A co-founder of Toronto-based band Bruce Peninsula and an accomplished vocal guest with Daniel Romano, The Weather Station, City and Colour, Timber Timbre and Snowblink, Misha Bower now emerges as a singer-songwriter with her debut album, Trying to Have it All.
Produced by Bower and her long-time friend Will Kidman (The Constantines), Trying to Have it All features a cast of acclaimed artists including Kidman (electric guitar and piano), Nathan Lawr (drums), Dallas Wehrle (bass), Lisa Conway (backup vocals) and Mika Posen (strings).
Bower’s last solo effort was a collection of short stories titled Music for Uninvited Guests (Cringles, 2012). On Trying to Have it All, she tells new stories in song, each track delineating a character in a crucial moment of
disclosure. Defiant, playful, reflective, radically honest—each character is accompanied by an arrangement that opens up like a secret inner door. With a full band, soaring strings, intimate guitar and piano, and impassioned vocals, Trying to Have it All is a journey through different takes on the art of
coping.