Ant'lrd & Benoît Pioulard - Deck Amber (2018)

The new album from Ant’lrd (Colin Blanton) and Benoît Pioulard (Thomas Meluch), Deck Amber will be released both digitally and on double cassette.

The album features seven collaborative compositions and two solo pieces — one from each artist. The work brings to mind contemporary artists such as Lawrence English, Celer, and Klara Lewis, lush and intense soundscapes powerfully developing throughout the album. Deck Amber has been mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio (Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto, Biosphere, Grouper, Simon Scott).

“Colin and I met shortly after he moved to Portland (I was, and still am, living in Seattle), when he passed me a copy of his SUNNUP album, which I immediately fell in love with. We discussed working on something together for some months before starting a file exchange in late 2015. Deck Amber is the result of a few months of pretty intense work and revision, and to me, it’s all about wintry nostalgia with some shadows in the periphery. To wit, the storyteller on Ciety is my grandfather-in-law Dennis Dumont, who is talking about the time he stumbled upon a pair of armed burglars trying to crack the safe in his warehouse office in Oklahoma sometime in the late 1970s.”
— Benoît Pioulard