Bel Canto

Biography

The atmospheric, melancholy, somewhat medieval soundscapes of Bel Canto (Italian for “beautiful song”) combine an essentially synth-based chamber rock sound with an array of orchestral and folk instruments and also have been set alongside the Cocteau Twins. The group comes from Norway and started being a trio comprising ethereal vocalist Anneli Marian Drecker plus Nils Johansen and Geir Jenssen. The group provides claimed to pull its motivation from effective energy areas, including those of the feminine as well as the Earth’s gravitational draw; additionally, Bel Canto compositions occasionally draw on globe music as well as the ambient tests of Brian Eno. Bel Canto released their initial album, White-Out Circumstances, in 1987. After 1989’s Wild birds of Passing, Jenssen still left the group to begin a solo profession (as Biosphere) before the documenting of 1992’s Shimmering, Warm & Shiny, as well as the duo of Drecker and Johansen continuing to record 1996’s Magic Container and 1998’s Hurry. At the convert of the millennium Drecker released her own single record, Tundra, but eventually reunited with Johansen on a fresh Bel Canto studio room effort, Dorothy’s Success, released in 2002. Through the entire remainder from the 2000s, Drecker and Johansen held the Bel Canto fire alive by composing songs and performing jointly, while also seeking individual projects.

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