Seven tracks EP album of vocal and instrumental improvisations by Marianne Dissard with bassist Thøger Lund, DJ French Tourist and violinist Vicki Brown recorded in 2007 by Jim Waters at Waterworks Studio in Tucson, Arizona. Following a first, highly-exciting live performance at the famed Solar Culture venue in their hometown of Tucson, the newly-constituted quatuor, old friends and frequent collaborators within the city's music scene, spent a day in studio to improvise around "Les Draps Sourds" (originally a song from Marianne Dissard's debut album "L'Entredeux" composed by Joey Burns). With lyrical detours through "Flashback", also a song from "L'Entredeux" and nods to Edith Piaf's "Padam, Padam", the resulting tracks are a fascinating detour in Marianne Dissard's discography of more straightforward, structured album of noir desert chanson. MORE INFO..... French filmmaker Catherine Breillat's US/UK trailer for her amazing film "Bluebeard" features an excerpt from this session. I'm glad it's in there. I love her work. Watch it here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLCWRyhdCQw Having just released "L'Entredeux", a collection of straightforward songs in a conventional pop format, I wanted to approach some of these songs in a different way. With musician French Tourist in town from France for a few days, I called up Tucsonans Thøger Lund and Vicki Brown and the four of us headed down to Waterworks Studio. Mostly, we wanted to have fun. Before Waterworks and the one-afternoon recording session, the four of us first tried things out on stage during an unrehearsed and memorable show at Solar Culture. It was an hypnotic evening. Then we went into the studio. Vicki Brown was on violin and loops, Thøger Lund on upright and keyboard, French Tourist on theremin and samplers and toys, I was on vocals and Jim Waters pushed the rec' button... once! What we had after we stopped was one long, uninterrupted improvised 43mn take around "Les Draps Sourds", its chorus deconstructed throughout with incantations of "on s'est aimé". I had decided at the start of the session that I would give myself a trajectory, a road map, a necessary constraint. I would start at "Les Draps Sourds" and would find my way to land on Edith Piaf's "Padam, Padam" through a short visit to my own "Flashback". When all was done, we struggled on what to do with these long one-takes improvisations. Where do you cut? How do you make 'neat' songs out of it? Do you have to make clear-cut songs out of it or leave as is? Thanks for listening! VIDEO : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXEq7g1D5LM