Gelsey Bell – Heads Together

released digitally March 1st, 2024

Heads Together is a new solo album from composer-vocalist Gelsey Bell. Featuring atmospheric layered voices, daxophones, and ceramics, the album glides from dreamy siren song to jagged harmonic textures and into wails through the echo unknown. With a range of inspirations – from a poem by Anne Boyer, ancient Japanese folklore, to the acoustic phenomenon of a rolled “R” in a massive warehouse – the album represents the wide breathe of Bell’s aesthetic style from earworm melody to noisy cadenza to timbral fondue. 

Heads Together collects songs from the landscape of Bell’s collaborations over the past decade, from short films and dance pieces to hybrid works with theatrical and visual art components. While long known as a versatile musical mind, Bell’s roots and training extend to many media, and these interdisciplinary works have made her a sought after collaborator in New York and beyond.

Though each track was created for its own separate context, their collection here together shines light on the breadth of Bell’s creative inquiry and the ingenuity she uses to explore new realms.

ll words and music by Gelsey Bell, except text in track 7 by Anne Boyer.

Gelsey Bell – voice, synth, daxophone, ceramics
Isabel Castellvi, Andrew Livingston, Paul Pinto, Dave Ruder, Anna Slate – voice (track 7)

Recorded by Gelsey Bell, except track 8 recorded by Jackson Kovalchik, at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, NY (2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8); Mount Tremper Arts in Mount Tremper, NY (1); Kinosaki Arts Center in Kinosaki Onsen, Japan (4); and the Bell-White home in Brooklyn, NY (9).

Mixed by John Thayer
Mastered by Elliott Sharp
Album art is a detail of “In the Scale of Things #10” (2010-11) by Nene Humphrey