Eric Chenaux premieres the new video for “There’s Our Love”, Slowly Paradise out now via Constellation Records

Drawing from Eric Chenaux’s rich history in avant-folk, post-jazz, improvisation and balladry, Slowly Paradise is a lovely collection of mostly long songs guided by soothing, buttery singing and bent, fried fretwork. This stunning new record, showcasing Chenaux’s singular voice and guitar stylings, is being celebrated as the most assured and essential solo work from this inimitable, consummate songwriter. Album info and order link.

ERIC CHENAUX INTERVIEWED ON BBC RADIO 6 – LISTEN HERE:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09vld4d

Chenaux will be touring extensively across around the UK and France this spring, alongside a few other EU dates also announced – read below for the full confirmed itinerary to date.

Eric Chenaux Spring 2018  UK & EU Tour Dates
12.03.18    Biarritz, FR    Librairie le Festin Nu

15.03.18    Joué-les-Tours, FR     Le Temps Machine
29.03.18    Metz, FR    Théâtre du Saulcy
30.03.18    Lyon, FR     Le Bal des Fringants
31.03.18     Montbrison, FR     Cinéma
05.04.18    Montreuil, FR     Les Instants Chavirés
06.04.18    Brussels, BE    AB Salon
09.04.18    London, UK    The Lexington
11.04.18    Manchester, UK    The Portico Library
12.04.18    Stirling, UK    Tolbooth
13.04.2018    Edinburgh, UK    Henry’s Cellar Bar
14.04.18    Glasgow, UK    Glad Cafe
15.04.18     Bradford, UK     Fuse
18.04.18     Southend, UK     Twenty One
19.04.18     Hastings, UK     The Palace
20.04.18     Brighton, UK     Rose Hill Arts Centre
21.04.18     Bristol, UK     Bristol New Music
25.04.18     Copenhagen, DK     Alice
26.04.18     Aarhus, DK     Tape

03.05.18      Bologna, IT     AngelicA 28 Festival Internazionale di Musica
11.05.18     Dordogne, FR     Secret place
12.05.18     Dordogne, FR     Secret place
13.05.18     Toulouse, FR     Le Taquin
23.05.18     Berlin, DE     Kiezsalon
03.06.18     Labège, FR     Maison Salvan
30.06.18      Poitiers, FR      Le Confort Moderne, Festival Bruisme

Slowly Paradise is arguably Chenaux’s most assured and essential solo work, expanding upon on the critical acclaim his previous releases Guitar & Voice and Skullsplitter have rightly garnered.

PRAISE FOR SLOWLY PARADISE:

“This is a remarkable record – it is wildly experimental and as comforting as a soft embrace. The way he takes from the singer-songwriter tradition and from the avant-garde somehow enables him to avoid the pitfalls of both, leaving him free to sculpt his own deeply idiosyncratic vision for songwriting. The most interesting art almost always has a sense of duality, and Slowly Paradise is no different; where it radically differs is in the lack of combat between those opposing forces. Chenaux’s love for Sade, for example, in no way contradicts or confuses his love for Derek Bailey. This all-encompassing spirit coalesces on closing track and highlight ‘Wild Moon’, where Chenaux’s voice is at its most rapturous, over Driver’s restrained but romantic Hammond organ lines, all interwoven with some of the most perplexing guitar workouts on the record. This album is truly his strongest yet, and this closing song is his zenith.” – THE QUIETUS

“This voice is perhaps the funnel for this unfurling of thought, where the splay of feeling is consolidated into phrases. His tone is soft, verging on a whisper, as though straddling the boundary between inner thoughts and outward articulation. Sometimes it falls silent, allowing stuttering stylophones or trembling guitars to carry the monologue forth, alternating between the poetry of language and that which spirals away from what the voice can express. I imagine Chenaux to be daydreaming in these moments, as these instrument solos – sometimes chiming like bells, sometimes melting like wax – paint pictures in the air, trying to enact the images that stream through the mind, vivid and beautiful, yet also fluid and unexplainable.” – ATTN:MAGAZINE

“His sixth for Constellation favours longform songs that highlight both his sweet, unfussy pop voice and its unique relationship to his experimental guitar work, with avant electronics and billowing open spaces…The 11-minute, Robert Wyatt-ish “Wild Moon” – with its woozy keys and extreme fretwork building to a quivering peak – stands out, but sensual beauty abounds.” – UNCUT