姓名： Ohbijou 英文名：- 性别：- 国籍：- 出生地：- 语言：- 生日：- 星座：- 身高：- 体重：-
由主唱也是乐团主要灵魂人物的Casey Mecija在2004年开始一手创建的加拿大乐队Ohbijou，在音乐风格上深受民谣及蓝草音乐的影响，2006年Ohbijou发行了乐队的首张专辑「Swift Feet for Troubling Times」后，Ohbijou就成了几个重要表演场合的常客，在2007年CBC Galaxie Rising Stars Award的奖项中更荣获提名(当年竞争对手有IllScarlett，还有另一支我也很喜欢的加拿大乐队Metric)。
摇曳着华轻飘飘的清雅隽永曲调固然令人倾心，而Casey的嗓音就像入夏的微凉晚风中独有的甜味，在悠扬的弦乐和浅尝即止的键琴伴奏下更让人有自怜自悯之感。
每个音符的进行都这么刚好，彷佛再多出些什么都是亵渎，吉他轻轻地扫弦为寂寞的心灵甬道试着找寻出口，再沮丧的困境在Ohbijou旋律的抚慰下，终能与之释怀…或许在此时此刻Ohbijou对我而言就是一种美好的救赎。
Borne in the bedrooms of a family home in Brantford, Ontario, Casey Mecija's tender compositions, bound with youthful frailty and unnerving beauty, found their pace in Toronto. Enlisting the help of her younger sister, Jenny, and friends Heather Kirby and Anissa Hart, Mecija's songs took flight. An encounter with James Bunton and Ryan Carley led to further collaboration and the conception of Ohbijou. Andrew Kinoshita soon added his talents to Ohbijou's orchestration. Furnished with mandolin, violin, piano, banjo, cello and an impressive array of other instruments, a seven piece orchestral pop force began to appear on stages around Toronto. In June of 2005 Ohbijou released Zips and Zings, an EP that announced the arrival of a band that would deeply alter the landscape of independent music in Toronto.
The 2006 release of their first full-length album, Swift Feet for Troubling Times, garnered high praise from critics, led the band across both Canada and the United States, and was catalyst for numerous sold-out performances. Ohbijou has shared the stage with artists such as Bright Eyes, Sarah Harmer, The Dears, Joanna Newsom and Final Fantasy. Casey and Jenny's vocals also appeared on Final Fantasy's prodigious record, He Poos Clouds. In March of 2008, Ohbijou were selected to partake in the first ever “Indie Residency” at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta.
Ohbijou has a healthy preoccupation with the movements and events that coincide with the creation of their music. Mecija pens songs wrought with the romantic afflictions of big city life. She sutures the intimate details of her personal relations to the macrocosmic relations of her city; her lyrics eulogize the streets and neighborhoods of a changing city, and the humbling encounters that happen because of and in spite of these changes. Dressed with intricate melodies and vocal harmonies arranged by her bandmates, the songs reveal a striking musicality and virtuosity. A string of accolades has followed Ohbijou since its inception, and they have quietly amassed a devoted and varied army of fans. Ohbijou's delicate sound increasingly matures with each recording.
Despite acquiring such praise, each performance and recording is tempered with gestures to other musicians and other initiatives, deflecting attention away from the band itself and back onto the audience from which the band draws strength. With a pointed self-reflexivity and humility, Ohbijou crafts lyrics and melodies that pay homage to those to whom their sound is indebted.
To speak of Ohbijou as strictly a band is not really accurate. They defy the limits of such, and are at once friends, a curatorial movement, familial unit, assembly of musicians, and philanthropic initiative. At times Ohbijou is synonymous with "Bellwoods"- the moniker given to a cooperative house in which two members of the band live, and in which all members and dozens of friends make and share music. The spirit of the house calcifies in concerts that take place in its basement and projects such as "Friends in Bellwoods", a compilation CD curated by James Bunton and Casey Mecija that showcases some of the acts that have played in the house. Defined as a "digital diary of the house", to date the original compilation has raised over $11,000 for the Daily Bread Food Bank of Toronto. A second “Bellwoods” compilation is currently being engineered.
Ohbijou now returns with their highly anticipated sophomore album, Beacons. The record has gleaned early praise from critics and is being touted as one of 2009’s most anticipated albums. In March the band will travel to Texas for SXSW; a North American Tour will commence shortly thereafter. Following a June UK/EU release of Beacons on Bella Union (also home to Fleet Foxes, Midlake, Andrew Bird, etc.), Ohbijou will spend their summer touring Europe and filling the stages of numerous festivals.
