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You Can't Come Back 03:16
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Alter Ego 05:43
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The Back of the Mind 03:37
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Twirling Wires 04:19
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Shepherd 04:55
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Masked Man 06:18
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Homage 09:45
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Posing 05:22
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Rats on Kitchen Table 02:20
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Shadows and Stranger 09:22
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Cornered 07:56
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Chicken Wings 04:20
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Improvisations recorded on December 18 2019
at GRRR Studio by Jean-Jacques Birgé
in the order which they have been played

Cover and ducks © JJB
Photo of the trio © Jean Rochard
Artworks © Roger Ballen

64 minutes

One after another the musicians have chosen an artwork by Roger Ballen as the theme for their collective improvisation.
Jean-Jacques Birgé, who had visited the exhibition at the Halle Saint Pierre the day before and had brought back the catalogs Asylum of the Birds and The world according to Roger Ballen, chose The Back of The Mind, Masked Man, Rats on Kitchen Table, Chicken Wings, Nicholas Christenson You Can't Come Back, Twirling Wires, Homage, Shadows and Stranger, and Jean-Brice Godet Alter Ego, Shepherd, Posing, Cornered.

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released December 22, 2019

Jean-Jacques Birgé – keyboard, Lyra-8, Tenori-on, H3000, field recording, plunderphonics, reed trumpet, flute, jaw-harp, cosmicbow, percussion
Nicholas Christenson – double bass, baby cello
Jean-Brice Godet – clarinet, bass clarinet, cassettes

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Jean-Jacques BIRGÉ Paris, France

Jean-Jacques Birgé is an independent French musician and filmmaker, at once music composer (co-founder of Un Drame Musical Instantané), sound designer & multimedia artist, writer & blogger. (Mediapart)... Specialist of the relations between sound and pictures, he has been one of the early synthesizer players in France in 1973, the initiator of the return of silent movies with music in 1976. ... more

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