Eric Chenaux

NEWS

  • 18/02/2022

    Eric Chenaux ‘Say Laura’ new album + EU tour 2022 !

    ‘Say Laura’ est le septième album d’Eric Chenaux à paraître le 18/02 sur le label canadien Constellation (en co-production pour la première fois avec le label français Murailles Music. C’est peut-être son disque le plus clair, le plus limpide, le plus immédiatement poignant. Un disque aussi chichement outillé qu’à l’accoutumée: voix de tête, six cordes

  • 14/04/2018

    Eric Chenaux nouvel album ‘Slowly Paradise’ & en tournée !

    Eric Chenaux  fait la musique conceptuelle qui n’entend pas sonner comme de la musique conceptuelle. Il jongle entre des “traditions” variées mais, plus que tout sans doute, à chaque disque, Chenaux  s’attaque à la relation entre l’improvisation et le structure, et il le fait à sa manière tout à fait unique, idiosyncratique, et – cela dit sans la

  • 04/12/2017

    Eric Chenaux on the cover of the Wire !

    Eric Chenaux est notre superstar ce mois-ci, le voilà rayonnant en couverture du bimensuel anglais The Wire le sacrant comme il se doit, l'un des plus importants songwriters et improvisateurs de ces 10 dernières années. 

  • 06/09/2015

    Eric Chenaux et Ensemble Minisym au Festival Baignade Interdite (31) les 11 et 13/09

    Nous irons noyer l’été indien au Festival Baignade Interdite à Rivières (81) qui rassemblera notamment le drakkar délirant de l’Ensemble Minisym le 11 ainsi que les superbes chansons liquides de Eric Chenaux le 13 septembre prochain. ~ Festival ‘Baignade Interdite, 48 heures à la dérive’ Piscine d’Aiguelèze, Rivières (Tarn) les 11-12-13 Septembre 2015 http://www.baignadeinterdite.fr/ TEASER

  • 01/07/2015

    FESTIVALS D’ÉTÉ & CLOPINETTES

    © détail de la vidéo d’Arlt ‘Nue comme la main’ par Anafaia Supico & Nuno Barroso Nos bien fidèles camarades ! Nous aimerions de concert avec vous, adresser nos louanges au soleil revenu à coups de clairon et de liqueurs fraîches, à tel coin de table ou au bord de l’eau. Nous n’y tarderons plus. Pour l’heure, c’est joyeux

  • 10/06/2015

    Protected: Pass-Murailles ‘Élévation’: Matt Elliott + Eric Chenaux

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  • 10/06/2015

    Protected: Pass-Murailles ‘Folklores intemporels’: Josephine Foster + Eric Chenaux

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  • 22/12/2014

    Eric Chenaux : nouvel album ‘Skullsplitter’ février 2015

    Le nouvel album d’Eric Chenaux intitulé ‘Skullsplitter’, peut-être son meilleur, sortira le 16 février prochain sur le label Constellation. Norberto Lobo (l’ami guitariste portugais) l’a décrit comme du “r’n’b de saturne”, ce qui est assez pertinent. Eric Chenaux est une grande chanteuse de jazz, un grand guitariste monkien (oui), un descendant médiévalisant d’Arthur Russell ET de Hoagy Carmichael. Sa lenteur hirsute (!), son indolence véritablement psychédélique, et sa

  • 01/03/2014

    Eric Chenaux en support de Thee Silver Mount Zion Orchestra, fév./mars 2014

    Eric Chenaux partage le même label que ses compatriotes de Thee Silver Mount Zion Orchestra (Constellation) ; il partagera quelques scènes avec eux cet hiver, en solo ou en duo avec Éloïse Decazes, de Feyzin à Paris (La Cigale) en passant par Limoges, Bruxelles et Amsterdam. Tournée avec Thee Silver Mount Zion Orchestra 18 fév •

  • 21/12/2013

    ERIC CHENAUX REJOINT NOTRE ROSTER !

    Eric Chenaux est l’un des guitaristes et compositeurs expérimentaux les plus prolifiques et respectés du Canada. Vétéran du genre depuis plus de 20 ans, il expérimente avec les ballades, chansons, mélodies, improvisations, guitares, et haut­ parleurs miniatures. Il a collaboré avec Eloïse Decaezes (Alrt), The Draperies, Drumheller, Nightjars, The Guayaveras, The Allison Cameron Band, John

BIO

Eric Chenaux is a Canadian guitarist, songwriter, singer and sound sculptor. He has released seven solo albums of experimental song on the Montréal-based imprint Constellation, charting an adventurous and uncompromising path through avant-folk, out-jazz and pop composition, increasingly rooted in a unique and elemental juxtaposition of fried, frazzled, semi-improvised guitar and smooth, clear tenor balladry. He has been called “a musician like no other” by Tiny Mix Tapes; his solo albums praised by The Quietus as “stunningly beautiful, genuinely inimitable, whose reputation will only grow with time.” Gracing the cover of The Wire magazine in 2017, the feature article declared: “Chenaux succeeds in generating an astonishing array of timbres. A singer and songwriter possessed of angelic sweetness and clarity accompanying himself with largely improvised, visceral guitar textures that seem intent on undermining and obscuring his own songs. It’s the need to communicate tussling with the urge to obfuscate; lucidity versus opacity; form against chaos.” 

Though based in France for the past decade, Chenaux was a key figure in Toronto’s fertile indie and avant/improv music scenes throughout the 1990s and 2000s, releasing a first solo album of instrumental improv guitar in 1999 and co-founding the experimental music label Rat-drifting in 2001, which documented a dynamic cross-section of iconoclastic Toronto experimental music projects over the ensuing decade, including several ensembles in which Chenaux also figured as a member: The Draperies, The Reveries, The Guayaveras, The Marmots, Allison Cameron Band, Drumheller and Nightjars. Previously he was a core member of the cult Toronto postpunk/math-rock group Phleg Camp and the related duo Lifelikeweeds.

Chenaux’s first album as a singer-songwriter was ‘Dull Lights’, released on Constellation in 2006, and an acclaimed, highly original solo discography has unfolded since then: ‘Sloppy Ground’ (2008); ‘Warm Weather With Ryan Driver’ (2010); ‘Guitar & Voice’ (2012); ‘Skullsplitter’ (2015); ‘Slowly Paradise’ (2018) and ‘Say Laura’ (2022). He has featured on a range of collaborative records issued by other labels through this same span, including Okraïna, Avatar, Grapefruit and Three:four. He has performed and recorded with countless artists, including Ryan Driver, Sandro Perri, Eloïse Decazes, Michelle McAdorey, Nick Fraser, Martin Arnold, Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, Pauline Oliveros, John Oswald, Michael Snow, Brodie West, Han Bennink, Christine Abdelnour, Michael Moore, Josephine Foster, Martin Tetrault, Wilbert De Joode, Gareth Davis, Jacob Wren, Norberto Lobo, Nathaniel Mann and many more. Chenaux also composes for film and contemporary dance, including a long-standing association with conceptual filmmaker Eric Cazdyn for his solo music, and in recurring collaboration with multi-media and sound installation artist Marla Hlady.

Eric Chenaux lives at Le Pouget in the commune of Condat-sur-Ganaveix in central France with his partner and their dog, tending to a field of wild horses.

LINE-UP
Eric Chenaux : Guitar, Vocals

LINKS

PRESS

  • THE GUARDIAN

    “One of the best and most under-appreciated singer-songwriters on the planet has returned with a new album”

  • The Quietus

    “Where Chenaux really differs from any of them is in his lysergic tonal explorations, behind his honey-dipped vocals and baffling assortment of bent guitar notes, aquatic and forever morphing”

  • Uncut

    “The 11 minutes, Robert Wyattish ‘Wild Moon’ with its woovy keys and extrem fretwork building to a quievring peak – stands out but sensual beauty abounds.”

  • FOLK RADIO

    “Eric Chenaux makes conceptual music that’s not meant to sound conceptual. (…) Fundamentally, Chenaux writes love songs, which he sings in a voice honeyed and clear, while his guitar gently bends, frazzles, chortles, diverges and decomposes.”

  • The Wire

    “A singer and songwriter possessed of angelic sweetness and clarity accompanying himself with largely improvised, visceral guitar textures that seem intent on undermining and obscuring his own songs. It’s the need to communicate tussling with the urge to obfuscate; lucidity versus opacity; form against chaos.”

  • UNCUT (UK)

    “In the field of avant guitar wrangling, Chenaux‘s style is genuinely distinctive. His latest is an(other) effortlessly lovely solo set that recalls John Martyn, Marc Ribot, Arthur Russell and the Hardanger fiddle tradition, as it weaves trippily between improve jazz, electronica, folk-drone and lounge balladry. Chenaux’s pure, sweet voice soars along Chet Baker and Jeff Buckley lines and he’s no lyrical slouch, although an instrumental interpretation of the Rodgers and Hart classic “My Romance” is a highlight. More heartmelter than skullsplitter – but just as ruinous.”

  • THE QUIETUS (UK)

    “Warbling, effect-drunken electric guitar riffs chime out of his guitar like unsteady peals of a warped bell, a sort of psychedelic, surf rock answer to the angry solo grunge of Neil Young. (…) The way he plucks notes is refreshingly unsteady, his solos and riffs dislocated by abrupt silences and shifts in tempo. On record, these are already startling, but live he takes them to new heights, settling himself somewhere in a magical netherworld between Jandek and the aforementioned Neil Young.”

  • EXCLAIM (Can)

    “A triumph of post-modern songwriting. Chenaux‘s combination of hacked music box guitar experimentation and lonely lounge crooning conjures a spell simply too enchanting to break. ‘Skullsplitter’ dispatches the listener on a mission to crack the mysteries of time and space, and without offering much in the way of answers, its potential for repeat listens is enough of a reward.”

  • QUICK BEFORE IT MELTS

    “[There is] an invisible boundary between Cheneaux’s vocals and fretwork, each following its own intricate pattern and progression, with only the briefest, marvellous occasions where the two elements overlap in synchronicity. ‘Skullsplitter’ is rife with moments like this, where Chenaux has his way with his instruments, bending notes, string and the space-time continuum itself in an exploration to the outer limits of what guitar and voice in tandem can sound like. His improvised style of playing seemingly random, free-form compositions punctuates the juxtaposition of guitar and voice. […] Whether he appeals to your left or right brain sensibilities, Eric Chenaux’s ‘Skullsplitter‘ will undoubtably entice all of your senses with its mesmerizing, time-warping ability.”

  • THE WIRE

    “His high, mellifluous croon beckons rather than browbeats, mildly inviting you ever deeper into the sound that moves and contracts around it. His acoustic guitar playing takes its easy swing from pre-bebop jazz and its hushed sonorities from a preference for nylon strings; you’ll hear no American Primitive moves when he starts strumming.”

  • THE WIRE

    “Amazing Backgrounds is a hovering love ballad, the type where time moves oh so slowly.”

  • SAID THE GRAMOPHONE

    “[Guitar & Voice] is just that, just those perfect things, guitar and voice – coaxed & shattered & sublimated & splintered & mirrored & burned to ash… This is unquestionably one of the best albums of 2012.”

  • THE WIRE

    “Songs hover above the ebb and flow of Chenaux’s unhurried guitar – there’s a stillness at the album’s heart, like watching harbour lights at midnight. …B’s voice is high, jazz-tinged and husky, like a latterday Arthur Russell…His drifting ballads of urban lovesickness offer a heartfelt kind of alt lounge music that is irony-free… As with the whole album [Guitar & Voice], considerable care has been taken with the sound, and these are bright, ringing consorts like a meditative viol group or gathering of Hardanger fiddles… Chenaux’s voice in particular benefits from the game-raising approach. An interesting example of a performer getting more experimental and simultaneously more studio-savvy, Chenaux has produced his best work yet.”

  • CHICAGO READER

    “The album [Guitar & Voice] alternates between atmospheric, lushly textured instrumental pieces and gorgeous ballads that feature Chenaux‘s warm, feather-stroke vocal melodies… Throughout the collection Chenaux combines meticulous songcraft with experimental instincts, so no matter how pretty or tuneful a piece is, he adds compelling layers of noise and texture, shaped with an improviser’s sense of adventure.”

CONTACT

Booking : François Montjosieu
Promo : Varvara Papaspanopoulou

  • 'There They Were' (video by Eric Cazdyn, 2022)

  • 'Say Laura' (video by Eric Cazdyn, 2022)

  • 'Say Laura' [abridged]

  • 'Bird & Moon' (video by Eric Cazdyn, 2018)

  • 'An abandoned rose' (video by Eric Cazdyn, 2018)

  • Summer & Time - Session Acoustique (Renaud Folleville - Le Cargo - Mai 2018)

  • 'Wild Moon' (video by Eric Cazdyn, 2018)

  • Eric Chenaux 'There's Our Love' (2018)

  • 'Poor Time' (video by Eric Cazdyn, 2015, 'Skullsplitter')

  • 'Have I Lost My Eyes?' (video by Eric Cazdyn, 2015, 'Skullsplitter')

  • 'Le Pouget' + 'Skullspiltter' (video by Eric Cazdyn, 2015, 'Skullsplitter')

  • 'Have I Lost My Eyes ?' - Live at Le Ciel / Grenoble - 2015 (Film by [reafførests])

  • 'Spring Has Been A Long Time Coming' + 'The Henri Favourite' (video by Eric Cazdyn, 2015, 'Skullsplitter')

  • 'Amazing Backgrounds' (Film by Eric Cazdyn)

  • 'Dull Lights (White or Grey)' (Film by Eric Cazdyn)

  • 'Put In Music' (Live at Casa del Popolo - Montréal 2011)

  • 'Lavallière' / Warm Weather With Ryan Driver (Film by Eric Cazdyn)

DISCOGRAPHIE

  • Say Laura

    Constellation Records / Murailles Music2022
    LP / CD / Digital
    Buy

  • Hello Eyes

    ULYSSA2022
    K7, Digital

  • Slowly Paradise

    Constellation Records2018
    CD / LP / digital

  • Skullsplitter

    Constellation Records2015
    CD / LP / digital

  • Your Victorian Breasts (V/A)

    three:four records2013
    LP + digital (limited)

  • Guitar & Voice

    Constellation Records2012
    CD / LP / digital

  • The Sentimental Moves (with Radwan Ghazi Moumneh)

    Grapefruit Records2012
    LP limited edition

  • Eloïse Decazes et Eric Chenaux

    Okraïna Records2012
    LP

  • Warm Weather With Ryan Driver

    Constellation Records2010
    CD / LP / Digital

  • Sloppy Ground

    Constellation Records2008
    CD / LP

Past shows

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  • 29/11/2023FranceSurvilliers (95)Théâtre des Bergeries (orga. Espace Germinal)infos event
  • 28/11/2023FrancePuiseux-en-France (95)Salle Maurice Béjart (orga. Espace Germinal)infos event
  • 09/11/2023FranceTulle (19)Des Lendemains Qui Chantentinfos event
  • 07/10/2023FranceNembro (IT)Santuario della Madonna dello Zuccarelloinfos
  • 06/10/2023ItalieSan Zenone degli Ezzelini (IT)Villa Albrizzi Marini event
  • 01/10/2023ItalieBari (IT)Times Zone Festival - Officina degli Esordiinfos
  • 26/07/2023FranceSégur-le-château (19)La Ruelleinfos
  • 22/07/2023DanemarkFano (DK)Fano Free Folk Festivalinfos event
  • 22/06/2023FranceLyon (69)Le Périscopeinfos event
  • 20/06/2023ItalieCervia (IT)Lupo 340infos event
  • 18/06/2023ItalieBrescia (IT)Ground Music Festivalinfos event
  • 23/05/2023FranceMarseille (13)L'EmbobineuseJosef Van Wisseminfos event
  • 20/04/2023France Paris (75)Le ConsulatFrance Sauvageinfos event
  • 26/03/2023ItalieTerni (IT)Caos (Degustazioni Musicali)infos
  • 25/03/2023ItalieFlorence (IT)Sala Vanniinfos
  • 23/03/2023ItalieNapoli (IT)Sala Assoliinfos event
  • 18/02/2023FranceLa Réole (33)La Petite Populaireinfos event
  • 17/02/2023FranceParis (75)Chapelle XIV (Orga. Pieg) (ANNULÉ)Léonore Boulanger event
  • 16/02/2023FranceSaints-en-Puisaye (89) La Maison Composer infos
  • 09/12/2022Grande-BretagneLondon (UK)West Hampstead Arts Clubinfos event
  • 06/12/2022Grande-BretagneSheffield (UK)Bishops HouseJames Greeninfos event
  • 03/12/2022Grande-BretagneGlasgow (UK)The Old HairdressersAilie Ormston, Josh Thorpeinfos event
  • 02/12/2022Grande-BretagneEdinbourg (UK)Summerhallinfos event
  • 23/11/2022SuisseLausanne (CH)Standard / Deluxe (orga. L'association du Salopard)Gilles Poizatinfos event
  • 19/11/2022BelgiqueBruxelles (BE)Le Botanique - Rotondeinfos event
  • 02/11/2022ItalieMilano (IT)Spazio TeatroMary Lattimoreinfos event
  • 01/11/2022ItalieParme (IT)Borgo Santa Brigida 5/Ainfos
  • 30/10/2022ItalieRome (IT)Teatro Studio BorgnaBen Lamar Gay Ensemble
  • 16/10/2022FranceRodez (12)Musée Denys Puechinfos
  • 09/10/2022EspagneVic (ES)La Jazz Cavainfos event
  • 08/10/2022EspagneBarcelone (ES)Casa Montjuic (ex Sala Hiroshima)infos
  • 16/09/2022CanadaGuelph (CA)Guelph Jazz Festival, Heritage HallMusic & Dance duo with Aimée Dawn Robinsoninfos
  • 15/09/2022CanadaGuelph (CA)Guelph Jazz Festival, Royal City Missioninfos
  • 14/09/2022CanadaToronto (CA)Tranzac Southern Cross LoungeDrumheller
  • 13/09/2022CanadaToronto (CA)Tranzac Main HallRyan Driver, Phil Melanson
  • 09/09/2022CanadaMontréal (CA)Centre PHI, Espace Ainfos
  • 30/08/2022République TchèquePrague (CZ) Punctuminfos event
  • 29/08/2022AllemagneBerlin (DE) CassiopeiaMeagre Martininfos event
  • 30/07/2022PortugalCaldas da Rainha (PT) OSSO
  • 29/07/2022PortugalLisbon (PT) Festival Appleton, Terraço do Centro Cultural
  • 27/07/2022PortugalBragança (PT) Convento De São Franciso (orga. Dedos Bionicos) - Bragança (PT) event
  • 17/07/2022ItaliePanicale (IT) Effeto 48 [sunrise set]infos event
  • 17/07/2022ItalieL'Aquila (IT) Paesaggi Sonori [sunset set]infos event
  • 08/07/2022FranceRennes (35)Ferme de Quincéinfos event
  • 04/06/2022FranceNiort (79)Concert en appartement, orga La Dynamo event
  • 26/05/2022FranceNantes (44)Festival Wine Nat White Heat, Ateliers de BitcheJulián Mayorga, Kee Avil, Marion Cousin et Kaumwaldinfos event
  • 27/04/2022FranceLille (59)L'Aéronef (COMPLET)Hania Raniinfos event
  • 26/04/2022FranceFeyzin (69)L'Épicerie Moderne (COMPLET)Hania Raniinfos event
  • 24/04/2022FranceThiers (63)TBA
  • 13/04/2022FranceMontreuil (93)Les Instants ChavirésAshley Paul + RAY, James Stilton & Le Petit Ménestrel (DJ set)infos event
  • 01/04/2022FranceOrléans (45)« ça tricote au théâtre #3 » - Théâtre d'Orléans, salle Vitez (orga. Tricollectif)Furinfos event
  • 25/02/2022FranceErquery (60)La Grange ErqueryMood, Golem Mécaniqueinfos event
  • 23/10/2021FranceAlbi (81)Centre d'art Le Laitinfos event
  • 22/10/2021FranceTarnos (40)Eglise des ForgesAntoine Bellangerinfos event
  • 21/10/2021FranceBordeaux (33)Lieu secret
  • 19/09/2021FranceParis (75)Festival Vaille que Vaille, le Café de Paris (orga. collectif Pieg) (ANNULÉ)Fantôme event
  • 17/09/2021FranceToulouse (31)Le Printemps de Septembre, isdaTZombie Zombieinfos event
  • 04/09/2021SuisseNyon (CH)Festival Jazz au Peuple, Les Marchandisesinfos event
  • 20/06/2021FranceAlbi (81)Centre d'art le Laitinfos
  • 19/06/2021FranceDie (26)Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Die (ANNULÉ)infos
  • 12/12/2020FranceMontreuil (93)Webradio "Ça sent le sapin" (live streaming)infos
  • 15/10/2020FranceParis (75)Centre Culturel Canadieninfos event
  • 15/02/2020FranceLe Petit-Quevilly (76)Bibilothèque François Truffautinfos event
  • 08/02/2020FranceParisFestival 'Au Fond De l'Hiver', Petit BainRichard Dawsoninfos event
  • 05/02/2020FranceMetzLes TrinitairesRichard Dawsoninfos event
  • 23/01/2020BelgiqueBruxellesLe Palaceinfos event
  • 08/01/2020FranceDijonGalerie Interfaceinfos event
  • 13/12/2019FranceParisLe Café de ParisJean-Luc Guionnetinfos
  • 09/12/2019FranceStrasbourgPaye ton noël, place Grimeissen event
  • 08/12/2019SuisseVevey (CH)Le Bout du Mondeinfos event
  • 07/12/2019SuisseBâle (CH)PlattfonManuel Troller event
  • 01/12/2019SuisseGenève (CH)Face Z Festival, salon d'hiverOrlando, Azur 3000infos event
  • 26/09/2019FranceNantesMusée d'arts de Nantesinfos
  • 14/09/2019FranceAulus-les-Bains (09)CAMP Festival (ANNULÉ)L'ocelle mare, Phill Niblock, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Felicia Atkinsoninfos
  • 22/08/2019Grande-BretagneGlasgowThe Old HairdressersRichard Youngsinfos event
  • 10/04/2019FranceMarseilleMontevideoinfos event
  • 29/03/2019FrancePantinFestival Banlieues Bleues, La DynamoMhysainfos event
  • 12/12/2018FrancePantin (93)La Dynamo de Banlieues Bleues& Christine Abdelnour, Fantazio & Théo Ceccali infos event
  • 18/10/2018FranceClissonLa Petite Maison Utopique event
  • 17/10/2018FranceAllonnes (72)La Peniche ExcelsiorJason Sharpinfos event
  • 13/10/2018FranceBrestAtlantique Jazz FestivalJason Sharpinfos event
  • 29/09/2018FranceMontpellierInternationales de la guitare, les 24h démentesinfos event
  • 05/07/2018FranceParis (75)Point ÉphémèreOrgue Agnèsinfos event
  • 30/06/2018FrancePoitiersFestival Bruisme - Le Confort Moderneinfos event
  • 23/06/2018FranceParisLe Zorba event
  • 03/06/2018FranceLabège (31)Maison Salvaninfos
  • 02/06/2018FranceTarbesCeltic Pubinfos
  • 01/06/2018FranceTarbesCeltic Pubinfos event
  • 19/05/2018FranceSarregueminesLe Terminus
  • 13/05/2018FranceToulouseLe Taquininfos event
  • 12/05/2018FranceAllemans (24)Café l'ArsenicL'Ocelle Mareinfos
  • 11/05/2018FrancePérigueuxEspace Culturel François MitterrandL'Ocelle Mareinfos
  • 29/04/2018FranceRennesAlaska brocanteRyan Driverinfos event
  • 05/04/2018FranceMontreuilLes Instants ChavirésBass Clefinfos event
  • 30/03/2018FranceLyonLe Bal des Fringantsinfos event
  • 29/03/2018FranceMetzThéâtre du Saulcy - espace Bernard Marie Koltès (orga. Fragment)Angle, Ethiopian Voiceinfos event
  • 15/03/2018FranceJoué-les-ToursLe Temps MachineYacht Clubinfos event
  • 12/03/2018FranceBiarritzLibraire Le Festin Nuinfos event
  • 14/02/2018FranceAngersMusée Jean Lurçatinfos event
  • 16/03/2017FranceParisParis Music Festival , FGO BarbaraLukas Koening, Ar Kerinfos event
  • 12/01/2017FranceParisLe BalChristine Abdelnourinfos event
  • 04/10/2016FranceParisEspace en CoursKa Baird event
  • 02/10/2016FranceLyonQuirky Festival, Le Bal des Fringantsinfos event
  • 03/07/2016FranceRennesLes Tombées de la Nuit, Chapelle de l’Hôtel Dieuinfos
  • 02/07/2016FranceToursLa Guinguette event
  • 01/07/2016FranceMettray (37)Festival Intergalactique, La Barreinfos
  • 28/05/2016FranceRouenFestival Rush, Presqu'île RolletKaterine, The Limiñanas, Eddy Crampes, Arlt, Nord, Thee Verduns...infos event
  • 26/05/2016FranceParisL'Olympic CaféSourdure event
  • 25/03/2016FranceReimsLa Villa DouceHelved Rum, Maxime Petit
  • 19/11/2015Pays-BasUtrecht (Nl)Le Guess Who, TivoliVredenburginfos
  • 10/11/2015FranceJoué-lès-ToursLe Temps MachineArltinfos event
  • 17/10/2015FranceGrenobleLe CielOdessey & Oracleinfos event
  • 10/10/2015FrancePoitiersFestival le Circuit, Auditorium Saint-Germaininfos event
  • 28/09/2015FranceParisL'ArchipelJozef Van Wisseminfos event
  • 25/09/2015FranceLyonHumanist S.K. Festival, Le PériscopeChicaloyoh, Vitas Guerulaïtisinfos event
  • 19/09/2015BelgiqueSchærbeek (Be)La Carotteinfos
  • 18/09/2015Pays-BasTilburg (Nl)Incubate Festival, Factoriuminfos
  • 13/09/2015FranceRivières (81)Festival Baignade Interdite, Piscine d'AiguelèzeRafael Toral, Cantenac Dagar, Odessey & Oracle, Loupinfos event
  • 18/07/2015FranceSaint-NazaireFarniente Festival, Plage de Monsieur HulotHan Bennink, Jean-François Pauvros & Mount Analogue, Zsuzsanne Varkonyiinfos event
  • 17/07/2015FranceSaint-NazaireFarniente Festival, Plage de Monsieur Hulotinfos event
  • 05/07/2015FranceParisFestival les Siestes Electroniques, Musée du Quai BranlyAïsha Deviinfos event
  • 26/06/2015FranceDijonLe Consortiuminfos event
  • 05/06/2015NorvègeOslo (No)Only Connect Festivalinfos
  • 28/05/2015Grande-BretagneLondon (Uk)Cafe OtoOscilanzinfos
  • 30/04/2015FranceParisLa Péniche AntipodeDidier Petitinfos event
  • 23/04/2015FranceColmarFestival Supersounds, Atelier ARNinfos
  • 18/04/2015FranceRennesFestival Roulements de Tambour, Antipode MJCForever Pavot + Le Groupe Obscur + Get Your Guninfos event
  • 02/04/2015FranceToulouseFestival Beausoleil, Musée d'art Les AbattoirsFuturoscope, Ela Orleansinfos event
  • 27/03/2015FranceParisPenny Lane event
  • 01/03/2015FranceClermont-FerrandMusée d'Art Roger Quilliot, Fac'Tory au MARQinfos
  • 20/11/2014FranceAnglet (64)Les Ecuries de BarojaMicro-Chorale event
  • 27/05/2014FranceParisLa Machine du Moulin RougeLee Ranaldo & The Dustinfos event
  • 17/04/2014FranceBrestLa CarèneElysian Fieldsinfos event
  • 03/04/2014FranceMetzLes TrinitairesRamona Cordovainfos event
  • 15/03/2014SuisseGenève (Ch)Festival DAF14, Centre d'Expression Numérique et Corporelleinfos event
  • 14/03/2014FranceMontreuilMaison PopulaireJacob Wreninfos
  • 10/03/2014Pays-BasAmsterdam (Nl)ParadisoThee Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestrainfos event
  • 08/03/2014FranceParisGalerie Treizeinfos event
  • 05/03/2014BelgiqueLeuven (Be)StukAme Henderson / Public Recordingsinfos
  • 27/02/2014FranceBruxelles (Be)BotaniqueThee Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestrainfos event
  • 19/02/2014FranceLimogesCCM John LennonThee Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestrainfos
  • 18/02/2014FranceFeyzinL'Epicerie ModerneThee Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestrainfos event
  • 12/01/2014FranceParisGalerie TreizeRichard Youngsinfos event
  • 11/01/2014Grande-BretagneLondres (UK)Cafe OtoRichard Youngsinfos event

  • 'There They Were' (video by Eric Cazdyn, 2022)

  • 'Say Laura' (video by Eric Cazdyn, 2022)

  • 'Say Laura' [abridged]

  • 'Bird & Moon' (video by Eric Cazdyn, 2018)

  • 'An abandoned rose' (video by Eric Cazdyn, 2018)

  • Summer & Time - Session Acoustique (Renaud Folleville - Le Cargo - Mai 2018)

  • 'Wild Moon' (video by Eric Cazdyn, 2018)

  • Eric Chenaux 'There's Our Love' (2018)

  • 'Poor Time' (video by Eric Cazdyn, 2015, 'Skullsplitter')

  • 'Have I Lost My Eyes?' (video by Eric Cazdyn, 2015, 'Skullsplitter')

  • 'Le Pouget' + 'Skullspiltter' (video by Eric Cazdyn, 2015, 'Skullsplitter')

  • 'Have I Lost My Eyes ?' - Live at Le Ciel / Grenoble - 2015 (Film by [reafførests])

  • 'Spring Has Been A Long Time Coming' + 'The Henri Favourite' (video by Eric Cazdyn, 2015, 'Skullsplitter')

  • 'Amazing Backgrounds' (Film by Eric Cazdyn)

  • 'Dull Lights (White or Grey)' (Film by Eric Cazdyn)

  • 'Put In Music' (Live at Casa del Popolo - Montréal 2011)

  • 'Lavallière' / Warm Weather With Ryan Driver (Film by Eric Cazdyn)

NEWS

  • 18/02/2022

    Eric Chenaux ‘Say Laura’ new album + EU tour 2022 !

    ‘Say Laura’ est le septième album d’Eric Chenaux à paraître le 18/02 sur le label canadien Constellation (en co-production pour la première fois avec le label français Murailles Music. C’est peut-être son disque le plus clair, le plus limpide, le plus immédiatement poignant. Un disque aussi chichement outillé qu’à l’accoutumée: voix de tête, six cordes

  • 14/04/2018

    Eric Chenaux nouvel album ‘Slowly Paradise’ & en tournée !

    Eric Chenaux  fait la musique conceptuelle qui n’entend pas sonner comme de la musique conceptuelle. Il jongle entre des “traditions” variées mais, plus que tout sans doute, à chaque disque, Chenaux  s’attaque à la relation entre l’improvisation et le structure, et il le fait à sa manière tout à fait unique, idiosyncratique, et – cela dit sans la

  • 04/12/2017

    Eric Chenaux on the cover of the Wire !

    Eric Chenaux est notre superstar ce mois-ci, le voilà rayonnant en couverture du bimensuel anglais The Wire le sacrant comme il se doit, l'un des plus importants songwriters et improvisateurs de ces 10 dernières années. 

  • 06/09/2015

    Eric Chenaux et Ensemble Minisym au Festival Baignade Interdite (31) les 11 et 13/09

    Nous irons noyer l’été indien au Festival Baignade Interdite à Rivières (81) qui rassemblera notamment le drakkar délirant de l’Ensemble Minisym le 11 ainsi que les superbes chansons liquides de Eric Chenaux le 13 septembre prochain. ~ Festival ‘Baignade Interdite, 48 heures à la dérive’ Piscine d’Aiguelèze, Rivières (Tarn) les 11-12-13 Septembre 2015 http://www.baignadeinterdite.fr/ TEASER

  • 01/07/2015

    FESTIVALS D’ÉTÉ & CLOPINETTES

    © détail de la vidéo d’Arlt ‘Nue comme la main’ par Anafaia Supico & Nuno Barroso Nos bien fidèles camarades ! Nous aimerions de concert avec vous, adresser nos louanges au soleil revenu à coups de clairon et de liqueurs fraîches, à tel coin de table ou au bord de l’eau. Nous n’y tarderons plus. Pour l’heure, c’est joyeux

  • 10/06/2015

    Protected: Pass-Murailles ‘Élévation’: Matt Elliott + Eric Chenaux

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  • 10/06/2015

    Protected: Pass-Murailles ‘Folklores intemporels’: Josephine Foster + Eric Chenaux

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  • 22/12/2014

    Eric Chenaux : nouvel album ‘Skullsplitter’ février 2015

    Le nouvel album d’Eric Chenaux intitulé ‘Skullsplitter’, peut-être son meilleur, sortira le 16 février prochain sur le label Constellation. Norberto Lobo (l’ami guitariste portugais) l’a décrit comme du “r’n’b de saturne”, ce qui est assez pertinent. Eric Chenaux est une grande chanteuse de jazz, un grand guitariste monkien (oui), un descendant médiévalisant d’Arthur Russell ET de Hoagy Carmichael. Sa lenteur hirsute (!), son indolence véritablement psychédélique, et sa

  • 01/03/2014

    Eric Chenaux en support de Thee Silver Mount Zion Orchestra, fév./mars 2014

    Eric Chenaux partage le même label que ses compatriotes de Thee Silver Mount Zion Orchestra (Constellation) ; il partagera quelques scènes avec eux cet hiver, en solo ou en duo avec Éloïse Decazes, de Feyzin à Paris (La Cigale) en passant par Limoges, Bruxelles et Amsterdam. Tournée avec Thee Silver Mount Zion Orchestra 18 fév •

  • 21/12/2013

    ERIC CHENAUX REJOINT NOTRE ROSTER !

    Eric Chenaux est l’un des guitaristes et compositeurs expérimentaux les plus prolifiques et respectés du Canada. Vétéran du genre depuis plus de 20 ans, il expérimente avec les ballades, chansons, mélodies, improvisations, guitares, et haut­ parleurs miniatures. Il a collaboré avec Eloïse Decaezes (Alrt), The Draperies, Drumheller, Nightjars, The Guayaveras, The Allison Cameron Band, John

BIO

Eric Chenaux is a Canadian guitarist, songwriter, singer and sound sculptor. He has released seven solo albums of experimental song on the Montréal-based imprint Constellation, charting an adventurous and uncompromising path through avant-folk, out-jazz and pop composition, increasingly rooted in a unique and elemental juxtaposition of fried, frazzled, semi-improvised guitar and smooth, clear tenor balladry. He has been called “a musician like no other” by Tiny Mix Tapes; his solo albums praised by The Quietus as “stunningly beautiful, genuinely inimitable, whose reputation will only grow with time.” Gracing the cover of The Wire magazine in 2017, the feature article declared: “Chenaux succeeds in generating an astonishing array of timbres. A singer and songwriter possessed of angelic sweetness and clarity accompanying himself with largely improvised, visceral guitar textures that seem intent on undermining and obscuring his own songs. It’s the need to communicate tussling with the urge to obfuscate; lucidity versus opacity; form against chaos.” 

Though based in France for the past decade, Chenaux was a key figure in Toronto’s fertile indie and avant/improv music scenes throughout the 1990s and 2000s, releasing a first solo album of instrumental improv guitar in 1999 and co-founding the experimental music label Rat-drifting in 2001, which documented a dynamic cross-section of iconoclastic Toronto experimental music projects over the ensuing decade, including several ensembles in which Chenaux also figured as a member: The Draperies, The Reveries, The Guayaveras, The Marmots, Allison Cameron Band, Drumheller and Nightjars. Previously he was a core member of the cult Toronto postpunk/math-rock group Phleg Camp and the related duo Lifelikeweeds.

Chenaux’s first album as a singer-songwriter was ‘Dull Lights’, released on Constellation in 2006, and an acclaimed, highly original solo discography has unfolded since then: ‘Sloppy Ground’ (2008); ‘Warm Weather With Ryan Driver’ (2010); ‘Guitar & Voice’ (2012); ‘Skullsplitter’ (2015); ‘Slowly Paradise’ (2018) and ‘Say Laura’ (2022). He has featured on a range of collaborative records issued by other labels through this same span, including Okraïna, Avatar, Grapefruit and Three:four. He has performed and recorded with countless artists, including Ryan Driver, Sandro Perri, Eloïse Decazes, Michelle McAdorey, Nick Fraser, Martin Arnold, Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, Pauline Oliveros, John Oswald, Michael Snow, Brodie West, Han Bennink, Christine Abdelnour, Michael Moore, Josephine Foster, Martin Tetrault, Wilbert De Joode, Gareth Davis, Jacob Wren, Norberto Lobo, Nathaniel Mann and many more. Chenaux also composes for film and contemporary dance, including a long-standing association with conceptual filmmaker Eric Cazdyn for his solo music, and in recurring collaboration with multi-media and sound installation artist Marla Hlady.

Eric Chenaux lives at Le Pouget in the commune of Condat-sur-Ganaveix in central France with his partner and their dog, tending to a field of wild horses.

LINE-UP
Eric Chenaux : Guitar, Vocals

LINKS

PRESS

  • THE GUARDIAN

    “One of the best and most under-appreciated singer-songwriters on the planet has returned with a new album”

  • The Quietus

    “Where Chenaux really differs from any of them is in his lysergic tonal explorations, behind his honey-dipped vocals and baffling assortment of bent guitar notes, aquatic and forever morphing”

  • Uncut

    “The 11 minutes, Robert Wyattish ‘Wild Moon’ with its woovy keys and extrem fretwork building to a quievring peak – stands out but sensual beauty abounds.”

  • FOLK RADIO

    “Eric Chenaux makes conceptual music that’s not meant to sound conceptual. (…) Fundamentally, Chenaux writes love songs, which he sings in a voice honeyed and clear, while his guitar gently bends, frazzles, chortles, diverges and decomposes.”

  • The Wire

    “A singer and songwriter possessed of angelic sweetness and clarity accompanying himself with largely improvised, visceral guitar textures that seem intent on undermining and obscuring his own songs. It’s the need to communicate tussling with the urge to obfuscate; lucidity versus opacity; form against chaos.”

DISCOGRAPHIE

  • Say Laura

    Constellation Records / Murailles Music2022
    LP / CD / Digital
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  • Hello Eyes

    ULYSSA2022
    K7, Digital

  • Slowly Paradise

    Constellation Records2018
    CD / LP / digital

  • Skullsplitter

    Constellation Records2015
    CD / LP / digital

  • Your Victorian Breasts (V/A)

    three:four records2013
    LP + digital (limited)

  • Guitar & Voice

    Constellation Records2012
    CD / LP / digital

  • The Sentimental Moves (with Radwan Ghazi Moumneh)

    Grapefruit Records2012
    LP limited edition

  • Eloïse Decazes et Eric Chenaux

    Okraïna Records2012
    LP

  • Warm Weather With Ryan Driver

    Constellation Records2010
    CD / LP / Digital

  • Sloppy Ground

    Constellation Records2008
    CD / LP

CONTACT

Booking : François Montjosieu
Promo : Varvara Papaspanopoulou