<![CDATA[Today’ new episode of The Tonearm podcast features Claire and Eli of the Montréal avant-jazz quartet Bellbird.]]>Today’ new episode of The Tonearm podcast features Claire and Eli of the Montréal avant-jazz quartet Bellbird. Enjoy a wide-ranging conversation about the origin of their new album, The Call, their collective approach to composition, and the surprising source material at the record's core.

The members also discuss how Bellbird coalesced from pandemic-era park jams in Montréal, what egalitarian collective-making requires in practice, how Allison Burik transcribed the White Bellbird's extreme cry as the foundation for the title track, and the political and ecological commitments threaded through the record.

Be sure to tune in for a really great chat: https://podcast.thetonearm.com/bellbird-montreals-jazz-collective-heeds-the-call/

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