Bell Orchestre
Recording a Tape the Colour of the Light
Rough Trade 2005

01. Recording a Tunnel (The Horns Play Underneath the Canal)
02. Les Lumieres Pt. 1
03. Les Lumieres Pt. 2
04. Throw It on a Fire
05. Recording a Tunnel (The Horns Play Underneath the Canal)
06. The Upwards March
07. The Bells Play the Band
08. Recording a Tape... (Typewriter Duet)
09. Nuevo
10. Salvatore Amato
11. Recording a Tunnel (The Invisible Bells)

"Recording a Tape the Colour of the Light" is everything instrumental post-rock should be and nothing it shouldn't: it sounds live but hardly loud and is brimming with sound but uncrowded. Renouncing formulaic bombast, Bell Orchestre dazzles by finesse, not force. Call it blank state music - oceans of negative space awaiting colonization-by-imagination.

Members of the Arcade Fire gathered 'round to make this gem. Pitchfork may be saying "post-rock", but whatever name you give it, one word sticks throughout, and that's "free". Just an incredible sense of freedom and space... quite simply luminous.

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