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School of Seven Bells (Ghostly International/Full-Time Hobby)
Whelan’s, Feb 23
Tickets €12.50 from WAV, Road Records, City Discs, Soundcellar, Tickets.ie, Ticketmaster
“Perfect autumnal dream-pop.” – 4/5, The Guardian
“A promising blend of the psychedelic and the futuristic.” -New York Times
“Heavenly dream-pop.”- Sunday Times
“Listen to the gothic shimmer of "My Cabal", and try to avoid thinking of the icy soundscapes of Cocteau Twins…” – Pitchfork, 8.0 Recommended
School of Seven Bells is the collective work of Benjamin Curtis, ex-Secret Machines guitarist and twin sisters Alejandra and Claudia Deheza, previously of ambient post-rockers On! Air! Library!
While watching PBS at 3am, Alejandra caught a show about the School of Seven Bells: a mythical South American pickpocket academy that may have existed in the 80s. The idea of seven minds working as one appealed to her, as did the phrase’s cryptic musicality, and a creative spark ignited the trio.
Early SVIIB’s recordings popped up on Sonic Cathedral, Table of Elements, and Suicide Squeeze, then Blonde Redhead tapped the band for a tour. Remixes came from Cocteau Twins’ Robin Guthrie and Prefuse 73, whose “Class of 73 Bells,” a re-imagining of SVIIB’s “Iamundernodisguise,” ended up on his 2007 album Preparations (Warp).
Having recently signed to Full Time Hobby, the band released their enchanting debut Alpinisms in November 2008.
With influences spread as far and wide as My Bloody Valentine, Debbie Deb, Gentle Giant and Colombia’s number one diva Toto La Momposina, the School Of Seven Bells’ sound is as schizophrenic as it is blissful. While the three band members remain abstract and experimental in their approach to writing, the result is always glorious ethereal pop music of epic proportions.
Curtis’ gentle guitars wrap around jagged beats; silky vocals hide behind grumpy, alien synthesizers—but the resulting songs are effortlessly cohesive, and insidiously catchy. Elements of dream-pop, Afrobeat, IDM, and 4AD’s gauzier moments provide a constantly shifting frame for the Dehezas’ lyrics, which they write as mysterious missives between the School’s imaginary seven members.
Claudia Deheza has also recorded the album Singlular with Prefuse 73 as A Cloud Mireya in 2006.
For fans of My Bloody Valentine/Cocteau Twins/Broadcast/Slow Dive
www.schoolofsevenbells.com
www.myspace.com/schoolofsevenbells
www.fulltimehobby.co.uk
School of Seven Bells (Ghostly International/Full-Time Hobby)
Whelan’s, Feb 23
Tickets €12.50 from WAV, Road Records, City Discs, Soundcellar, Tickets.ie, Ticketmaster
“Perfect autumnal dream-pop.” – 4/5, The Guardian
“A promising blend of the psychedelic and the futuristic.” -New York Times
“Heavenly dream-pop.”- Sunday Times
“Listen to the gothic shimmer of "My Cabal", and try to avoid thinking of the icy soundscapes of Cocteau Twins…” – Pitchfork, 8.0 Recommended
School of Seven Bells is the collective work of Benjamin Curtis, ex-Secret Machines guitarist and twin sisters Alejandra and Claudia Deheza, previously of ambient post-rockers On! Air! Library!
While watching PBS at 3am, Alejandra caught a show about the School of Seven Bells: a mythical South American pickpocket academy that may have existed in the 80s. The idea of seven minds working as one appealed to her, as did the phrase’s cryptic musicality, and a creative spark ignited the trio.
Early SVIIB’s recordings popped up on Sonic Cathedral, Table of Elements, and Suicide Squeeze, then Blonde Redhead tapped the band for a tour. Remixes came from Cocteau Twins’ Robin Guthrie and Prefuse 73, whose “Class of 73 Bells,” a re-imagining of SVIIB’s “Iamundernodisguise,” ended up on his 2007 album Preparations (Warp).
Having recently signed to Full Time Hobby, the band released their enchanting debut Alpinisms in November 2008.
With influences spread as far and wide as My Bloody Valentine, Debbie Deb, Gentle Giant and Colombia’s number one diva Toto La Momposina, the School Of Seven Bells’ sound is as schizophrenic as it is blissful. While the three band members remain abstract and experimental in their approach to writing, the result is always glorious ethereal pop music of epic proportions.
Curtis’ gentle guitars wrap around jagged beats; silky vocals hide behind grumpy, alien synthesizers—but the resulting songs are effortlessly cohesive, and insidiously catchy. Elements of dream-pop, Afrobeat, IDM, and 4AD’s gauzier moments provide a constantly shifting frame for the Dehezas’ lyrics, which they write as mysterious missives between the School’s imaginary seven members.
Claudia Deheza has also recorded the album Singlular with Prefuse 73 as A Cloud Mireya in 2006.
For fans of My Bloody Valentine/Cocteau Twins/Broadcast/Slow Dive
www.schoolofsevenbells.com
www.myspace.com/schoolofsevenbells
www.fulltimehobby.co.uk
