Viul & Benoît Pioulard / USA
Viul is Brooklyn, NY-based composer and musician Luke Entelis. Viul's previous releases include Bright Decline (Disques d'Honoré, 2019) and Outside the Dream World (Past Inside the Present, 2019).
Benoît Pioulard is the primary audiovisual project of Michigan-born, Brooklyn-based Thomas Meluch. With six LPs on the renowned kranky imprint, as well as a catalog of works for Universal (UK), Morr Music (DE) and others, he has constructed a unique aesthetic steeped in the textures of analog decay and pop song structure using chiefly guitar, piano and tape processing.
Their first release as a duo, Konec, was written and recorded in the earliest days of the pandemic and imbued with the concurrent dread, stillness and strange beauty of an abruptly-halted world. Collaborating since around 2002, their adventure began as half of an indie/post-rock band, gigging around Ann Arbor and Detroit to a positive response but no formal releases, and then evolved into a two-person drone-influenced side project, which featured one (the one and only) epic show. Since then, Tom and Luke have remixed each other's work intermittently with Konec considered the apex of their musical relationship so far.
Releases:
Viul & Benoît Pioulard - Konec (ASIPV035)
