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"Incomparable alien balladry taking the fragile beauty of Arthur Russell, Nick Drake or Chet Baker and pairing it with singular guitar gurgles and synth wheezes. Eric Chenaux’s an unmissable astral treasure, with the dulcet joys of local Lost Maps dream-folker Molly Linen in support."
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A gig held at Strange Brew on Saturday 22nd June. The event starts at 19:00.
“One of the best and most under-appreciated singer-songwriters on the planet" - The Guardian
Strange Brew presents
Eric Chenaux
+ Molly Linen
+ Danny Riley
Saturday 22nd June
7pm - 10pm
Seated show!
Following the release of Eric Chenaux’s last album Say Laura (2022), The Guardian wrote “the Canadian songwriter has one of the all-time great singing voices in popular music, an intensely romantic Chet Baker-ish instrument that seems to float with piercing direction, like a paper aeroplane thrown hard through mist.” With Uncut describing his songcraft “as delicate and lovely as a rare orchid” and Record Collector praising the album’s “sublime alien balladry” such are the accolades that have accrued to Chenaux’s unique and consummately uncompromising solo music for well over a decade now.
Hi new album 'Delights Of My Life' formally introduces the Eric Chenaux Trio, with Toronto-based musicians Ryan Driver and Phillipe Melanson. In many ways Delights Of My Life picks up right where Chenaux’s previous album left off, in its subversions of a classic, timeless jazz-inflected balladry, while the interplay of the trio formation indeed unfurls many new delights.
Molly Linen is a songwriter from Shropshire who lives in Bristol. She sings of the small details she observes in the natural world and brush-stroked images of our inner life and vulnerabilities. Sometimes hushed, always clear, her voice is warm, unhurried & intimate, and she accompanies herself with gentle plucked melodic guitar lines that channel an emotional delicacy that recalls Glaswegian indie group The Delgados or Bristol’s own Rachael Dadd. She has had airplay on 6Music, BBC Radio Scotland & Soho Radio and released several eps on Lost Map Records.
https://mollylinen.bandcamp.com/
Danny Riley - Danny is emerging on Bristol’s live scene with a wild and explorative instrumental finger guitar style that draws on the traditional music of the British Isles & France along with improvisation, jazz, avant garde & psychedelic music. Very much in the sonic guitar continuum of John Fahey, Bill Orcutt, Tashi Dorji & Six Organs of Admittance.
https://dannyriley.bandcamp.com/album/blossoms-are-dancing
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)
Strange Brew presents
Eric Chenaux
+ Molly Linen
+ Danny Riley
Saturday 22nd June
7pm - 10pm
Seated show!
Following the release of Eric Chenaux’s last album Say Laura (2022), The Guardian wrote “the Canadian songwriter has one of the all-time great singing voices in popular music, an intensely romantic Chet Baker-ish instrument that seems to float with piercing direction, like a paper aeroplane thrown hard through mist.” With Uncut describing his songcraft “as delicate and lovely as a rare orchid” and Record Collector praising the album’s “sublime alien balladry” such are the accolades that have accrued to Chenaux’s unique and consummately uncompromising solo music for well over a decade now.
Hi new album 'Delights Of My Life' formally introduces the Eric Chenaux Trio, with Toronto-based musicians Ryan Driver and Phillipe Melanson. In many ways Delights Of My Life picks up right where Chenaux’s previous album left off, in its subversions of a classic, timeless jazz-inflected balladry, while the interplay of the trio formation indeed unfurls many new delights.
Molly Linen is a songwriter from Shropshire who lives in Bristol. She sings of the small details she observes in the natural world and brush-stroked images of our inner life and vulnerabilities. Sometimes hushed, always clear, her voice is warm, unhurried & intimate, and she accompanies herself with gentle plucked melodic guitar lines that channel an emotional delicacy that recalls Glaswegian indie group The Delgados or Bristol’s own Rachael Dadd. She has had airplay on 6Music, BBC Radio Scotland & Soho Radio and released several eps on Lost Map Records.
https://mollylinen.bandcamp.com/
Danny Riley - Danny is emerging on Bristol’s live scene with a wild and explorative instrumental finger guitar style that draws on the traditional music of the British Isles & France along with improvisation, jazz, avant garde & psychedelic music. Very much in the sonic guitar continuum of John Fahey, Bill Orcutt, Tashi Dorji & Six Organs of Admittance.
https://dannyriley.bandcamp.com/album/blossoms-are-dancing
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)
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