bon bon vivant

​Bon Bon Vivant  (from the album Dancing in the Darkness available on Heroic Doses Records)
There is a sound in the air of New Orleans. It carries life energies five hundred years of diverse citizens. Air, of course, being impossible to see and even tougher to hear unless it is screaming, has trouble having its song heard. Luckily, the musicians of The Big Easy have a fairly seamless connection between the past and present, hearing every note and beat, intuitively translating it into their own words and music. The sound, feel, and abandon of New Orleans is alive and well in hometown band Bon Bon Vivant, and can be clearly heard on the band’s recent release, Dancing in the Darkness.
 
Back alley Jazz soundtracks the modern Dixieland songs of Bon Bon Vivant, the melodies hanging on tight around the curves and putting the pedal to the metal on straightaways.  Dancing in the Darknessspins dizzily in the title track, the promises of the band finding air in the rising rumble of “Hell or High Water” while island rhythms show the steps to dance into oblivion with “Ship is Sinking”. A raucous take on the Grateful Dead’s “Casey Jones”, Bon Bon Vivant rolling out a pirate sea shanty in “The Bones”, turning somber with “Another Broken Heart”, and shouting out for “Lost Soul” on hot breath beats as all share sonic space on Dancing in the Darkness. “Die Young” accepts its fate that ‘we missed our chance to die young” while noir beats shimmy across “Little Evil” and Bon Bon Vivant find a enemy in the past twelve months, and a place to lay blame with “This Year”.
 
Listen and buy the music of Bon Bon Vivant from AMAZON
 
For more information head over to the Bon Bon Vivant website
 

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