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This Paris

from Long Time No Sea by El Strøm

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words Birgitte Lyregaard
music El Strøm
Live recording by Jacques Vivante, Benoît Tonnerre, Ludovic Blanchard at Le Triton, Festival Les Enchanteuses, Les Lilas, March 31 2012
Drawing unknown, Signor Gruntinelli playing on a new instrument, coll. SG

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The café’s of Paris – where checked paper table cloths keep the myth going.
The kids of Paris – playing with plastic and wood on half lit backyard cobblestones.
The waiters of Paris – who, wearing white shirts and blue aprons, recommend the quiche of the day and not the more expensive confit de canard à la carte.
The lost ones of Paris with tinned eyes in corners of half empty restaurants insisting on paying for each other in much too loud voices.
This is Paris…
The secret female tramp of Paris who, in the heat of the transparent bank withdrawal cage, sits on the floor and, having removed shoes and socks, carefully let her fingers run down her pale and dirty legs to find out where the problem is.
Ah, This is Paris…
The suburbs of Paris where tile floored and stone walled houses lean against each other shuttering from the unexpected winter cold. And where dark skinned teenage girls dressed in black cheerfully crawl into taxis at the metro stations to celebrate yet another Saturday night at the local African disco.
And this is Paris.
This is Paris…
Paris – where tired cultural eyes have seen it all and trained for many years to never show amazement or awe.
This is Paris – also Paris.
This is Paris…
Paris where people talk and talk out of the sheer pleasure of describing in words the most fleeting of sensations in the smallest of details.
Ahhh, this is Paris.
Ahh, all this is Paris
Such is Paris…
Paris, where life is hard and where the rats of the night occupy le Champs de Mars at the foot of the Eiffel tower when the Barons of daylight have dozed off into dreamland.
This is Paris…

credits

from Long Time No Sea, released March 29, 2017
Birgitte LYREGAARD - vocals
Jean-Jacques BIRGÉ - Tenori-on, motocycle, vocals
Sacha GATTINO - sampler, jaw harps, druid bell

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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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