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Thomas Mery is a rare and treasured figure on the French and European music scene.
He first leaves a mark in 1996 with his band Purr, contributing to lyrics and melodies using mainly his voice and guitar.
Already then, he lays the foundations of his sonic lexicon: clear vocals, collage writing, a storytelling that unravels its meaning through synthesis.
He plays with sound samples, disincarnates and decontextualises them, allowing us to focus solely on the emotions they convey.
Noisy pop and a mist of jazz on their 1997 debut LP Whales Whales Lead To The Deep Sea; a more mature post-rock, with elaborate arrangements and a first few detours through the French language on 2000 Open Transport. Soon Thomas sets out for the solitary adventure.
A new chapter, dedicated to research.
As song structures temporarily vanish and make way for loops and digital manipulations, the guitar recedes a little and is preferred acoustic.
A new sound emerges in 2003 with the EP _I Matter_.
Uncluttered soundscape, nuanced and constantly changing. His voice is to be heard again in 2005 with _Hallonsaft_.
Electronic textures become more subdued only to sustain singing and guitar playing.
The folk inheritance, more British than American, is deconstructed, reappropriated, and transcended with unconditional modernity.
It paves the way for a new demanding approach: that of know-how.
Arpeggios, finger-picking, breath and vocal articulations outline the ten songs of his first solo album _A Ship, Like a Ghost, Like a Cell_ in 2006.
Ten tracks in English, autobiographical snapshots and fugitive impressions.
The refined technique serves the emotion: melancholy, hope, detachment, losing control… Intimate and demanding, _A Ship, Like a Ghost, Like a Cell_, challenges its audience and constitutes a major step forward for its author. Such craftsmanship, the precision in impressions and the will to go beyond oneself appear more present than ever before on his new EP, Des Larmes Mélangées de Poussière.