Heads Together, by Gelsey Bell

Heads Together

by Gelsey Bell

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1.	Heads Together 03:07		buy track
2.	Yamamba as a Bear 04:29	lyrics	buy track
What color are the leaves? Why do they change slower than she? What color is my hair? Why does it change slower than the bear? Yamamba as a bear is circling me I live in a small house on the side of a mountain with three sides of windows and Yamamba in the form of a bear is circling me From my left eye she’s thick as a boulder marvelous, bulging & from my right eye she’s thin as a tree hungry, hungry staring in at me & when I can’t see her she’s sleeping A year in the span of minutes Is this what it is to feel time as a tree? Or a rock or a river? Yamamba grows and shrinks before my window eyes What color are the leaves? Why do they change slower than she? What color is my hair? Why does it change slower than the bear?
3.	Daydreams from a Winter without Snow 05:39		buy track
4.	Cli 02:23		buy track
5.	Ubasute 06:14	lyrics	buy track
Ubasute Ubasute Don’t Don’t Don’t Don’t forget who’s On your back & in your eyes & in the chill On your skin In the mountain & the chill In the mountain Deep in the forest now Crawling among the branches and fallen leaves I Feel Calm Calm Calm Calm Calm Calm Calm To survive, I must be a demon To survive without you Ubasute Ubasute
6.	I-589 04:41		buy track
7.	What Resembles the Grave but Isn't 03:33		buy track
8.	Corner Song 04:37		buy track
9.	Back Window 01:04		buy track

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released March 1, 2024

All 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

Almost all tracks were created and recorded during residencies at Pioneer Works, Mount Tremper Arts, and Kinosaki Arts Center. Many of the tracks on this album were created and developed for collaborative projects.

“Heads Together” was created for Modern Garage Movement’s Gods Knows Where, premiered at Mount Tremper Arts (2021) and then performed in Brooklyn and on tour in California. “Yamamba as a Bear” and “Ubasute” were created for shuffleyamamba: Yamamba as a Bear, choreographed by Yasuko Yokoshi, and premiered at the Yokohama Dance Collective in Yokohama, Japan (2021). “Cli” was created for shuffleyamamba, choreographed by Yasuko Yokoshi, and premiered at Izushi Eirakukan in Toyooka City, Japan (2019). “What Resembles the Grave but Isn’t” was created for a short film by Erik Ruin. “Corner Song” was created for Wealth from the Salt Seas, choreographed by Anna Sperber, and premiered at the Chocolate Factory in Long Island City, NY (2018). “Back Window” was created for thingNY’s SubtracTTTTTTTTT, which premiered online (2020).

Thanks to Pioneer Works, Christina Daniels, Justin Frye, Bob Bellerue, Yasuko Yokoshi, Erik Ruin, Anne Boyer, Aliza Simons, everyone in thingNY (especially Dave Ruder – what a prince!), Anna Sperber, Mount Tremper Arts, Biba Bell, Paige Martin, Jmy James Kidd, Kinosaki Art Center, Narumi Ueno, Haruna Shibuya, Juri Nisihoka, Sawami Fukuoka, Shiori Shinoda, Mina Nishimura, Hiromichi Tamoi, Daniel Fishkin, and, of course, the incomparable Joe White.

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