About the music for Double Bill #1

Eric Chenaux makes music with many collaborators in many configurations – one of them is the Reveries.

The Reveries only do covers. And they only cover love ballads - American song book standards to Willie Nelson and Sade. They cover these love ballads through waterproof cell phone microphones they hold in their mouths.

Choreographers Michael Trent and Ame Henderson asked Chenaux what he thought he would like to do with the Reveries for Double Bill #1. He proposed Trent and Henderson work with 6 CD's of love ballads the Reveries might cover, that there would be a home stereo on stage and the dancers could pick the songs they wanted to listen to while they danced. Then, as late in the process as possible, the "originals" would be replaced by covers as done by the Reveries.

Trent and Henderson agreed.

The Reveries are:
Eric Chenaux (vocals, guitar, mouth-speaker)
Ryan Driver (vocals, quasi-ruler bass, thumbreeds, mouth-speaker)
Doug Tielli (vocals, guitar, saw, mouth-speaker)

“The current title-holder of Weirdest Band in Town, The Reveries.”
-Carl Wilson, Globe and Mail

“The Reveries' music is really very pretty. In its woozy, Ella-on-Quaaludes way, it reveres and revives the original tunes, but reels them back to the body, amid all its ungainly, embarassing excesses. The beauty may even be heightened by the impediments, levitated out of the songs into pure, messy abstraction.”
-Carl Wilson, Globe and Mail

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