Our new double album is now available on iTunes. Also don’t forget, you can still get your own limited edition copy of the 150 gram, custom art, 2xLP which comes with a free download card (this is the only way to get your digital songs in lossless format instead of mp3). See here for all [...]

If you can’t make it to New Orleans tonight for our album release party, don’t fret. You can still take part from a distance. For 24 hours today, Radio Backporch Revolution is streaming the new album. Listen to the stream directly at http://206.225.86.11:8000/listen or via the Radio Backporch Revolution iPhone app. If you can make it [...]

In my opinion CM are one of the most unheralded pioneers of ambience in the past 10 years. —from a new article about Chef Menteur on Beat the Indie Drum. There’s also an exclusive download of “I Belong to this Plateau” —the very first mp3 from East of the Sun and West of the Moon [...]

Electronic music has always been a part of Chef Menteur, and this early track is about as dub-acid as we got, playing with two 303s, a slowed down-drum machine . “Terra Incognita” by Chef Menteur  

Another track from the early days that benefitted greatly by a visit by our friend Mack—who, having returned recently from living and traveling in the Far East, provided the main vocal sample from his impressive collection of Chinese pop music. Perhaps our first attempt to ruthlessly pillage Asian sounds? This one also became a live [...]

Here’s another super early track from the ancien régime of Chef Menteur. This one became a live staple for many years to come. A simple drum beat, groovy bass line and a repeating four-chord progression alternating between Mellotron and Farfisa, overdubbed with samples from Art Bell’s Coast to Coast AM radio show and a 1980′s [...]

Over the past few weeks Dan has been dragging the rest of us around different parts of New Orleans. Without knowing why, we were told to drag our equipment through the streets, ruins, and parks of New Orleans. Parts of City Park, the French Quarter, New Orleans East (by the abandoned Six Flags amusement park) [...]

Big thanks to everyone who came to our rooftop show on Saturday. It was a lot of fun, the weather was beautiful, the food was great, and the beer went down good. We really appreciated the support and hope you had a good time if you were able to make it. And of course, our [...]

Here’s the brand new video for “The Forest,” one of the tracks off our upcoming double album “East of the Sun & West of the Moon.” The Forest from Chef Menteur on Vimeo. Dan made the visuals. No digital effects used! Special guest on bass: B. Aubrey Freeman (Geisterfahrer, Sketches of an Amorous Window, Why [...]

Here’s an early live improvisation with our friend Mack Hagood on rhythm guitar and drum machine. This jam, like many of our other tunes was recorded to 4-track cassette in our 8th floor practice space in the former Hotel Fontainebleu on Tulane Avenue. Lead guitar is Rick 12-string through old DOD delay pedal. “Betty B [...]