Benoît Pioulard: Sonnet on CD
Sonnet
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
- Label:
- Kranky
- Year of recording ca.:
- 2015
- Item number:
- 6876586
- UPC/EAN:
- 0796441819324
- Release date:
- 31.3.2015
Product Information
The sound of the fifth Benoit Pioulard full length is lush and verdant, a temperate rain forest of ear ecstasy that rejects the environment surrounding the artist. A mostly instrumental work, it is an adept melding of song and sound, melody and texture, the intangible and the palpable, that in an abstract sense recalls the more fractured and loose end of the 70's krautrock movement.
»The basis of the album was a series of field recordings of tones and unintentional harmonies that I made in the summer & fall of 2013 – whistling industrial air conditioners, bird songs, locust drones, washing machines – that I mimicked or interpreted on the guitar, making loops that developed into fuller compositions. Several of the pieces are recreations of harmony loops that I heard in a series of extraordinarily vivid dreams, and then woke up and recorded. A few pieces had lyrics and vocal parts that I ultimately removed; at a certain point the album became an exercise in restraint, so I strove to leave only what I felt absolutely essential. Unlike most of my previous recordings, there are no digital / software after-effects on the album; all sounds are from analog tape and / or my few guitar pedals.« Thomas Meluch (Benoit Pioulard)
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 With No Advantage
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2 The Gilded Fear That Guides The Flow
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3 Of Everything That Rhymes
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4 Is In Its Clearest Form
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5 An Image Apart From Ourselves
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6 Whose Palms Create
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7 As Would A Weaver
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8 A Shade Of Celadon
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9 So Etched In Memory
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10 Upon The Break Arch
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11 That Wounded Weathered
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12 The Very Edge Of Its Flame
