VA - Song Of The Silent Land [2004]

Constellation Records

Boxset/Compilation, released in 2004

Songs / Tracks Listing

01. The Sky Lay Still - Elizabeth Anka Vajagic (6:22)
02. Winter Hymn Winter Hymn Winter Hymn - Do Make Say Think (4:54)
03. Wool Fever Dub - Exhaust (3:05)
04. (Re)View From The Ground - Hangedup (4:30)
05. Toyte Goyes in Shineln - Black Ox Orkestar (3:44)
06. This Machine - Sackville (4:57)
07. Iron Bridge To Thunder Bay - A Silver Mt. Zion (8:12)
08. String of Lights - Sofa (5:33)
09. Dreaming (...Again) - Polmo Polpo (4:50)
10. Slippage - Re: (3:25)
11. Tres Tres 'Avant' - Fly Pan Am (5:10)
12. Fair Warning - 1-Speed Bike (5:03)
13. See My Film - Frankie Sparo (3:57)
14. Outro - Godspeed You! Black Emperor (7:33)

VA - Song Of The Silent Land [2004] part.1 part.2

Black Ox Orkestar

Black Ox Orkestar began in the summer of 2000, the project of four Montreal musicians, all members of A Silver Mt. Zion - Thierry Amar (also of Godspeed You! Black Emperor), Scott Levine Gilmore, Gabriel Levine and Jessica Moss. Exploring their common Jewish heritage for sounds that could speak to them today and listening to pre-war recordings of Jewish and non-Jewish music from Eastern Europe and the Balkans, they wanted to capture the rawness and emotional intensity they heard there.

Ver Tanzt? (2004)

A beautiful modern take on traditional Jewish (klezmer) tunes and Eastern-European folk, as imagined by a bunch of insanely talented post-rock/free jazz musicians, sung in Yiddish. Essential.