Plays Thelma
Benoît Honoré Pioulard
Returning to normalcy after my wedding had the vague air of coming back into consciousness after a severe
panic attack; in the aftermath of all of the activity and sensory overload,
one’s overtaken by a relief that elicits a short-lived serenity. Getting back
to a regular routine after all of the wedding planning put me in a peaceful
frame of mind that desired only restrained music.
With Plays Thelma,
so began my post-classical autumn. Its MP3s were waiting when we pulled in from
the airport and became my go-to record the following morning, basking in the
morphing character of ‘Malick’ and ‘Calder’ as I passed changing foliage.
Pioulard designed this mini-album as an imaginary place – “a lake within a
haze” – and these compositions, often string-laden or tempered by found-sounds,
succeed in mapping out a quaint territory for the mind to wander over and over.
In the process, these songs thread together my favourite ambient piece of 2011
but, what’s more: Thelma became my sanctuary.
1 comment:
I remember reading about this in the Autumn feature. It has a superb grainy quality. Bookmarked.
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