Video: School of Seven Bells, “My Cabal” + Jesu Remix Stream
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Totally not the massive Timothy Saccenti School of Seven Bells animation extravaganza, but cool nonetheless. This David Mullet-directed video may have come straight from 1995—camera trickery, detached vocals, fisheye lens—but it’s just about time for that revival anyway what with the No Doubt reunion and return of Lilith Fair. Pretty soon we’re all going to be talking about the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies and how totally crazy Tom Morello’s guitar sounds are. RCRD LBL has a shoegazy Jesu remix of Bells’ “Face to Face on High Places,” and we have a pretty ill collection of vintage Silverchair shirts. You decide which one you need right now.
Video: Timothy Saccenti’s School of Seven Bells Project
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It’s been a while since we talked to Timothy Saccenti about the making of his video for Animal Collective’s “Peacebone.” Turns out he’s been busy making a 70-minute animation of sorts set to the music of School of Seven Bells. Anthem magazine has a preview of the video and a Q+A with Saccenti about the project, where he describes his work with a “Flame artist.” Flame turns out to be the name of a computer program, not what comes from fire. But still, the clip, over the song “Face to Face on High Places,” looks variously like an astrological chart, super hero angel wings, those purple circular packages of birth control pills, Myst and something we saw at the Boston Science Museum a really long time ago.
FADER TV: Open Bar with School of Seven Bells
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Every couple of weeks we meet up with some of our favorite artists at Heathers Bar in the East Village. They play songs while everyone else ties on one.
On School of Seven Bells‘ newly released debut, Alpinisms, “White Elephant Coat” sounds like a chic theme for a spy film. But sparse at the bar with only their voices and acoustic guitar, they Joan Baez’d themselves, two tracks of folk voice and brittle winter, for a reworked and stripped version of the song. You know, it wasn’t that cold that day, but it is now.
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posted on Nov 12, 2008 in MUSIC OPEN BAR SHOW tags dance/electronic, Open Bar, School of Seven Bells
Video: School of Seven Bells at the Levi’s®/FADER Fort NYC
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Maybe the most incongruous set during the entire week at the Levi’s®/FADER Fort NYC all week was Friday night’s swishy pulse of Brooklyn’s School of Seven Bells. While partygoers responsibly chugged free drinks, mingled, chatted and got their pictures taken, Ben Curtis and the Deheza sisters calmly cruised through a bunch of songs from their excellent new album Alpinisms, including “Connjur” (download) in the video above. If you like what you see and hear, and maybe feel like crying in front of strangers, they will be on tour with M83 all over the US in November.
RCRD LBL: Stream The New School Of Seven Bells Seven Inch
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Who needs physical media? Not us! (Actually, us!) RCRD LBL is streaming the new School of Seven Bells seven-inch, so if you don’t like having a real life object with sounds magically applied to it, then here you go. Stream these songs every time you’re about to fall asleep—like while you take your lunch break—because they are dreamy. And in a few weeks—maybe during another lunch break—go to the newsstand, buy FADER Number 57 and read T Cole Rachel’s Gen F on the band in which you will learn what the hell the word “alpinisms” means.
Stream: School of Seven Bells, “Half Asleep” + “Caldo”
Freeload: School Of Seven Bells, “Connjur”
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Our experiences with the School of Seven Bells have so far been pretty spaced out, consisting of us coming down from caffeine stratospheres on the soothing melodies of their “Trance Figure” or “Chain.” But the new track they recently beamed our way literally starts out like a transmissions from Mars — creepy ghost broadcast, Morse pulse and lazer guns in the first few seconds — and makes us a little uneasy (We hate Martians). What follows though is probably the best song we’ve heard from them yet, from their forthcoming album Alpinism, and actually sounds more like what you’d expect from Benjamin Curtis, former guitarist of ill space rock dudes the Secret Machines (see FADER 15). While we stay interested in what Machines are up to (new album in October), we have to say that the Deheza sisters are killing us right now on what we’d think is a break up song if it didn’t sound so pretty.
Download: School of Seven Bells, “Connjur”
