"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