Human Bell / Human Bell
Album: Human Bell   Collection:General
Artist:Human Bell   Added:Feb 2008
Label:Thrill Jockey Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2008-05-26 Pull Date: 2008-07-28
Week Ending: Jul 13 Jul 6 Jun 29 Jun 22 Jun 15 Jun 8 Jun 1
Airplays: 4 1 1 1 2 3 3

Recent Airplay
1. Aug 12, 2009: Signal to Noise
A Change In Fortunes
4. Jul 09, 2008: A2Z
Ephaphatha (Be Opened)
2. Jul 11, 2008: Oatmeal
Hanging From The Rafters
5. Jul 08, 2008: Streams, Highways, and Electrical Grids
Ephaphatha (Be Opened)
3. Jul 09, 2008: Brownian Motion
Ephaphatha (Be Opened)
6. Jul 02, 2008: Brownian Motion
Hanging From The Rafters

Album Review
Alma Mahler
Reviewed 2008-05-16
Instrumental rock/soundscape stuff from David Heumann (Arbouretum) and Nathan Bell (Lungfish). These lovely songs are primarily guitar duets, but also use drums, xylophone, bowed banjo, amplified kalimba, glockenspiel and others. Overall uneventful but pretty stuff. No FCCs.

1. * Cyclical progression, amplified guitars with xylophone & gentle drums
2. Beautiful, almost blues-y guitar work layered over acoustic ambient melody
3. Heavy guitar duet, more linear song structure that builds. Ends abruptly.
4. Guitar over dark atmospheric sounds. Open, spacious.
5. * Slow beginning, amplified guitar & drums enter and build through ~8:00, and then takes a lovely almost prog turn as it comes to an end.
6. ** Hypnotic and gorgeous. Beautiful instrumentation on this one.
7. Psychadelic rock lite - big guitar washes, background drums, lots of feedback noise. Watch out: song ends at 6:46....starts up again at 7:05

Track Listing
1. A Change In Fortunes   4. Outposts Of Oblivion
2. Splendor And Concealment   5. Hanging From The Rafters
3. Hymn Amerika   6. Ephaphatha (Be Opened)
  7. The Singing Trees