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Ilitch

 Ilitch is the musical project of the Parisian artist Thierry Müller. Most of the time, he was accompanied by his brother Patrick Müller, but in the early days by Ruth Ellyeri as well. Apart from being a musician Thierry Müller is also a painter and photographer. Ilitch started somewhere in the early seventies. In its first period the band recorded two albums, Periodikmindtrouble (1978) and 10 Suicides (1980). After the second album Thierry Müller then focused on his other art forms, although the Müller-brothers briefly returned to music in 1985 when they recorded an album as Ruth, a synthi-pop band that totally differed from Ilitch.

 Ilitch is the musical project of the Parisian artist Thierry Müller. Most of the time, he was accompanied by his brother Patrick Müller, but in the early days by Ruth Ellyeri as well. Apart from being a musician Thierry Müller is also a painter and photographer. Ilitch started somewhere in the early seventies. In its first period the band recorded two albums, Periodikmindtrouble (1978) and 10 Suicides (1980). After the second album Thierry Müller then focused on his other art forms, although the Müller-brothers briefly returned to music in 1985 when they recorded an album as Ruth, a synthi-pop band that totally differed from Ilitch.

Hors Temps / Out of time
Thierry Muller -- Ilitch's head -- is the multi-instrumentalist dark experimental French composer who started his musical career with the band Arcane as an underground electronics improvisations outfit around the years 1974. Albums Periodkmintrouble 1978 & 10 suicides 1980 were Ilitch first two works followed by the Ruth pop synth project Polaroid roman photo in 1985. All three are now reissued on CD with many unreleased bonus material by Fractal Records. Well received by many critics today, Ili…
10 Suicides
In 1980 Ilitch mastermind Thierry Müller released his second LP, 10 Suicides, on the French imprint S.C.O.P.A. Unlike his debut Periodikmindtrouble (also available from Superior Viaduct), which featured intricately layered instrumentals, 10 Suicides explores a more art-damaged pop sensibility. While distorted guitars and atmospheric synth workouts remain a part of Müller's signature sound, several songs credit the mysterious Ruth Ellyeri, who was not an actual person, but rather Müller's female …
Periodikmindtrouble
Milestone!! Dreamy and cosmic, with long drones, deconstructed guitars and repetitive organ chords that are both bleak and mesmerizing, falling somewhere between Brian Eno, Conrad Schnitzler, and Heldon, with similar pulsing electronic sonic space visions. "In the mid-1970s Parisian composer and multi-instrumentalist Thierry Müller began operating primarily under the Ilitch moniker. Juxtaposing dark, electronic soundscapes and solo guitar improvisations, Ilitch created some of the most enduring …
Un Jour Comme Tant D'Autres
This is an unreleased album from 1975 of studio/live material! Dieu has smiled upon us, for a previously shelved early album (1975) by Ilitch finally has its jour in the soleil. Thierry Müller's strange musical arc is further enriched and confounded by this exploratory cosmic release. A brilliant mix of Krauty space groans and experimentalism (see also Conrad Schnitzler and Ash Ra Temple, etc) and the progressive electronics of Igor Wakhevitch. There is some psych in the folds, and the albu…
La Maieutique De La Quantique
All new Ilitch studio recording! An horrific grandchild springs from the magma: Ilitch'll itch your progadelic scratch with its well manicured talons of fire. This Ilitchian renaissance zigs deep space experimental and zags full metal Zuehl. Electronics chirp and howl like the opening coda of Susperia, then explode into Weidorje intensity fuzz violence, cheered on by a pecussive force that sounds like Mussolini being kicked to death. The shifting interplay between total rockers and extrat…
Dark summer
250 copies, vinyl limited edition. 'Some days everything goes wrong. Some days sky is always grey. Some days lovers goes. Some days the disease focuses on friends, other ones pass away. Some days life is hard to live. When everything happens at the same time, the same summer, it could be called a Dark summer. Summer 2006 was a Dark summer.' Thierry Müller. Rough improvisations (guitar and/or bass - 1 or 2 takes) recorded by Thierry Müller in summer 2006
Life out of time
LP album, numbered and stamped vinyl limited edition of 215 copies. Ilitch is a french artist out of the ordinary making music directly coming out of his states of mind, not taking only one path: it can be dark and merry, difficult or bouncy, satisfying different audiences. He consistently associates his music to imagery and tells stories, with wide influences: Philip Glass, quality popular music, contemporary music, Pink Floyd... Ilitch is part of the artists considered as influential in the fr…
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