Long in the Tooth

Dusterado

Odds & Ends

Walking in the Rain

Train of Liberation

Evading Projectiles

Woogie

WORLD

The Mating Game

Moody

7 years ago, in a small hamlet in somerset, england, Strawberry Joe Fraser and I made this song in between bouts of chess which i invariably lost. We composed the song together, with joe's inimitable dexterity on the guitar, and myself on the viola and beats. We've sat on it, for years, making slight variations, reversions, or simply letting it simmer on the backburners of our minds. 

but now its ready to go and do its thing in the world. 

this Micro Album is a combination of experiments which were born from this recording session. 

Camino Seco, and Amaranta are part of the Acid Juanito Mixtape (cassette) which you can buy and listen to here:

https://tambien.bandcamp.com/album/acid-juanito-mixtape

Credits: 

Guitar, Joe Fraser
viola, beats and production: Daniel Lofredo Rota
2012

Photo: taken in baja california, near ensenada, in 2014 by Daniel Lofredo Rota

Camino Seco

camino seco (feat. strawberry joe fraser)

Track & Field

Being the humble guys that they are, Surprise Chef aren't going to admit they have something very special going down. However, there must be some magic in their studio, or maybe in the fact they all share a house and have formed close bonds, or perhaps from absorbing the DIY ethos of running their own record label that has culminated in such a unique and enchanting sound.

'Daylight Savings' is the follow-up to the group's debut album 'All News Is Good News’. That album earned the band a much - deserved following across the world and triumphantly marked their arrival onto the international stage. Their new album was recorded in Spring 2019, almost exactly a year after they recorded ‘All News Is Good News’. It was the weekend that daylight savings time started in Australia, and the studio was filled with the smell of the towering

Jasmine bush on the exterior back wall of the house. The record is subsequently filled with the optimism that comes with the impending warmer months and longer days in Australia. Recorded in their own
home studio in Melbourne, the production approach for 'Daylight Savings' is a big step up from their debut. Engineer, Henry Jenkins,
created enormous-sounding space within this record, using a great deal of creative analogue recording techniques and working in an expansive recording environment. The results are a sound that emulates the
massiveness of the late-60s Capitol Records.

‘Daylight Savings' was written collaboratively by the whole band and features the core Surprise Chef rhythm section. It expands upon where their debut left off with a leaning more towards 70's jazzfunk than soul
and a stronger focus on the rhythm section. There’s the epic drama, ebbs and flows of a vintage David Axelrod or Alain Goraguer cinematic production, plus the influence of El Michels Affair and Melbourne bands
Karate Boogaloo and The Putbacks, yet it still sounds uniquely Surprise Chef. You get a sense of that rare attribute of being both a contemporary band and a band you expect it won't be too long before other producers start sampling them.

Daylight Savings

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Evading Projectiles

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