This second Silver Mt. Zion album features an expanded band, with a similarly expanded band name. The addition of cello, second violin and second guitar has allowed SMZ to develop richer, denser arrangements while preserving live ensemble playing. The opening instrumental pieces pick up where the debut left off, with found-sound loops and treatments introducing repeated melodic themes that move slowly through various counter-melodies — the greater breadth of instrumentation brings extra subtlety, complexity and harmonic range to bear on these neo-classical dirges. Guitars and vocals… read more
This second Silver Mt. Zion album features an expanded band, with a similarly expanded band name. The addition of cello, second violin and second gui… read more
This second Silver Mt. Zion album features an expanded band, with a similarly expanded band name. The addition of cello, second violin and second guitar has allowed SMZ to develop richer… read more
A Silver Mt. Zion uses a number of different variations of the name on different releases with respect to line-up changes. A Silver Mt. Zion is a band formed in 1999, in Montreal, Quebec, by Godspeed You! Black Emperor musicians Efrim Menuck, Sophie Trudeau and Thierry Amar. According to an interview with VPRO Radio in The Netherlands, originally the project was for Efrim to learn how to score music, but the idea was soon abandoned as Efrim decided that he preferred music not to be defined by rules, preferring simply what sounds best. Despite this, he continued the project out of a … read more
A Silver Mt. Zion uses a number of different variations of the name on different releases with respect to line-up changes. A Silver Mt. Zion is a band formed in 1999, in Montreal, Quebec, b… read more
A Silver Mt. Zion uses a number of different variations of the name on different releases with respect to line-up changes. A Silver Mt. Zion is a band formed in 1999, in Montreal, Quebec, by Godspeed You! Black Emperor musicians Efrim …read more