woiccare@PEBBLES.SCT.CLARKSON.EDU (02/13/91)
Kevin Gurney sez: > Sean C. Williams writes: >>Bel Canto is a group out of belgium that sounds sort of like >>the Cocteau Twins. > That's funny; I thought they were Norwegian. Perhaps they record and live in > Belgium. they are norwegian - their work was just release on the belgian crammed label. > I only have "Birds of Passage" and like it a lot. Anyone know anything about > the personnel in the band? Do they ever tour? the band members are anneli marian drecker (vox, keys), geir jennsen (keys), nils johanssen (guitars), luc van liesholt (horns), and michael delory (drums). the first three are the creative forces in the band though (this is as of the _birds of passage_ release). here is a more or less complete discography: 1987: White-Out Conditions LP 1988: Blank Sheets/Chaideinoi 7" White-Out Conditions/Maaligaabidaa 7" 1989: Dreaming Girl (3 mixes) 12" (Nettwerk) 1990: Birds Of Passage LP CD with Look 3 (Nettwerk) Lim.Ed. CD-Box with a CD-single with Oskorei and Moligobido (CBS France) Birds Of Passage/Manupura 7" Birds Of Passage(2 mixes)/Glassmaker 12" (Nettwerk) A Shoulder To The Wheel 7" (Nettwerk) All is released on Crammed Discs if nothing else is indicated. Solo Projects: E-Man (Geir): Cassette -84 I Said Bleep (Geir, Anneli, Per): Sure Be Glad When You're Dead 12" (SSR) -89 Bleep (Geir): In Your System 12" (SSR) -89 A Byte Of AMC 12" (SSR) -90 North Pole By Submarine LP (SSR) -90 Soon out: The Launch Pad 12" + (Nils, Per): Change This Circus 12" (SSR) -89 Y.B.U (Hans-Olav, Anneli): Keep It Up 12" (SSR) -90 woj
nico@cs.ruu.nl (Nico Verwer) (02/14/91)
In <9102130644.aa07231@pebbles.sct.clarkson.edu> woiccare@PEBBLES.SCT.CLARKSON.EDU writes: >Kevin Gurney sez: >> Sean C. Williams writes: >>>Bel Canto ... >> Do they ever tour? They do. Last year, I think in september, they performed in Utrecht, Holland. The concert was quite good, though very different from their records. They used very few keyboards and that sort of stuff, but more acoustical instuments. One thing that struck me, was that the soundmix was very good, not too loud. Apparently, they spend much of their time in Belgium. One of the band's members, Luc van Liesholt comes definitely from Belgium. He is also a member of Tuxedomoon. >Bleep (Geir): North Pole By Submarine LP (SSR) -90 Bleep also works in Belgium. I didn't know that Bleep is part of Bel Canto, but Bleep does use a lot of samples taken from BC. -- Nico Verwer | nico@cs.ruu.nl Dept. of Computer Science, University of Utrecht | phone: +31 30 533921 p.o. box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands | fax: +31 30 513791