Monochromie is back with “Enlighten Yourself While You Sleep”, a new 9-track album in the ambient / electronica / post-rock genre and the new album will surprise many listeners.
After his quiet and peaceful debut album “Angels and Demons”, the new album shines bright. As the album cover suggests, sounds emerge from an electric heaven or flash through stormy skies. The post-rock tone is accentuated with the addition of ethereal melodies played on guitars, while loud and saturated noises that transports the listener into an increasingly wild, intense and deep elsewhere.
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Listen: “Day and Night Of a Scarecrow” Buy
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Before a deep look into the new album, let’s talk about his debut album. “Angels and Demons” was a good start on his musical career. Album welcomed by followers of the label and received very nice reviews.
Thinkmuzik said “His music shows a unique perspective on the post-rock genre, presenting numerous attitudes and textures through the musical landscape. This variety is what makes Monochromie one of the best post-rock artists.” while Beach Sloth has called the album ” A constant struggle between the classical and electronic elements. ” “This pits the organic against the digital. Listening to the struggle between the two separate elements makes it infinitely interesting. Hope neither side ever wins.” Here are more;
Soundcolourvibration: “What makes Angels and Demons a really different album than anything else coming out right now is the consistency of different worlds sitting boldly and perfectly together and exactly how they relate to one another. (…) I have really been enjoying a lot of ambient music coming out this year and Angels and Demons from Monochromie is a new direction in this field of music.”
A Closer Listen: “It doesn’t happen often that we hear an album we have a hard time categorizing, but that is what happened when listening to the debut album of Wilson Trouve aka Monochromie.(…) What it does best however is point out what Monochromie excels at: making music that is full of hope and fear, vivid colors and darkness, feels like a dream, but has the mundanity of life.”
Post-rock.be: “Ambient/post-rock infused with beautiful and sublime soundscapes”
MRU: “For his foray into the musical world, Monochromie’s efforts are mature and strong. Angels and Demons brings the listener on a pleasant and varied ride, communicating its theme confidently and without words. The sounds speak for themselves, simultaneously capturing the ears and emotions of listeners, and not letting go.”
W. Henry Prince: “In one of my circles of hell, Bono emotes politically over stadium rock chords to a 4/4 drum beat. In my version of heaven, Monochromie is playing.”
Caleidoscoop: “Depth, emotion splendor so beautiful and knows how to shine in Autumn.”
As reviews suggest, Wilson Trouvé’s Monochromie travels through the borders of ambient, noise and post-rock, these surfaces and textures slowly evolve towards an elsewhere, producing the resonance of a particular atmosphere: a dark or luminous landscape, aerial or earthly, a hot or cold light. Each song’s color is unique and draw bridges between classical and contemporary, minimalism and baroque, using a piano, a metallophone, and some other acoustic instruments mixed with crystalline sounds, sparkling , squeaky or saturated.
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This second album includes tracks composed, recorded and mixed by Wilson Trouvé between September 2012 and February 2013, in the artist’s studio in Marseille, and mastered by Gérald Kuentz at KO Studio in Marseille.
Wilson says “This new album is the result of days and nights of hard work and a slow and intense immersion into the depths of my soul, and into its relations to our dramatic, poetic and beautiful reality. What you hear is what you see.”
Fluttery Records is very happy to release the second album of this gifted artist and we believe that the people who enjoyed his debut album will also enjoy this album and find new musical tastes with the new songs like Fireworks, Day and night of a scarecrow, Silence is Anger. Also we strongly recommend this album to fans of Sigur Ros, Pan American, Hammock, Eluvium, Explosion in the Sky, Mogwai, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt Zion, Brian Eno, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto, Erik Satie, Port-Royal, Max Richter, Library Tapes and anyone who enjoys post-rock, ambient and electronica.
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Richard (Ricky) Graham is a highly inspired and enthusiastic musician and music producer originally from Northern Ireland, now based in the USA. His music productions encompass everything from ambient to experimental to progressive music.
