This album by far beats any album that has come out this year no doubt in my mind. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band is a candian outfit that since 2005 consists of 7 musicians collectively creating beautiful music the band was orginally formed in 1999 and have released 4 LPs and 1 EP. The band was formed as a project in which Efrim Menuck hoped to learn how to score music but the idea was then abandoned when he realized that music is about the feeling that you have the music. Efrim recruited 2 musicians from his already known band, Godspeed You! Black Emperor. This band differs from Godspeed You! Black Emperor because of the vocal arrangements instead of samples like GY!BE, the band has undergone many lineup changes and band names. Ok! to the album, 13 blues for thirteen moons. When you buy the album or download it from some blogsite your ipod will look like it was tagged wrong but just so you know the first track starts at track 13 haha. the first 12 tracks consist of weird drone noises which confuse the shit out of me. Track 13 hits after 1 minute and 8 seconds of drone noises and the track begins with what sounds like the beginning of The Mars Volta's Televators then comes in the vocal chants being accompanied by a couple of plucks of strings, slowly the cello hits off the mood and it goes into the heavier A Silver Mt. Zion. The track is called '1,000,000 died to make this sound' this time around Efrim included a Lyric Booklet in the album which is called Himnos de Sion. the album goes on to include 3 more fairly long tracks which are as epic as the first musical track on the album. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band did a great job with this album somehow composing fairly well written songs with 7 musicians which people would imagine would sound like a disaster. I highly recommend you purchase '13 Blues for Thirteen Moons' and go check them out live if they ever come around the states again. I'm purchasing it at Amoeba today if i end up attending the Free Show Tonight. I've included one track from the new album for download. Enjoy.
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Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band- 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons
This album by far beats any album that has come out this year no doubt in my mind. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band is a candian outfit that since 2005 consists of 7 musicians collectively creating beautiful music the band was orginally formed in 1999 and have released 4 LPs and 1 EP. The band was formed as a project in which Efrim Menuck hoped to learn how to score music but the idea was then abandoned when he realized that music is about the feeling that you have the music. Efrim recruited 2 musicians from his already known band, Godspeed You! Black Emperor. This band differs from Godspeed You! Black Emperor because of the vocal arrangements instead of samples like GY!BE, the band has undergone many lineup changes and band names. Ok! to the album, 13 blues for thirteen moons. When you buy the album or download it from some blogsite your ipod will look like it was tagged wrong but just so you know the first track starts at track 13 haha. the first 12 tracks consist of weird drone noises which confuse the shit out of me. Track 13 hits after 1 minute and 8 seconds of drone noises and the track begins with what sounds like the beginning of The Mars Volta's Televators then comes in the vocal chants being accompanied by a couple of plucks of strings, slowly the cello hits off the mood and it goes into the heavier A Silver Mt. Zion. The track is called '1,000,000 died to make this sound' this time around Efrim included a Lyric Booklet in the album which is called Himnos de Sion. the album goes on to include 3 more fairly long tracks which are as epic as the first musical track on the album. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band did a great job with this album somehow composing fairly well written songs with 7 musicians which people would imagine would sound like a disaster. I highly recommend you purchase '13 Blues for Thirteen Moons' and go check them out live if they ever come around the states again. I'm purchasing it at Amoeba today if i end up attending the Free Show Tonight. I've included one track from the new album for download. Enjoy.
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