Ann Arbor's own Orpheum Bell came together as its members were combing through country and folk rhythms, instrumental waltzes, and Gypsy melodies. The mixture they came up with and shaped into original songs is unique. The band's quiet sound is focused on vocals, accordion, guitar, and double bass, with additional texture and luster spreading from banjo, trumpet, xylophone, shepherd harp, musical saw, pedal steel, a suitcase pump organ, cittern, dobro, foot percussion, and various ukuleles and mechanical horned violins. The members come at the music from different angles -- a classically trained harpsichordist, a rural folk polymath, a church choir girl, one from Holland, another from Ukraine. Everything is done with care, and this is a band whose handmade album covers are worth the price of concert admission all by themselves. Turning half-forgotten musical styles into something absolutely modern, gripping, and often hypnotic, Orpheum Bell has created something new and different in Michigan music -- and American music.