Big thanks to everyone who came to our rooftop show on Saturday. It was a lot of fun, the weather was beautiful, the food was great, and the beer went down good. We really appreciated the support and hope you had a good time if you were able to make it. And of course, our […]

Here’s the brand new video for “The Forest,” one of the tracks off our upcoming double album “East of the Sun & West of the Moon.” The Forest from Chef Menteur on Vimeo. Dan made the visuals. No digital effects used! Special guest on bass: B. Aubrey Freeman (Geisterfahrer, Sketches of an Amorous Window, Why […]

Here’s an early live improvisation with our friend Mack Hagood on rhythm guitar and drum machine. This jam, like many of our other tunes was recorded to 4-track cassette in our 8th floor practice space in the former Hotel Fontainebleu on Tulane Avenue. Lead guitar is Rick 12-string through old DOD delay pedal. “Betty B […]

Ah steak…. an american favorite! Here’s another one from around 1999 — a noise track with guitar, bass, and voice samples that fell off the back of a truck. (I can’t say where I got the voice samples from but working in multimedia has had its advantages…) "An American Favorite" by Chef Menteur

You know how some bands have a song with their band name in the song/title? Yeah, it’s pretty cheesy most of the time, but how often does it use vocal synthesis? "Chef Menteur Hwy" by Chef Menteur This was one of our very first songs: drum machine, bass, Farfisa, K2000, and a nifty program for […]

In anticipation of our upcoming double album, I would like to present to you the first of many tasty treats; in order to demonstrate the vastness of our culinary acoustical journey, and in the interest of your auditory salivation and salvation, I’m going to be dishing up some golden oldies from Chef Menteur’s first menu. […]

Here’s a demo of the song “1491” from our last album. It’s about 100 times faster than the song ended up being.1491 (original demo). You can hear the original song on this page. Disclaimer: for entertainment purposes only.

the place was shutting down soon anyway. maybe it was just being all-but-kicked-off the stage at the mermaid (we only played three songs that night). this is from a live stereo tape recording of a mermaid show we did with the bastard sons of subotnick and shatner. there were not enough people to make three […]

every now and then i come across a track that was never released but i think is worth throwing out there; here’s a very minimal verrsion of “europa” from december 2003: europa.minimal 19.dec.2003 this very much represents our idea of what ambient drone meant at the time. i will probably be throwing up more tracks […]

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