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Eau De Bonjourno

by bernice

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Erik Larsen
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Erik Larsen every track on this album is a miracle Favorite track: Lone Swan.
Kabir Kumar
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Kabir Kumar bernice writes songs that you could hum yourself to sleep with but can also captivate you in the sound stage of your headphones, and hopefully soon on the real stage. what sense of space! the delicate melodies that turn sour! what light and shadow flits through the lyrics! this might be my favorite album of the year so far ✨ Favorite track: Personal Bubble.
willdinola
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willdinola {my body springs off the bed in the morning, several feet into the air}: Did someone say "the pop song but with an experimental twist?" ❤️ Favorite track: Personal Bubble.
diakivi
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diakivi Constantly shifting, beautiful music that is extremely well considered. I was smiling the entire time I listened to it. Favorite track: Lone Swan.
oboerog
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oboerog I love this album because I can understand every single lyric! And, Wonderfully talented musicians.
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Empty Cup 03:28
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about

Out March 5th, 202.

Nearly three years on from that release (for Bernice a rapid turnaround by comparison to the seven-year gap between their 2011 debut and Puff), the band return with their third full-length, Eau de Bonjourno, out March 5th from Telephone Explosion and figureeight records. It marks their first collaboration with producer Shahzad Ismaily, the acclaimed multi-instrumentalist who has worked with artists as varied as Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Elvis Costello, Iggy Pop, John Zorn, and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy. While their genre reconstruction remains distinctly Bernice, Dann’s lyrics bring a newfound focus to storytelling in the present moment, compassionately meeting ourselves where we are, and finding joy in spaces that are familiar but ever changing.

Eau de Bonjourno, according to Dann, “openly plays with the shape of a pop song,” drawing on the band members’ backgrounds in jazz, subverting rhythmic formulas, and resting in grooves that sit just outside of predictable. Instead of letting instruments take extended solos, the tone is set on opener “Groove Elation” with brief blurts of synthesized sax, patient passages of space, or clusters of beats, tenderly held together by Dann and Williams’ intimate vocals. The album’s sound is experimental in its truest definition, chopped up like musique concrète and then delicately placed back together with the loving touch of a scrapbook collagist. 

This project is funded in part by FACTOR, the Government of Canada and Canada’s private radio broadcasters. Ce projet est financé en partie par FACTOR, le gouvernement du Canada et les radiodiffuseurs privés du Canada. www.canada.ca

This album was created with the generous support of the Ontario Creates.

credits

released March 5, 2021

Recorded & produced by Shahzad Ismaily, Nov 2020, Figure 8 studios Brooklyn NY (additional engineering by Lily Wen)

Additional sessions at Aytche studios in Toronto, summer/fall 2020

engineered by Christopher Shannon & Nathan Vanderwielen

Mixed by Christopher Shannon (1,2, 3, 5, 6, 7), Matthew Pencer (3, 8, 9) & Shahzad Ismaily (10), additional mixing by Phil Melanson (6)

Mastered by Kevin McPhee, East End Mastering

Album photography by Claire Harvie

Personnel:

Robin Dann, voice and some other sounds
Felicity Williams, voice
Dan Fortin, the bass
Thom Gill, the keyboards, the guitar
Philippe Melanson, percussions éléctroniques et réelles

Karen Ng, alto saxophone (1, 6)

Alex Samaras, voice (1, 4, 8)

Christopher Willes, soprano saxophone (2)

Jake Sherman, vocoder (9)

Kurt Newman, pedal steel (10)

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