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"Winnipeg's Arbra Hill is a group that is easy to like, with songs that are catchy and to the point," says Megan Hall of Edmonton's Vue Weekly Magazine, while CTV Winnipeg entertainment reporter, Jon Hendricks echoes her sentiment: "In a music industry filled with a depressing lack of originality and innovation, thank heaven for Arbra Hill! This is a band that dares to be different."
Different is not what Arbra Hill set out to be, but rather the band considers its sound to be "unconventional pop." To be more precise: a little bit modern, a little bit retro pop. Think Talk Talk meets Metric with catchy melodies, warm acoustic and hot electric work, and memorable keyboard hooks.
Evolution of Note is the band’s most recent CD, recorded at High North Studios near Grand Beach, Manitoba in the summer/fall of 2006, and released in early 2007. Since then, the CD has garnered nation-wide attention, receiving commercial radio airplay in Nova Scotia, charting on college radio (reaching #11 on Canada’s largest university station, the University of Toronto’s CIUT 89.5 FM) and appearing on CBC Radio programs from coast to coast.
Arbra Hill has released two CDs since its inception, the first being 2004’s Taste Test, an album that prompted Canada’s Exclaim! Magazine to write: “the songs all have a quirky indie pop attitude that is really charming.â€
The members of Arbra Hill have been making beautiful pop music together since they first started jamming in the basement of the BraBar lingerie and panterie store in Winnipeg’s historic French Quarter back in 2002. Since then, they have played for thousands of people at events like the Osborne Village Canada Day celebrations, Winnipeg Pride Festival and Gimli summer concert series.
Over the years, the band line-up has changed, but the two founding members, vocalist/keyboardist Lisa Saunders and drummer Rob Wozny, remain. Bassist Leigh Fischer joined the band in December 2006, while guitarist and Winnipeg guitar teacher Frank Rizzuto filled out the Arbra Hill line-up in June 2007.
Most recently, the band has been exploring the art of film scoring, and is currently working on the soundtrack for Winnipeg filmmaker Ryan Souter’s new project, tentatively titled, On the Edge of Crazy. It’s slated for release in September 2007.
