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: Artist......: Eric Chenaux
: Album.......: Say Laura :
: Label.......: Constellation Records .. .:.. .
Genre.......: Avantgarde :
Catnr.......: CST160 .
' Source......: CD ,
; Rip.date....: 2023-12-07
Str.date....: 2022-02-18
Quality.....: 236kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :..
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1. Hello, How? and Hey 9:05
2. Your New Rhythm 7:36
3. Say Laura 7:24
4. There They Were 10:23
5. Hold The Line 13:36
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,: The new record by Eric Chenaux is his most immaculate and :,
: pristine. Say Laura perfectly incarnates the counter-intuitive :
:' interplay of instrument and voice that Chenaux has been ':
,: revealing and revelling in throughout the past decade: his :,
: gently unhinged juxtaposition of resplendently smooth, :
:' seductively assured singing and puckish, frazzled, thoroughly ':
,: destabilized guitar could come from no other musician. The five :,
: wandering, wondering ballads on Say Laura bring Chenaux s :
:' semi-improvised but keenly intentional songwriting to its ':
,: fullest, clearest, warmest and coolest articulation; :,
: uncompromising and generous, hyper-specific and loose, spartan :
:' and luxurious, elemental and ornate. ':
,: :,
: Say Laura might as well be a jazz record certainly as much as :
:' his previously acclaimed albums Slowly Paradise and ':
,: Skullsplitter tread that genre-adjacent territory though it :,
: also features moments and melodies that come as close to pop :
:' flirtation as Chenaux is likely to get. But above all, Say ':
,: Laura breathes like no other Chenaux album. Voice and guitar are :,
: inscribed with elemental clarity in a wondrously open, symbiotic :
:' sonic space. His pure tenor croon glides through a crisp, ':
,: reverberant ether while his fried guitar careens dizzily and :,
: giddily, every gesture and timbre captured in unflinching detail :
:' by engineer Cyril Harrison. ':
,: :,
: Chenaux has also made his most minimal, controlled, regulated :
:' and rhythmic record. Citing a spectrum of influences Sun Ra, ':
,: Jeanne Lee, Gang Starr, Charlie Parker, Betty Carter, EPMD and :,
: Thelonious Monk Say Laura expands on a foot-pedal technique :
:' Chenaux has previously used here and there, taking things to a ':
,: more programmatic level: beats composed on a Boss drum machine :,
: are used as noise gate triggers, slowed down and inserted into :
:' his guitar signal path to create tempered pulses. ':
,: :,
: Opener Hello, How? And Hey immediately establishes these :
:' subtly heightened characteristics of elementalism, dualism and ':
,: structure, with Chenaux s vocal tracing gorgeous soaring :,
: melodies across a single beating chord, occupying all the space :
:' until guitar and Wurlitzer (courtesy of the album s only guest, ':
,: long-time collaborator Ryan Driver) enter in a cascade of :,
: twinkle and wah at the two-minute mark, eventually leaving the :
:' vocal behind as the song s second half gives way to a woozy ':
,: guitar and keyboard improv over the chordal pulse. Album closer :,
: Hold The Line follows a similar motif, the vocal playing more :
:' on folk and pop tropes, but wrapping up in time for a ':
,: gloriously gnarled eight-minute instrumental ramble. There They :,
: Were is something closer to unprecedented in Chenaux s :
:' twenty-year songbook: singing and soloing at the same time, he ':
,: breathlessly repeats a joyous highlife-tinged vocal refrain :,
: without pause, cutting against his trademark languorous pace, :
:' propelling the song for miles. Title track and lead single Say ':
,: Laura is the centerpiece distillation of the album s stylistic, :,
: compositional and spatial mission: sparse but lush, controlled :
:' but wild, every note in its place and all over the place. ':
,: :,
: Interviewed as The Wire magazine s cover star in 2017, Chenaux :
:' said the details of our lives are often produced with ':
,: improvisation and experimentation and in my music, improvisation :,
: is a way to hear those details I would not likely be able to :
:' hear otherwise. The details on Say Laura achieve new heights ':
,: of lucid acuity. Eric Chenaux just keeps getting better, and Say :,
: Laura captures him at his best. :
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