This was followed up by the 2009 album D'Après le horla de Maupassant (or simply Le Horla for short ), the first Box album sung entirely in French.īy the 2010s, the music industry had changed so much that Pisapia felt no need to create entire albums. In 2005, the band released Black Dog There, its first new album in 15 years.

This version of The Box was essentially Pisapia backed by session musicians, but the line-up soon coalesced into steady group that had a decidedly more prog-rock orientation than the original incarnation of the band. Pisapia revived The Box with a new lineup in 2004, issuing two new Box tracks (recorded in 19) on a new hits compilation, Always in Touch With You. This was later reissued as a Box album in 2015. Pisapia released a solo album, John of Mark, in 1995. That album was a commercial disappointment, and The Box disbanded in 1992 after releasing the greatest hits compilation A Decade of Box Music. Īfter touring for more than eighteen months, the band took six months off to recover before returning with 1990's The Pleasure and the Pain. The band's biggest hit, 'Closer Together', was originally commissioned for a fundraiser for a anti-leukemia foundation. Backing vocals on the album were provided by Jordan and Martine St. Featuring the hit singles 'Ordinary People', 'Closer Together' and 'Crying Out Loud for Love', the album was certified platinum.

ġ987's Closer Together was the band's most commercially successful album. They won the 1985 Félix Award for group of the year, and were nominated for the 1985 Juno Award for Most Promising Group of the Year. That album, which included backing vocals by Sass Jordan and Marie Carmen, produced the hit singles My Dreams of You and L'Affaire Dumoutier (Say to Me). In 1985, The Box released All the Time, All the Time, All the Time. Florent also left and was replaced by Claude Thibeault. Drummer Sylvain Coutu joined the band for its supporting tour, but was replaced by Pierre Taillefer before the next album. Their debut album The Box was released in 1984 and produced the hit singles Must I Always Remember and Walk Away. Also that year, Pisapia's brother Guy Pisapia joined on keyboards. The band's first single attracted the attention of Montreal radio station CKOI-FM, leading to a deal with Alert Records. He recruited guitarist Guy Florent and bassist Jean-Pierre Brie and, before they settled on calling themselves The Box, the group was known as Checkpoint Charlie. The band was formed in 1981 by Jean-Marc Pisapia, an early member of Men Without Hats.

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