Ohbijou

Ohbijou — a Canadian indie pop ensemble whose folksy, multi-instrumental audio welcomes comparisons towards the Bowerbirds and Arthur & Yu — began simply like a single task. Brantford, Ontario-based vocalist/songwriter Casey Mecijia started focusing on Ohbijou’s 1st songs in the first 2000s; she began collaborating on those tracks with her multi-instrumentally willing sister, Jennifer, immediately after. The Mecijia sisters ultimately relocated to Toronto, where Casey went to classes at Ryerson College or university and Jennifer enrolled in the Ontario University of Artwork and Style. The sisters welcomed a bunch of new people into Ohbijou immediately after they came, as well as the band’s lineup ultimately included famous brands Heather Kirby, Wayne Bunton, Anissa Hart, Ryan Carley, and Andrew Kinoshita. Ohbijou’s 1st launch, the Zips and Zings EP, arrived in the summertime of 2005. The band’s debut full-length, Swift Ft for Troubling Instances, was released twelve months later on; the lead sole from that recording, “St. Francis,” strike number 4 on CBC Radio 3’s graphs that December. Another two years discovered Ohbijou collecting accolades and playing a bevy of concert events around Canada; these were nominated for the CBC’s 2007 Galaxie Increasing Stars Award, had been granted an Indie Band Residency in the Banff Center, and performed at Toronto’s Virgin Event and Guelph’s Hillside Event. Ohbijou’s sophomore recording, Beacons, premiered on Last Gang Information and Bella Union Information in ’09 2009.