Work in Progress, by Thierry Monnier

Work in Progress

by Thierry Monnier

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J'ai rencontré Thierry en 2011 grâce à Adrien Fregosi, qui avait organisé une expo dans sa galerie à Grenoble qui s'appelait Going Blind. Je crois que l'expo présentait des paños, c'est à dire des dessins faits sur des mouchoirs par des prisonniers chicanos... J'avais même fait un concert de Mulan Serrico a cappella... mais en fait je crois que c'était l'expo avant celle-ci au cours de laquelle j'ai rencontré Thierry. Je pensais qu'il s'agissait de Jean Figus, qui était à Radio Campus quand j'étais étudiant à Grenoble, il y a vingt ans, mais ce n'était pas lui, c'était Thierry. Il travaillait alors chez feu Metamkine, la grosse distro européenne pour toutes les musiques concrètes, noise, expérimentales et avant-garde. Il avait commencé son propre label, Doubtful Sounds, un jeu de mot en référence à un endroit réel qui existe en Nouvelle-Zélande. Diplômé de géographie, Thierry est fasciné par l'endroit sur la Terre le plus éloigné de France: la Nouvelle-Zélande (peut-être que c'est quelque part en Australie mais bon on s'en fout). Chaque aspect de ce pays le fascine. Je suis même persuadé que s'il aime autant le rugby c'est pour le Super Rugby et pas le Top 14. Bien sûr la musique kiwi le fascine également, je suppose, parce qu'elle est un mélange de modernité et de singularité. Il faut penser aux Avengers, mais surtout à l'écurie Flying Nun: The Chills, Tall Dwarfs et Chris Know, The Clean et surtout Dead C.
Cet album est un résumé de tout ce qui intéresse Thierry: la tradition avant-gardiste du minimalisme et de la répétition et une approche contemplative du rock'n'roll et de la distortion.
Dans certains morceaux Thierry joue avec les transistors d'une manière unique: il donne juste assez de force à son accord pour déclencher la distortion, mettant en évidence le seuil de limite bas plutôt que la pleine capacité du dispositif, comme c'est souvent le cas.
Quelle force doit-on avoir pour être entendu ?
Profitez de cet album autant que possible, je ne connais aucun "Work in Progress" qui n'ait été plus achevé que celui-ci, ni aucun titre plus unique.
Si vous devinez le point commun de tous les numéros, vous recevrez un exemplaire gratuit.

29 Décembre 2021 - Nicolas Murer

Thierry est mort le 6 Août 2022 des suites d'une leucémie. Cet album aura été le pénultième. Tu me manques, Thierry.

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I met Thierry in 2011 thanks to Adrien Fregosi, who was hosting one of the last show at his gallery in Grenoble called Going Blind. I think the show was about paños, which are handkerchiefs designed by chicanos prisoners... I had even played an a cappella Mulan Serrico show... but I think it was the show before that that I met Thierry. I thought he was Jean Figus at first, a guy that was hanging out at Radio Campus when I was a student in Grenoble some twenty years ago, but it was not him, it was Thierry. And that was ten years ago. Thierry was then working at Metamkine, the now gone great european distro for any experimental, noise, concrete, avant-garde music you could think of. He had started his label called Doubtful Sounds, a pun in reference to the actual place in New Zealand. Being educated in geography, Thierry is fascinated with the furthest place from France you can find on Earth, which is New Zealand (maybe it is some place in Australia but who cares ?). Any aspect of it fascinates him, I even think that he likes rugby so much because of New Zealand and not because of our local club FCG. Of course the kiwi music fascinates him, I guess for its mixture of modernity and peculiarity: here you must think of The Avengers, but above all the Flying Nun Records roster, The Chills, Tall Dwarfs and Chris Knox, The Clean and The Dead C.
Of course this album is a summary of everything that interests Thierry: the avant-garde tradition of minimalism and repetition, and a contemplative take on rock'n'roll and distortion.
In some of the tracks, Thierry plays with transistors in an unique fashion: he gives a guitar stroke that is just powerful enough to trigger the distortion, challenging the lower threshold rather the full capacity of the device, as it is more often the case.
How strong should you be to be heard ?
Please enjoy this album as much as you can, I do not know any "Work in Progress" that was more finished than this, and any tracks that had more unique titles. If you guess the common point of all the numbers you'll get a free copy.

December 29th 2021 - Nicolas Murer

Thierry died on August 6th 2022 from leukemia. This album is the second to last. I miss you, Thierry.

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released February 2, 2022

Guitar, amp, effects: Thierry Monnier.

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