Lasted available on February 29 2016 from Amazon for 11.00
Benoit Pioulard - Lasted (Music CD) available on December 28 2014 from Base for 12.29
UPC bar code 796441814527 ξ2 registered February 29 2016
UPC bar code 796441814527 ξ1 registered February 14 2015
UPC bar code 796441814527 ξ3 registered September 27 2014
Product category is MUSIC CD - CD - R&B & Soul Audio
Manufacturered by Kranky
Product weight is 0.1 lbs.
2010 release, the third album from Thomas Meluch AKA Benoit Pioulard. Thomas has toured throughout North America and Europe since his last record, the process of which has had a marked impact on the development of these songs as lyrics and structures have been scrapped, tweaked and reworked in the live setting. As with previous albums it was recorded and mixed in domestic isolation, this time throughout the rainy season in his current home of Portland, Oregon. While the extent of the dreary climate's influence on the results is left to the listener's discretion, what is certain is that Thomas has a preternatural ability to weave disparate sound components into a cohesive sonic tapestry, mixing a varied palette of field recordings and percussive elements along with melancholy melodies to create songs that recall and are akin to vespers of long-buried memories.
Feeling something like an arrival, a train pulling up to the station after a long blur of landscape, Lasted is another welcome album from Benoit Pioulard. Similar enough to his previous albums on Kranky (Temper and Precis) to please fans who've been following along, Lasted's main difference is subtle: the crunch of leaf-mold under your feet is still present and eloquent, but you are nearing the edge of the woods; the trees are thinning out and a sky drenched in sunrise is pi..
