© Kirsten Elling

Orpheum Bell

Surrealist whispers from the past

by James M. Manheim

posted 11/1/2007

Orpheum Bell bills its music as "country and eastern," and indeed some of it has old-time country or Gypsy flavors. But that doesn't quite give you the right idea. This band's songs are rarely zippy, even when it's playing a fiddle tune or an accordion stomp. Instead, Orpheum Bell sets a dreamy, attenuated mood in which snatches of music

Arts and Entertainment reviews and news.