Hi there Our Basement ,

We’re Dave and Veronica of The Johnnys, an Ontario-based rock’n’roll band.

Our new song, “Butterfly (Salas/Gutierrez Remix),” was inspired by The Butterfly teaching taught to Veronica by Indigenous Elder Joanne Dallaire.

When ready for its own transformation, a caterpillar will find a tree on a sunny day to choose a spot in the sun to create a chrysalis. While changing into a butterfly, the caterpillar must completely transform itself. This is a painful and messy process, much like true healing. When the butterfly is ready to emerge, it again chooses a sunny day as it must dry its wings before taking flight. This is a very dangerous part of the transformation as the butterfly is at its most vulnerable. It cannot fly until its wings are dry, and its full colour is shown to its predators. It must also change its own idea of itself in order to believe it can now fly. The caterpillar brain says it can’t fly and it must switch its thinking to a butterfly brain to know it can fly. This requires courage.

“You cannot hide from what’s inside” is an excellent analogy for the butterfly transformation and the pandemic induced self-isolation. If you weren’t distracting yourself with streaming film/TV and you took the time to do some self-reflection, chances are you emerged a different being.

We were lucky to have Stevie Salas (Seeing Red Productions) and Kevin Gutierrez (Assembly Line Studios) remix and remaster our original track. We hope you enjoy “Butterfly (Salas/Gutierrez Remix).”

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