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<\/a>One of the best aspects of touring for the members of the band is the onstage experimentation they like to partake in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe had a coffee [shop] gig and there was a grand piano on stage, and we were so excited, we really used it a lot,\u201d says Lemieux. \u201cWe switched instruments\u2026 sometimes I went on the piano, Gabriel went, I went to the drums. It was really spontaneous.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Blues as a genre particularly speaks to the members of LENOIRE, because of their influences and because of the freedom that comes with performing the style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI love playing it,\u201d says Laroche. \u201cI think it\u2019s so much fun to play, and you have so much liberty when you\u2019re playing blues. There\u2019s that whole history behind it of rawness and spontaneity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The members\u2019 love for improvisation and mixing together old and new musical sounds led them to where they are now. But blues has always been at the beating heart of their inspiration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t really have a choice. We love old blues and R&B, but we\u2019re influenced by new hip-hop and everything,\u201d says Laroche. \u201cWe work with a lot of electronic and hip-hop producers, so I guess it goes with kind of that collaboration. The person who did the mixing and matching on our last EP, Satisfaction<\/em>, he\u2019s a French hip-hop mixer, so that definitely helped bring in that more modern sound into it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kate Taeuschel, the filmmaker who worked on the band\u2019s video for the song \u201cOh Girl,\u201d captured the essence of beautiful confusion in their music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe had so much footage from that shoot, and so little music to put it over,\u201d says Laroche. \u201cShe really worked hard and did a fantastic job to just try and pull those strings all together to get the kind of semblance of a story\u2026 I think a lot of the inspiration for it just came from spending this time together. When we were doing the shoot, it was kind of hectic, and the song\u2019s kind of hectic. I think chaos is a bit of an influence there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n That sense of community extends to other areas of the band: LENOIRE has cultivated a strong bond with other members of the Montreal music scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOver the last two to three years, we really built a community around us, and we\u2019ve gotten to know so many people and just build really great working relationships with other musicians in Montreal, and producers and mixers,\u201d says Laroche.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Post-tour plans are already in order\u2014soon enough, LENOIRE will return to following the flow of the music, this time back in the studio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe have to get back to Montreal for some recording sessions,\u201d says Laroche. \u201cWe\u2019re working on a new record right at the end of the tour, so that\u2019s a big thing that\u2019s coming up for us. And then we\u2019ll see where it takes us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n