Claire Devlin and Eli Davidovici from Bellbird are here for a springtime talk about their new album The Call, the McGill University music program, why so many musicians from British Columbia wind up in Montreal, their respective early interests in top 40 pop radio, mainstream and classic rock, and eventually jazz and free music, how improvisation can feel like freedom but also be quite frightening, the cultural hub that was Resonance Café, playing improvisation games, delving into the political nature of songs like “Blowing on Embers” and “Soft Animal” and dedicating the former to a free Palestine, relating to birds, playing a show at Suoni Per Il Popolo on June 28, 2026, working on new songs, other future plans, and much more.

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