Benoît Pioulard - Précis

artist: Benoît Pioulard  
title: Précis
catalog #: krank098
formats available: CD   
CD UPC Code: 7 96441 80982 0
Release Date: October 16, 2006

Content: Précis is the first album from Thomas Meluch under his musical pseudonym Benoît Pioulard. Following a series of limited, handmade cassette and CDR releases for friends and family over the last several years, and the well-received Enge EP (Moodgadget 2005), Précis arose as a documentation of a coming to terms with impermanence, marked by analog residue and the imperfections of human influence.

A multi-instrumentalist with an insatiable palette, Pioulard bases most of his songs on treated acoustic guitars and honeyed vocals, backed by carefully layered bells, bass, dulcimer, old tape samples, field recordings and myriad other sources. These sounds, though sculpted roughly into pop songs, have their own delicate patterns of ebb and flow, distortion and disappearance. From the sunny refrain of “Triggering Back” to the descent of nighttime chills on “Needle & Thread”, Précis sighs in time with the seasons.  It’s an album about him, her, and you; it’s an exaltation of the ways these things end.

Context: Thomas Meluch is a 21-year old from Michigan fascinated with the sounds of nature and tape decay. Through almost a decade of recording, he has fostered an infatuation with a sort of sonic density that combines remnants of pop song structures with the lushness of painstakingly assembled overdubs that the home recording process affords him. He was recently featured on the Ghostly International compilation Idol Tryouts Two.
 



Press for Benoît Pioulard’s Enge EP:

 “[Benoit Pioulard] creates crystalline folk-pop teeming with fragile vocals, acoustic guitars, electronics, and percussion in a hazy shoegaze style that’s .. more than a little easy to fall in love with” Textura

“[An] exceptional creative vision...cavernously emotional acoustic recordings by way of [a] penchant for electronic manipulation.” Lost at Sea

Track Listing:
1. la guerre de sept ans  2. together & down  3. ext. leslie park  4. triggering back  5. moth wings  6. alan & dawn  7. corpus chant  8. palimend  9. coup de foudre 10. hirondelle  
11. needle & thread  12. r coloring  13. sous la plage  14. patter  15. ash into the sky


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