Chef Menteur » MP3s http://chefmenteur.org/blog The Answer's In Forgetting Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:09:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 mermaid swansong. http://chefmenteur.org/blog/2009/09/08/mermaid-swansong/ http://chefmenteur.org/blog/2009/09/08/mermaid-swansong/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:22:03 +0000 alec http://chefmenteur.org/blog/?p=96 the place was shutting down soon anyway. maybe it was just being all-but-kicked-off the stage at the mermaid (we only played three songs that night). this is from a live stereo tape recording of a mermaid show we did with the bastard sons of subotnick and shatner. there were not enough people to make three bands, either on or off stage. i think potpie brought homebrew beer backstage and deprived the club of some possible revenue and that had more to do with kicking us out than the music. or maybe not. you be the judge. gilgamesh was our third and last song that night, and yeah, we kinda dragged it out. if you dig that kind of thing, you’ll like this. if not, you’ll hate it.

gilgamesh from last show at the mermaid

]]> http://chefmenteur.org/blog/2009/09/08/mermaid-swansong/feed/ 0 the unquickening (lost mp3s, part 1) http://chefmenteur.org/blog/2009/09/06/the-unquickening/ http://chefmenteur.org/blog/2009/09/06/the-unquickening/#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:38:31 +0000 alec http://chefmenteur.org/blog/?p=90 every now and then i come across a track that was never released but i think is worth throwing out there; here’s a very minimal verrsion of “europa” from december 2003:

europa.minimal 19.dec.2003

this very much represents our idea of what ambient drone meant at the time. i will probably be throwing up more tracks as they come up, especially if people like them.

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]]> http://chefmenteur.org/blog/2008/10/29/dans-photomusic-blog/feed/ 0 the answer’s in forgetting http://chefmenteur.org/blog/2008/02/12/the-answers-in-forgetting/ http://chefmenteur.org/blog/2008/02/12/the-answers-in-forgetting/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:16:19 +0000 alec http://chefmenteur.org/blog/2008/02/12/the-answers-in-forgetting/ The Answer's In Forgettinghere’s the new release. it’s called:

the answer’s in forgetting

it took a little longer than we’d hoped but we’re really proud of it. with this album we have a new lineup, a new studio and a new approach to recording.

lovely cover art (front, inside and back) by miranda lake.

recorded by us. mixed by us. mastered by john fischbach at piety street.

more info / mp3 / mailorder at backporch revolution.

here are some places you can buy the cd. support your local independent record store and bookseller!

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