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Gordon Bell (singer-songwriter)

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Gordon Bell (born 24 July 1969) is a Scottish singer-songwriter based in Basel, Switzerland.

Background

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He released fifteen albums. Nine of those albums were under the pseudonym Gustav Bertha. His breakthrough fifth album My Life as a Dog (distributed in Switzerland through RecRec) was well received: Swiss newspaper Der Bund called it 'Wunderbar',.[1] The Swiss press has also dubbed him with the slightly more ambiguous title, "The World's least-known Scot".[2] He stopped working under the Gustav Bertha pseudonym in 2008 to write and play as Gordon Bell. Bell's music could be compared to a strange cross between fellow Glaswegians Ivor Cutler and Alex Harvey.[citation needed] He has a penchant for storytelling in his songs. He also spent 15 years as lead singer with a tribute to The Sensational Alex Harvey Band – Not The Sensational Alex Harvey Band and now fronts the rock band Giant Stone Eater who play a mix of covers (especially songs connected with Alex Harvey) and Bell's own songs.[citation needed]

Discography

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Year Artist Title Ref
1991 One in Five Five Flew Over the Hatchery
1993 Psychoannie Amoeba
1999 plasticpsychobabble StranGe enchantment
2000 submerging meadows green boundaries
blurred visions for fuzzy strangers
The Secret Life of Andrew Aston Caffeine Injunction
2001 Gustav Bertha Songs for Gigi
2002 The Hose Room
Café Crème
2003 babble
2004 My Life as a Dog
2005 Defective
2006 z:06 (compilation)
2007 small adventures in the great domestic wilderness
2008 True North
2009 Gordon Bell Songs for the Broken Hearted
2010 The Lost Art of Penance
2011 The 12 Uses of a Dead Tape Cassette
Gordon Bell and the Sinking Ships Animal Kingdom
2012 Gordon Bell A Day Trip to the Sea

References

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  1. ^ Pauli, C: "Melancholisch", page 13. Der Bund, 18 March 2005.
  2. ^ "– Musik | Züritipp Online". Zueritipp.ch. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
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