HOUSE MUSIC LIVE WITH ORCHESTRA
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The album unfolds as one long piece, a recorded-then-sculpted improvisation that coalesces classical and electronic instrumentation in the creation of genre-defying musical worlds.
Bell Orchestre has existed as an influential Canadian instrumental musical entity for over fifteen years. Their musical practice spans from soothing neo-classical to moody post-rock to timeless contemporary baroque impressions, all effortlessly woven into each other.
The experience of listening to Bell Orchestre, whether live or recorded, is almost that of experiencing a form of synaesthesia: the result is a collage-like construction of not just sound, but visual elements as well. From a herd of elephants to that approaching storm on the horizon, from a quiet forest in the country to ice forming on a city street, from watching vapour trails disappear in the sky to watching the changing light of dusk through a window. The result then is not so much cinematic as it is evocative: Bell Orchestre have not just written the music to the film — they have created an invisible film that only comes to life in the listening.
House Music has previously been performed with the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra during the Aarhus Festuge (Denmark), at the iconic Elbphilharmonie during the Kampnagel Internationales Sommerfestival (Germany), with the BBC Concert Orchestra as part of the South Bank Center's season and BBC radio program Unclassified Live (London), and the Montreal Symphonic Orchestra. -
January 25 2023 | BBC Concert Orchestra, London, UK
November 25 2021 | Maison Symphonique de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
August 31 2019 | Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Aarhus, Denmark
August 23 2019 | Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Germany
Feb 5 2015 | Copenhagen Phil, Copenhagen, Denmark -
Pietro Amato
french horn, keyboards, electronics
Michael Feuerstack
pedal steel guitar, keyboards, vocals
Kaveh Nabatian
trumpet, gongoma, keyboards, vocals
Sarah Neufeld
violin, vocals
Richard Reed Parry
bass, vocals
Stefan Schneider
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Montreal's fabled avant-garde outfit Bell Orchestre comes together to perform their immersive ecosystem of an album House Music (2021) with a full orchestral arrangement.
Press
"House Music, the brilliant new album from Bell Orchestre, is a musical event, a happening, so wonderful it almost defies description or review" — Under The Radar
“Fluid, burbling electronics and explorative jazz” — Mojo
"Remarkably cohesive: a semi-classical/electronic/post-rock suite with the space to go off in all kinds of interesting directions" — The Times
