Lost Voices, by Esmerine

Lost Voices

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1.	The Neighbourhoods Rise 06:05	buy track
2.	A River Runs Through This City 06:02	buy track
3.	Pas Trop Pas Tropes 04:26	buy track
4.	19/14 05:54	buy track
5.	A Trick of the Light 02:31	buy track
6.	My Mamma Pinned a Rose on Me 06:54	buy track
7.	Funambule (Deus pas de Serein) 07:45	buy track
8.	Our Love We Sing 03:47	buy track
9.	Lullaby for Nola 02:34	buy track

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Montréal chamber rock ensemble Esmerine return with the new full-length album Lost Voices, the most dynamic and incendiary record of the group’s career, following its highly-acclaimed and Juno award-winning 2013 release Dalmak. Led by co-founders Bruce Cawdron (Godspeed You! Black Emperor) on various mallet instruments and Rebecca Foon (Thee Silver Mt. Zion, Saltland) on cello, Esmerine also includes drummer/percussionist Jamie Thompson (The Unicorns, Islands, Little Scream) and multi-instrumentalist Brian Sanderson.

Lost Voices is the result of multiple recording sessions led by Vid Cousins (Kid Koala, Amon Tobin, Colin Stetson) and was mixed/produced by Jace Lasek (The Besnard Lakes) at his Breakglass Studio in Montréal. The album features several tracks that are hands down among the band’s most rocking, making newfound use of electric guitars (courtesy a variety of guest players) alongside the group’s nucleus of marimba, strings and percussion. Expanding from Dalmak’s core quartet, Esmerine also welcomes bassist Jeremi Roy (who began touring with the group in 2013) as an official member; his contrabass work adds potent low-end to the heavier and more muscular jams on the new album. Lost Voices is equally notable for the appearance of GY!BE/Silver Mt. Zion violinist Sophie Trudeau as a featured guest; her intense and incomparable string sounds/styles elevate the potency of the record’s most soaring and high-octane pieces, particularly on opener “The Neighborhoods Rise”, “19/14” and the centerpiece track of Side Two, “Funambule”. Thompson’s drumming comes to the fore on these pieces too, and on the rock-steady minimalism of “A River Runs Through This City”, which satisfyingly harkens back to the likes of Tied & Tickled Trio, June Of 44, Shipping News and Lungfish.

Lost Voices can fairly be called Esmerine’s “rock” album, expanding upon the band’s celebrated prowess at deploying structure and dynamic, balancing melodic expression against methodical restraint through a diversity of stylistic touchstones (minimalism, post-rock, math-rock, desert rock) while allowing for explosive crescendos of exuberant density and maximalism that most notably distinguishes this record from previous work. The album nonetheless includes several instances of more spacious, searching and/or tender compositions – not only in some of the opening sections of the rock songs, but in stand-alone marimba-and-string-led pieces like “Pas Trop Pas Tropes” and “My Mamma Pinned A Rose On Me” and in the two piano-and-string minuets that close each side of the record.

Lost Voices is a deeply satisfying and evocative journey and another brilliant iteration of Esmerine’s distinctive instrumental chamber rock; cerebral and visceral, controlled and volatile, and wholly cinematic in scope throughout.

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released October 16, 2015

PERSONNEL
Rebecca Foon: Cello, harmonium, piano, voice
Bruce Cawdron: Marimba, bowed marimba, glockenspiel, vibraphone
Jamie Thompson: Drums, marimba, glockenspiel
Brian Sanderson: Violin, ekonting, cavalry cornet, f horn, sarod, bass guitar
Jérémi Roy: Contrabass, bass guitar

GUESTS
James Hakan Dedeoglu: Guitar (tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 7)
Sophie Trudeau: Violin (tracks 1, 5, 7, 9)
Jace Lasek: Guitar (tracks 1, 7), synth (track 6)
Pierre-Guy Blanchard: Darbuka, riq, glockenspiel (track 7)
Ian Ilavsky: Guitar (track 4)
Vid Cousins: Piano (track 5)
Colin Stetson: EVI (track 8)

Recorded by Vid Cousins at Mixart and Six Saint V in Montreal.
Mixed by Jace Lasek and Ian Ilavsky at Breakglass in Montreal.
Mastered by Ryan Morey.

Artwork by Clyde Henry Productions

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Esmerine Montreal, Québec

Esmerine is the decorated post-classical instrumental chamber rock ensemble founded in 2001 by percussionist Bruce Cawdron (Godpseed You! Black Emperor) & cellist Rebecca Foon (Thee Silver Mt. Zion, Saltland), joined since 2012 by multi-instrumentalist, co-composer & core member Brian Sanderson. Juno Award nominees & winners for Instrumental Album & Album Package of the Year multiple times. ... more

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