After some serious consideration, we’ve decided to release the newly recorded album, East of the Sun & West of the Moon, on double vinyl — the way we originally envisioned. But we can do it only with your help, thanks to Kickstarter. Kickstarter is a great way for creative people of all stripes to get [...]
[Apologies to our faithful readers. This news is at least a month old but somehow wasn't posted here.... until now!] Chef Menteur will be opening for Cloudland Canyon and White Hills on Thursday, April 28. Also playing will be Pontiak. All four bands specialize in different flavors of contemporary heavy psychedelic music; although Chef Menteur [...]
All the music from the new album has been finished! We’re currently working on finalizing the mastering, and coming up with artwork; as well as planning the release schedule. We’re sticking with the plan of releasing the new album on double vinyl (that’s 4 sides for a total of 72 minutes) with hand printed covers [...]
There will be no CD version. The album will contain two LP’s and a certificate for mp3 download. That is all.
Not much to report here. Usual humid sluggishness, exotic head and hand injuries, having to work for a living, et cetera makes for the usual vacation from progress. If you are looking for something to read, I’ve put up a blog (mostly about music) here: http://aleatoric.backporchrevolution.com
All three current members of Chef Menteur will be playing with Archipelago this Saturday, opening for Sir Richard Bishop and His Freak of Araby Ensemble. Archipelago is Backporch Revolution’s improvisational folk/drone large ensemble that features many experimental New Orleans musicians. Sir Richard Bishop is known best for his work with Sun City Girls, but has [...]
Date: Saturday 14 March Venue: Balcony Music Club (504 Esplanade Ave, New Orleans) Lineup/times: Tomatoes 10pm, Big Blue Marble 11pm, Chef Menteur 12am Cover: $10 goes to support WTUL This is a fund-raiser for WTUL 91.5 FM and your ticket price also gets you into Cafe Negril, the other nearby venue where Glorybee, Arajay, Broken [...]
Our friend Miranda Lake has just launched her website. Miranda’s art adorns the front, back and interior of our 2007 album, The Answer’s In Forgetting (the title of the album is itself named after the encaustic painting shown on the back). If you ever get a chance to see her art in its full glory, [...]
This may give you a hint at which song we picked for our first cover song ever (not counting Halloween appearances as Black Sabbath etc.) to be played at this Saturday’s show. Speaking of the show, we’ll be playing after Big Blue Marble at the Balcony Music Club somewhere around midnight. This on the corner [...]
We’re happy to announce that we will be doing a show on March 14th on Frenchmen Street as part of the 50th anniversary of WTUL. More to come…
