Swimming Bell

Los Angeles-based songwriter Swimming Bell, the musical project of Katie Schottland, has released a surreal new music video for “95 At Night,” a standout track from her latest EP, Somnia. Directed by Christopher Good, the video is a hypnotic visual journey that draws heavily on Maya Deren’s seminal 1943 experimental film, Meshes of the Afternoon.

With Somnia, Katie Schottland’s Swimming Bell has created something quite magical. While just five songs, the moments, the magic, and the memories reveal a depth to her music that will draw you back for repeated listenings.

The paths of West Coast canyon dweller Katie Schottland, aka Swimming Bell, and Sheffield-born Cosmic Choogler Bobby Lee are set to converge next month for a co-headline UK tour.

On Charlie, Swimming Bell deliberately takes an alternative musical path, singing and playing with colours not often found in the scheme. Charlie establishes its own parameters, transcending simple labels to create a sound all its own.

LA songwriter Katie Schottland, aka Swimming Bell, is our latest Off the Shelf guest in which we ask artists to present objects from a shelf or elsewhere from their home and talk about them. She shares some lovely moments…her new album ‘Charlie’ is out now.

Taken from her forthcoming new album, our Song of the Day comes from Swimming Bell with ‘For Al and Lee’. Ripe with Laurel Canyon ambience, Schottland displays an intimacy throughout that is radiant with sincerity.

Earlier this year, Brooklyn-based folk singer Katie Schottland, better known as Swimming Bell, released her stunning debut album Wild Sight. Watch her new video for her cover of Wands “Driving”, simply stunning…but then I expected nothing less.

Watch “For Brinsley” by Swimming Bell. It was shot by Jud Muir over the course of a summer and early fall and features scenes from New York City, Brooklyn, Riis Beach, and Hudson sewn together, create a montage and homage to life in the great city.

There’s an intimate, soothing breeze that blows throughout Wild Sight, the debut album from Swimming Bell…An intriguing, experimental and at times hypnotic new voice in the world of alt-folk.

Our Song of the Day comes from Swimming Bell, the solo project of Brooklyn-based folk singer Katie Schottland. For Brinsley features on her new album, Wild Sight which is out on April 5th.