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Montreal, Canada

Bell Orchestre are a five-piece instrumental band from Montreal, Canada. Its members include: Richard Parry (bass), Sarah Neufeld (violin), Pietro Amato (french horn), Kaveh Nabatian (trumpet), Stefan Schneider (drums & percussion). Sarah Neufeld and Richard Parry are also full-time members of Arcade Fire.

Their first full length album, Recording a Tape the Colour of Light, was recorded in 2003, though it was not released until late 2005, as they were touring with Arcade Fire at the time.

In November, 2008, Arts & Crafts announced that they would release the second full-length from Bell Orchestre, entitled As Seen Through Windows. On February 19th, 2009, the album leaked in its entirety to blogs and file sharing services.

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1	Recording a Tunnel (The Horns Play Underneath the Canal)	47
2	The Upwards March	42
3	Throw It on a Fire	40
4	Stripes	36
5	Bucephalus Bouncing Ball	34
6	The Bells Play the Band	33
6	The Gaze	33
6	Dark Lights	33
6	Elephants	33
10	Nuevo	31
11	Salvatore Amato	28
11	Air Lines/Land Lines	28
11	Icicles/Bicycles	28
14	As Seen Through Windows	27
15	Water/Light/Shifts	22

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fern244 wrote:
April 2011

Just discovered these guys and man are they amazing. Are they still doing anything? Seems like they don't get the deserved publicity or number of followers.

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PaquiTOT wrote:
March 2011

Gosh, the new record is kinda boring. The first one was way more upbeat, maybe the new one needs a few more listens.

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A_Llama wrote:
February 2011

The drums sound awesome what are you on about?

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zhakely_pehsska wrote:
September 2010

Who Designs Nature's How is really nice!

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budak6 wrote:
August 2010

...nice..

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Hrafinn wrote:
June 2010

Seeing them live sometime really helps to understand their musical aesthetic. Almost all sound is done without electronics, even on stage they fiddle around with weird "instruments" to recreate the sound effects from the record.

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Kele wrote:
June 2010

Why do the drums sound so poorly? The rest of the instruments were recorded wonderfully then the drums ruin it all. It's not the drumming (which is fine) but how it sounds. Can anyone explain why they like/tolerate them? Perhaps my mind will be changed...

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zhakely_pehsska wrote:
May 2010

will they tour any time soon?:)

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Y050Y wrote:
May 2010

inspirated when I hear!

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jogurtwsc wrote:
March 2010

Really good music!) Thanx a lot!!

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mouaii wrote:
December 2009

As Seen Through Windows is way better than Recording a Tape the Colour of the Light. wonder what their next album will be like..

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dtrzcin wrote:
December 2009

As Seen Through Windows is incredibly wonderful.

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ironarmatom wrote:
November 2009

Here's a link to an hr long live mp3 from May 31, 2009 - Live at the Theatron Festival. FM quality. Link Found at netloaded.org. http:// depositfiles.com/files/hi3zgvvi5

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Arcade-YoL wrote:
November 2009

Bell Orchestre - iTunes Live from Montreal http://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/itunes-live-from-montreal/id338869205 Breathtaking!

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rotovick wrote:
November 2009

Elephants es re buenazaaaa... !! Y tambien me encanto Dark Lights - (ke buena rola) .... De hecho este disco lo disfrute del principio hasta el final - (As Seen Through Windows) =)

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StaticMedium wrote:
October 2009

Kid Koala on the remix!

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Ragasmurf wrote:
September 2009

Yep, the new EP is pretty damned stunning. [2]

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panuru wrote:
September 2009

Yep, the new EP is pretty damned stunning.

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Xhi wrote:
August 2009

New album sounds pretty unique.

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Refial wrote:
July 2009

Just saw them last night. Amazing.

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