Bell Orchestre Recording A Tape The Colour Of Light. Release Date : November 15, 2005. Label: Sanctuary. Rating: Andy doesn't dig rating stuff. I'm not completely sure how to review this. It's a classical album. Layers of strings and tinkling instruments and cymbals buzzing and whirring like a score to a theatre production. Which is I suppose largely the point. So, job well done, and just astounding that music like this is heralded in modern-day hipster circles and ending up on a label like Rough Trade/Sanctuary, no matter who's in the band (and it is an impressive roster, but I'm sure you knew that already). "Les Lumieres Part 2" has a great foot-stomping clapalong and rustic violin like some sort of woodland shindig by a poor village. Fiddling, really. Think of the nighttime 'party' scene in Last of the Mohicans or the 3rd class party in the Hollywoodized version of The Titanic. Or maybe a theme song to an 80's nighttime drama.Oor a christmas carol. It's all over the place, very lively. Song of choice : Being challening to review in the first place, I'll just say the striking qualities of the opener, "Recording A Tunnel : The Horns Play Underneath The Canal " (whew!) works as a fave. Introductory, you know. It's all here. -Andy Scheffler Elsewhere Bell Orchestre website Published : February, 2006.