PyT (Switzerland): Crossover/Neo Prog

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I have to thank Jennifer Houston for introducing me to this artist via her new three hour weekly radio show 'Prog Chronicles', which airs on Prog Palace Radio, Sundays, 9:00 EDT, (14:00 BST). Some of you may already know Jen from her old progrock.com days, when she hosted another weekly three hour show called 'Discovering Prog in High Heels' up until around two years ago.
PyT (Pierre-Yves Theurillat) was born in Moutier, Switzerland , in 1971. He already has a presence on the site in the form of Galaad, one of the very first clutch of bands to be added here back in the very early days of PA, whose bio could really do with a bit of a makeover, and who, despite being in the database for around 13 years now, still only have a single review posted for each of their two (quite excellent) albums.
Anyhow, Pierre-Yves Theurillat was actually the leader of Galaad - a band which also featured also keyboardist Gianni Giardiello, guitarist Sebastien Froidevaux, bassist Gerard Zuber and drummer Laurent Petermann.

It was a relatively short-lived project however, folding not long after the release of the second album 'Vae Victis' (1996), and Pierre-Yves Theurillat then seemed to just vanish into the undergrowth for 11 years - not returning to the music scene until 2007 as part of the band L'Escouade, who released just a single album in 2010 containing just over an hour of quite excellent, melodic, prog-tinged music called 'Confidences De Mouches'.

This album received some very favourable reviews indeed from the few people who heard it, and just like the band Galaad that went before them, they have remained a relative obscurity in the World of Francophone music who deserved a lot more exposure, right up to this day.

But encouraged by the favourable responses from those who did hear the album, Pierre-Yves Theurillat joined forces again with his old Galaad buddy and multi-instrumentalist Sebastien Froidevaux, and together with Diego Rapacchietti (drummer of the group Coroner), Jean-Luc Froidevaux (bass, accordion) and sound engineer Carryl Montini, he has since released two very fine albums under his own initials 'PyT' - namely 'Carnet d’un visage de pluie' (March 2013) and 'Mon grand amer' (May  2015).

There was also a live DVD released in December 2013 called 'PyT passe par le SAS, Live in Delémont 2013'.

'Carnet d'un visage de pluie' (2013)

1. Un Temps Inoubliable (4:22)
2. Des Rires Et Des Rivess (3:16)
3. My Little Death (4:55)
4. Tôt Ou Tard (4:04)
5. On The Air (3:53)
6. Pleasure Is All (3:41)
7. Une Ombre (5:00)
8. Veuillez Quitter Céans (5:13)
9. Comme C'est Beau (3:12)
10. Rivière De Sentiments (5:52)
11. In This Tribe (2:40)

Total Time 46:08

- Pierre-yves Theurillat / vocals, guitars
- Sébastien Froidevaux / guitars, bass, keys)
- Alain Tissot / drums
- Steve Vergano / bass (1)

http://www.musicwaves.fr/frmReview.aspx?ID=9825&REF=PYT_Carnet-d-un-Visage-de-Pluie

From the live DVD 'PyT passe par le SAS, Live in Delémont 2013':

'Mon grand amer' (2015)

1. Fast mourir semble toujours faux (5:30)
2. Nulle part ailleurs (4:21)
3. Mon lointain amour (4:01)
4. Crois en toi (3:20)
5. Ma vraie prophétie (5:02)
6. Dingue de toi (3:19)
7. Looks Piled Like Newspapers (4:28)
8. La beat du gets (2:36)
9. Valeureux (3:12)
10. Respire (1:57)
11. Qu'est-ce qui due (4:11)
12. Eu comme you (3:52)
13. Les bruits courent (4:37)
14. Le mal parle mal (Arpège d'avril) (4:57)
15. Il en rest (2:47)
16. Madame tu l'aimes (2:22)
17. Faut lassoer parlour le coeur (2:56)
18. Un gamin pas si sale (3:30)
19. Vers où vaunt mess aïeux (7:11)
20. Et tout s'évanouit... (3:23)

Total Time  77:32

- Pierre-yves Theurillat / vocals, guitars
- Sébastien FROIDEVAUX / guitars, bass, keyboards. backing vocals
- Jean-Luc FROIDEVAUX / bass on 9 tracks, accordion 
- Steve FLEURY / piano
- Diego RAPACCHIETTI / drums

http://clairetobscur.fr/pyt-mon-grand-amer/
http://www.builtbyfrance.com/artistes/pyt/
http://www.dprp.net/reviews/201592.php#pyt

More info:
http://pyt.gandi.ws/
https://soundcloud.com/pierre-yves-theurillat
https://www.facebook.com/pierreyves.theurillat

Listen to 'Carnet d'un visage de pluie' in full:

http://www.deezer.com/album/6398756 
https://open.spotify.com/album/0dI57C3X23eWmIkhGItTzi

Just for completeness, here is the info for the L'Escouade project:

'Confidences De Mouches' (2010)

1. Le Regard Dans Le Carreau (3:50)
2. C'est La Nuit (4:52)
3. Ecoute (2:58)
4. Bibi (6:35)
5. Un Mois De Mai (3:58)
6. Chance (5:29) 
7. Tes Confidences De Mouches (8:01)
8. Comme Elle (4:04)
9. Le Coeur Pur (4:56)
10. Traverser Les Bois (5:50)
11. Elle A (4:31)
12. Dans La Grande Herbe Du Pré (4:35)
13. Pars (5:22)

Total Time 65:01

- Pierre-yves Theurillat / vocals 
- Christian Schnyder / vocals, guitar
- Laurent Pétermann / drums, percussion, 
- Sam Chapuis / bass, percussion, backing vocals
- Steve Fleury / keys, backing vocals
- Julien Revilloud / acoustic and rhythm guitar (2)

But this current suggestion is simply for PyT, and I'll leave it entirely up to the Crossover boys to decide whether or not they want to evaluate L'Escouade as well, but just in case they do, here are the relevant links:

http://www.deezer.com/album/718388
https://open.spotify.com/album/1tKf18ioORtZOkVBKPb4EW
https://myspace.com/lescouademusique/music/songs
http://www.musicwaves.fr/frmReview.aspx?ID=6119&REF=L-ESCOUADE_Confidences-De-Mouches

And that's it...  

Edit: Well, almost it...I forgot this: http://progfreak.com/PyT-168383.html.  

Edited by yam yam - March 27 2017 at 21:41

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yam yam Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 16 2011 Location: Kerberos Status: Offline Points: 5820	Topic: PyT (Switzerland): Crossover/Neo Prog Posted: March 27 2017 at 20:59
	I have to thank Jennifer Houston for introducing me to this artist via her new three hour weekly radio show 'Prog Chronicles', which airs on Prog Palace Radio, Sundays, 9:00 EDT, (14:00 BST). Some of you may already know Jen from her old progrock.com days, when she hosted another weekly three hour show called 'Discovering Prog in High Heels' up until around two years ago. PyT (Pierre-Yves Theurillat) was born in Moutier, Switzerland , in 1971. He already has a presence on the site in the form of Galaad, one of the very first clutch of bands to be added here back in the very early days of PA, whose bio could really do with a bit of a makeover, and who, despite being in the database for around 13 years now, still only have a single review posted for each of their two (quite excellent) albums. Anyhow, Pierre-Yves Theurillat was actually the leader of Galaad - a band which also featured also keyboardist Gianni Giardiello, guitarist Sebastien Froidevaux, bassist Gerard Zuber and drummer Laurent Petermann. It was a relatively short-lived project however, folding not long after the release of the second album 'Vae Victis' (1996), and Pierre-Yves Theurillat then seemed to just vanish into the undergrowth for 11 years - not returning to the music scene until 2007 as part of the band L'Escouade, who released just a single album in 2010 containing just over an hour of quite excellent, melodic, prog-tinged music called 'Confidences De Mouches'. This album received some very favourable reviews indeed from the few people who heard it, and just like the band Galaad that went before them, they have remained a relative obscurity in the World of Francophone music who deserved a lot more exposure, right up to this day. But encouraged by the favourable responses from those who did hear the album, Pierre-Yves Theurillat joined forces again with his old Galaad buddy and multi-instrumentalist Sebastien Froidevaux, and together with Diego Rapacchietti (drummer of the group Coroner), Jean-Luc Froidevaux (bass, accordion) and sound engineer Carryl Montini, he has since released two very fine albums under his own initials 'PyT' - namely 'Carnet d’un visage de pluie' (March 2013) and 'Mon grand amer' (May 2015). There was also a live DVD released in December 2013 called 'PyT passe par le SAS, Live in Delémont 2013'. 'Carnet d'un visage de pluie' (2013) 1. Un Temps Inoubliable (4:22) 2. Des Rires Et Des Rivess (3:16) 3. My Little Death (4:55) 4. Tôt Ou Tard (4:04) 5. On The Air (3:53) 6. Pleasure Is All (3:41) 7. Une Ombre (5:00) 8. Veuillez Quitter Céans (5:13) 9. Comme C'est Beau (3:12) 10. Rivière De Sentiments (5:52) 11. In This Tribe (2:40) Total Time 46:08 - Pierre-yves Theurillat / vocals, guitars - Sébastien Froidevaux / guitars, bass, keys) - Alain Tissot / drums - Steve Vergano / bass (1) http://www.musicwaves.fr/frmReview.aspx?ID=9825&REF=PYT_Carnet-d-un-Visage-de-Pluie From the live DVD 'PyT passe par le SAS, Live in Delémont 2013': 'Mon grand amer' (2015) 1. Fast mourir semble toujours faux (5:30) 2. Nulle part ailleurs (4:21) 3. Mon lointain amour (4:01) 4. Crois en toi (3:20) 5. Ma vraie prophétie (5:02) 6. Dingue de toi (3:19) 7. Looks Piled Like Newspapers (4:28) 8. La beat du gets (2:36) 9. Valeureux (3:12) 10. Respire (1:57) 11. Qu'est-ce qui due (4:11) 12. Eu comme you (3:52) 13. Les bruits courent (4:37) 14. Le mal parle mal (Arpège d'avril) (4:57) 15. Il en rest (2:47) 16. Madame tu l'aimes (2:22) 17. Faut lassoer parlour le coeur (2:56) 18. Un gamin pas si sale (3:30) 19. Vers où vaunt mess aïeux (7:11) 20. Et tout s'évanouit... (3:23) Total Time 77:32 - Pierre-yves Theurillat / vocals, guitars - Sébastien FROIDEVAUX / guitars, bass, keyboards. backing vocals - Jean-Luc FROIDEVAUX / bass on 9 tracks, accordion - Steve FLEURY / piano - Diego RAPACCHIETTI / drums http://clairetobscur.fr/pyt-mon-grand-amer/ http://www.builtbyfrance.com/artistes/pyt/ http://www.dprp.net/reviews/201592.php#pyt More info: http://pyt.gandi.ws/ https://soundcloud.com/pierre-yves-theurillat https://www.facebook.com/pierreyves.theurillat Listen to 'Carnet d'un visage de pluie' in full: http://www.deezer.com/album/6398756 https://open.spotify.com/album/0dI57C3X23eWmIkhGItTzi Just for completeness, here is the info for the L'Escouade project: 'Confidences De Mouches' (2010) 1. Le Regard Dans Le Carreau (3:50) 2. C'est La Nuit (4:52) 3. Ecoute (2:58) 4. Bibi (6:35) 5. Un Mois De Mai (3:58) 6. Chance (5:29) 7. Tes Confidences De Mouches (8:01) 8. Comme Elle (4:04) 9. Le Coeur Pur (4:56) 10. Traverser Les Bois (5:50) 11. Elle A (4:31) 12. Dans La Grande Herbe Du Pré (4:35) 13. Pars (5:22) Total Time 65:01 - Pierre-yves Theurillat / vocals - Christian Schnyder / vocals, guitar - Laurent Pétermann / drums, percussion, - Sam Chapuis / bass, percussion, backing vocals - Steve Fleury / keys, backing vocals - Julien Revilloud / acoustic and rhythm guitar (2) But this current suggestion is simply for PyT, and I'll leave it entirely up to the Crossover boys to decide whether or not they want to evaluate L'Escouade as well, but just in case they do, here are the relevant links: http://www.deezer.com/album/718388 https://open.spotify.com/album/1tKf18ioORtZOkVBKPb4EW https://myspace.com/lescouademusique/music/songs http://www.musicwaves.fr/frmReview.aspx?ID=6119&REF=L-ESCOUADE_Confidences-De-Mouches And that's it... Edit: Well, almost it...I forgot this: http://progfreak.com/PyT-168383.html. Edited by yam yam - March 27 2017 at 21:41

DamoXt7942 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum & Site Admin Group Avant/Cross/Neo/Post Teams Joined: October 15 2008 Location: Okayama, Japan Status: Offline Points: 17459	Posted: March 28 2017 at 17:13
	^ I'll take him later ... now a tad pressed in my real life sorry but ...


yam yam Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 16 2011 Location: Kerberos Status: Offline Points: 5820	Posted: March 28 2017 at 17:24
	No worries Keishiro...I didn't even know the guy existed until yesterday! He's been flying well below the radar for pretty much the whole of his career, so it won't hurt if the evaluation takes a wee while to complete.

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	Added to our charts
	All five volumes of The Progressive Underground now available https://www.amazon.com/Kev-Rowland/e/B07RJVRB2X

yam yam Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 16 2011 Location: Kerberos Status: Offline Points: 5820	Posted: April 11 2017 at 06:35
	Rejected, with three 'yes' votes out of four. Disappointing outcome, but there we are: http://progfreak.com/PyT-168383.html?path=pa/recent.