The music of the full band (two guitars, two violins, cello, contrebasse and drums) has grown louder, looser, full of spittle and tears. On 13 Blues For Thirteen Moons, riffs are the backbone more than ever. Anchored by new drummer Eric Craven (ex-Hangedup), the band works its slow build and burn with newfound patience, sinuousness and ferocity. Whether methodically framing walls of sound over the four-on-the-floor punk dirge of '1,000,000 Died To Make This Sound' or exploding in sheets of free noise and me   [ read more ]

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Perhaps the finest band on a very, very fine Canadian label, Constellation Records, Silver Mount Zion returns with 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons, their first record since the near-masterpiece Horses in the Sky. Released in 2005, that record established Silver Mount Zion as a musical force all its own, existing beyond any sort of stylistic boundaries. On their follow-up, the band luckily, remarkably, continue to grow, evolve, and get even better. Things start in a deceptively familiar fashion on   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. A Silver Mt. Zion is led by founding Godspeed You Black Emperor! guitarist Efrim, with help from fellow Godspeed members, Sophie and Thierry. For the band's second record, the line-up has expanded to six players, including Becky, Ian, and Jessica, and re-named as The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-la-la Band. "Born Into Trouble...," while remaining anchored in an underlying sadness and mourning over this failed world, reveals a decidedly angrier, more urgent face as this phenomenal   [ read more ]

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A Silver Mt. Zion is a group led by founding Godspeed You Black Emperor! guitarist Efrim, together with other Godspeed members Sophie and Thierry. For the band's second record, the line-up has been expanded to six players, including Becky, Ian, and Jessica, and the band renamed The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-la-la Band. "Born Into Trouble...," while anchored in an underlying sadness and mourning about this failed world, reveals a decidedly angrier, more urgent face as this phenomenal ensembl   [ read more ]

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A Silver Mt. Zion is a group led by founding Godspeed You Black Emperor! guitarist Efrim, together with other Godspeed members Sophie and Thierry. For the band's second record, the line-up has been expanded to six players, including Becky, Ian, and Jessica, and the band renamed The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-la-la Band. "Born Into Trouble...," while anchored in an underlying sadness and mourning about this failed world, reveals a decidedly angrier, more urgent face as this phenomenal ensembl   [ read more ]

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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.

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Insound LP+MP3! Purchase the vinyl format of He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts Of Light... and you'll receive a link to download the MP3s for free immediately after check-out! VINYL FORMAT. 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.    [ read more ]

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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.

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A Silver Mt. Zion -- on this release known as Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band -- recorded some of Horses in the Sky next to a campfire by the river, and the birds even chirped a little there beneath the moonlit trees. The first song's about war and drug addiction, fourth song's about Canada, and the rest of it is all love songs trulytrulytruly. As usual there's more questions than answers here, more complaints than solutions, and at times the group's singing is a little out o   [ read more ]

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Insound LP+MP3! Purchase the vinyl format of Horses in the Sky and you'll receive a link to download the MP3s for free immediately after check-out! VINYL FORMAT. 180-GRAM VINYL. A Silver Mt. Zion -- on this release known as Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band -- recorded some of Horses in the Sky next to a campfire by the river, and the birds even chirped a little there beneath the moonlit trees. The first song's about war and drug addiction, fourth song's    [ read more ]

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A Silver Mt. Zion -- on this release known as Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band -- recorded some of Horses in the Sky next to a campfire by the river, and the birds even chirped a little there beneath the moonlit trees. The first song's about war and drug addiction, fourth song's about Canada, and the rest of it is all love songs trulytrulytruly. As usual there's more questions than answers here, more complaints than solutions, and at times the group's singing is a little out o   [ read more ]

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The Pretty Little Lightning Paw EP was originally available only at shows during The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band European tour in Winter 2004. The EP contains all new songs, with a total running time of just over 30 minutes. What began as studio sketches evolved, through a few intense drunken nights, into beautiful, unfettered songs that confirm Mt. Zion's ongoing reinvention as a vocal-driven outfit and reveals Efrim's growing strength as a lyricist. The results are deeply    [ read more ]

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