Instantaneous compositions recorded on May 30 2023
at GRRR Studio by Jean-Jacques Birgé
in the order which they have been played
chosing cards from Oblique Strategies conceived
by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt   Considering the particular instrumentation of this album - a wind bass and a string bass - we strongly advise you to listen to it on good speakers or headphones!
91 minutes Also on Bandcamp
Cover & photos © JJB   As for albums Game Bling with Ève Risser and Joce Mienniel (2014), Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard with Médéric Collignon and Julien Desprez (2014), Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard 2 with Pascal Contet and Antonin-Tri Hoang (2015), Questions with Élise Dabrowski and Mathias Lévy (May 2019), WD-40 with Christelle Séry and Jonathan Pontier (Oct. 2019), Ball of Fire with Jean-François Vrod and Karsten Hochapfel (Nov. 2019), L’air de rien with Élise Caron and Fidel Fourneyron (mars 2021), To Be or Net To Be with Gilles Coronado and Basile Naudet (mai 2021), Chou with Sophie Agnel et David Fenech (October 2022), and the live show filmed À l'improviste with Birgitte Lyregaard and Linda Edsjö (2014), cards from the game Oblique Strategies by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt were randomly chosen as scores for the musicians.   Films of some concerts, where the audience choses the cards, are also online on YouTube (with Collignon, Desprez, Contet, Hoang, Lyregaard, Edsjö)...

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n°1 / Go to an extreme, move back to a more comfortable place / 7'50

Jean-Jacques Birgé – keyboards
Fanny Meteier – tuba
Olivier Lété – electric bass

n°2 / Discover the recipes you are using and abandon them / 12'56

Jean-Jacques Birgé – reed trumpet, keyboards, percussion, jaw’s harp, enner
Fanny Meteier – tuba
Olivier Lété – electric bass

n°3 / Do something boring / 6'48

Jean-Jacques Birgé – keyboards
Fanny Meteier – tuba
Olivier Lété – electric bass

n°4 / Don’t break the silence / 5'18

Jean-Jacques Birgé –keyboards
Fanny Meteier – pages, fingers, tuba
Olivier Lété – electric bass

n°5 / In total darkness or in a very large room, very quietly / 6'41

Jean-Jacques Birgé – keyboards, bull’s roar
Fanny Meteier – tuba
Olivier Lété – electric bass

n°6 / Sans carte / 13'06

Jean-Jacques Birgé – keyboards, H3000
Fanny Meteier – tuba
Olivier Lété – electric bass

n°7 / Turn it upside down / 12'40

Jean-Jacques Birgé – keyboards, jaw’s harp, reed
Fanny Meteier – tuba, gédéon  
Olivier Lété – electric bass

n°8 / Don’t be afraid of things because they’re easy to do / 12'22

Jean-Jacques Birgé – keyboards, whistle, jaw’s harp, drum, erhu, music box
Fanny Meteier – tin guitar, tuba, percussion, nose
Olivier Lété – electric bass

n°9 / Retrace your steps / 10'41

Jean-Jacques Birgé – keyboards, flute, energy chimes, zither
Fanny Meteier – tuba
Olivier Lété – electric bass

n°10 / Un très court / 2'21

Jean-Jacques Birgé – keyboards
Fanny Meteier – tuba
Olivier Lété – electric bass