PHILIPPE LAMIRAL POIRIER & ROMEO POIRIER - Images Parlées LP Garage Vex Billingsgate and John McBurney

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

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

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

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

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

PHILIPPE LAMIRAL POIRIER & ROMEO POIRIER - Images Parlées LP Garage Vex Billingsgate and John McBurneyBesides 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