Esmerine  just let loose a new digital single, featuring “Front End Loader,” accompanied by “Learning to Crawl.” Click here to check it out!

 
Montreal visual artist Brad Todd made a meditative, minimalist video for “Snow Day For Lhasa” using slowed-down, digitally-treated footage of owls. Brad had prepared a series of video loops to be projected at our album launch concert in Montreal back in June, and he’s combined two of these in a long visual crossfade which we think complements the song really nicely.

Owls were very special to Lhasa de Sela (to whom this song, and our entire La Lechuza album, is dedicated).

“Snow Day For Lhasa” was initially released as an audio stream on 01 January 2011 – the first anniversary of Lhasa’s death.

We are thrilled to be working with Toutpartout on a European tour in fall 2011.

Dates are HERE.

For all of these shows, we’ll have the amazing Clea Minaker with us doing live lightbox projections.

Jamie Thompson (Unicorns, Islands) and Brian Sanderson will also be on the road with us contributing percussion and other great things.

And here is a nice review of our London show from the fourohfive.

Hope to see you on the road!

We are so excited to announce that our new record La Lechuza will be coming out on Constellation on June 7th.

Here is it on the CONSTELLATION site.

Check out an interview with Beckie in Sound and Music and Exclaim magazine talking about the new record and the upcoming tour.

And some nice reviews:

The Wire – “La Lechuza is unquestionably about mood. What distinguishes it from so many artists skirting the overlaps between new folks and chamber music-style arrangements is the attention to composition and content. Where lesser talents are content merely to create mood, satisfying themselves with the surface rewards of alternative timbres, Esmerine wrap mood around substance.”

The Muse in Music

Fluid Radio

Hero Hill

Alarm Press

The Universal Yellowkeys

Sputnik Music

Montreal Mirror – Album Of The Week

Montreal Hour

Montreal Voir