Vancouver based band BuffaloSwans are coming back from all over the continent to play a three week tour in support of their new CD “The 
Body Electric,” which brings them to the Slice for a Halloween gig, on Monday, Oct. 31.
“Then it is back to regularly scheduled programming,” said Scott Bell, a sound engineer in Oklahoma, who worked at a studio in Vancouver with drummer Stephan Mihajlovich.
“That’s where I met everybody,” he said.
They got together to play numerous festivals at the end of summer, then scattered to their homes all over the place.
Guitarist James Lamb lives on a farm in the Kelowna area, Keyboardist Jobi Mihajlovich lives in the St. Albert/ Edmonton area and is on the road for much of the year with her three other bands while bassist James Green is a Carpenter and sound engineer based in Vancouver.
“But we all come together for Buffaloswans because we think it is important,” he said.
They all got together to record the latest CD.
“We recorded 80 per cent of the CD live off the floor, but it took another year to add textures and other sounds,” he said.
“This record is pretty ambitious. It was originally going to be a big classic rock record,” he said, adding they added a variety of their instruments like horn sections and cellos. There’s a lot of contrast and a lot of colour,” he said adding for the Vancouver shows, they will be adding live strings and horn sections as he knows a lot of them from being a sound engineer in Vancouver.
“ I did that so I could prove to the band that I could,” he said.
However Buffaloswans won’t be bringing horns and strings.
“ We’re definitely not horn players. We’re bringing instruments which have multiple sounds,” he said adding the band tours as a six-piece.
Buffaloswans play with Rambling Dan Frechette at the Slice,” Oct. 31.
