“Delights of My Life”, Éric Chenaux Trio

The song by composer, singer and avant-jazz guitarist Eric Chenaux is as captivating as it is intriguing. The musician redefines the role of crooner jazz with an original repertoire which nevertheless seems familiar, but gently seasoned with psychotropic drugs. On Delights of My Life as on his previous albums, his candid voice steals the show (he has the same disarming tone that Damian Albarn takes on his sad songs), as well as his talkative and iconoclastic guitar playing, accompanied by subtle sound effects, in the style of our dear René Lussier — drummer Phillipe Melanson (collaborator of Joseph Shabason and US Girls) and Ryan Driver on the Wurlitzer organ accompany him in this soaring trip new jazz. This Ain’t Lifeas an opener, is already worth the price of the album, a flowing groove introduced by extraterrestrial sounds, Chenaux singing his impressionist poetry: “ This ain’t life stone sky need heart / Sundown dancehall dead slamming doors / Hope glass and stone flowers night blood blue time and ball. »

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