Clare & The Reasons

Follow Clare and Olivier on Instagram &#64;musicformovingimages to know about new music releases and film scores. Clare and Olivier just finished scoring the film « En Attendant Bojangles ». Clare Manchon, the daughter of musician <a href="spotify:artist:4sMx1e0u3YtLawVuN3RsFD" data-name="Geoff Muldaur">Geoff Muldaur</a>, established herself as an idiosyncratic indie singer/songwriter before she officially joined forces with the Reasons. She teamed up with her husband, <a href="spotify:artist:39wJ2Iq4imj8bgn5PcVypZ" data-name="Olivier Manchon">Olivier Manchon</a> (the two met when then Muldaur was studying jazz composition at the Berklee College of Music), bassist <a href="spotify:artist:0D2V0AdCoK1eKTiJR15nzj" data-name="Alan Hampton">Alan Hampton</a>, cellist <a href="spotify:artist:1EgURMt4XRfR29jPLSJX8d" data-name="Christopher Hoffman">Christopher Hoffman</a>, violist Beth Meyers, and drummer Greg Ritchie to form Clare &amp; the Reasons in 2005. Multi-instrumentalist Bob Hart was brought into the fold soon after the group finished recording its debut full-length. That album, The Movie, hit stores in 2007; featuring cameos by <a href="spotify:artist:4MXUO7sVCaFgFjoTI5ox5c" data-name="Sufjan Stevens">Sufjan Stevens</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:3M8NUieZuEOMs0Hf210w4n" data-name="Van Dyke Parks">Van Dyke Parks</a>, the album was comprised of the kind of bold, big arrangers and songs that marked time. By the time their second album, Arrow, followed in October 2009, the group had consolidated around the core of Muldaur, <a href="spotify:artist:39wJ2Iq4imj8bgn5PcVypZ" data-name="Olivier Manchon">Olivier Manchon</a>, and Hart. The band kept busy the following year touring Europe and the U.S. with <a href="spotify:artist:3M8NUieZuEOMs0Hf210w4n" data-name="Van Dyke Parks">Van Dyke Parks</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:37qXWlhfRvpxmIeTKvfw8B" data-name="My Brightest Diamond">My Brightest Diamond</a> (whose <a href="spotify:artist:2oaVDOQfFBuWJ7VpVmgQc4" data-name="Shara Worden">Shara Worden</a> had appeared as a guest on Arrow). In 2011, Clare &amp; the Reasons relocated to Berlin for eight months to write and record their next album; named after the model of moped they used to explore the city, KR-51 arrived in July of 2012. ~ TiVo Staff, Rovi