| | A Silver Mt Zion He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corner Of Our Rooms CD A Silver Mt Zion Discography of CDs
 (3 Customer Reviews)
A Silver Mt. Zion has created a quiet album of beautiful and hypnotic melancholy, giving it the lengthy name He Has Left Us Alone, but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms. With this early 2000 release on Montreal's Constellation label, Efrim, Thierry, and Sophie of Godspeed You Black Emperor! (also on Constellation) create a sound similar to that of GYBE!, but less mournful and more gentle. Layers of string sections surround inner rings of light echoes, surrounding a core of sparsely played, reverberating guitar. This mostly instrumental album occasionally calls to mind the simple, quiet, and space-filled works of modern composer Peter Garland, as well as the solo albums of Dirty Three guitarist, Mick Turner. Efrim (piano), Thierry (contrebass), and Sophie (violin) are joined by other members of the Montreal bands Godspeed, Exhaust, and more, resulting in an often lush and raw sound that can include drums, clarinet, guitar, and tape loops. Dedicated to Efrim's late dog, Wanda, this release is in keeping with the other serious and vulnerable music found in the Constellation catalogue. ~ Joslyn Layne
Additional personnel includes: Sam Shalabi (electric guitar); Gordon Krieger (clarinet); Aidan (drums).
Recorded in November 1999.
Band Is Comprised Of Members Of Godspeed You Black Emperor.
Personnel: Sophie Trudeau (vocals, violin).
Recording information: 11/1999.
A Silver Mt. Zion: Efrim (vocals, guitar, piano, organ); Thierry (contrabass, electric bass); Sophie (vocals, violin).
Magnet (6-7/00, p.68) - "...[They] have gone far beyond, into a desolate sound world all its own....weaving a tapestry of piano, guitar, upright bass, violin, organ and various taped and organic sounds that creep slowly across the listener's heart and mind..."
The Wire (3/00, p.44) - "...Epic melodic bombast....the trio's slow-moving instrumentals are emotionally charged with a melancholy warmth for humanity..."
NME (Magazine) (4/1/00, p.33) - 8 out of 10 - "...Disquietly beautiful stuff..." He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corner Of Our Rooms Music A Silver Mt Zion He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corner Of Our Rooms Songs | 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. | Movie (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 |
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He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corner Of Our Rooms
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"We are trapped in the belly of this horrible machine, and the machine is bleeding to death." Few albums begin with such promise and foreboding, but this first full-length from Canadian genius collective Godspeed You Black Emperor! succeeds in the first few moments. F# A# (Infinity) contains three compositions that run the gamut from grotesque to sublime. The term "composition" seems an appropriate one to use as this band does not write songs. Each piece is at least 14 minutes in length, consisting of three to four sections. The band, a nine-member unit consisting of guitar, drums, bass, strings, keyboard, marimbas, ...
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From the bombs dropping on the cover to the slow buildups towards destruction and post-rock beauty in the compositions, this is Godspeed You Black Emperor at its most stripped-down, straightforward, and unsparing. Indie-rock icon Steve Albini produced YANQUI U.X.O., and his trademark extreme dynamics suit this shadowy Canadian collective well, weighing down on the roots of their whisper-to-frenzy style so they can freely branch off into new realms. The opener "09-15-00" departs into twangy, lounge-like ...
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| | Vonnell 31 De Febrero CD (2005)
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VonnellBorn in Havana, Cuba the young singer/songwriter—or “musical story teller” as some will call him—has been rising more and more with every passing day with each new song. Having grown up in a melting pot such as sunny Miami, Florida, from a young age he has been exposed to rich, diverse sounds ranging from jazz to pop to Cuban jazz, Brazilian, classical and more.With his debut album 31 de Febrero, in 2006, Vonnell, the multi-instrumentalist, multi-lingual artist was an American Idol Underground 1st place winner in the BIG PUSH WORLD category with the song Y después... song which, as well as ...
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DJs: Sheldon Prince; Marc Sacheli.
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