Benoit Pioulard

Infobox Musical artist


Img_size = 150
Name = Benoît Pioulard
|Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = Thomas Meluch
Born = Birth date and age|1984|8|4|mf=y
Origin = Michigan
Genre = Electronic, Ambient, Folk, Shoegaze
Years_active = 2001–present
Label = Kranky, Moodgadget, Type, Ghostly International

Thomas Meluch (born August 4,1984) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, writer, and photographer, best known by his pseudonym Benoît Pioulard.

Biography

Meluch began documenting field recordings and his own lo-fi compositions on dictaphones, discarded stereos and four-track machines in the mid 1990s, later focusing on highly limited CD-R and cassette releases of his experimental, folk-influenced songs for friends and family.

His first recordings as Benoît Pioulard appeared on the "Random Number...Colors Start" compilation released by the Ann Arbor-based Moodgadget label in 2004. After 2005's "Enge" EP Meluch was signed to Chicago's Kranky imprint, for whom he recorded the album "Précis", released in October 2006.

Meluch lives in Portland, Oregon on a horse farm.

Discography

olo

*"Blurred" CD-R (self-released, 2001)
*"Clear" CD-R (self-released, 2001)
*"Skymost" CD-R (self-released, 2003)
*"Enge" 7" EP (Moodgadget, 2005)
*"Dakota / Housecoat" CD-R (self-released, 2006)
*"Précis" CD (Kranky, 2006)
*"Fir" 7" EP (Type, 2007)
*"Temper" LP (Kranky, 2008)

Appears On

*"Random Number...Colors Start" (Moodgadget, 2004)
*"Idol Tryouts 2" (Ghostly International, 2006)
*"The Rorschach Suite" (Moodgadget, 2006)

External links

* [http://www.pioulard.com Official website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/pioulard Myspace page]
* [http://www.kranky.net Kranky website]
* [http://www.pressplayrecord.com/2007/01/benoit-pioulard.html Press Play and Record interview]