{{Short description|French avant-garde jazz record label}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}} {{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music --> | name = Grrr Records | image = | parent = Allumés du Jazz | founded = {{start date|1975}} | founder = Jean-Jacques Birgé | distributor = <!-- distributors, separate with commas or <br /> --> | genre = Avant-garde jazz | country = France | location = Paris | website = [http://www.drame.org/2/?LA=EN Official site] }}
'''Grrr Records''' is a French avant-garde jazz record label founded by Jean-Jacques Birgé in 1975.<ref>[http://turbulence.org/curators/Paris/birgeenglish.htm Site Turbulence]</ref> Grrr belongs to Les Allumés du Jazz, 100 French independent jazz and improvised music labels.
The first LP by Grrr was ''Défense de'' by Birgé-Gorgé-Shiroc, which became a cult-album<ref>{{in lang|fr}} Frédéric Goaty in [http://www.drame.org/1/1Journal/extraits/dd-JazzMag.gif ''Jazz Magazine'' (No. 546, mars 2004)]</ref> after having been quoted in the Nurse with Wound list.
Grrr has been issuing CDs since 1987 with ''L'hallali'' by Un Drame Musical Instantané,<ref>{{in lang|fr}} Francis Maramande in ''Le Monde'' (27 April 1989) [http://www.drame.org/1/1Journal/extraits/TeleramaM.jpg]</ref> led by multi-instrumentalist Jean-Jacques Birgé, trumpeter Bernard Vitet and guitarist Francis Gorgé.<ref>{{in lang|fr}} Site Assez Vu [http://www.assezvu.com/undmi/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090220123735/http://www.assezvu.com/undmi/ |date=20 February 2009 }}</ref> The label also produced the albums of multi-instrumentalist composer Hélène Sage, accordionist Michèle Buirette and female trio Pied de Poule (M. Buirette, bassist, Geneviève Cabannes, and singer Dominique Fonfrède). Barcelonian label Wah Wah has reissued ''Défende de'' and Austrian label Klang Galerie issues remastered CDs of all LPs by Un drame musical instantané.
In 1997, ''Carton'' by Birgé-Vitet (with Michel Séméniako's photographs) was released as the label's first enhanced-CD and Birgé's first multimedia artwork. The album was followed by ''Machiavel''<ref>{{in lang|fr}} Gérard Pangon in Télérama (#2554, 23 December 1998) [http://www.drame.org/1/1Journal/extraits/TeleramaM.jpg]</ref> by Un d.m.i. (CD-audio + CD-ROM), with an interactive video sessions of 111 loops by J-J. Birgé and Antoine Schmitt.<ref>''Machiavel'', free download on [http://machiavel.net/english.html machiavel.net]</ref>
Later albums produced by Grrr include ''Établissement d'un ciel d'alternance'', duet with Birgé and French writer Michel Houellebecq who reads his own text (No. 26), ''Échappée belle'' by Hélène Sage (No. 27), two albums by Michèle Buirette and, in 2017, ''Long Time No Sea'' by trio El Strøm (No. 29) and in 2018, The ''100th Anniversary of Jean-Jacques Birgé'' (No. 30). In 2020, for the double CD ''Pique-nique au labo'' (No. 31-32), Birgé invited 28 improvisers to join him for meetings covering the period 2010–2019. In 2022, Un drame musical instantané comes back with a brand new CD, ''Plumes et poils''.
Since 2011, Grrr has issued freely downloadable material (105 unissued albums + a random radio which feature 1479 pieces and last 194 hours). 2025 is the 50th anniversary of GRRR Recods!
==See also== * Lists of record labels
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==External links== * [http://www.drame.org/2/?LA=EN Official site] * Grrr Records on [https://www.lesallumesdujazz.com/e-boutique-recherche.html?5cb59977d5b0e Site of Allumés du Jazz] and [https://jjbirge.bandcamp.com/ Bandcamp]
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