Thylacine in concert at Monk, November 11, 2026

On Wednesday, November 11, 2026, at 21:00, Thylacine, the French electronic musician and composer William Rezé, plays live at Monk in Rome. The club is at Via Giuseppe Mirri 35, in the Casal Bertone neighborhood, less than a kilometer from Tiburtina station, served by metro line B and the FL1, FL2 and FL3 regional trains. Monk's website also lists buses 163, 409 and 545. Monk opens at 19:30 with the bar and kitchen running. On the ticketing page linked to Monk's website, tickets cost 18 euros in the first tier, already sold out, 20 euros in the first release and 22 euros in the final release, plus booking fees. At the door on the night of the concert the price is 25 euros. Tickets are sold from Monk's official website, which links to the authorized presale network.

Thylacine is one of the most recognizable names in French electronic music of the last 10 years: a classically trained musician, a saxophonist, who composes while traveling and recording the sounds of the places he passes through, from the Trans-Siberian Railway to Namibia, all the way to the empty rooms of the Palace of Versailles. In our opinion it's a concert suited even to those who don't go to clubs: his music combines electronics, acoustic instruments and classically derived melodies, and live it becomes a travel story.

Thylacine at Monk: the evening of November 11

Monk's ticketing page announces Thylacine live on Wednesday, November 11, 2026, from 21:00 to 23:00, with the club opening at 19:30 and the bar and kitchen running from opening time.

Two hours of music

The time slot given, from 21:00 to 23:00, suggests a long concert, with no opening acts announced. Monk doesn't publish a set list: it's reasonable to expect tracks from the most recent records, starting with Roads Vol. 3 from 2025, alongside those that made Thylacine known, but the choice is up to the artist.

The genre

The club classifies the evening as experimental and electronic music. Thylacine composes on the computer, but he started out as a saxophonist: his instruments include the saxophone and the saz, the long-necked lute of Turkish tradition, and his music often weaves together acoustic and electronic sounds.

A date in Rome

In the same week Monk hosts Jarboe and Zu on November 10, and Mark Guiliana on November 8. Three very different evenings that show the breadth of the club's program, able to move in a few days from jazz to noise to electronics.

Opening at 19:30

The club opens an hour and a half before the concert, with the bar and kitchen already running. It's a Monk habit that turns the concert into a whole evening: you arrive, have dinner in the park or in the farmhouses, meet friends, and at 21:00 you go into the hall without rushing.

Who Thylacine is, William Rezé

Thylacine is the stage name of William Rezé, born in Angers on August 13, 1992, a French musician and composer of electronic music, active since 2012.

The name

The stage name recalls the thylacine, the animal also known as the Tasmanian wolf. It's a choice that already says something about his music: an imagery tied to nature, to faraway places, to what is rare or extinct.

His training

Rezé trained at a classical music conservatory and then at art school. Before electronics he played saxophone in several groups. Among his influences he cites Massive Attack, Four Tet and Moderat, and he says he feels close to French musicians such as Fakear and Superpoze.

The Bourges award

In 2014 he was one of the three winners of the Inouïs at the Printemps de Bourges, the new talent competition of one of France's most important music festivals, out of 32 selected artists. It's the award that brought him to the attention of the national audience.

Film and television

Thylacine has also written music for the screen: the scores for the films De toutes mes forces by Chad Chenouga and Gaspard va au mariage by Antony Cordier, both from 2017, the 2020 series OVNI(s) and the 2024 series Winter Palace, produced by Swiss television RTS in collaboration with Netflix.

Thylacine's albums, from Transsiberian to Roads Vol. 3

Thylacine's discography includes seven albums between 2015 and 2025, almost all born from a journey or a specific place.

Transsiberian

His first album, Transsiberian, came out in 2015 on Intuitive Records. It was composed on board the Trans-Siberian Railway, in Russia: the track titles, such as Train, Moskva, Irkutsk, tell the stages of the journey.

Roads

In 2019 came Roads Vol. 1, recorded in Argentina on board a 1972 Airstream trailer turned into a mobile studio, with tracks named Purmamarca and 4500m. In 2020 Roads Vol. 2 moved to the Faroe Islands, with titles such as Saksun and Eysturoy. In 2025 Roads Vol. 3 was born from a 100-day trip to Namibia, with collaborations with Himba and Mafwe musicians.

Timeless

In 2020, during the first lockdown, Thylacine released Timeless, an album in which he reinterprets classical music: almost every track bears the name of a composer, from Satie to Beethoven, from Mozart to Fauré, Schubert, Debussy, Allegri and Verdi. He composed it in a chalet in Switzerland with a single MIDI keyboard, a computer and a pair of headphones.

9 Pieces and the orchestra

In 2022 came 9 Pieces, with tracks such as Polar, Anatolia, War Dance and Versailles. In 2024 Thylacine and 74 musicians reinterpreted the repertoire with an orchestra: Polar, Anatolia, Mozart, Vivaldi, Verdi, Pleyel performed by 74 musicians.

Thylacine's beginnings: EPs, singles and Intuitive Records

Before the albums, Thylacine made a name for himself with a series of EPs and singles released between 2012 and 2019 on Intuitive Records, the label that has accompanied almost his whole career.

Intuitive, 2012

His first EP is called Intuitive and contains tracks such as Belleville, Trois and Foch, with Camille Després singing on three pieces. It's the work of a 20-year-old mixing electronics, jazz and French song.

Singles, Blend and Exil

In 2014 came Singles, with Pleasure, Antidote, Berlingot and Home, and Blend, with the voices of Dylan Nichols, Nina Lili J and again Camille Després. In 2015, the year of Transsiberian, the EP Exil also came out, with Mountains, Anthem, Closing and 5th floor.

War Dance, Versailles, Anatolia

Between 2018 and 2019 Thylacine released three singles that would become pillars of his repertoire: War Dance, Versailles, born from the recordings in the palace, and Anatolia, tied to his travels in Turkey and the sound of the saz. All three then ended up on the 2022 album 9 Pieces.

Thylacine and the new French electronic scene

Thylacine belongs to a generation of French musicians who, since the 2010s, have taken electronic music out of the clubs, toward a more narrative and melodic kind of listening.

Affinities

He says he feels close to Fakear and Superpoze, two names from the same scene, and cites Massive Attack, Four Tet and Moderat among his influences. The French press has also compared him to The Avener, calling them explorers of electronic music.

From France to Europe

After the Bourges award in 2014, his music has toured festivals and venues all over Europe. In May 2026 Swiss television RTS devoted a report to a concert in Geneva, in which he collected sounds from the city to turn them into tracks.

Why hear him live

Live, Thylacine's music loses the intimate dimension of headphones and gains the physical one of sound in space. In an intimate hall like Monk's, bass and melodies arrive with a presence the record doesn't fully deliver.

Versailles, Switzerland, Namibia: composing with the sounds of places

Thylacine's method consists of recording the sounds of a place and turning them into music: the Palace of Versailles, the Swiss glaciers, the villages of Namibia have become tracks and albums.

Three nights at Versailles

In 2019 the Palace of Versailles invited him to spend a day and three nights in the palace empty of visitors, to record its soundscape: clock mechanisms, harpsichords, locks, creaking parquet floors. From those sounds came the track Versailles.

Swiss Sounds

In 2025, commissioned by Switzerland Tourism, he composed Swiss Sounds, a track built from 200 sounds recorded over 16 days, including those of the Zinal glacier.

A hundred days in Namibia

For Roads Vol. 3 Thylacine spent 100 days in Namibia, recording landscapes and voices. Some tracks came from collaborations with local musicians, such as Dokido and Nawa with the Himba of Ozohere and Mafwe with the Mafwe of the Kwando.

Monk: from La Palma Club to Via Mirri club

Monk is a cultural club at Via Giuseppe Mirri 35, in the Casal Bertone neighborhood, less than a kilometer from Tiburtina station, reopened in 2014 and named after jazz pianist Thelonious Sphere Monk.

The history

According to the venue presentation published on the club's ticketing network, from about 1995 to 2007 the facility hosted La Palma Club, with jazz, world music and singer-songwriter concerts and festivals. After seven years of closure, in 2014 the social promotion association C'MON! cleaned it up and redeveloped it, reopening it as Monk.

The space

The club occupies two farmhouses, about 500 square meters, and two outdoor areas inside a one-hectare park. The official website describes it as a small rural world in a densely populated neighborhood.

The program

Big and small concerts, theater, workshops, book launches, festivals, markets and family activities. This fall Monk has hosted or will host Fink on October 28, the Fleshtones on the 29th, Mark Guiliana on November 8, Marlene Kuntz on the 17th. The general page is the one on Monk.

Tickets and prices for Thylacine at Monk

Tickets for Thylacine at Monk cost 20 euros in the first release and 22 euros in the final release, plus booking fees, according to the ticketing page linked to Monk. At the door they cost 25 euros.

The tiers

The first tier at 18 euros is already sold out. The tier system rewards those who buy early: the difference between presale and door is several euros, and the risk of finding the hall full is real.

Children and minors

Monk applies a general rule: free admission for children up to 12 accompanied by an adult with a ticket, and minors admitted only with a parent or an adult companion with an authorization. The evening's ticketing page, however, also lists a minimum age of 18: the two pieces of information don't agree, and it's best to write to the club before bringing minors.

Times

The club opens at 19:30, the concert starts at 21:00, the expected end is 23:00. If you want to have dinner at the club you have an hour and a half to spare.

How to get to Monk for Thylacine

Monk can be reached on metro line B or the FL1, FL2 and FL3 trains to Tiburtina, less than a kilometer away, or on buses 163, 409 and 545, as listed on the official website.

Metro and train

From Tiburtina to Via Mirri it's about a 10-minute walk. From Termini, metro line B reaches Tiburtina in a few minutes. With the end expected at 23:00 on a Wednesday, the metro is still an option, but check the last run.

Bus

Lines 163, 409 and 545 serve the area. The ATAC journey planner helps you choose the best connection and check evening frequencies.

Car and taxi

Casal Bertone is outside the ZTL. On weekdays parking in the nearby streets is easier than on weekends. For the trip back, a taxi is still the most convenient solution for anyone living far from a direct line.

Casal Bertone and the area around Monk

Casal Bertone is a working-class neighborhood in the eastern part of Rome, between the Tiburtina railroad, Via Prenestina and Portonaccio.

Beyond the tracks

To the west are the Verano Cemetery and the basilica of San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, and farther on the San Lorenzo neighborhood, with its student life.

Nomentana and Prenestina

To the north, Villa Torlonia with the Casina delle Civette. To the south, Porta Maggiore and the ancient aqueducts.

Where to eat at Monk before Thylacine

Monk opens at 19:30 with the bar and kitchen running: having dinner at the club before the concert is the most practical choice.

The menu

Monk's website lists burgers, supplì, falafel, eggplant parmigiana and other dishes, with vegan and gluten-free options. Anyone with particular dietary needs should let the staff know.

Outside the club

Casal Bertone and Portonaccio have neighborhood trattorias and pizzerias. For a wider choice there are San Lorenzo and Pigneto, a few minutes away by taxi.

Accessibility and practical information

Monk states that its spaces are free of architectural barriers and publishes a page dedicated to accessibility, with the services for deaf people and the rules for children and minors.

Vibrating vests

On some evenings flagged in the program Monk offers Woojer Vest 3 vibrating vests for deaf people. For an electronic music concert, made of bass and rhythm, it's a particularly suitable service: ask about availability for November 11 at info@monkroma.it.

The cold

Between Via Mirri entrance and the hall you cross the park outdoors. In mid-November you'll need a heavy jacket, and a small umbrella doesn't hurt.

How to plan the Thylacine evening

The evening at Monk is divided into three moments: the opening at 19:30, the concert from 21:00 to 23:00, the trip back.

Aperitivo

Arriving around 20:00 lets you have dinner without rushing at the club's kitchen and take your place in the hall before the start.

Listening

For an electronic music concert the best spot is usually the center of the hall, where the sound system is most balanced. If you want to see the acoustic instruments up close, stand at the front.

Getting back

At 23:00 metro line B is still running, but it's best to check the time of the last run from Tiburtina. Alternatively, a taxi booked for when you come out.

A November week at Monk: three concerts in four evenings

Between November 8 and 11, 2026, Monk hosts three very different concerts: Mark Guiliana on Sunday the 8th, Jarboe with Zu on Tuesday the 10th, Thylacine on Wednesday the 11th.

Jazz, experimentation, electronics

Mark Guiliana is a drummer who comes from contemporary jazz, Jarboe and Zu bring experimental rock and noise, Thylacine melodic and narrative electronics. Those who follow experimental music can build a small personal festival in four evenings, always in the same venue.

A different audience every night

Each evening draws its own audience, and the club's atmosphere changes accordingly. For Thylacine a younger crowd used to electronic music festivals is likely, but his music, with its classical references and soundscapes, also speaks to those who don't go to clubs.

Wednesday evening

The concert falls midweek. The advantage is a less congested city and an easier trip home. The disadvantage, for those who work the next day, is the 23:00 end time. With Tiburtina close by, getting home is still quick, even for those who live on the other side of the city.

A curious fact about Thylacine in concert at Monk, November 11, 2026

The most fascinating curiosity in Thylacine's story concerns the Palace of Versailles. In 2019 the palace invited him to spend a day and three nights in its rooms empty of visitors, to record the sounds of the building: clock mechanisms, harpsichords, locks, creaking parquet floors. From those recordings came the track Versailles, later included on the 2022 album 9 Pieces. An electronic musician shut in at night in one of the most visited royal residences in the world, with a recorder instead of a ticket: it's an image that sums up his way of working well.

The second curiosity is the album Timeless, from 2020. During the first lockdown, shut away in a chalet in Switzerland with a single MIDI keyboard, a computer and a pair of headphones, Thylacine reinterpreted classical music: almost every track bears the name of a composer, Satie, Beethoven, Mozart, Fauré, Schubert, Debussy, Allegri, Verdi. The black and white animated video for Satie I was made by photographer Cécile Chabert. For an Italian audience, hearing live a track called Verdi or Allegri, in a club in Casal Bertone, has a special flavor: the European classical tradition reworked with the tools of electronic music.

Something nobody tells you about Thylacine in concert at Monk, November 11, 2026

What few people know is that Thylacine isn't just a club or festival musician: he's also a film composer. He wrote the music for the films De toutes mes forces by Chad Chenouga and Gaspard va au mariage by Antony Cordier, both from 2017, for the 2020 series OVNI(s) and for the 2024 series Winter Palace, produced by Swiss RTS with Netflix. Anyone who has seen one of these productions may already have heard his music without knowing it. It's a detail that explains the narrative character of his concerts: every track is conceived as a scene, with a beginning, a development and a landscape.

The second thing concerns the name. The thylacine, the Tasmanian wolf, is an animal from a faraway island, and choosing that name means putting an imagery of distance and rarity at the center. In the same way, his albums try to capture in music faraway places and moments destined to change: a train, a road, a desert. A practical tip for the evening: arrive early. The first ticket tier is already sold out, and an artist with an international following in a hall the size of Monk's is likely to fill it.

My advice for seeing Thylacine in concert at Monk, November 11, 2026

My advice is to listen, before the evening, to at least two very different Thylacine albums. The first is Transsiberian, from 2015: the debut composed on the Trans-Siberian Railway, with the names of the cities on the journey as titles, is the key to understanding his method. The second is Timeless, from 2020, with the reinterpretations of Satie, Mozart, Debussy and Verdi: it shows his classical training and prepares you for the meeting of acoustic instruments and electronics you'll find live. If you're short on time, you can just listen to Versailles, the track born from the recordings in the French palace.

The second piece of advice concerns the ticket. Monk's tier system pushes the price up as the date approaches, from 20 to 22 euros plus fees, up to 25 euros at the door. Buying early pays off twice: you spend less and you avoid finding the hall sold out.

The third concerns the evening. Arrive around 20:00, have dinner at the club's kitchen, take a spot in the center of the hall for balanced sound. At 23:00 the concert ends and Tiburtina is a 10-minute walk away.

Another well-known fact, yet seldom mentioned

It's well known that Thylacine composes while traveling. It's less often mentioned how long and concrete these trips have been. For Transsiberian he worked on board the Russian train. For Roads Vol. 1 he toured Argentina in a 1972 Airstream trailer turned into a mobile studio. For Roads Vol. 2 he moved to the Faroe Islands, and the track titles, Saksun, Eysturoy, Stormur, bear the names of those places. For Roads Vol. 3, released in 2025, he spent 100 days in Namibia, recording and playing with Himba and Mafwe musicians. It's not a promotional gimmick: it's his way of writing music.

A second seldom cited fact concerns the orchestra. In 2024 Thylacine released Thylacine and 74 musicians, an album on which tracks such as Polar, Anatolia, Mozart, Vivaldi and Verdi are performed by an orchestra of 74 musicians. For an artist born in the world of electronics, it's proof of a deep bond with classical music, which began at the Angers conservatory. At Monk, in an intimate hall, you hear the most essential version of this path: the artist, his instruments, the sounds collected around the world.

The right photo to take at Thylacine in concert at Monk, November 11, 2026

Thylacine's concerts have a strong visual component, and the temptation to film everything on your phone is strong. My advice is to shoot in the first few minutes, when the lights are still full, and then put the screen away: an electronic music concert works on immersion, and a lit phone distracts the people around you.

The nicest photo is taken outside. At nine in the evening in November Monk's park is dark, and the two farmhouses lit up among the trees, with the hall lights behind the windows, are an image few venues in Rome can offer. The best spot is Via Mirri entrance, looking toward the farmhouses.

The third, for those arriving by train, is Tiburtina station at night, with its big canopy and the tracks. For a musician who composed his first album on a train, the tracks are the most fitting backdrop. And collectors of souvenirs can photograph the evening's poster at the club entrance.

Some important events that happened here

Before being Monk, Via Giuseppe Mirri facility hosted, from about 1995 to 2007, La Palma Club, which for more than 10 years offered jazz, world music and singer-songwriter concerts and festivals. Seven years of closure followed.

In 2014 the social promotion association C'MON! cleaned up and redeveloped the space, and Monk was born: two farmhouses in a one-hectare park, at the end of a street in the Casal Bertone neighborhood, less than a kilometer from Tiburtina station. The name is a tribute to Thelonious Sphere Monk, the jazz pianist known for his omnivorous and revolutionary talent.

Since then the club has become one of the reference venues for live music in Rome, with concerts in the garden in summer and in the indoor hall in winter, family activities, markets and festivals. In recent years it has developed an accessibility policy, with free admission for accompanied children and vibrating vests for deaf people. The neighborhood around it grew in the 20th century next to the railroad. Beyond the tracks, Verano and San Lorenzo fuori le Mura tell the story of Rome in the first Christian centuries. On November 11, 2026, Monk welcomes Thylacine, after hosting the Paragate project of Jarboe and Zu the evening before.

Who has passed through Thylacine in concert at Monk, November 11, 2026

Monk's fall program lines up names from different genres and generations. In September Destroyer and Merzbow, the Japanese master of noise, came through. In October Primogenito, Leo Middea, JMSN, Drink The Sea, the Lemonheads, Azymüth, corto.alto, Fink and the Fleshtones. In November Mark Guiliana on the 8th, Jarboe with Zu on the 10th, Thylacine on the 11th, Marlene Kuntz on the 17th, Roberto Colella on the 19th, Henge and Mark the Hammer on the 21st. Between December and January come Desire, Modena City Ramblers, Downtown Boys and Kyle Alessandro.

Even earlier, the same place, as La Palma Club, hosted for more than a decade the jazz, world music and singer-songwriters that made the history of Roman nightlife around the year 2000.

Thylacine adds to this list a European career built between the Printemps de Bourges, the Palace of Versailles, film and television scores and trips to Russia, Argentina, the Faroe Islands and Namibia. Hearing him in a farmhouse at the end of a street in Casal Bertone is one of those contrasts that make Rome's musical life unique.

Frequently asked questions about Thylacine at Monk

When does Thylacine play in Rome?

Thylacine plays at Monk in Rome on Wednesday, November 11, 2026, at 21:00. The club opens at 19:30 with the bar and kitchen running, and the ticketing page lists the end of the concert at 23:00.

How much are tickets for Thylacine at Monk?

For Thylacine at Monk the ticketing page lists 20 euros in the first release and 22 euros in the final release, plus booking fees. At the door the ticket costs 25 euros. The first tier at 18 euros is sold out.

Who is Thylacine?

Thylacine is the stage name of William Rezé, a French electronic music composer born in Angers in 1992. Classically trained and a saxophonist, he has released albums such as Transsiberian, Roads and Timeless, and has written scores for films and series.

Where is Monk?

Monk is at Via Giuseppe Mirri 35, in the Casal Bertone neighborhood, less than a kilometer from Tiburtina station, served by metro line B and the FL1, FL2 and FL3 trains. Buses 163, 409 and 545 pass nearby.

Can children get in?

Monk generally allows free admission for children up to 12 accompanied by an adult with a ticket, but the ticketing page for Thylacine's concert also lists a minimum age of 18. It's best to ask the club beforehand.

Can you have dinner at Monk?

Monk opens at 19:30 with its bar and kitchen: the menu includes burgers, supplì, falafel, eggplant parmigiana and vegan and gluten-free options. Eating at the club before Thylacine's concert is the most convenient solution.

What kind of music does Thylacine make?

Thylacine makes electronic music that combines acoustic instruments, such as saxophone and saz, with sounds recorded in the places he passes through. His albums come from journeys, from the Trans-Siberian Railway to Namibia, and from reinterpretations of classical music.

Final advice on Thylacine at Monk

Thylacine at Monk is a concert for those who love electronic music that tells a story: journeys, landscapes, sounds collected around the world and reinterpretations of classical music. William Rezé brings to Rome a career built between the conservatory, French festivals, the Palace of Versailles and film scores, in an intimate hall where the music is heard up close. My advice is to buy your ticket early, because the price goes up with the tiers, listen to Transsiberian and Timeless in the days before, arrive for dinner at 20:00 and settle in the center of the hall. With Tiburtina a 10-minute walk away, it's a midweek evening that's easy to organize.

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