benoît pioulard - précis.

shameless self-promo.

artist: Benoît Pioulard

title: Précis

catalog #: krank098

formats available: CD

Release Date: October 16, 2006

Precis is the first album from Thomas Meluch under his musical pseudonym Benoit 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), Precis 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", Precis 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.

Songs:

La Guerre de Sept Ans

Together & Down

Ext. Leslie Park

Triggering Back

Moth Wings

Alan & Dawn

Corpus Chant

Palimend

Coup de Foudre

Hirondelle

Needle & Thread

R Coloring

Sous la Plage

Patter

Ash Into the Sky

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this is you? on kranky

wonderful work, one of the best releases in 2006

well done, dear Thomas.

mhm thats me, made it w/ my own 2 hands. & mouth.

nice. i'm gonna peep a trk or two

palimend is good.not what i expected but good

Sorry for the bump, but it's pretty awesome that Benoit Pioulard used to post here.

Definitely one of my favourites rekkerds from that year.

Come back, Thomas!

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Sorry for the bump, but it's pretty awesome that Benoit Pioulard used to post here.

 

Definitely one of my favourites rekkerds from that year.

 

Come back, Thomas!

it's benoît pioulard!!!!!!!!!!!