Delights Of My Life

Description

Eric Chenaux follows up his highly acclaimed Say Laura (2022) by closing the chapter on solo albums and introducing a new trio formation with Toronto's Phillipe Melanson (Bernice, Jason Shabason, U.S. Girls) on electronic percussion and Ryan Driver on Wurlitzer organ. In many ways, Delights Of My Life picks up where Eric's previous album left off, in its subversions of classic, timeless ballads influenced by jazz, while the trio's interaction unfolds many new delights. The two members of the trio add sweet vocals, particularly on the 10-minute tour de force of fuzzed-out, modulated swing "This Ain't Life" that opens the album. The seven songs on the album groove and sway, shimmer and shine, unmatched in Eric's invaluable discography to date. Delights Of My Life conveys a warm familiarity, infused with exuberant experimental subversion and playful, even mischievous, iconoclasm that continue to make Eric Chenaux a unique artist in his virtuosity and genius. For fans of Chet Baker, Jim O'Rourke, Billie Holiday, Derek Bailey, Jeff Parker, Mary Halvorson, David Grubbs.