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A Silver Mt. Zion
12+ albums
post-rockexperimentalinstrumentalambientpost rock
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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 desire to experiment with ideas that would not work within the context of Godspeed You! Black Emperor. The decision to record an album was partly inspired by the death of his dog Wanda, who had died while Godspeed You! Black Emperor was on tour. He wanted to record an album in her memory, but did not feel that he could effectively do this through Godspeed's collective, consensus format. Unlike Godspeed You! Black Emperor, A Silver Mt. Zion's music often features vocals. The last few albums they have released contain no purely instrumental tracks. Efrim confessed that he was uncomfortable with this at first, feeling "foolish" and uncomfortable with the role of the singer in music generally. That is, he did not want to be the focus of the band's music but rather wished to use vocals as a stylistic tool. Some fans were initially ambivalent about the use of vocals, but Efrim's poetic lyrical style is
top songs
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Sit in the Middle of Three Galloping Dogs
90,2162Movie (Never Made)
82,0723Stumble Then Rise on Some Awkward Morning
77,9604Blown-Out Joy From Heaven's Mercied Hole
75,6875For Wanda
72,385613 Angels Standing Guard 'Round the Side of Your Bed
72,0467Broken Chords Can Sing a Little
71,4908Mountains Made of Steam
59,1749Horses in the Sky
56,33710God Bless Our Dead Marines
53,369albums
He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corners of Our Rooms
Horses in the Sky
Born Into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward
13 Blues for Thirteen Moons
He Has Left Us Alone, but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corners of Our Rooms...
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Pretty Little Lightning Paw
2004-12-13: The Electric Ballroom, Camden, London, UK
Song of the Silent Land
Kollaps Tradixionales
He has Left us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of our Rooms
He Has Left Us Alone, but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms…