Bells of Cologne’ was born on a day off in — you guessed it — Cologne, Germany,”says Matyas. “I was having coffee and doing laundry at our friend Anna’s place. While sitting on her rooftop patio in the sun, about a dozen churches bells erupted in a cacophony of deafening rings and dings. I whipped out my iPhone as I often do, and recorded the sound. I promised Anna that when we arrived back in Canada we would turn it into a song, and the end product still includes the original recording of bells from that afternoon.