Cd created at the Abbey of St Riquier (http://www.ccr-abbaye-saint-riquier.fr) in live recording conditions. Direct stereo recording made by Jean Pierre Smadja. Big Blue Records / Harmonia Mundi. With Tony Ballester on bass, Hugues Hervé on drums, and Albin de la Simone on piano and keyboards
Seuls les Tilleuls Mentent
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Bleu Tactile
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Magic Mushrooms
This piece, which is a collective composition, was recorded at the end of the session. The guitar and bass were detuned to produce these percussion sounds. Based on a melodic and rhythmic pattern repeated in a non stop loop. (I do not know what we had smoked that day …)
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Autour de La
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L’Enfer chez Molette
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L’Année du Dragon
In this track Albin uses a melodica, an instrument whose sound is halfway between a bandoneon and a harmonica
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Les Oiseaux sont des Cons (composition of Hughes Hervé)
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Bambi (composition of Albin de la Simone)
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Les Petits Canards dans le Lavabo
Well, that one we made it short!