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Montreal’s Bell Orchestre—the group including Arcade Fire’s Sarah Neufeld and Richard Reed Parry—have announced their first studio album in over a decade. House Music arrives March 19 via Erased Tapes. Today, Bell Orchestre have shared the lead single, “V: Movement,” along with a music video directed by band member Kaveh Nabatian. Watch them perform in the forest in the clip below, and scroll down for the tracklist and album art.
House Music was created almost entirely from a single improvisational session in Sarah Neufeld’s Vermont home. The album features Neufeld on violin and vocals, and a number of other multi-instrumentalists such as Pietro Amato, Michael Feuerstack, Kaveh Nabatian, Richard Reed Parry, and Stefan Schneider. The musicians recorded in separate rooms with help from engineer Hans Bernhard.
“If you sliced away the front wall of the house and looked in, you’d see the horn section—with so many different things going on—down on the first floor of what would normally be the living/dining room, and it was full chaos with tables and tables of kalimbas and harmonicas and synthesizers and horns” Neufeld said in a press release. She continued:
Parry added:
Bell Orchestre’s last full-length was 2009’s Who Designs Nature’s How.
House Music:
I: Opening
II: House
III: Dark Steel
IV: What You’re Thinking
V: Movement
VI: All the Time
VII: Colour Fields
VIII: Making Time
IX: Nature That’s It That’s All
X: Closing