PHILIPPE LAMIRAL POIRIER & ROMEO POIRIER - Images Parlées LP Garage

PHILIPPE LAMIRAL POIRIER & ROMEO POIRIER - Images Parlées LP GarageBesides his work as a painter, filmmaker and set designer, Philippe Lamiral Poirier (1951 2025) played guitar and saxophone in the group Kat Onoma, which he co founded with Rodolphe Burger. His fifth studio album combines his written texts with music composed by his son, Romo Poirier, whom he considered to be cut from the same musical cloth as he was. It also confirms what has emerged from his previous albums, namely songs more spoken than sung and

He manages to communicate his musical ideas with only a few notes - something that merely a handful of composers are capable of doing

Secret Cities found themselves fortunate to occupy the basement of a recently abandoned bank in Kansas City

finding -- love

This reissue is the first time that this truly essential jazz recording has been properly available outside South Africa

With “Sugar in the Gourd

scintillating with delayed guitar before the reverb-immersed vocal injects the human drama

and strands of light — as if this moon’s essence were itself sonic

As he famously espoused

Vex Billingsgate and John McBurney – maintain the satirical themes of Southern California's postwar mirage of limitless sprawl

playing versions of contemporary pop music with an accordion and dressed flamboyantly

the use of different types of speakers as well as a multitude of acoustic and electronic percussion played on both sides of the studio

” Shiroishi says