The marvellous singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Benoît Pioulard has been on a roll of late. This year alone he released his magnificent fifth album, Sonnet, a couple of accompanying pieces, Stanza and Stanza II, and even more recently the glorious Noyaux EP. So we are lucky he found time to wrap up the year by putting together our December mixtape. And it looks like Christmas came early as a previously unreleased track by Benoît Pioulard himself made its way in the mix. Titled 'Kenopsia', it has a tremendous immersive beauty that takes us to a soothing, warm and gentle place of ambient dreaminess. Press play and drift away.
Molly Drake – What Can a Song Do to You? [Squirrel Thing Recordings]
Eyes Behind the Veil – Dusk Dance [Wild Patterns]
Maurice Ravel – Miroirs pt. I (Noctuelles)
Black to Comm – Trapez [Type]
Chihei Hatakeyama – Mausoleum [Room 40]
Bollywood Life – White Wall [Shoeboxx Recordings]
Elvis Depressedly – Pepsi/Coke Suicide [Birdtapes / Orchid Tapes]
Ant’lrd – Window Seat/Hvy Lids [Inner Islands]
Benoît Pioulard – Kenopsia
Claude Debussy – La fille aux cheveux de lin
Fleetwoods – Dormilona [Dolton]
Kyle Bobby Dunn – La Failure et La Chance [Students of Decay]
Rauelsson – Hourglass II [Sonic Pieces]
Helen – Allison [kranky]
Lawrence English – November 16/Dead Oak [Room40 / Experimedia]
