Grrr Records

Grrr Records is a French avant-garde jazz record label founded by Jean-Jacques Birgé in 1975.[1]

The first LP was Défense de by Birgé-Gorgé-Shiroc which became a cult-album [2] 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,[3] led by multi-instrumentalist Jean-Jacques Birgé, trumpeter Bernard Vitet and guitarist Francis Gorgé,[4] main group of the label which 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) is their first enhanced-CD and Birgé's first multimedia artwork as an author. It will be followed by Machiavel [5] by Un d.m.i. (CD-audio + CD-ROM), with an interactive video sessions of 111 loops by J-J. Birgé and Antoine Schmitt.[6] Last albums produced by Grrr, are Établissement d'un ciel d'alternance, duet with Birgé and famous French writer Michel Houellebecq who reads his own text (No. 26), Échappée belle by Hélène Sage (No. 27), 2 albums by Michèle Buirette and, in 2017, Long Time No Sea by trio El Strøm (N°29) and in 2018, The 100th Anniversary of Jean-Jacques Birgé (N°30)!

Since 2011 Grrr has issued freely downloadable material (77 unissued albums + a random radio which feature 1012 pieces and last 152 hours).

Grrr belongs to Les Allumés du Jazz, 90 French independent jazz and improvised music labels.