Bell Orchestre

*2025 stock* Following the reissue of Recording a Tape the Colour of the Light, Erased Tapes are thrilled to announce the reissue of the band’s second album As Seen Through Windows. Expanding further on the foundation that Recording a Tape the Colour of the Light laid, the group refined and tightened their sound on this masterpiece. 

Bell Orchestre is a collaborative instrumental group based in Montreal. Whose six members come from wildly divergent musical backgrounds, and the unlikely chemistry that results from their collaboration is the very thing that sustains their connection. It’s as if the group as a whole has tapped into a very particular, very distinct energy: like that of an approaching storm. In many ways, Bell Orchestre is the sum of not only its parts but the sum of its influences and inspirations.

Bell Orchestre has been known to retreat into the woods to make and write music: The specifics of time and place, the elemental forces at work outside, and those forces that exist inside all come into play within Bell Orchestre’s musical process. This particular music could be made by no one else at no other time in history.

Now looking back at the recording sessions, lap steel guitarist Michael Feuerstack remembers, "I don’t know how aware we were of the uniqueness of our bond and the resulting methods of music making, but they are very evident across this recording.”