Stanza IV is the latest chapter in Benoît Pioulard’s ambient series—a richly textured collection of slow-moving, analog-driven compositions blending guitar, tape loops, field recordings, and synths. Deeply meditative and emotionally resonant, the album is paired with Stanza IV [Versions], a full-length rework collection featuring artists like Clarice Jensen, Arovane, and Markus Guentner, offering new dimensions to Pioulard’s immersive sound world.
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Benoît Pioulard & Offthesky :: Sunder (laaps)
Eight interlocking tracks of floating atmospheres and blends of colorful clouds, recorded at La Berceuse (Brooklyn, NY) and Offthesky studio, Denver CO in 2022-23 with […]
Benoît Pioulard :: Eidetic (Morr Music)
Throughout the album, labyrinthine lyrical reflections are dispersed with dazzling images, blurring scenes in world history with the most personal album by Meluch.
Viul & Benoît Pioulard :: Konec (A Strangely Isolated Place)
The whole naturally transcends reductive description in deeper listening mode, from which arises a tenor marked by a kind of wistful unease.
Elsewhereness revisited #15 a decade decayed
Elsewhereness revisited is an occasional feature documenting the drift at the margins: ambient gasbagging and blurb blah, ’tube-d, ’cloud-ed ’n’ ’camp-ed up, complete with new companion […]
Elsewhereness revisited #14 ambivalentine daze
Elsewhereness revisited is an occasional feature documenting the drift at the margins: ambient gasbagging and blurb blah, ’tube-d, ’cloud-ed, ‘n’ ’camp-ed up, complete with companion mix, Elsewhereness […]
Benoît Pioulard :: Sylva (Morr Music)
Oneiric ambient drone and polaroid pop from Kranky veteran, Benoît Pioulard, on a first full-length for Morr Music. The sound of Sylva is based on the beauty and shapes of […]
Elsewhereness revisited #11 simmering moogs
Elsewhereness revisited is an occasional feature documenting the drift at the margins: ambient gasbagging and blurb blather, ’tube-d, ’cloud-ed, ‘n’ ’camp-ed up, complete with companion mix, Elsewhereness […]
Elsewhereness revisited #10 no drone left unturned
Elsewhereness revisited is an occasional feature documenting the drift at the margins: ambient gasbagging and blurb blather, ’tube-d, ’cloud-ed, and ’camp-ed up, complete with companion mix, […]
Elsewhereness revisited #9 oneiromancy quarterly
Elsewhereness revisited is an occasional feature documenting the drift at the margins: ambient gasbagging, ’tube-d, ’cloud-ed, and ’camp-ed up, complete with companion mix, Elsewhereness revisited #9. […]

















