Bela

Foreboding and somber just like a Bela Lugosi film, but having a music aesthetic more consistent with Béla Bartók, critics possess lengthy spun superlatives that time to the band’s particular namesakes. The evaluations are apt, though, as Bela’s music is usually foreboding and cryptic, however lush and sweeping, with techniques that unite the disparate affects. Having created in 1997 from your leftovers of NY City’s Cultural Exhaust, business lead vocalist and songwriter Jeff Hogan and drummer Fred Pisciotta (both “presented zombies” inside a George Romero film, incidentally) would recruit bassist Mauro Felipe and previous Rasputina cellist Julia Kent. After putting your signature on to Mother Western, their debut EP Leave Music was an urgent feeling in Belarus and Germany, garnering accolades throughout Eastern European countries. By Apr 2000, their debut full-length, Til Summer time Ends, arrived, obtaining similarly favorable evaluations.