If you can’t make it to New Orleans tonight for our album release party, don’t fret. You can still take part from a distance. For 24 hours today, Radio Backporch Revolution is streaming the new album. Listen to the stream directly at http://206.225.86.11:8000/listen or via the Radio Backporch Revolution iPhone app. If you can make it […]
Chef Menteur’s DOUBLE ALBUM release party with Microshards and Lonely Lonely Knights. At Siberia, March 31. (note: Geisterfahrer will not be playing.) See the Facebook event for more details.
On the last day of the month named for the planet Mars, Chef Menteur’s official public release party will be held at Siberia in New Orleans. Full lineup to be announced soon. You can buy the album at the show; any remaining copies (if any) of the album will be available for sale after that, […]
The album won’t be available to the public till a month or so later, but we will be handing out albums in person to our Kickstarter backers on Saturday, February 11th. The party will be hosted by one of our backers at her house in Mid-city, and there will be food and beer. Backers will […]
As you may know, we are only making 200 copies of the new double LP and each copy is hand-printed on all 4 sides of the multicolor gatefold. We’ve suffered more than our share of delays from the pressing plant but the word is that they are finally shipping this week. Meanwhile, the album cover […]
Chef Menteur has raised enough funds through our Kickstarter drive to put out the new double LP East of the Sun & West of the Moon on vinyl. The Man said it couldn’t be done. Vinyl? Ridiculous. DOUBLE VINYL? INSANE. So *thank you* to all our friends and supporters who helped us put the music, […]
Thanks to all our friends, family, and fans for supporting us in our Kickstarter drive! We crossed the 100% line this weekend. Read more about it here.
In my opinion CM are one of the most unheralded pioneers of ambience in the past 10 years. —from a new article about Chef Menteur on Beat the Indie Drum. There’s also an exclusive download of “I Belong to this Plateau” —the very first mp3 from East of the Sun and West of the Moon […]
Dear friends, Chef Menteur’s Kickstarter project has only a couple of weeks to go. We feel like this is a good time to address the following question that some of you have asked us: “What is Kickstarter and why are you using it?” Because to be able to make this album, we need enough people […]