Jake Bell is an American guitarist from New York who used to play with Simeon (of Silver Apples) in legendary band Random Concept from 1966 to 1972 (alongside Gary Higgins). Over this period, Bell witnessed the transformations such as the psychedelic revolution and the birth of the experimental music scene.

Unfortunately, Bell and Simeon split because of personal contradictions, and Random Concept recordings were lost. By the early 70s, Bell was also playing in Wooden Wheel, again with Gary Higgins, and contributing to Higgins's "Red Hash" album.

After that, Bell left the scene and disappeared for 25 years. He returned back again only in 1997, when hooked up with Simeon and one year later launched his debut solo album "Synjase" (1998, Whirlybird Records). Musicwise it was totally different from his past activity, caleidoscopic tapestry of instrumental guitar patterns accompanied by electronic rhythms and ambient atmospherics. Since that time, Bell is constantly sharpening his talent in ambient electronica domain. He can easily transform the instrumental music into other dimensions. Dreamy and passionate, soft and bright, exotic and eccentric, his works always sounds fresh and unusual, even if one can see the connection with eighties and seventies. Jake Bell is becoming the total artist, doing all kinds of etching and skrimshaw, primitive art style paintings, fluorescent drawings installations, art therapy masterclasses, neo expressionist and spontaneous art etc. He is also working on the new music projects. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.