Esmerine enters its second decade with an expanded line-up and a new album - the band's first in six years. As a duo co-founded ten years ago by percussionist Bruce Cawdron (Godspeed You! Black Emperor) and cellist Beckie Foon (Thee Silver Mt. Zion), Esmerine released two critically-acclaimed albums of modern chamber music in 2003 and 2005 that had one foot in the new music/experimental terrain of contemporaries like Rachel's or Town And Country and the other in a more visceral and lyrical landscape populated by the likes of Dirty Three (and GY!BE themselves). Bruce and Beckie have continued stoking the embers of Esmerine, with occasionalspecial events in their Montreal home town over the past few years, often including invitations to guest ... read more