#benoit pioulard

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Memorize by Benoît Pioulard & offthesky from the album Sunder

[musicollage]

Rafael Anton Irisarri – The Unintentional Sea. 2013 : Room40.

! acquire the album ★ attach a coffee !

[ambientworld]

[natlbag]

Benoît Pioulard: Stone in Focus (2016)

[olaskoolkitchen]

Ola's Kool Kitchen podcast 496 spectacular sounds from TEKE TEKE, Chatham Rise, Howlin' Jaws, Asha Wells, Purling Hiss, Benoît Pioulard, HighSch00L & Pete International Airport.

[stars-dont-fall]

Radial - Benoît Pioulard

[musicdiaries]

Lusine - Long Light (feat. Benoît Pioulard)

[darkarfs]

"300 MG of Freedom Fuel."

I think we can all agree that's too much?

And fuck me, had I read this can a little more closely I would not have purchased this silly mess.

[jgthirlwell]

playlist 10.28.22

Papangu Holoceno (Repose Records) Bent Knee Frosting (Take This To Heart) Elysian Fields Once Beautiful Twice Removed (Ojet) Rene G. Boscio If We Seek With Intent (Boscio Music) Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cool It Down (Secretly Canadian) Bjork Fossora (One Little Independent) High Castle Teleorkestra The Egg That Never Opened (Art As Catharsis) John Elmquist’s Hard Art Groop Stars and Bells/ Trip Up / Zero Rest Mass (Bandcamp) Sault Air (Forever Living Originals) Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow Men OST (Invada) Benoit Pioulard & Jogging House Communique (Bandcamp) Louis Cole Quality Over Opinion (Brainfeeder) Richard Reed Parry Quiet River Of Dust Vol 1 (Anti) Simon Fisher Turner / Espen J. Jorgenson Soundescapes (Mute) Francois Bayle, Richard Karpen, William Schottstaedt, Goebel Johannes Computer Music Currents 3 (Wergo)

[dustedmagazine]

Benoit Pioulard — Eidetic (Morr Music)

Eidetic by Benoît Pioulard

Thomas Meluch has such a specific and distinctive aesthetic that subtle variations within his sound catch the ear. His default setting is an amorphous wash of warbling, nostalgia-drenched tones, punctuated by muffled percussion, plucked nylon-string guitar and his hushed, multi-tracked voice. Patterns begin to emerge in his songwriting methods the more you listen, such as his fondness for introducing tambourine into the right channel to inject energy into a song, or fading a gentle rush of soft-focus bells into a glimmering instrumental. Just as you begin to tune out, the next song might shift a little, introducing a steel-string acoustic or electric guitar to allow the instrumental timbres to brighten in the mix. The sounds themselves are gorgeous, but it’s the ebb and flow of Eidetic that maintains interest.

Meluch has been working in this vein under his Benoit Pioulard moniker for the last 15 years or so, and he drifts back and forth between instrumental and vocal-led releases. Eidetic offers a pleasing balance of both styles. Though they’re kept to a few minutes each, immersive instrumentals such as “Margaret Murie” and “Where To” feel like they could drift on indefinitely. In contrast, galloping guitar-led tracks such as “Thursday Night” inject a slightly manic early-Animal Collective energy, like being shaken from staring listless at a campfire and swept into a stirring, clapping sing-along. The true outlier is “The Void,” a breezy, beachy sway that momentarily puts one in mind of the retro British summertime sounds of Cliff Richards and the Shadows. Quite a shift from the shadowy, mossy, forest vibes of the rest of the record, but it works. 

After 45 minutes, when Eidetic draws to a close in a blur of tape hiss and bird song, it feels like waking from a dream. Though the album title refers to being able to recall specific mental images in detail, the hazy ambiguity of Benoit Pioulard’s music leaves the listener in a pleasingly disoriented daze. 

Tim Clarke

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Vigil by Benoît Pioulard, live from La Berceuse

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Benoît Pioulard – Temper. 2008 : Kranky.

[ support the artist ★ buy me a coffee ]

[theam-cjsw]

The AM: March 6, 2023

This week’s AM features a few happy returns, with new music from AM favourites Nabihah Iqbal, Mega Bog, and Benoit Pioulard (to name a few). Plus a throwback to classic mid-2000s chamber pop, violins played in the LA river, a David Axelrod track that’s technically credited to someone else, Morabeza Tobacco getting as close to the "Good Times" bassline as is legally allowed, and a healthy mix of atmospheric sounds, post-punk raves, experimental compositions and other offbeat easy listening for a Monday morning.

Listen on Soundcloud

Hear it at CJSW.com

Other listening links

Ongoing Spotify playlist (to avoid my commentary)

Tracklist after the break.

Hour One:

réfraction Onur Tarçin • Single

Ellipses Andrew Bird • Echolocations: River

A Constant Source of Joy and Fascination waivestate • Sprout Sessions

Vivid Elskavon • Origins

Bruises Earth Trax • Closer Now

Sweltering Drive Masahiro Takahashi • Humid Sun

Our Future Salad Days Dreamsploitation • The Soft Focus Sound of Today

Synchronized Swimmers Contagious Yawns • Dream of Consciousness

Bolan Muppets Glissandro 70 • Glissandro 70

Hour Two:

Les Points Cardineaux YouYourself&i • L'Amour des Anoures

Betwixt & Between Spencer Cullum, featuring Erin Rae • Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection 2

Walking Through Morning Dew Shana Cleveland • Manzanita

Synesthetics L.T.Leif • Come Back To Me, But Lightly

O Torto Santo Bike • Arte Bruta

Tonight’s Episode Yo La Tengo • This Stupid World

Elementary Particles The Hylozoists • La Fin du Monde

Warning Against Judging a Christian Brother The Hylozoists • La Fin du Monde

The Edge David McCallum • Music: A Bit More of Me

I Have Been Alone The Common People • Of The People / By The People / For The People

Way Far High Season • The Call

Anniversary Dawn to Dawn • Postcards from the Sun to the Moon

Hour Three:

Line in the Sand Brian Eno, Hot Chip, goddess • Single

The Void Benoit Pioulard • Eidetic

Manitou (Single Edit) Zoon • Bekka Ma'iingan

The Clown Mega Bog • End of Everything

The World Couldn’t See Us Nabihah Iqbal • DREAMER

Mariana's Web Uncanny Valley • Fevering Stare

Saturnus Morabeza Tobacco • Shadow of the Cherry

Destiny Decisive Pink • Ticket to Fame

NST Gnoomes • Ax Ox

High and Low Shirley & The Pyramids • Maid of Time

Medicine Road Fog Lake • Dragonchaser

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Music Shuffle Meme

Thanks for the tag!!! @hawkeshep !!!

I haven't really spoken or really interacted with very many people on here yet I've mostly been dumping memes and content around like a feral woodwitch throwing rocks at the moon for being too bright. SO in that case I am tagging @thegreyfortress @rock-teh-elf @glowing-blue-feathermage

Rules: shuffle your ‘On Repeat’ playlist and post the first 10 tracks.

Pretty Bones - yeule

Stone in Focus - Benoit Pioulard

Lost - Crime3s

Blah Blah Blah - The Oozes

The Chain - Fleetwood Mac

Memory Tuner - Staggr

Maggot - Dazey and the Scouts

Sour Switchblade - Elita

Missus Piano - Rio Romeo

Look Around - Oneheart