Tchak by UN DRAME MUSICAL INSTANTANE

Un Drame Musical Instantané were founded in 1976, featuring Jean-Jacques Birgé, Bernard Vitet and Francis Gorgé. Their aim was to promote collective musical creation, co-signing their albums, which they consider as artworks in themselves, or their live shows which they tried to renew every time they played. Their sound was created with many influences: They borrowed their sources from rock (synthesizer player Birgé and guitarist Gorgé, both authors of the album, Défense de); jazz (trumpeter Vitet who founded the first free jazz band in France, together with François Tusques, as well as Michel Portal who played with many American and European jazzmen); classical modern music; as well as movies or world news; they were the first in France to give a new impetus to live music on silent movies. After having improvised freely for many years, they led a fifteen piece orchestra from 1981 to 1986, and from 1989 onwards they produced multimedia shows (live video remix on a giant screen, fireworks, choreographies). Tchak, recorded between 1998 and 2000 by Jean-Jacques Birgé, brings together the last recordings of Un Drame Musical Instantané with trumpeter Bernard Vitet, its co-founder in 1976 with Francis Gorgé and him. The guitarist left the group in 1992, but rejoined in 2014. Together with Birgé and writer Dominique Meens, Gorgé is preparing a new album in the fictional spirit of the original group. For Tchak resembles nothing the Drame had ever produced, which is hardly surprising given the sheer variety and surprise of their works, from their instantaneous compositions to works written for their large band or symphony orchestras, from their film-concerts, for which they were at the origin of this revival, to their particularly eccentric musical theater pieces... Tchak is a kind of electro funk that begins with Le silence éternel des espaces infinis m'effraie, a duet between Birgé on machines and Vitet on flugelhorn, whose magnificent sound is legendary. This is followed by six tracks on which they are joined by guitarist Philippe Deschepper and turntablist Nem: Stomp, (roots), Gaza, 1936, Vir-us. Vitet also dabbles in reggy, while Birgé plays synthesizer and sampler, reed trumpet and nose flute, erhu and Theremin.

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