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6210 St.-Laurent Blvd Montreal Qc H2S3C7 |
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6210 St.-Laurent Blvd Montreal Qc H2S3C7 |
Belleisle
Girl meets girl.
West meets east.
Land meets water. Girls meet boys.
Hate meets love meets hate meets love.
For over a year now, with the tenderness of raising a small child, Belleisle plays together. They are growing up and learning how to dance. In Belleisle you may find a deep sense of longing and paranoia. You may also discover the danger in comforts. The undercurrent and its steady rush of affection encourage human risk through expression. Belleisle explores a genre of musical sweetness that, at times, incorporates a heavier and darker sense of style. All in all, maintaining a sort of falling apart that becomes part of their charm.
The story goes…Rebecca Silverberg met Tasha Cyr- who is from Eugene Oregon, in Montreal in the summer of 2006. They started playing songs for one another as a way to entertain themselves but soon decided to combine friendship, and songwriting efforts to start a new band under the name ‘Belleisle’. Initially, they played shows as a duo. Cyr and Silverberg spent time learning how to add a piece of each other to each song. They focused on vocal harmonies and keyboard (primarily organ, piano and Rhodes) and guitar inter-melodies, and the odd guitar solo.
Jeannot Boudreau (drums) and Ben Lemieux (bass) both joined ‘Belleisle’ in the spring of 2007. Boudreau also drums in Orillia Opry, and Magnetic Hill. Silverberg and Boudreau, both from Moncton/Shediac New Brunswick, also play in a band called ‘The Field Register’.
The band held about 5 practices before stepping into ‘The Treatment Room’ to start working on an album. The idea was to record an album on tape, with the spontaneity of a new band, to document a certain time and space. Fine-tuning, structuring and arranging as they went. All the while trying to record live as much as possible. The initial 10 straight days in the studio in May 2007 set the foundations for most of the songs, all written by Silverberg and Cyr. David Tkach from ‘Giant Sons’, a Winnipeg based band, replaced Ben Lemieux on bass in the summer of 2007. The album was completed in February 2008, co-produced, engineered and mixed by Kees Dekker who also recorded ‘Parc Avenue’ by ‘Plants and Animals’.
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