- about
Why the name 46bliss? Member, David was dozing off while riding through the New York borough of Queens on the number 7 line subway one 
day, when he heard the conductor announce the approaching stop as 46 Bliss. Lightening struck, the doors opened, the seas parted and David hasnt been the same since.
Jack was living with his family in France happily playing drums along with records when his father couldn't take it any longer. He forced Jack to take lessons at the local Conservatory. As it turned out, the drum teacher there was the jazz legend Kenny Clarke, one of the fathers of bebop. Jack studied under him and the great Dante Agostini for five years before coming back to the U.S for college at Wesleyan University where he studied South Indian drumming and electronic music. Jack moved to New York after college and played in bands and took up computer programming to make a living. He melded both interests when he created Sounder, an ambient music generation program that won awards from Wired Magazine and kudos in RollingStone.
David took up piano because of his love of music by the Beatles, Moody Blues and psychedelic rock but always resisted his mothers requests to play for the guests. He attended Berklee School of Music in Boston, staying on after graduating to play in bands for a couple years. Once in New York, David started writing songs more seriously, and was signed to a publishing deal with Warner Chappell. Besides his involvement in 46bliss, David co-wrote a series of kids' songs that he and partner Jeff turned into a full-length musical, Captain Gravy: Where is the Moon? which was featured at the NYC Fringe Festival in 2003. He and Jack have worked as remixers as well, producing the chilled version of Mahalia Jackson singing Silent Night for the CD Christmas Remixed vol. 2 on Six Degrees Records.
Clare grew up in a small seaside town in the Canadian boonies, where she developed a love for music at an early age. When piano lessons from the meanest nun in the nearby convent didnt work out she resorted to playing the coffee table and being a back-up singer in her brothers air-guitar pop band. By seventeen she was a free-spirited vagabond living with her mother near Paris (the same town Jack lived in, but she missed him by a year). Coming back to Canada, she embarked on a life on the road with a traveling troupe of actors, working as a dresser and seamstress, writing poetry by night. Ending up in the East Village of New York City, Clare sang in small groups of improvising musicians, and created several one woman shows that featured her Acadian and Celtic influenced haunting acapella songs. Here she met David who invited her to join him in the studio.
While looking for a drummer they met Jack through mutual friend Derek Sivers (CDBaby) and immediately began to produce the songs that would become their first CD, Pistachio Home.