SLOWLY PARADISE

180gram vinyl includes 12x24 art print poster + download. RIYL: Richard Dawson, John Fahey, Derek Bailey, Richard Youngs, Billie Holiday.... '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.' The Wire (Eric Chenaux Appeared On The Cover Of The Wire Nov 2017) // 'In the field of avant guitar wrangling, Cheanaux's style is genuinely distinctive... recalls John Martyn, Marc Ribot and Arthur Russell...Chenaux's pure sweet voice soars along Chet Baker and Jeff Buckley lines...' Uncut // Eric Chenaux makes conceptual music that's not meant to sound conceptual. He operates among various 'traditions' but perhaps most broadly, Chenaux's records grapple with the relationship between improvisation and structure in very particular, unique, idiosyncratic ways and quite without irony or cynicism, through love. Because fundamentally, Chenaux writes love songs, which he sings in a voice honeyed and clear, while his guitar gently bends, frazzes, chortles, diverges and decomposes. This juxtaposition of his mellow, dexterous crooning and his highly experimental (and equally dexterous) guitar explorations, explodes even unconventional notions of singing and accompaniment, of tonal and timbral interplay between guitar and voice