Artist	Song
Bell Orchestre	Icicles / Bicycles
from As Seen Through Windows (Bonus Track Version) (2009)
Bell Orchestre	Les Lumieres Pt. 1
from Recording a Tape the Colours of the Light (2005)
Bell Orchestre	Quintet
from As Seen Through Windows (Bonus Track Version) (2009)
Bell Orchestre	Throw It On the Fire
from Recording a Tape the Colours of the Light (2005)
Bell Orchestre	Airlines / Landlines (Deadly Stare Remix)
from Who Designs Nature's How (2009)
Bell Orchestre	The Upwards March
from Recording a Tape the Colours of the Light (2005)
Bell Orchestre	Water / Light / Shifts (Tim Hecker Remix)
from Who Designs Nature's How (2009)
Bell Orchestre	Bucephalus Bouncing Ball
from As Seen Through Windows (Bonus Track Version) (2009)
Bell Orchestre	The Stars In His Head / Bernard 33 (Dark Lights) [Colin Stetson Remix]
from Who Designs Nature's How (2009)
Bell Orchestre	Les Lumieres Pt. 2
from Recording a Tape the Colours of the Light (2005)
Bell Orchestre	As Seen Through Windows (Live)
from iTunes Live from Montreal (2009)
Bell Orchestre	Salvatore Amato
from Recording a Tape the Colours of the Light (2005)
Bell Orchestre	Elephants
from As Seen Through Windows (Bonus Track Version) (2009)
Bell Orchestre	The Bells Play the Band
from Recording a Tape the Colours of the Light (2005)

Comment:

Brought to life in Montreal round about the same time as Arcade Fire, and sharing personnel with that globally triumphant outfit (violinist Sarah Neufeld and bassist Richard Parry), Bell Orchestre is what happens when restlessly inventive, classically trained musicians enter the contemporary post-rock space. A list of influences — which must include late-era Talk Talk as well as classical minimalists like Philip Glass — offers only a hint of what it feels like to spend quality time with their two albums to date, the most recent of which As Seen Through Windows made it onto the 2009 long list for the Polaris Prize. There's so much going on here that fresh listens guarantee new rewards, from the swiftly passing soundscape of "Quintet" to the subtle aural sparkles of "Les Lumieres Pt.1" and their amazing un-digital cover of the Aphex Twin's "Bucephalus Bouncing Ball."

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