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Artist:	CHENAUX, ERIC
Title:	Dull Lights
Label:	CONSTELLATION (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	CST 043CD

"Dull Lights is an album of long winding melodies and subtle shifts and turns. Fraser's drums play around the beat, or paint beneath it, while Arnold and Chenaux pluck buzzing lines from guitar and banjo. Imagine an intersection of Richard Youngs and Red Red Meat, or a lumberjack Devendra Banhart whose reference point is more The Grifters than glam. Eric Chenaux has composed a delicate, intricate, inspired cycle of pared-down tunes using a highly original palette of guitar-based sounds and strategies. We're thrilled to present Eric's unique voice (and voicings) with this release."

Artist:	CHENAUX, ERIC
Title:	Sloppy Ground
Label:	CONSTELLATION (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	CST 052CD

"Sloppy Ground is Eric Chenaux's strongest, most accessible and most dynamic work in years. We have long been champions of the man's inimitable talents -- as a songwriter, arranger and mind-bending guitarist -- and this new album should make these talents clear to the nominally attentive listener. This is a collection of beautifully fried love songs, highly original in compositional approach and instrumental texture, utterly compelling in lyrical content and delivery. As Chenaux says, 'the lyrics are more concerned with what love does rather than what it means... the time moving through these tunes is not one of the beginning of love or the end or heartbreak of love (though I love that stuff too) but more often in the middle (the working middle, the in between).' Chenaux has rallied some of Toronto's finest 'out' players for Sloppy Ground, including Nick Fraser on drums, Ryan Driver on amplified melodica and synths, David Prentice on violin, Doug Tielli on 5-string banjo, Martin Arnold on electric tenor banjo, and Aimee Dawn Robinson on electric echo harp. Chenaux's own guitar work has never been more thrillingly deployed in the context of (relatively) conventional songcraft."

Artist:	CHENAUX, ERIC
Title:	Warm Weather With Ryan Driver
Label:	CONSTELLATION (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	CST 068CD

"Eric Chenaux is one of Toronto's most prolific and respected musical iconoclasts, an experimental guitar virtuoso with over two decades of dedicated and diverse service to an artistic community that encompasses postpunk, lo-fi, folk, multi-media composition and performance (chiefly in collaboration with modern dance) and free and improvised music. Warm Weather With Ryan Driver is Eric's third album for Constellation, which has been the conduit for his primary song-oriented solo work since 2006. Building on his fruitful collaboration with piano/synth/melodica player Ryan Driver - whose key role on the new album is signaled by his inclusion in its very title - the new record is without doubt Chenaux's most accomplished and focused work of forward-looking, contemporary balladry."

Artist:	CHENAUX, ERIC
Title:	Warm Weather With Ryan Driver
Label:	CONSTELLATION (CANADA)
Format:	LP+CD
Price:	$23.00
Catalog #:	CST 068LP

180 gram LP version with limited edition poster and CD. "Eric Chenaux is one of Toronto's most prolific and respected musical iconoclasts, an experimental guitar virtuoso with over two decades of dedicated and diverse service to an artistic community that encompasses postpunk, lo-fi, folk, multi-media composition and performance (chiefly in collaboration with modern dance) and free and improvised music. Warm Weather With Ryan Driver is Eric's third album for Constellation, which has been the conduit for his primary song-oriented solo work since 2006. Building on his fruitful collaboration with piano/synth/melodica player Ryan Driver - whose key role on the new album is signaled by his inclusion in its very title - the new record is without doubt Chenaux's most accomplished and focused work of forward-looking, contemporary balladry."

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