ERIC CHEAUX

With new material from his release on Canada´s legendary Constellation label, Eric Cheaux opens his European tour at Oto. Accompanied by the Dead Rat Orchestra.

We are offered an evening of Chenaux´s ballads, gently draped across structures of splintering and fractured guitar work. His sweet and faltering vocals provide a warmth against which his guitar freely explores melodic variants.

ERIC CHEAUX

Eric Chenaux experiments with guitars, ballads, electronics and tunes as an improviser and songwriter with an affection for balladeers such as Betty Carter, Howard Skempton, Willie Nelson, June Tabor, Sade, Tony MacMahon, Archie Shepp, Jimmy Van Heusen, Nic Jones, Carla Bley, Peter Cusack, Anthonello de Caserta, Waterson:Carthy, Pascal Comelade and Paul Bley.

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http://www.myspace.com/ericchenaux

http://www.cstrecords.com/releases/cst052

http://www.rat-drifting.com/

DEAD RAT ORCHESTRA:

Broken melodies, fragments of noise, sounds found at the back of their throats. For every event a new set is crafted, worked and sculpted. The physicality of feet stomping, instrument breaking and voices cracking and laughing. Creating with anything they can draw a sound from: guitar, accordion, balloons, cattle grids, harmoniums, Dansette record players, bowed saws, sine waves, feedback, Celeste, tubular bells, singing bowls, music boxes, toy birds and what-ever they just found in the street outside the venue. The exploration of these instruments creates a music of constantly varying form. They seek to make music with resonance: joyous, beautiful, sad. Improvisation is key and no matter what structure they create, every time they perform they are free to stray.

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