🎷 Vic Blackwing & A. Duvant — Live from the Imaginary Café

A Limited Cassette Release from Shadow Gramophone, 1971

Recorded at an undisclosed café in Montreuil. Audience: two poets, one stray cat, a broken clock.

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🔶 Liner Notes (Back Cover):

“There was no stage, just a circle of dim lamplight and some cables duct-taped to the floor. Duvant arrived late, smelling of ash and ink. He brought no prepared text. Blackwing unboxed his flute like a priest unwrapping relics. What followed was not performance. It was séance.”

They say this recording was never meant to be pressed. Vic Blackwing swore it only existed as a live experiment — a way to "see if language could breathe through brass." But a single tape survived, found stuffed in the lining of Duvant’s coat when he died. No label. Just the words: “Play this when memory isn’t enough.”

You will not hear applause. You will hear murmurs. Clinking glasses. Footsteps on wet pavement. The hiss of something old and unrepeatable. You will hear what happens when a flautist and a philosopher build a cathedral out of breath, doubt, and delay pedals.

Listen alone. Preferably after 2am.

— Lucien DuGarde, Shadow Gramophone Archives

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🔶 Tracklist:

Side A – Entrances

1. Blue in Green, But Smudged – [Flute + ambient noise intro]

2. Syntax of the Inner Monologue (Field Recording from a Mind)

   • “You don’t speak in words. You speak in weathers.”

3. Cigarettes and Synapses –

   • Flute mimics the rhythm of exhale. Words stagger, repeat.

   • “I smoked to rewind.”

4. Static Communion –

   • Interlude: Radio hiss. Late-night jazz DJ fades in, then Duvant:

   • “If you hear this… you made it.”

Side B – Departures
5. The Portable Cathedral (Chords in Dust Jacket Blue)

• “I lived in a book spine for six years.”

• Blackwing improvises underneath in E minor

6. Magnetic Ghosts (For the Tapeheads and Memory Kids)

   • Flute run through reel-to-reel delay, stuttering. Duvant’s voice glitches.

   • “The movie was never the same twice.”

7. The Triple Feature as Devotional Rite (Final Transmission)

   • Layered vocals, like prayers echoing off cinema walls.

   • “First film: descent. Second: delirium. Third: we crawl back blinking.”

Bonus Track (Unlisted)
🎙️ Vic’s Solo: “Shadow of a Bookstore That Never Existed”
Recorded accidentally. You hear a doorbell, wind. A single, mournful flute phrase. Silence.