School Of Seven Bells - iamundernodisguise

in 2005 i went on tour with a brooklyn-based band on Rykodisc. i think it was 2005. i spent a lot of time on tour and the years lost their numbers and only a huge blur of faces, places, names and emotions were left. thinking about it, it could have been 2004. so let's pretend it was 2004. it's of no importance anyway. so i was on tour with a Rykodisc band. to get an extra monetary tour support they carried a load of Rykodisc compilations. these compilations not only featured a song by the band i still haven't named and will not name here but also “Sabbath” by the japanese noise outfit Mono. Mono just finished their new album “Hymns To The Immortal Wind”. but especially live Mono are an experience. it's hard to believe that 3 people are actually able to create such a wall of sound.
the only other interesting track on this compilation was “Bread” by On!Air!Library!. ok, i think it was “Bread”. anyway, a song by On!Air!Library!. a band consisting of the two identical twins Alley and Claudia Deheza and Phillip Wann. and even though the members of still not named band insisted on the fact that On!Air!Library! aren't any good and only got signed because the label guys had a crush on the girls i really liked the song. very much earlier 4AD; filligree, gloomy and carried by the harmony of both sisters vocals. their homonymous album won me over by its multitudinousness. unfortunately the band stayed pretty unknown and broke up after their only album.
for School Of Seven Bells the Deheza twins teamed up with Benjamin Curtis of Secret Machines. that and that this new band gets way more attention than On!Air!Library! did is actually the only difference between these two projects.

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