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Birth name
  
Thomas Meluch

Music group
  
Orcas

Role
  
Singer · pioulard.com

Name
  
Benoit Pioulard

Years active
  
2001–present


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Born
  
August 4, 1984 (age 39) (
1984-08-04
)

Origin
  
Michigan, United States

Genres
  
Electronic, ambient, folk, shoegaze

Record labels
  
Kranky Records, Ghostly International, Moodgadget

Albums
  
Precis, Hymnal, Temper, Hymnal Remixes, Lasted

Similar People
  
Rafael Anton Irisarri, Orcas, Foxes in Fiction, Kyle Bobby Dunn, The Sight Below

Profiles

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

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Biography

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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.

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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 albums Précis (2006),Temper (2008), Lasted (2010), and Hymnal (2013).

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In 2010, Meluch formed Orcas with minimalist composer Rafael Anton Irisarri. The duo's self-titled debut was released in April 2012 on Germany's Morr Music imprint, and its follow-up Yearling was released in early 2014.

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Meluch lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife, an antiquarian horologist.

Solo

  • 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)
  • Lee 7" (Hall Of Owls, 2008)
  • Flocks 7" (Blue Flea, 2009)
  • Lasted LP (Kranky, 2010)
  • Plays Thelma EP (Desire Path Recordings, 2011)
  • Hymnal LP (Kranky, 2013)
  • Sonnet LP (Kranky, 2015)
  • Noyaux EP (Kranky, 2015)
  • Seize/Marre EP (self-released, 2016)
  • Radial CD-R (self-released, June 27th 2016)

    • Appeared on

  • Random Number...Colors Start (Moodgadget, 2004)
  • Idol Tryouts 2 (Ghostly International, 2006)
  • The Rorschach Suite (Moodgadget, 2006)
  • Four-beat Rhythm: The Writings of Wilhelm Reich (Workshop, 2013)

    • References

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