Live Brise-Glace

The Definitions were Annecy’s Brise Glace’s guests in December ‘07. They decided they would be a trio, this time: Francis Bourganel, Flavien Girard, and Mickaël Mottet.

The chosen setting was: a legendary Roland 505 beatbox, the cheap but ever so cool Farfisa F200, alto saxophones looped through a Headrush, two guitars, and a turntable. The lyrics, mostly written using automatic writing, were displayed on the walls.

There was some name-dropping (« the sonic underground / the velvet youth / ludwig von rotten / johnny beethoven »), things were said about Israel and Palestine (« Danny Tirza was fired for lying but did that prevent the wall from rising? »), a few words were dropped on American Republicans (« Sparing the rich, very easy: redefining the class-divide around culture »). Some other lyrics were taken from Angil’s previous songs or forthcoming Angil was a Cat project.

The live recording was edited by the guys at the Brise-Glace and mastered by Gilles Deles. It was first released as a present for the Hidden List, Angil & the Hiddentracks’ support list. French cartoonist Guillaume Long made the artwork. Now it is yours, if you want it to.