Delights Of My Life Eric Chenaux Trio SKU: CST179LP Barcode: 0666561017910 26.00 £26.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Constellation Released Date: 31st May 2024 Buying Format: 180g 1LP Includes Download Code Forthcoming Pre Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info 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 throughout 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. Genre: Experimental, Avant-Garde Jazz. Deluxe 180gLP Art Edition + 300gsm inner + set of two 12”x12” 300gsm art cards + DL card. RIYL: Chet Baker, Jim O’Rourke, Billie Holiday, Derek Bailey, Jeff Parker, Mary Halvorson, David Grubbs. Artist Eric Chenaux Trio Genre Jazz Label Constellation Buying Options 180g 1LP Includes Download Code Format 180g , 1LP , Includes Download Code Condition New Country UK Track Listings This Ain’t Life I’ve Always Said Love Hello Eyes These Things Simply Fly Light Can Be Low Delights Of My Life Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Jazz View Product Quick View Diana Krall Glad Rag Doll Jazz | Verve | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 16th October 2012 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Diana Krall Glad Rag Doll £25.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Verve SKU: 3712694 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 16th October 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View George Russell Septet The Stratus Seekers Jazz | Doxy ACV | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 19th October 2018 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders George Russell Septet The Stratus Seekers £18.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Doxy ACV SKU: ACV2105 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 19th October 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Duke Ellington Blues In Orbit Jazz | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP Released 22nd March 2012 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Duke Ellington Blues In Orbit £20.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP443 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 22nd March 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Les McCann Ltd But Not Really Jazz | Speakers Corner | 180g, 1LP Released 18th February 2013 £34.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Les McCann Ltd But Not Really £34.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Speakers Corner SKU: LS86016 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 18th February 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Keith Jarrett Solo Concerts: Bremen / Lausanne Jazz | ECM | 3LP, Box Set Released 27th October 2023 £84.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Keith Jarrett Solo Concerts: Bremen / Lausanne £84.00 Genre: Jazz Label: ECM SKU: 4505325 Formats: 3LP, Box Set Released Date: 27th October 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Stan Getz Imagination Jazz | Dreyfus Jazz | 1LP Released 10th May 2019 £13.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Stan Getz Imagination £13.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Dreyfus Jazz SKU: 4050538484090 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 10th May 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Wayne Shorter Emanon Jazz | Blue Note | 180g, 3LP, Includes Booklet, Includes CD Released 28th September 2018 £179.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Wayne Shorter Emanon £179.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Blue Note SKU: 6714397 Formats: 180g, 3LP, Includes Booklet, Includes CD Released Date: 28th September 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Portico Quartet Knee Deep in the North Sea Jazz | Real World | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 25th February 2011 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Portico Quartet Knee Deep in the North Sea £16.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Real World SKU: LPRW182 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 25th February 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Alice Coltrane World Galaxy Jazz | Impulse | 180g, 1LP Released 8th February 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Alice Coltrane World Galaxy £19.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Impulse SKU: 5363050 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 8th February 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Duke Ellington Duke’s Big 4 (Analogue Productions/Pablo) Jazz | Analogue Productions/Pablo | 180g, 2LP Released 31st May 2024 £47.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Duke Ellington Duke’s Big 4 (Analogue Productions/Pablo) £47.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Analogue Productions/Pablo SKU: AAPJ 153 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 31st May 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Jazz Start again
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