Benoit Pioulard

Benoît Pioulard

The Benoît Pioulard Listening Matter

PUBLISHED Oct 12, 2016

Over the past decade-and-a-half, Thomas Meluch (aka Benoît Pioulard) has covered a lot of musical ground. The Washington-via-Michigan produ...

Benoît Pioulard Returns with New Kranky LP, Premieres "Layette"

PUBLISHED Jul 29, 2016

A little over a year removed from his Sonnet LP, Thomas Meluch has readied another full-length effort under his musical moniker Benoît Piou...

STFU: Toronto's Wavelength Bans Talking for "Don't Speak" Concert

PUBLISHED Mar 2, 2016

Wavelength Festival returned to Toronto last month, and now the arts collective of the same name has announced plans for a quieter kind of...

Benoit Pioulard

Noyaux

PUBLISHED Nov 4, 2015

With the release of Sonnet earlier this year, Thomas Meluch eschewed his singer-songwriter mode and explored sun-washed drones in full albu...

Benoît Pioulard

Sonnet

PUBLISHED Mar 27, 2015

After four albums of swirling, electronically enhanced folk songs, Thomas Meluch, under his moniker Benoît Pioulard, takes a dive into the...

Benoît Pioulard Returns with 'Sonnet' LP

PUBLISHED Jan 27, 2015

For years, Thomas Meluch has maintained a busy release schedule under the Benoît Pioulard moniker. Refusing to slow down, he's back with ye...

Benoît Pioulard Reimagines 'Hymnal' with the Help of Loscil, Cock & Swan, the Remote Viewer, Premieres New Segue Remix

PUBLISHED Jan 14, 2014

In 2013, Kranky released the fourth full-length album by ambient experimentalist Thomas Meluch under the name Benoît Pioulard. Met with muc...

Benoit Pioulard

Hymnal

PUBLISHED Mar 5, 2013

As an artist who started his career creating amateur field recordings, Thomas Meluch (aka Benoît Pioulard) has continued to make music that...