{"id":41365,"date":"2021-03-09T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/?p=41365"},"modified":"2021-03-08T17:28:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T22:28:44","slug":"bernice-eau-de-bonjourno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/bernice-eau-de-bonjourno\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto’s Bernice Mix Mindfulness and Imagination on New LP Eau De Bonjourno"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Photo Credit: Colin Medley<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

On a small island just outside of Toronto in the summer of 2019, Robin Dann and her band, Bernice<\/a>, unknowingly made a record that would be extremely relevant to the unforeseeable year ahead. On Eau De Bonjourno, <\/em>Bernice covers themes of isolation, disconnecting self-worth from productivity and escaping into the imagination. Dann and her bandmates Thom Gill, Dan Fortin, Phil Melanson and Felicity Williams combine their deep knowledge of jazz and shared curiosity for experimentation to create an album that truly transports the listener.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dann says that this is the first time the band attempted songwriting as a group, a new challenge that proved to be worth the clunky learning curve. \u201cCollaborative songwriting… I think it\u2019s never easy until you land on a flow,\u201d explains Dann, the band’s lead vocalist and (previously) primary songwriter. \u201cThankfully, Thom and I have been playing together for so long, we have almost like a psychic connection that works really well… I think the songs on this record are some of our best that we\u2019ve ever written.\u201d The band wrote all of the songs for Eau De Bonjourno <\/em>in an old school container on Toronto Island. The way that Dann explains the residency – creating and relaxing with friends on a sunny island – sounds like a literal fairytale compared to the way most of us have been living our lives for the past year, more or less in complete isolation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n