Chadbourne, Beresford, Ward

BISOU asked Eugene Chadbourne to do an album for children and he proposed an album about horror movies and monsters. Some references are obvious like 'The Thing', 'Blacky Lagoony', etc, and some are about strange characters 'Vampire Tiger Girl', and some are covers (Sam and the Shams, Shockabilly). It's probably the best recorded album of Eugene Chadbourne. Eugene met Steve Beresford and Alex Ward in London at Eastcote Studios (where Adele, Duran Duran, Aswad, Tindersticks and Depeche Mode recorded !). They used a good part of the instruments available there (grand piano, wood organ, many amps, loads of keyboards). Steve Beresford is famous for his solo recording 'The Bath of Surprise', he was part of The Melody Four (with Lol Coxhill and Tony Coe) and did a lot of records on labels like Emanem, nato, Tzadik. Alex Ward was 14 when Derek Bailey started to play with him, as a duo, and trio with Steve Noble. He is a great musician who can play improv on the clarinet as well as noise on electric guitar. JCMenu, the french artist who founded the graphic publishing company L'Association did the cover art. (label info)