Oregon transplant Benoît Pioulard, aka multi-instrumentalist and Praveen partner Thomas Meluch, played lead in the sunsetting wheat-field and fire-lined video for Temper track “Ragged Tint.” The Church & Steak-directed clip for another meditative Temper tune “A Woolgathering Exodus” goes the quietly beautiful animation route: A lonesome bearded dude can’t sleep, tries to catch some fireflies, hops on his bicycle in his pajamas, and finds a water spirit who offers a way to keep those lightning bugs a little closer. For his part, Benoît’s fresh off an East Coast tour with Windy & Carl that included some collaborative performances with Windy under the name Lamb’s Laughter. There’s no laughing in this one, really.
Take-away:
Temper is out via Kranky. He has a new 7″ out on Windy & Carl’s label, Blue Flea. You can find it/buy it over at www.pioulard.com.
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this video is great, the animations really capture the spirit of the song….love it
Wow. This song is simply amazing.
beautiful! love the tone, the song and the animation. nice job.
Musicians play live. He can’t play live. Anyone can sit in their bedroom and record something 100 times until it sounds good. Portland needs better musicians.
^ What a meat-head comment.
it’s just like a cute kids cartoon only with way better music
very nice video, an unexpected but justified choice of song.
and John – i just saw benoit on tour, i thought it was great! but i understand he was singing for the first time and have heard his noise sets of old weren’t anything special. just sayin’.
Never heard of this group before but the song is really good and the video was really well done. Sounds like it’d be hard to pull off live though…