on
Antonin-Tri Hoang - alto sax
Edward Perraud - drums
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