Member Since: 4/14/2005
Band Website: ourladyofbells.com
Band Members: In alphabetronical order:
John Berry
drums, percussion, xylophone
Gregg Cornish
keys, accordion, melodica
Jules Gimbrone
guitars, vocals, mandolin, charango
Geoff Rice
guitars, vocals, harmonica, keys
bandmate emeritus:
Chris Westhoff
Influences:
Sounds Like: I'll stumble across a hidden gem like Our Lady of Bells ... and be completely blown away.
-Rick Pierik (owner, Nine Mile Records)
If this music were a person it would lay stone paths to the garden in its yard on the weekends. It would hang the laundry out to dry barefoot in the front yard. It would roll down grassy hills.
-Christopher Wilkey (Northeast Performer Magazine)
If you're looking to be spellbound...[this] folk-rock quartet can hush a room with their sparse songs built from cascading acoustic and electric guitars, piano, and male and female vocals.
-Ken Maiuri (Pedro the Lion, King Radio, School for the Dead, Mark Mulchahy, the Mammals...)
The entire album is divine, from the quiet harmonies to the plaintive guitar twangs. My heart gets caught in my throat at least once every time; more if I'm really paying attention.
-Kelsey Flynn (DJ, WRSI 93.9FM The River)
If you like nice neat labels for your music, then buy Our Lady of Bells' Forgetting the Way Home and place the CD safely in the indie-folk chamber pop section of your library under the sub-category of "Current Favorites."
-nooneisawake.blogspot.com
Our Lady of Bells is quite masterful at creating a dreamlike ambiance with their music. The group clearly enjoys crafting surreal moods.
-David Ryan Polgar (Northeast Performer Magazine)
All the right cymbal crashes, piano key pleading and singing strings evoke heartaches, heartstrings, and other typical heart-related imagery, but the songs rise above clichés and put the folk-pop quintet on a promising path behind Kings of Convenience, Belle and Sebastian, and Okkervil River.
-Michael Walker (gigtimes.com)
Record Label: none
Type of Label: None