He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts Of Light... (CD)
The dreamy debut album from the trio of GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR's EFRIM, THIERRY and SOPHIE. An eight-part collage of two plaintive, reverb-drenched ensemble pieces composed on piano, and then arranged with contrabass and violin, and interspersed with tapes, drones, loops and an occasional vocal. Dedicated to Efrim's dog Wanda, who is dying of cancer. Packaged in vellum-finish cardstock jackets foil-stamped with red metallic ink.
| Tracklisting | |
| Disk | 1 | |
| 1 | Broken Chord Can Sing a Little |
| 2 | Sit in the Middle of Three Galloping Dogs |
| 3 | Stumble Then Rise on Some Awkward Morning |
| 4 | Move (Never Made) |
| 5 | 13 Angles Standing Guard 'Round the Side of Your Bed |
| 6 | Long March Rocket or Doomed Airliner |
| 7 | Blown-Out Joy from Heaven's Mercied Hole |
| 8 | For Wanda |
| Dustin Anderson
- Denton, TX, United States |
| Simply amazing. If you listen to any band on Constellation Records then there is no reason why you wouldn't like A Silver Mt. Zion. | |
| Jonathan Percy
- San Francisco, , USA |
| What a great album! Very much like Godspeed You Black Emperor! and others in the dare-to-say genre.
If you like mind-blowing emotional music, you got to get this release! It's been in my CD player non-stop since I got it. | |