Eric Chenaux

NEWS

10/03/2024
Eric Chenaux Trio new album ‘Delights of my life’
Following the release of Eric Chenaux’s last album Say Laura (2022), The Guardian wrote “the Canadian songwriter has one of the all-time great singing voices in popular music, an intensely romantic Chet Baker-ish instrument that seems to float with piercing direction, like a paper aeroplane thrown hard through mist.” With Uncut describing his songcraft “as delicate and lovely
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

Following the release of Eric Chenaux’s last album Say Laura (2022), The Guardian wrote “the Canadian songwriter has one of the all-time great singing voices in popular music, an intensely romantic Chet Baker-ish instrument that seems to float with piercing direction, like a paper aeroplane thrown hard through mist.” With Uncut describing his songcraft “as delicate and lovely as a rare orchid” and Record Collector praising the album’s “sublime alien balladry” such are the accolades that have accrued to Chenaux’s unique and consummately uncompromising solo music for well over a decade now.

Delights Of My Life opens a new chapter for the singer/guitarist and formally introduces the Eric Chenaux Trio, with Toronto-based musicians Ryan Driver on Wurlitzer organ and Phillipe Melanson on electronic percussion. Driver is a longtime collaborator, appearing on several of Chenaux’s solo albums (even embedded into the very title of the 2010 masterpiece Warm Weather With Ryan Driver). Melanson has a long list of involvements that include Bernice, Joseph Shabason, and U.S Girls, and a recent release with his Impossible Burger project on Chenaux’s own experimental label Rat-drifting, but this marks the first fulsome involvement between the two as players on a recording.

In many ways Delights Of My Life also picks up right where Chenaux’s previous album left off, in its subversions of a classic, timeless jazz-inflected balladry, while the interplay of the trio formation indeed unfurls many new delights. Recording together at Chenaux’s spartan home studio in rural France, Driver’s harmonically warped organ and Melanson’s electroacoustic sampling and percussion hold time in newfound ways. Where previously Chenaux relied on a freeze/sustain pedal and minimalist rhythmic triggers to generate both pulse and chordal foundations, Melanson now paints timekeeping with expressive and intricate colourations, through live deployments of fluid sampled percussion (including orchestral timbres like timpani, kettle drums, and woodblock) that blur the boundaries between acoustic and electronic. Driver also ramps up his role in the song arrangements (prefigured in his support playing on Say Laura), teasing out chords and melodic filigree on Wurlitzer that percolate more prominently with Chenaux’s signature fried guitar solos and succulent singing. Both trio members add dulcet backing vocals, most notably on the 10-minute tour-de-force of fuzzed and ring-modulated swing “This Ain’t Life” that opens the record. All seven songs on the album groove and sway, simmer and sparkle, like nothing in the inestimable Chenaux discography to date.

Chenaux’s tunes have the uncanny ability to sound like jazz standards; songs you feel you’ve heard before, though certainly never quite like this. Yet these are of course all originals, compositionally and interpretively, bent through an inimitable avant/out-music lens. Delights Of My Life conveys warm familiarity, shot through with the exuberantly experimental subversion and playful, even mischievous, iconoclasm that continues to mark Chenaux as defiantly, virtuosically, and genially one-of-kind.

LINE-UP

Solo :
Eric Chenaux: guitar, vocals

Trio :
Eric Chenaux: vocals, electric guitar
Ryan Driver: wurlitzer, vocals
Philippe Melanson: electronic percussion, vocals

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

DISCOGRAPHIE

Delights Of My Life
Constellation / Murailles Music2024
LP / CD / Digital
Buy
Say Laura
Constellation / 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

Past shows

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DateCountryCityVenuewith
16/02/2024FranceParis (75)Café Comets event
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

events

26
May
2024
Eric Chenaux
Pewsey (UK) • Acid Horse Festival, The Barge Inn
01
Jun
2024
Eric Chenaux
Le Mans (72) • MUSIQUES TANGENTES (orga. Superforma)
22
Jun
2024
Eric Chenaux
Bristol (UK) • Strange Brew
26
Jun
2024
Eric Chenaux
Manchester (UK) • Low Four Studio (orga.Grey Lantern)
28
Jun
2024
Eric Chenaux
Londres (UK) • St Pancras Old Church (orga. Upset The Rhythm)

'This Ain't Life' (video by Eric Cazdyn, 2024)
'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

10/03/2024
Eric Chenaux Trio new album ‘Delights of my life’
Following the release of Eric Chenaux’s last album Say Laura (2022), The Guardian wrote “the Canadian songwriter has one of the all-time great singing voices in popular music, an intensely romantic Chet Baker-ish instrument that seems to float with piercing direction, like a paper aeroplane thrown hard through mist.” With Uncut describing his songcraft “as delicate and lovely
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 •

BIO

LINE-UP

Solo :
Eric Chenaux: guitar, vocals

Trio :
Eric Chenaux: vocals, electric guitar
Ryan Driver: wurlitzer, vocals
Philippe Melanson: electronic percussion, vocals

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

Delights Of My Life
Constellation / Murailles Music2024
LP / CD / Digital
Buy
Say Laura
Constellation / 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

CONTACT

Booking : François Montjosieu
Promo : Varvara Papaspanopoulou

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NEWS

Eric Chenaux Trio new album ‘Delights of my life’

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

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

Eric Chenaux on the cover of the Wire !

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

FESTIVALS D’ÉTÉ & CLOPINETTES

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

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

Eric Chenaux : nouvel album ‘Skullsplitter’ février 2015

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

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The Quietus

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'This Ain't Life' (video by Eric Cazdyn, 2024)

'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

Delights Of My Life

Say Laura

Hello Eyes

Slowly Paradise

Skullsplitter

Your Victorian Breasts (V/A)

Guitar & Voice

The Sentimental Moves (with Radwan Ghazi Moumneh)

Eloïse Decazes et Eric Chenaux

Warm Weather With Ryan Driver

Past shows

events

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'This Ain't Life' (video by Eric Cazdyn, 2024)

'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)