solo LP

release in january 2010

tourette records (texas)

solo LP / released in 2009 / absurd records (greece)

" Wonderful artwork and great music, a complete package indeed from Antoine Chessex who – armed with amplified saxophone and electronics – produced a fine album of blasting violence. Among the best noise releases in a long time, the right adjective is “pulverizing”". Massimo Ricci

""Shadows" starts the summoning of a slowly morphing entity, massive and dense uproar marching towards the listener in an avalanche of low rumble, from which subtle feedback outbursts occasionally explode.(...)there is particularly evident focus on subtleties and details which come to sonic sight after multiple listens(...)". Musique machine

"A rapid-fire blast (...) that sounds like nothing a horn could normally do" brainwashed

"Chessex and Riviere explore the limits of their instruments to forge molten lakes of cacophonic lava" single cream

"A huge black hole, that’s what this record is (...)The fact that these guys don’t come from metal background probably explains the fact that this record is so uncompromising: their vision is outside of the metal norm. So, they do whatever they like and here lies the brilliance of “Ghosts”: it’s a record that’s so reformist as to become a landmark of the genre. 9 on 10, Global Domination, Sweden.

"it is the feat of Monno to have invited the saxophone into the range of instruments fitting to play Black Metal".cracked review

"Although no doubt one instrument is heard at a time it sounds like more. Chessex moves around, slightly thus cleverly using the space he's in to alter the sound. Move around your own space for more alterations. This is a great work, strong music with a conceptual edge." (FdW)

"Berlin-based Chessex plays high energy music. He feeds his saxophone through guitars amps and effect boxes to distort it beyond recognition and augments this massive blast with voice and maybe some electronics. There is an ecstatic side to this music" Vital Weekly

Whether he's playing a soft tenor-sax drone which explores the acoustic geometry of the room or opening the gates of saxophone hell through a stack of distorting amps, Antoine Chessex live is a force of nature. He assembled his 8 "failed invocations" with more of an ear towards the sound poetry of Henri Chopin (...),An uneven work, but deliberately so."Macumbista

"The berlin based band MONNO are not jumping on the noise train, they're rebuilding it. (...)All I know is that this second album grabbed me by my throat from the first listen and didn't loosen its grip until the end of the last song. This is a must have". 9/10. Semtexinc

(...)The concoction works well without additional efforts, as the mass of sound twists and turns with a good degree of colourful peculiarities, mixing nicely like in a mad scientist's laboratory alembics. These men find their way through harmonics, string scraping, wet conduits and laptop transmutations in a series of strange bubbles which dissolve in the air wryly, like if germs of corruption decided to remain just a chuckle in the chaos of life" Touching Extremes

"The tracks alternate between brittle, fast-moving passages, denser, textural spaces or close-up observation often woven from reflections on interactive possibilities". Modisti

"Drawing equally on microtonalism, the trio builds themes out of claw-hammer string clicks, steady bass drones, burbling single notes and protracted silences. Often operating in double or triple broken chords, output slows down for mechanized cross feeds, some of which take on protracted windshield wiper sounds". Ken Waxman

"Monno offer an enormous ride on a deadly groove, full of weird and sharp noises and eerie atmospheres(...)A weird, spastic, ecstatic, noisy trip trying to drag the structural out of chaos with big meathooks. Long lines of rhythmical yet deadly grooves, meandering through time and space, transforming along small lines or blowing out in bursting eruptions. As of yet, I was completely unable to get behind the mystery of Monno, but I have been enjoying the trip enormously" monochrom

track with dp on tochnit aleph compilation cd.

no, solo cdr, imvated, out of print

mangenerated compilation, belgium

upcoming 2010:

LP on dilemma records

track on Less Lethal vol. 2 CD, barcelona

mini solo CD on belgium label fausses-couches