Chef Menteur - III (2015)

Limited edition 3CD set “III” by Chef Menteur, including a re-release of “East of the Sun & West of the Moon," the unreleased ‘companion’ album “North Tomorrow & South of Yesterday” from the same sessions, and their newest tangent “Force Majeure,” remastered from a very limited sold out cassette release for full sonic glory.

Sprawling, ambitious, cerebral, essential … those are just a few words used when talking about Chef Menteur’s intoxicating cosmic brew of space and psych rock, drone, kosmische, ambient … Chef Menteur positioned themselves ‘upriver’ from other music in their home-base of New Orleans and have proceeded to keep moving not only up, but out in every direction. Admitted ‘compulsive tapers in the practice room,’ Chef Menteur excel in texture and mood. Incorporating vintage, modern, and analog instruments with improvisation as well as field recordings, Chef Menteur are baffling to nail down. And wholly their own.

TRACKLIST

Disc 1 - East Of The Sun & West Of The Moon:

01. Narconaut
02. Il Obstrue Ma Vue De Vénus
03. Terpsichore
04. Lozenge Club
05. The Forest
06. Oxen Of The Sun
07. Ganymede
08. The Long Stand (Part II)
09. Ordo Templi Orientis
10. I Belong To This Plateau
11. Reach For The Lion
12. King Richard

Disc 2 - Force Majeure:

01. Færoe
02. Pyrymyd Scheme
03. Death Wraith 2000
04. Surface Tension
05. Immense Dimension

Disc 3 - North Of Tomorrow & South Of Yesterday:

01. Ribbons from Lake Kwashiorkor
02. Farfisa Duo Raga
03. Omnilab
04. Terpsichore (long version)
05. Where Wings Take Dream
06. Pastranomy Pastranomi
07. One Fret Beyond
08. The Long Stand (parts I & II)
09. Lozenge Jazz Club
10. Sinks of Gandy
11. Phallus Marinarus
12. The Mamluk Qalandars
13. Don't Invite a Centar to Your Wedding
14. Sorry for the Delay