

“We’re more like brothers and sisters at this point,” says Davidson, adding that she and her husband often hang out with Feminielli and his wife. It was with Femminielli and other friends that Davidson went to Berlin for New Year’s Eve in 2012, fell in love with the city, and moved there a few years later. One track on the album, ‘Chauffeur’, is named after the man who would become Davidson’s husband – Pierre Guerineau, the other half of the minimal duo Essaie pas with Davidson – who drove Davidson and Femminielli to a music festival they were both playing at in Quebec around a decade ago. She and Femminielli ended up dating for a couple of months, “just to the point where we realised we were just meant to be friends.”Ĭontent as friends and, a decade on, happily married to other people, the pair’s stories have remained interwoven – laced together by Double Invitation. So enamoured was Davidson with the record, “I confused my feelings and I thought I was in love with the person,” she laughs. It’s different to just programming on a laptop, the feeling is very different when it’s done on a machine.” “That’s why I like working with sequencers so much, there’s precision and a mechanical feel, but it’s very groovy and sexy at the same time. “I thought it was so mysterious, elegant and very sensual, yet very cold and rigid,” she says of the album, a Lynchian, noirish blend of post-punk and Italo disco. He was “making the kind of music I wanted to make,” says Davidson – specifically: using hardware alongside real drums, bass, and guitar. Bernardino was a friend and already an important figure in the Montreal underground scene.

“I was 24 or 25 when the record came out and I was a nobody,” she recalls.
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Ultimately, she selected Double Invitation by Montreal-born, Paris-based electronic artist Bernardino Femminielli, a record that had a strong influence on not just her music, but her personal life too.ĭouble Invitation by Bernardino Femminielliĭavidson was in her “baby step era” of learning how to use drum machines and synthesisers when she first heard it, in 2012. I could have chosen any Giorgio Moroder album made with sequencers that had a very big impact on me at the time.” “I could have picked any Kraftwerk album, I could have talked about any early Detroit techno album, like Model 500 or Underground Resistance. “There were at least 50 records I could have chosen from,” she says. When asked to choose the record that’s had the most impact on her, Marie Davidson’s first instinct was to groan. She’s currently working on an upcoming solo album. Montreal-based electronic musician Marie Davidson is best known for her thrilling solo work, but she’s also produced and performed as Essaie pas, alongside her husband Pierre Guirineau, and most recently as L’Œil Nu, with Guirineau and Asaël Robitaille.

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Head over to Ad Hoc to stream the track, and check out her full list of tour dates below.In Permanent Rotation, producers, DJs, and musicians go deep on the albums that have inspired them. In anticipation of her new album Un Autre Voyage, Marie Davidson has premiered a new single, "Exces De Vitesse," and her full list of tour dates on Ad Hoc.
