BENOIT PIOULARD

BENOIT PIOULARD

recordings compact disc blurred (2001) clear (2001) five songs for suchaya (2002) skymost (2003) dakota / housecoat (2006) précis (2006) temper (2008) vinyl enge (2005) fir (2007) lee (2008) flocks (2009) compilation random number...colors start (2004) idol tryouts two (2006) the rorschach suite (2006) new faces (2006) expanse at low levels (2007) 88 tapes (2009) musique pour statues menhirs (2009)	Liens: My space, Site officiel Michigan, Electronic, Ambient, Folk, Shoegaze Influences: harmony korine, werner herzog, terrence malick, chris marker, maya deren, sun city girls, arvo part, constancy, antiquity Label: kranky, moodgadget, type, ghostly
	ABOUT: Thomas Meluch, born August 4, 1984, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, writer, and photographer, best known by his pseudonym Benoît Pioulard. Beboit Pioulard is the project of Oregon-based vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Thomas Meluch who used treated guitars, percussion, dulcimer, samples and field recordings to craft the simple, dreamy and hazy son gs of the EP Enge (Moodgadget, 2005) and of the album Precis (Kranky, 2006). The latter opens with the industrial-scale cacophony of La Guerre De Sept Ans, but then indulges in relatively harmless lullabies that make Devendra Banhart sound experimental. The arrangements of Together & Down and Palimend, as well as the Simon & Garfunkel-ian vocals and jangling guitar of Needle & Thread, show his talent as a pop auteur, but the brief interludes that should attest to his membership in the digital generation (such as the instrumental collage of Patter) offer too little to distinguish him from old-fashioned singer-songwriters.