Eric Chenaux

Eric Chenaux is really a Toronto-based guitarist, songwriter, and sound sculptor; he’s a key shape in the city’s improv and indie music moments. He spent some time working both being a bandleader and sideman in a multitude of configurations, from experimental and contemporary classical structure to jazz, nation, and folk. He’s active in lots of bands simultaneously, either like a performer or like a composer and arranger. Chenaux’s 1st music group, the post-punk trio Phleg Camp, self-released their eponymously entitled debut cassette in 1989, and adopted it using the full-length Ya’red Good Scrape on Cargo Information in 1992. Following a band’s break up, he focused on composing for your guitar and was fifty percent of the duo Lifelikeweeds, who released just a two-sided solitary. While Chenaux was energetic during the remaining ’90s, he wasn’t documenting. In 2001, he and Martin Arnold co-founded the shop label Rat-Drifting. In 2003, he resumed documenting with Like Don’t Switch, a duo recording with previous Crash Vegas vocalist Michelle McAdorey, and Blase Kisses, along with his experimental cover music group the Reveries. Chenaux authorized to Constellation in 2006, and released the to begin his vocalist/songwriter albums, Dull Lamps, and made an appearance on labelmate Sandro Perri’s Takes on Polmo Polpo. His sophomore work, 2008’s Sloppy Floor, highlighted his theoretically advanced and extremely original acoustic guitar playing. The Reveries privately released a CD-R entitled Play the Music of Sade exactly the same season. THE SUNSHINE with Ryan Drivers made an appearance on Constellation this year 2010. The record showcased a change. Drivers, a multi-instrumentalist, improviser, and jazz composer — also an associate from the Reveries — added those brand-new components to Chenaux’s musical structures. That same season he played electric guitar and sang on Martin Arnold’s Tam Lin record. In 2012 the songwriter released the totally solo Electric guitar & Voice, nonetheless it was no strum-and-sing fest. An extremely experimental documenting that showcased different methods — both playing and documenting — and textural components; it was broadly celebrated. Also in 2012, the limited-edition providing The Sentimental Techniques, recorded in cooperation with documenting engineer and audio and video designer Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Dark Hand, Jerusalem in my own Heart), premiered, as was like a break up-10″ with vocalist Eloïse Decazes. Chenaux spent another couple of years playing displays with several performers, like the Guayaveras as well as the Draperies; he also became is usually a member from the jazz quintet Drumheller and offered narration for Norberto Lobo’s film (and soundtrack) Fornalha. Skullsplitter, his 5th record for Constellation, was another single effort blended by Radwan Ghazi Moumneh. It had been released in Feb of 2015.