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Americanos in Deutschland!


Heeg und Lambertson haben seit Jahren Filmmusik gemacht, für Filme die eigentlich nur in Ihren Köpfen existieren.
Der "Postpunk" Drummer aus Washington D.C. und der hemdlose Gitarrist aus Ohio haben ihren eklektischen Stil mit den Farben von Blues und Jazz des brillentragende Akademiker und Keyboarders Steve-O aus NYC zu einer einzigartigen Synthese verschmolzen, die dem kantigen Schlagzeug- und Guitarrenspiel eine verrauchte aber auch abgerundete Note verpasst.
Eigentlich wäre hiermit die Band komplett, wenn ihre grundlegende Neugier nicht dazu geführt hätte mit weiteren Klangwelten zu experimentieren. Die hierfür benötigten Hände und Füße gehören seit kurzem zu Ralf Philipp , die sich an Rasseln, Tamborine und Congas zu schaffen machen und für den speziellen Akustik-Touch des Quartetts sorgen.
Diese Kombination macht bell sparx zu einem Powerimprovisation-Pendel, das zwischen explodierendem Postpunk, fettem Hammond Grooves, White Noise, Surf und Ambient hin und her schwingt.
KONTACT: [email protected]

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EARCANDY FOR A DREAMY HEAD!!
BELLSPARX!
In the dogmatic and ridiculous world of Big Rock Biz, there’s something very comforting about just knowing that a band like Mannheims Bellsparx exists. That feeling comes from the group’s passion of sculpting a sincere and exciting brand of rock noise.
Bellsparx , genuinely appear to be far more like a gang of real, true friends who happened, quite fortuitously, to meet as a result of their mutual love of — eccentric refreshing rock and jazz that rarely finds airplay in big consumer radio, and who seem to enjoy each other’s company as much as they like designing, producing, recording and playing their own brand of dissonant harmonies.
Bellsparx forays into instrumental never never lands and their own instrumental arrangements of strangely familiar Zeppelin or Beatles songs. Snatch the listener by the ear and send them on a sonic adventure in which they might not want to return.
The band members hail from unlikely parts of the world,
Steve Kallay New York City, USA,
Ralph Philip Freiburg Germany,
Jens Kannengießer Mainz, Germany
and Michael Lambertson Dayton Ohio, USA.
As one can imagine, with these diverse origins, many influences gush onto a sonic platter and coagulate into savagely beautiful arrangements.
The Bellsparx tools of musical implementation are also very important to the quality and creativity of their music:
Michael’s implementation of Gretsch hollowbodies, vintage Strats and classic Vox AC30s together with Fender Bassman amps and delays, lend muscle as well as a touch of math rock to the musical mixture.
Jens’ inextricably tortured GDR Volksamp and Jap Bass, give the listener the feeling that they are about to be arrested be the Stazi.
Ralphs’ tasteful and highly balanced drumming glue the formation together. But always be on the lookout for some concussive surprises!
Steve’s Hammond B3 and a load of effects lends an unmistakable idiosyncratic quality to round up the Bellsparx sound.
The trademark Bellsparx musical hooks and melodies simply won’t leave you alone no matter how you try to shoo them away.
But beware…..This is not music for the weak hearted!! 90db plus at a distance of 50 feet is commonplace at a Bellsparx engagement.
We look forward to your patronage!! See you soon!!!
CONTACT: [email protected]

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PUPPET JAW - LIVE!
Lange Nacht Der Museen
Mannheim - 2007

OPEN MUSIC CONTEST 3
Creative Commons
On the "Black Disk"

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/2/2007
Band Members: Michael Lambertson

: : guitar : :

Steven Kallay

: : Hammond & keys : :

Ralf Philipp

: : drums & percussion : :

Jens Kannengießer

: : bass : :

Steve McQueen
: : Ford Mustangs : :

Sounds Like: bell sparx on the radio!
+ + bermuda.funk + +

Mannheim:
89,6 MHz
Heidelberg: 105,4 MHz
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My Blog

Lost in the bermuda.funk triangle

  Tonight, the "Alles ist Möglich" (Anything is possible) bermuda.funk radio show feat. bellsparx was broadcast in Mannheim and Heidelberg. And for those us living outside of the area, also on t...
Posted by bell sparx on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:52:00 PST

Haus der Jugend on NOV 3

NICE PLAYING EVERYONE!The Spikewaves - "You guys freak'n rock!"Professor Mark Blyth - "Keep slapping it baby!"(Professor Extraordinarius of FUNKOLOGY) bell sparx thanks all the musicians for contribu...
Posted by bell sparx on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:44:00 PST

MedScoMarWoo

Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood: live at Karlsruhe!My first MSMW (or MMW) concert...Wow, what a band, what a show.See them if you can!...
Posted by bell sparx on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 01:33:00 PST

BASS GROOVE GREASE

Injecting that groove-grease on the bass&     Stefan Lindenau...
Posted by bell sparx on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 06:28:00 PST

OPEN SOURCE: OMC

  Die Lied "Thumbtack" wurde auf dem neuem OMC Sampler Disk #3.The song "Thumbtack" was selected to be on the new OMC Sampler Disk #3. Wietere infos - more info: Open Music Contest.org...
Posted by bell sparx on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:47:00 PST