On the menu, musical fireworks combining pop, rock, blues and progressive country!

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Duo from the start, Thierry Devillers and Michel Debrulle, formed this variable geometry group in 1990. The lyrics are always signed by Thierry Devilliers and up to now, they have issued 3 CDs, each one with a different crew:

 

‘(…) All is Pretty or Tout est Joli, it’s the same thing. Musical poetry mixed with humour and irony, intersected with hope, with doubt on a base of the rhythmic photography of our society. Timeless music surfing on the same wave as the famous Bob Dylan. (…) The duo formed by T. Devillers and M. Debrulle opens its doors to young talented musicians. Their music never ceases to evolve until becoming a genre in itself. Unclassifiable, it is true. We ask for more (...)'

Régine Kerzmann

 

Thierry Devillers ‘(...) forms the songs of his dreams, of what he reads, of his waking delirium, of his view of the world and the unsavoury. In English or in French, he writes and songs with humour and irony about what he thinks, of what he doubts, of what he secretly hopes beyond hatred. His rock is simple but alive, timeless music which crosses the decades and which swarms here and there between John Cale, Randy Newman, Talking Heads or Bob Dylan'

Etienne Bours - Magazine Imagine

 

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The line-up varies with the seasons and circumstances but never without...

​THIERRY DEVILLERS  fender rhodes, vocals, compositions

MICHEL DEBRULLE  drums -big case of Binche

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On their first album, they were joined by:

VINCENT JACQUEMIN clarinets

GEORGES ALEXANDRE VAN DAME violin

FABRIZIO CASSOL saxophone soprano, organ pipes, whistling

PIERRE NARCISSE tablas

MICHEL MASSOT sackbut

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On Ritournelles, they were joined by:

EMMANUEL LOUIS guitars

MYRIAM MOLLET percussions

LARA PERSAIN singing

LAURENT DEHORS clarinets

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On Point d’Issue, they were joined by:

BENOIST EIL guitars

ADRIEN LAMBINET tuba, trombone

MARC FRANKINRET trumpet

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You will find Thierry Devillers throughout the long history of the Collectif: collaborations with Trio Bravo, founding member of Glasnotes, actor/singer/dramatist of Est-ce un oiseau-Procès Brancusi, singer/reader of Odyssée 14 of Rêve d’éléphant Orchestra, singer/ crooner in Aux Ames etc and le Bestof…