If you were to
re-imagine classic 1960's British psychedelic folk for rhizomatic times
you might come up with something like TREMBLING BELLS. Existing as a
central project for founding member ALEX NEILSEN, the free drummer and
song writer whose projects are far abroad and collaboration has been
sought out by an array of artists: he joined BONNIE PRINCE BILLY's
ensemble for a tour of Scotland and Ireland and created a classic live
album in ?Is it the Sea?' That relationship was reversed and enthusiasm
reciprocated when bonnie prince billy joined Trembling Bells https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGK-H9NopBE
on a tour of the pubs of Britain last year, and recorded ?The Marble
Downs' http://honestjons.com/shop/preview/39614
Tailgated but not derailed by THURSTON MOORE collaborations at Caf?
n'Oto in noise/improve events, Neilsen finds time to create the
multidisciplinary performance that is DEATH SHANTIES who you can't book
even for money. And now vocal group CRYING LION. And so on. And on.
If it would be true to say the concept of Trembling Bells is belongs to
Neilsen, the sound belongs to the ever evolving band - and almost any
kind of fretted, blown or hit thing you can think of meeting alt
guitar, celtic fiddle, jazz rhythm and psychedelic keyboards on a
schizoid plane. But above all else it is LAVINIA BLACKWALL's astounding
vocals here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1hR45FlTcc
This time out Trembling Bells collaborate with INCREDIBLE STRING BAND https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moyvaM9c4nM
founder and psych folk legend MIKE HERON. And they will end up at the
Queen's Head in Islington on 28th January 2015, guests of WILLESDEN
FOLK and NEST COLLECTIVE, which is not a very big venue so will be very
busy if not sold out because everyone is so generous and the tickets
not so much.
http://www.tremblingbells.com/
