Beware of thy lights of bad presages.
(Drawing its six members from diverse musical backgrounds, Bell Orchestre
has come together to form one of the most cohesive and intuitive bands
making music today. It’s as if the group as a whole has tapped into a
very particular, very distinct energy: like that of an approaching
storm. To say they are an instrumental band is like saying El Greco was just
a painter, or Frank Gehry just builds museums: it fails to capture
their essence. In many ways, Bell Orchestre is the sum of not only its
parts, but the sum of its influences and inspirations. Among those
influences can be listed such diverse artists as Lee “Scratch” Perry,
Arvo Pärt, The Penguin Café Orchestra, and Talk Talk. But like all great
artists, Bell Orchestre have taken their disparate inspirations and
processed and transformed them into their own work, so that it no longer
sounds like a collection of influences; it sounds like nothing other
than Bell Orchestre).
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