Gordon Bell is a Scottish singer-songwriter based in Basel, Switzerland. He is a prolific songwriter having released nine albums in eight years. Eight of those albums were under the pseudonym Gustav Bertha. His breakthrough fifth album My Life as a Dog (distributed in Switzerland through RecRec) was critically acclaimed: Swiss national paper Der Bund called it 'Wunderbar',. The Swiss press has also dubbed him with the slightly more ambiguous title, "The World's least-known Scot".

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  • Gordon Bell is a Scottish singer-songwriter based in Basel, Switzerland. He is a prolific songwriter having released nine albums in eight years. Eight of those albums were under the pseudonym Gustav Bertha. His breakthrough fifth album My Life as a Dog (distributed in Switzerland through RecRec) was critically acclaimed: Swiss national paper Der Bund called it 'Wunderbar',. The Swiss press has also dubbed him with the slightly more ambiguous title, "The World's least-known Scot". He stopped working under the Gustav Bertha pseudonym in 2008 to write and play as Gordon Bell. Gordon's music has been compared to a strange cross between fellow Glaswegians Ivor Cutler and Alex Harvey. He has a penchant for storytelling in his songs. He likes to call his particular genre Lounge Chanson. He is also lead singer with a tribute to The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Not The Sensational Alex Harvey Band.
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  • Gordon Bell is a Scottish singer-songwriter based in Basel, Switzerland. He is a prolific songwriter having released nine albums in eight years. Eight of those albums were under the pseudonym Gustav Bertha. His breakthrough fifth album My Life as a Dog (distributed in Switzerland through RecRec) was critically acclaimed: Swiss national paper Der Bund called it 'Wunderbar',. The Swiss press has also dubbed him with the slightly more ambiguous title, "The World's least-known Scot".
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  • Gordon Bell (singer-songwriter)
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