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Les ann​é​es 1970 (The 70s)

from The 100th Anniversary (1952​-​2052) by Jean-Jacques Birgé

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The orchestra beneath his fingers reinforces the libertarian trio that Birgé formed with his sidekick, trumpeter Bernard Vitet from Un Drame Musical instantané, and cellist Didier Petit. Since 1973 his taste for symphony had led him to the synthesizer. Birgé worked daily with his two best friends, Francis Gorgé for 18 years and Vitet for 32 years. He fought all his life for collective creation, choosing to work with the new generations who taught him as much as he passed on to them...

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Today music is more often played than it is written on paper. We write it differently. We write it collectively. We write it with computer systems...
519 dead people and dozens of missing persons, the damage is huge...
No, but tell me, because you are waving at me, I do not understand what's going on...
Music produces meaning. The music of Un Drame Musical Instantané is already blind cinema.
So yes, is it your reality?
Neither on the feet nor on the hands...
A sort of counterpoint, a fiction around which all the forces of the nation would happily regroup, a retrospective report shot on the scene of the crime or a daily series that simply shows the joy of living, but here I anticipate...
Made of phases of slow evolution and then accelerations that we call crises...
I saw that there were however coded signals!
But listen, I think that’s the best thing...

We speak English
French accents
Playing the States
Strong critics

Trying to be us
Fighting U.S.

We make love and we love
No taboo
Fighting the coup
Who’s above?

Trying to be us
Fighting U.S.

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from The 100th Anniversary (1952​-​2052), released July 9, 2018
Jean-Jacques Birgé – synthesizers, orchestra, prepared piano, vocals
Bernard Vitet – trumpet, flugel horn
Didier Petit – cello
Music J-J.Birgé
Rec. 2004-2018

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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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