22 avril 2020

Thierry Müller

Thierry MüllerThierry Müller est un compositeur multi-instrumentiste, dont les projets Ilitch et Ruth sont reconnus dans la scène indépendante et underground internationale.
Depuis 1978, ses albums aux univers multiples et inclassables ont été érigés comme «Cult» par des personnalités comme Tim Gane, Lee Ranaldo, Steven Stapleton, Edward Ka-Spell,…). Ils a collaboré sur des albums ou en Live avec, entre autres, Valentina Fanigliulo (Mushy, Phantom Love), Nicholas Littlemore (Empire Of The Sun, Pnau), Aaron Moore (Volcano The Bear,…), Quentin Rollet, Jac Berrocal, NowCut…

Thierry Müller is a multi-instrumentalist composer, whose Ilitch and Ruth projects are recognized in the international independent and underground scene.
Since 1978, his albums with multiple and unclassifiable universes have been erected as « Cult » by personalities like Tim Gane, Lee Ranaldo, Steven Stapleton, Edward Ka-Spell, …). He collaborated on albums or Live with, among others, Valentina Fanigliulo (Mushy, Phantom Love), Nicholas Littlemore (Empire Of The Sun, Pnau), Aaron Moore (Volcano The Bear, …), Quentin Rollet, Jac Berrocal, NowCut …

Trace 057-PTM WORKS 2-cover
trAce 057 – CD – 2022
6 flaps cardboard sleeve, 180 x 180 mm

Trace 057-PTM WORKS 2-cover
Trace 057-PTM WORKS 2-cover

Ilitch – PTM Works 2

 

1. Robert & Robert
2. La faculté du sombre
3. Marcel
4. Rêve et réalité
5. Les cauchemars de nos choix
6. La genèse du désordre
7. Vos désirs sont nos angoisses
8. Réminiscence
9. Le syndrome de Stendhal
10. Là où il y a révolution il y a confusion
11. Il n’y a que le casino qui gagne !
12. Dressé sur les eaux de l’ennui
13. La rose est l’amie de l’épine
14. Hommage à L. F.

Patrick Müller : synthesizer, electrosonic, field recording, samples
Thierry Müller : guitar, bass, synthesizer, keyboards, samples, electronic

Recorded between 2018 and 2021 by Patrick and Thierry Müller
Mixing & mastering : Patrick Müller
Cover : Thierry Müller
Photos : Rina Rubechi-Müller and Quentin Rollet

This is the first time that Patrick and Thierry Müller have found themselves as a duo since the recording of the “Coma Programma Sessions 1976/77/78”.
This idea of working together again, after many separate musical adventures, comes from the discovery of a forgotten photo of their youth taken during a family vacation. Ambivalent memory of an adolescence which could lure you into a nostalgia for a lost paradise: the photography (and the others of the cover) shows two brothers in an ordinary and falsely happy reality glimpsed in a family photo album. But then, how many families can pretend to happiness?
Therefore the music presented in this album utterly contradicts this faked bliss: from the first track, dissonant sounds bring an assumed uneasiness, hell rather than inner paradise. The existence of two worried and tormented artists who have spent their life as composers trying to express this spleen or this existential distress. Further on, we hear the voice of Marcel Duchamp speaking about the unconscious. What a program! In another, breaths mixed with a synthetic sequence invade the sound space to the point of suffocation.
Musically, we alternate between rhythmic pieces punctuated with melodic elements and others more frankly abstract and which are not far from electroacoustic music. There are also many overlayed sounds that make one thinks of natural elements in a state of chaos.
This album is therefore not a quiet one: Dark and disturbing atmospheres, timbres that do not rub you up the right way, assumed dissonances, «PTM Works 2» will delight those who revel in troubled waters.
However, the beautiful finale dedicated to Luc Ferrari ends the album in a more peaceful and poetic way, as if our two friends wanted to leave a note of hope at the end of this retrospective journey.

Composer, sound engineer, producer, Patrick Müller worked and studied electronic music at the Faculty of Vincennes and participates in workshops of the Conservatory of Pantin directed by Luc Ferrari. He lived several years in Brussels where he collaborates in numerous concerts and performances.In 1982, he received a scholarship to create an electro-acoustic piece in the Studio of the Conservatory of Lièges.Early on, he collaborated with choreographers, with the scene of Sound Poetry,… From From 1986 to 2021, he manages the recording studio Pierre Schaeffer in Châtenay-Malabry. Most of his own musical creations are signed under the name of l’Orchestre Inachevé (musicians structure with which he realizes his own projects).
He is also a co-founder members of trAce label.

Thierry Müller is a multi-instrumentalist composer, whose Ilitch and Ruth projects are recognized in the international independent and underground scene. Since 1978, his albums with multiple and unclassifiable universes have been erected as «Cult» by personalities like Tim Gane, Lee Ranaldo, Steven Stapleton, Edward Ka-Spell,…). He collaborated on albums or Live with, among others, Valentina Fanigliulo (Mushy, Phantom Love), Nick Littlemore (Empire Of The Sun, Pnau), Aaron Moore (Volcano The Bear,…), Quentin Rollet, Jac Berrocal, NowCut,…

Pepe Wismeer / Thierry Müller – L’écho des chiens dans le sang de la tactique – trAce 053
trAce 053 – 2xCD – 2020
6 flaps cardboard sleeve, 180 x 180 mm

Pepe Wismeer / Thierry Müller – L’écho des chiens dans le sang de la tactique – trAce 053

Thierry Müller – Anne-Laure Therme, Damien Van Lede (Pepe Wismeer)

Pepe Wismeer / Thierry Müller

L’écho des chiens dans le sang de la tactique

CD 1
L’écho des chiens dans le sang de la tactique
1. Et l´on fera venir les chiens (4:12)
2. I exteem (4:35)
3. I am Azon (2:10
4. Le sang d´un orchestre (6:28)
5. Les choses ont gagné (5:02)
6. Alice in a use (4:52)
7. Even Eve (4:03)
8. Exanatellein (3:27)
9. Pulsyciety (4:21)
10. The ghost ship in the ocean of my brain (5:15)
11. Unicyconic icon (4:34)
12. Izaïda (2:09)

CD 2 (Bonus CD)
No Re Re Night Fever – volume 7
1. No Re Re Night Fever – part 1 (22:44)
2. No Re Re Night Fever – part 2 (20:04)

CD 1 written and performed by Anne-Laure Therme, Damien Van Lede, Thierry Müller.
Anne-Laure Therme: keyboards, piano, theremin on 5, vocals on 8.
Damien Van Lede: vocals, electric guitar, samples, percussion, a few keyboards and bass on 10.
Thierry Müller: electric & acoustic guitars, bass, keyboards, synthesizers, percussion, drums programing, samples.
Guests. Milena Dryther-Lerru: strings on 9 / Alexandre Laurent: saxophone on 11
Recorded by Damien Van Lede (Pepe Wismeer’s home) and Thierry Müller (ilitchmusic) between April and November 2019.
Mixed by Pepe Wismeer and Thierry Müller.
Mastered by Alexis Bardinet – Globe Audio.

CD 2. Improvisation recorded live at Pepe Wismeer’s home (August 24, 25, 26, 2019) without any re-recording.
Anne-Laure Therme: keyboards, piano, theremin
Damien Van Lede: vocals, electric guitar, samples
Thierry Müller: electric guitar
Isidore: vocal intervention on part 2
Recorded by Thierry Müller, edited and mixed by Damien Van Lede
Mastered by Alexis Bardinet – Globe Audio

Produced by Pepe Wismeer and Thierry Müller
Photos and graphic design: Thierry Müller

Presse/Press

Obsküre, Prémonition, ArtRock, Vital Weekly, À découvrir absolument, Kaput Brain Webzine, Soul Kitchen, Musiczine, IRM

Pepe Wismeer’s page

Ilitch – Thierry Müller on trAce label

A.C. Hello - Animal Fièvre - trAce 049 trAce 026 - Various artists - Documents/Collages/Cut-ups/Sampling trAce 022 - Various artists - Un hommage à Moondog/A tribute by

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