"El Strom means current in Danish. Three streams form a river. At the first dam, the electrical energy encourages travel. Birgitte Lyregaard sings across borders (jazz, pop, punk, contemporary, classical...) to leap over continents will...
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Birgitte Lyregaard-vocals
Sacha Gattino-sampler, percussion, zither, harmonicas, jaw harps
Jean-Jacques Birge-Theremin, Tenorion, Mascarade Machine, keyboards, reeds, harmonicas, jaw harps
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UPC: 3760012000296
Label: GRRR
Catalog ID: GRRR 2029
Squidco Product Code: 35594
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2017
Country: France
Packaging: Digipack w/booklet
Recorded at GRRR Studio, in Bagnolet, France, at Tintannabulum Studio, in Rennes, France, at Pib de Bib Studio, in Copenhagen, Denmark, and live at Le Triton, Festival Les Enchanteuses, in Les Lilas, France.
"El Strom means current in Danish. Three streams form a river. At the first dam, the electrical energy encourages travel. Birgitte Lyregaard sings across borders (jazz, pop, punk, contemporary, classical...) to leap over continents willy-nilly of frontiers. A piece of cake. Sacha Gattino fashions sharp rhymes and sound objects grabbed from everywhere on the planet, transforming his toys with the intensity of children playing. Jean-Jacques Birge, who plays here rare instruments, acoustic or electronic, recounts that it is the first time that he has shared such close collaboration since Un Drame Musical Instantane. Songs carefully crafted or free improvisation, homemade instruments or cutting edge technology, siren song or revolt of the machines, the electro-shock produces a feeling more real than nature.
Long Time No Sea was the first new CD by Jean-Jacques Birge since 1998 (Un Drame Musical Instantane's Machiavel). For the last 10 years GRRR has published 74 unissued albums on drame.org, but all exclusively online, virtual objects free to listen or download! To present these 77 minutes, Etienne Mineur has designed a fantastic cover and libretto playing with videoprojectors and reflective materials. He has integrated drawings by Grandville from 1844 and even another one from 1774, all belonging to Sacha Gattino's own collection. By the way it's also Sacha's first CD."-GRRR
Artist Biographies
"Music composer, film director, multimedia author, sound designer, writer, Jean-Jacques Birgé considers music essentially in the audio-visual relationship, or at least in its confrontation with other forms of artistic expression.
Founder of Disques GRRR, he was one of the first synthesists in France in 1973, and with Un Drame Musical Instantané the precursor of the return to the cine-concert in 1976. If his first electronic work dates from 1965, he composes as well for symphonic orchestras that he improvises freely with musicians from the most diverse backgrounds. For his "radiophonic" creations and his multimedia shows (live zapping on the big screen, fireworks, choreographies...), improvisation and preliminary writing merge, the original electroacoustic treatments are integrated with traditional instruments to create evocative musical fictions that he calls musique à propos.
From 1995, he became one of the most popular sound designers in multimedia and a specialist in interactive musical composition, seeking to deepen the effects of meaning and develop an ever-wider range of emotions. As part of his work on major exhibitions, he recently worked at the Louvre Museum, the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, the Grand Palais, the Panthéon, the Palais de Tokyo, the ZKM...
Alongside around fifty vinyls and CDs, his website drame.org offers 105 unreleased albums (191 hours!) for free listening and downloading.
He has been running a daily, activist and supportive blog for 20 years and gives conferences on the relationship between sound and image."
-Jean-Jacques Birge Website (Drame.org) (Translated by Google) (http://www.drame.org/2/bio.php)1/6/2025
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Track Listing:
1. Sound Castles 23:02
2. Contretemps 9:51
3. Frygt 5:47
4. Mecaniques Cantiques 9:51
5. Radio Sandwich 3:38
6. Dark Waters 5:42
7. This Paris 8:40
8. Lover Man 2:09
9. Long Time No Sea 9:04
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