Ended the weekend and welcomed the week after a walk in the spring sun with Bloodless by Benoît Pioulard, released on Disques d'Honoré in 2021.

A collection of pieces recorded across lockdown ; a reconciliation with the new way of things.

W&P at La Berceuse (Brooklyn, NY) throughout 2020 with electric & acoustic guitars, voice, bass guitar, kalimba, dulcimer, melodica, glockenspiel, Moog synthesizer, 1/4" magnetic tape, microcassette and field recordings

https://pioulard.bandcamp.com/album/bloodless

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-464PzpKXaw&list=OLAK5uy_kEd5eYjI38MkViQnCusASu-HsLY5MiZHc

#BenoitPioulard #Ambient #Lockdown #Moog #ElectronicMusic #Music #FieldRecordings

Temper by Benoît Pioulard, released on Kranky in 2008.

Daniel Levin Becker wrote for Dusted:

..Temper differs little in composition from Pioulard’s first full-length, Précis: guitars first, then processed instruments and tinny rhythm tracks, found noises and drone interludes, a few distinct incarnations of Pioulard’s (er, Thomas Meluch’s) weary, preoccupied coo. The songs are short, sometimes more like sketches and almost always shorter than they could justifiably be, bleeding into one another like neighboring transmissions on some ghostly shortwave radio...

http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/4597

https://pioulard.bandcamp.com/album/temper

#BenoîtPioulard #DreamPop #Ambient #Music #Kranky

Mes écoutes de la semaine du 06 October 2025 :

#DominiqueA, #BenniHemmHemm, #BertrandBetsch, #BoardsOfCanada, #Clogs, #RobertoDelgado, #TheDurianBrothers, #EnsembleSkalectrik, #LaFresto, #GastrDelSol, #Gnod, #WhiteHills, #CharbelHaber #JosephGhosn #FadiTabbal, #TheHouseOfLove, #Hydroplane, #RobertMazurek #ExplodingStarOrchestra, #GetatchewMekuria #TheEx, #Guests, #JérômeMinière, #Ø, #OhSees, #Perio, #PinkFloyd, #BenoitPioulard, #JamesPlotkin, #PaalNilssenLove, #Pram, #SixOrgansOfAdmittance, #Sparks, #Spunk, #Vainio, #Vigroux, #Various, #IannisXenakis

#music #record

Anon 2 by Benoît Pioulard & From Overseas, released on Past Inside the Present in 2021

About Side A:
"These tracks came to life in April 2020 after reading a poem by Charles Baudelaire called ‘Rêve Parisien’ (Parisian Dream) in his book of poetry ‘Les Fleurs du mal’ (Flowers of Evil). I was really focused on the theme of Dreams and this poem spoke to me when the world was experiencing a first global lockdown with these surreal big ghost cities. This side is therefore called ‘Rêve’." - From Overseas

About Side B:
"These pieces were composed in July of 2020, just as it was becoming clear that lockdown would probably last at least the rest of the year.. recording has always been a good way of side-stepping stress for me, and quieting the doom thought cycle, hence the suite title 'Silencer'." - Benoît Pioulard

https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/anon-2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8ZeetPcuNs&list=RDa8ZeetPcuNs&start_radio=1

#BenoîtPioulard #FromOverseas #PastInsidethePresent #Ambient #Music

Ended the week and started the weekend with Bloodless by Benoît Pioulard, released on Disques d'Honoré in 2021.

A collection of pieces recorded across lockdown ; a reconciliation with the new way of things.

W&P at La Berceuse (Brooklyn, NY) throughout 2020 with electric & acoustic guitars, voice, bass guitar, kalimba, dulcimer, melodica, glockenspiel, Moog synthesizer, 1/4" magnetic tape, microcassette and field recordings

https://pioulard.bandcamp.com/album/bloodless

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-464PzpKXaw&list=PLdBtxKIB13kCyimuWHlVHnhNl8GaqOHXG&index=1

#BenoîtPioulard #DisquesdHonoré #ambient #lockdown #2021inmusic

Précis is the debut full-length album by Portland, Oregon based musician Benoît Pioulard, released by Kranky on October 16, 2006.
Background

Before the release of this album, Pioulard already had a fairly substantial discography. This included many self-released albums on CD-R and cassette, as well as the 7-inch EP Enge, which was put out by Moodgadget in 2005. He later signed a deal with Chicago label Kranky, from which this album was released.

Précis was generally very well received by critics. Stylus Magazine was one of the first publications to review the album, remarking:

Précis is a spectacular, fully realized debut...a breathtaking sonic landscape that sounds like nothing else you’ll hear this year. Rating: A - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MpjeGQ_lEY&list=PLOJWuc3CN301TE3ApclbE4V7glPBiA72V&index=1

#BenoitPioulard #ambient #dreampop #kranky

Clear [early 4-track recordings]
by Benoît Pioulard

As a sensitive kid in Michigan I often holed up in my room to record on my 4-track; I had a few instruments, multi-FX pedal, $10 Radio Shack microphone, and the anything-can-make-sound ethos of a budding Joe Meek.

In 2001 I collected some of these recordings in an edition of 50 CD-Rs and, while it's an early & rough effort, I feel it has some precocious ideas and still appreciate its unique context in my personal history. Granted, it's more likely a curiosity than a repeat-listen kind of thing but I thought it'd be fun to share near to its 20th (!) anniversary.

tm: acoustic guitar, electric guitar, electric bass, drums, cymbals, sticks, drum machine, shakers, bells, chimes, prophet-600, ctk-511, zoom 505, record player, television, microphone, voice, ceramics, plug, cassette case, porch, twigs, paper.

https://pioulard.bandcamp.com/album/clear-early-4-track-recordings

#BenoitPioulard #ambient

Mes écoutes de la semaine du 17 March 2025 :

#AmeelBrecht, #AhmedAgKaedy, #ApparatOrganQuartet, #AidanBaker #Saåad #FrédéricDOberland, #PierreBastien #CasperVanDeVelde, #JBDunckel #JonathanFitoussi, #Eleh, #ESPSummer, #FranceTravail, #GolemMecanique, #KimHiorthøy, #JagaJazzist, #GlennJones, #KingKong, #LosPirañas, #Ogives, #YokoOno #TheGreatLearningOrchestra, #BenoîtPioulard, #FrancisPlagne, #SteveReich, #QuentinRollet #JérômeLorichon, #Schatterau, #SopaBoba, #Witthueser #Westrupp,

#music #disque #reco

Mes écoutes de la semaine du 10 March 2025 :

#AhmedAgKaedy #WillGuthrie, #ApparatOrganQuartet, #ArashiwithTakeoMoriyama, #Autechre, #IanBrown, #AnnaButterss, #CulDeSac, #Dead, #Eleh, #FarewellPoetry, #France, #Garaventa, #GrandVeymont, #Heimat, #Hyperculte, #RobMazurek, #Merkabah, #PangeaDeFutura, #BenoitPioulard, #Razen, #RienVirgule, #Stereolab, #MohammadSyfkhan, #WirklichPipitFeatWilliamNurdin, #WirklichPipit,

#music #disque #reco