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Bell Orchestre Surprisingly Jazzy

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By Erik Leijon (CHARTattack) July 14, 2009 3:28 pm
Year after year, popular taste moves further away from traditional jazz music, and the Montreal International Jazz Festival has followed suit. The even more generic umbrella term of "world music" is the predominant style being represented here, and at least in terms of creation and backstory bears some resemblance to jazz music....
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Bell Orchestre — As Seen Through Windows

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By Ian Gormely (CHARTattack) March 10, 2009 1:46 pm
Believe it or not, there was once a time when an instrumental pop song or soundtrack could rival Beatles records for chart supremacy. While that time has long passed, it's refreshing to see a new generation of bands turning to wordless soundscapes as a means to escape the monotony of pop song structures. As Seen Through Windows is the second...
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Bell Orchestre — Recording A Tape Of Colour Of The Light

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) November 8, 2005 9:46 am
Montreal's Bell Orchestre are probably best known for their two main players — Arcade Fire's Richard Reed Parry and Sarah Neufeld. The all-instrumental Orchestre show some tremendous promise on their first record. "Les Lumieres Pt. 2" has charming pop sensibility, while the urgent "THROW IT ON A FIRE" is wickedly complex, if a...
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Bell Orchestre — Who Designs Nature's How

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By Phil Villeneuve (CHARTattack) January 12, 2010 5:14 pm
There's a very interesting experiment you should try with the new Bell Orchestre remix EP. Try playing the original songs with these unique reworkings over top at the same time. You'll end up with a layered lushness that might have been lacking from last year's As Seen Through Windows, the original record. Do it! The results are pretty cool...
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Arcade Fire Member, Nico Muhly Write Orchestral Piece

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) October 20, 2009 10:42 am
Arcade Fire multi-instrumentalist Richard Reed Parry and composer Nico Muhly have written an orchestral composition titled "For Heart And Breath And Orchestra." Perry and Muhly will perform the piece with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony at Toronto's Koerner Hall at the Royal Conservatory Of Music as part of Muhly's "Nico's Choice...
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Bell Orchestre Releasing Remix EP

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By Siobhan Ozege (CHARTattack) October 6, 2009 2:23 pm
Bell Orchestre will release a remix EP called Who Designs Nature's How on Oct. 27 through Arts & Crafts. The EP will feature five tracks off the band's 2009 Polaris Music Prize long listed sophomore effort, As Seen Through Windows. It will also feature remixes by Kid Koala, Mad Professor and Tim Hecker. Here's what's on Who Designs Nature'...
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Bell Orchestre Want Their Juno

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By Scott Bryson (CHARTattack) February 17, 2009 3:57 pm
Bell Orchestre's 2006 Recording A Tape The Colour Of Light debut album bettered many peoples' expectations — even those of the Montreal-based band — when it was nominated for a Juno Award for best instrumental album. The dust has barely settled on the recording sessions for that record's follow-up, As Seen Through Windows, but Bell Orchestre...
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By The Stereo (CHARTattack) January 27, 2009 3:17 pm
Post rock died when Godspeed! You Black Emperor moved their exclamation mark, and pretentious shit like this is what's wrong with most of indie music today.
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Bell Orchestre Add More Tour Dates

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By CHARTattack Staff January 21, 2009 3:17 pm
Bell Orchestre's As Seen Through Windows will be released by Arts & Crafts on March 10, but you can see the primarily instrumental Montreal band on stage in February and April. The Arcade Fire spinoff project's nine-track follow-up to 2005's Recording A Tape The Colour Of Light debut was recorded with John McEntire (The Sea And Cake, Tortoise...
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Bell Orchestre As Seen Through Windows

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) January 9, 2009 2:40 pm
Montreal's Bell Orchestre's Arts & Crafts debut, As Seen Through Windows, will be released on March 10. The nine-track follow-up to 2005's Recording A Tape The Colour Of Light was recorded with John McEntire (The Sea And Cake, Tortoise) at Chicago's Soma Electronic Music Studios. Bell Orchestre consist of Richard Reed Parry (bass, accordion...
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Arts & Crafts Signs Bell Orchestre

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) December 8, 2008 4:44 pm
Montreal instrumental rockers Bell Orchestre have signed with Arts & Crafts and will release their next album on their new label next year. The as-yet-untitled album is the follow-up to 2005's Recording A Tape The Colour Of Light debut, which garnered a best instrumental album Juno Award nomination in 2006. The three-year-old group will...
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Bell Orchestre Happily Co-exist With The Arcade Fire

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By Brian Pascual (CHARTattack) November 25, 2005 4:30 pm
Considering the kind of racket and vocal mayhem that he stirs up with his other band, you'd expect more of the same from Richard Reed Parry no matter what he's doing. If you've seen The Arcade Fire live, then you're certainly aware of the maniacally physical, motorcycle helmet-wearing, boisterous tornado of energy that Parry can be. But it...
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