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 Binker And Moses Feeding The Machine Jazz | Gearbox | 1LP Released 4th November 2022 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Binker And Moses Feeding The Machine £25.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Gearbox SKU: GB1576OBI Formats: 1LP Released Date: 4th November 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Booker Ervin The Freedom Book Jazz | Analogue Productions (Prestige) | 180g, 1LP Released 14th March 2016 £45.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Booker Ervin The Freedom Book £45.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Analogue Productions (Prestige) SKU: APRJ7295 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 14th March 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View John Coltrane Another Side Of John Coltrane Jazz | Concord Craft Recordings | 180g, 2LP Released 20th August 2021 £29.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders John Coltrane Another Side Of John Coltrane £29.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Concord Craft Recordings SKU: 7205352 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 20th August 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View John Abercrombie, Dave Holland & Jack DeJohnette Gateway – Luminessence Series – Audiophile Vinyl Edition Jazz | ECM | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 31st May 2024 £31.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders John Abercrombie, Dave Holland & Jack DeJohnette Gateway – Luminessence Series – Audiophile Vinyl Edition £31.00 Genre: Jazz Label: ECM SKU: 4505334 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 31st May 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Elise Legrow Playing Chess Jazz | BMG Records | 1LP Released 16th February 2018 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Elise Legrow Playing Chess £15.00 Genre: Jazz Label: BMG Records SKU: 4050538364897 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 16th February 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Cassandra Wilson Blue Light ‘Til Dawn Jazz | Pure Pleasure | 180g, 2LP Released 6th October 2011 £47.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Cassandra Wilson Blue Light ‘Til Dawn £47.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Pure Pleasure SKU: PPANBST81357 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 6th October 2011 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Miles Davis In a Silent Way Jazz | Mobile Fidelity | 180g, 1LP Released 17th July 2013 £50.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Miles Davis In a Silent Way £50.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Mobile Fidelity SKU: MFSL1377 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 17th July 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Chick Corea Tones For Joan’s Bones Jazz | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP Released 4th January 2019 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Chick Corea Tones For Joan’s Bones £19.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP2317 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 4th January 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Various Artists New Horizons: A Bristol Jazz Sound Jazz | Worm Discs | 2LP Released 4th September 2020 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Various Artists New Horizons: A Bristol Jazz Sound £20.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Worm Discs SKU: WDSCS1LP Formats: 2LP Released Date: 4th September 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Charles Mingus Changes: The Complete 1970s Atlantic Studio Recordings Jazz | Rhino | 8LP, Box Set Released 23rd June 2023 £215.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Charles Mingus Changes: The Complete 1970s Atlantic Studio Recordings £215.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Rhino SKU: 0603497838370 Formats: 8LP, Box Set Released Date: 23rd June 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Jazz Start again
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