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Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band: Horses In The Sky

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On March 7, 2005, “Constellation” label released “Horses in the Sky”, album by Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band (the fourth Silver Mt. Zion album overall). It was recorded in 2004, at “Hotel2Tango” in Montreal, Quebec, and was produced by Howard Bilerman.

Personnel:

  • Efrim Menuck – voice, guitar, piano, mixing
  • Ian Ilavsky – voice, guitar, harmonium, mixing
  • Jessica Moss – voice, violin, piano, glasses, mixing
  • Thierry Amar – voice, contrabass, glasses, harmonica, mixing
  • Scott Levine Gilmore – voice, drums, percussion, guitar, mandolin, mixing
  • Sophie Trudeau – voice, violin, trumpet, glasses, mixing
  • Beckie Foon – voice, cello, mixing
  • Howard Bilerman – recording, mixing
  • J. F. Chicoine – mastering
  • Luc Paradis – drawings
  • Nadia Moss – side 4 etching
  • Silver Mt. Zion – other collages and scribblings

Track listing:

All tracks by Efrim Menuck, Ian Ilavsky, Jessica Moss, Thierry Amar, Scott Levine Gilmore, Sophie Trudeau and Beckie Foon.

  1. God Bless Our Dead Marines
  2. Mountains Made of Steam
  3. Horses in the Sky
  4. Teddy Roosevelt’s Guns
  5. Hang on to Each Other
  6. Ring Them Bells (Freedom Has Come and Gone)

Thee Silver Mt. Zion: Kollaps Tradixionales

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On February 8, 2010, “Constellation” label released “Kollaps Tradixionales”, the sixth Thee Silver Mt. Zion album. It was recorded in 2009, at “Hotel2 Tango” in Montreal, Canada, and was produced by Howard Bilerman and RadwaMoumneh.

Personnel:

  • Efrim Menuck – vocals, guitar, organ, piano
  • Thierry Amar – vocals, contrabass, horn arrangements
  • David Payant – vocals, drums, organ, piano
  • Jessica Moss – vocals, violin
  • Sophie Trudeau – vocals, violin

Horn section

  • Adam Kinner – tenor saxophone
  • Matana Roberts – alto saxophone
  • Jason Sharp – baritone saxophone
  • Gordon Allen – trumpet
  • Harris Newman – mastering

Track listing:

  1. There Is a Light
  2. I Built Myself a Metal Bird
  3. I Fed My Metal Bird the Wings of Other Metal Birds
  4. Kollapz Tradixional (Thee Olde Dirty Flag)
  5. Collapse Traditional (For Darling)
  6. Kollaps Tradicional (Bury 3 Dynamos)
  7. Kollaps Tradicional (Bury 3 Dynamos)
  8. ‘Piphany Rambler

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra: Fuck off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything

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On January 20, 2014, “Constellation” label released “Fuck off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything”, the seventh Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra studio album. It was recorded in 2013, at “Hotel 2 Tango” in Montreal, Canada.

Personnel:

  • Efrim Menuck – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, mellotron
  • Thierry Amar – vocals, upright bass, electric bass, plucked piano
  • Jessica Moss – vocals, violin, plucked piano
  • Sophie Trudeau – vocals, violin, plucked piano
  • David Payant – vocals, drums, organ

Track listing:

  1. Fuck Off Get Free (For the Island of Montreal)
  2. Austerity Blues
  3. Take Away These Early Grave Blues
  4. Little Ones Run
  5. What We Loved Was Not Enough
  6. Rains Thru the Roof at Thee Grande Ballroom (For Capital Steez)

A Silver Mt. Zion: He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms…

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On March 13, 2000, “Constellation” label released “He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms…”, the debut A Silver Mt. Zion album. It was recorded in November 1999, at the Hotel2Tango, and was produced by Thierry Amar and Efrim Menuck.

Personnel:

  • Efrim Menuck – vocals, piano, guitar, organ, radio
  • Thierry Amar – double bass, bass guitar
  • Sophie Trudeau – vocals, violin
  • Sam Shalabi – guitar
  • Aidan Girt – drums, tapes
  • Gordon Krieger – bass clarinet

Track listing:

  1. Lonely as the Sound of Lying on the Ground of an Airplane Going Down
  2. The World Is SickSICK; (So Kiss Me Quick)!

Black Ox Orkestar: Everything Returns

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On December 2, 2022, “Constellation” label released “Everything Returns”, the third Black Ox Orkestar album. It was recorded in 2022, at “Mixart Studio” in Montreal, Canada.

  • Jessica Moss – vocals, violin, arrangements, art direction, photography
  • Scott Gilmore – vocals, piano, cimbalom, arrangements, art direction, artwork
  • Gabriel Levine – vocals, clarinet, bass clarinet, guitar, arrangements, art direction
  • Nadia Moss – vocals, artwork
  • Thierry Amar – bass
  • Pierre-Guy Blanchard – drums, percussion
  • Craig Pedersen – trumpet
  • Julie Houle – tuba
  • Julie Richard – tuba
  • Greg Norman – recording, mixing
  • Harris Newman – mastering
  • Kurt Bjorling – cassette compilations
  • Elizabeth Shulman – art direction
  • Henryk Beck – artwork
  • Marc Jonathan Costello – layout, design
  • Ian Ilavsky – layout, design, photography
  • Avia Moore – typography
  • Aaron Goodelman – lettering
  • Lainie Basman – photography
  • Maura Judkis – photography

Track listing:

  1. Tish Nign – traditional
  2. Pepretual Peace – Scott Gilmore
  3. Oysgeforn / Bessarabian Hora – traditional
  4. Mizrakh Mi Ma’arav – Scott Gilmore
  5. Skotshne – traditional
  6. Viderkol (Echo) – Scott Gilmore
  7. Epigenetik – Scott Gilmore
  8. Moldovan Zhok – traditional
  9. Lamed – Vovnik – Scott Gilmore
  10. Mizrakh Mi Ma’arav East from West – Scott Gilmore

Godspeed You! Black Emperor: G_d’s Pee at State’s End!

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On April 2, 2021, “Constellation Records” label released “G_d’s Pee at State’s End!”, the seventh Godspeed You! Black Emperor studio album. It was recorded in 2020, at “Hotel2Tango” in Montreal, Canada, and was produced by Jace Lasek.

Personnel:

  • David Bryant – electric guitars, MG-1
  • Efrim Manuel Menuck – electric guitars, OP-1, radios
  • Mauro Pezzente – electric bass
  • Michael Moya – electric guitars
  • Sophie Trudeau – violins, organ
  • Thierry Amar – electric bass and upright bass
  • Aidan Girt – sitting drums and standing drums
  • Timothy Herzog – sitting drums and standing drums, glockenspiel
  • Karl Lemieux – 16mm projections
  • Philippe Leonard – 16mm projections

Track listing:

  1. A Military Alphabet (five eyes all blind) (4521.0kHz 6730.0kHz 4109.09kHz) / Job’s Lament / First of the Last Glaciers / where we break how we shine (Rockets for Mary)
  2. Fire at Static Valley
  3. “Government Came” (9980.0kHz 3617.1kHz 4521.0 kHz) / Cliffs Gaze / cliffs’ gaze at empty waters’ rise / Ashes to Sea or Nearer to Thee
  4. Our Side Has to Win (for D.H.)

Godspeed You!: G d’s Pee at State’s End!

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On April 2, 2021, “Constellation Records” label released “G d’s Pee at State’s End!”, the seventh Godspeed You! Black Emperor studio album. It was recorded in 2021, at “Hotel2 Tango” in Montreal, and was produced by Jace Lasek.

Personnel:

  • Efrim Manuel Menuck – electric guitars, OP-1, radios
  • David Bryant – electric guitars, MG-1
  • Michael Moya – electric guitars
  • Sophie Trudeau – violins, organ
  • Thierry Amar – electric and upright bass
  • Mauro Pezzente – electric bass
  • Aidan Girt – sitting and standing drums
  • Timothy Herzog – sitting and standing drums, glockenspiel
  • Karl Lemieux – 16mm projections
  • Philippe Leonard – 16mm projections

Track listing:

  1. A Military Alphabet (five eyes all blind) / Job’s Lament / First of the Last Glaciers / where we break how we shine (Rockets for Mary)
  2. Fire at Static Valley
  3. Government Came / Cliffs Gaze / cliffs’ gaze at empty waters’ rise / Ashes to Sea or Nearer to Thee
  4. Our Side Has to Win

Basia Bulat: Heart of My Own

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On January 26, 2010, “Secret City Records” label released “Heart of My Own”, the second Basia Bulat studio album. It was recorded in 2009, and was produced by Howard Bilerman and Basia Bulat.

Personnel:

  • Basia Bulat – lead and backing vocals, guitar, bass, ukulele, autoharp, keyboards, design
  • Tim Kingsbury – guitar, bass guitar
  • Eric Démoré – piano , organ, harmonium, accordion
  • Erik Arnesen – banjo, backing vocals
  • Sebastian Ostertag – cello
  • Jessica Moss – violin
  • Ellie Nimeroski – violin
  • Allison Stewart – viola, backing vocals
  • Jen Reimer – French horn
  • Brian Lipson – trumpet
  • Miles Perkin – upright bass
  • Thierry Amar – upright bass, recording
  • Bobby Bulat – percussion, photography
  • Holly Coish – backing vocals
  • Madisyn Whajne – backing vocals
  • Michael Javorski – backing vocals
  • Jenna Marie Wakani – backing vocals
  • Howard Bilerman – recording, mixing
  • Harris Newman – mastering
  • Brian Kelly – layout

Track listing:

All tracks by Basia Bulat.

  1. Go On
  2. Run
  3. Sugar and Spice
  4. Gold Rush
  5. Heart of My Own
  6. Sparrow
  7. If Only You
  8. I’m Forgetting Everyone
  9. The Shore
  10. Once More, for the Dollhouse
  11. Walk You Down
  12. If It Rains
  13. Hush (bonus track)