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A Silver Mt. Zion Post Rock 2000 Canada
A Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us Alone, But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corner Of Our Rooms… flac album
  • Performer A Silver Mt. Zion
  • Title He Has Left Us Alone, But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corner Of Our Rooms…
  • Date of release 2000
  • Country Canada
  • Style Post Rock
  • Other formats ADX FLAC AHX AUD MPC MIDI RA
  • Genre Rock
  • Size MP3 1240 mb
  • Size FLAC 1197 mb
  • Rating: 4.6
  • Votes: 307
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He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Room. s the debut album of Canadian post-rock group A Silver Mt. Zion, who now record under the name Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra. The album was recorded by guitarist Efrim Menuck and bassist Thierry Amar at the Hotel2Tango in 1999, mostly during breaks while touring with Godspeed You! Black Emperor. It was published by the Montreal-based record label Constellation on March 27, 2000.

Zion has created their own style at the same time. Classical, rock, etc. are accurate genres to the album. It puts me in utter awe and sadness at points, but I think the track that really defined the album's purpose - being that it's a dedication to Efrim Menuck's sad passing of his dog Wanda - would be "13 Angels Standing Guard 'Round the Side of Your Bed". It's terribly depressing and it pretty much summarizes a pretty shit time in my life, which is why when I bought it at that point, I listened to the song over & over & over again

Zion - Angels, A Silver Mt. Zion - Sit In the Middle, A Silver Mt. Zion - Broken Chords Can Sing A Little gods и другие популярные треки и рингтоны. A Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us Alone, But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms (2000). 2000) – 01 - (i) Broken chords can sing a little. Zion – He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts Of Ligh. :04. :22. 2000) – 05 - (i) 13 angels standing guard round th. :09.

A Silver Mt. Zion, a Godspeed side project featuring guitarist Efrim Menuck, bassist Thierry Amar, and violinist Sophie Trudeau, forgoes the thick, orchestral sounds of the Montréal nine-piece, opting instead for a more subtly orchestrated three-to-five-piece arrangement. The result is a sound that, while every bit as powerful as that of Godspeed, is in many ways more affecting. But an abstract art analogy is even more appropriate, as He Has Left Us Alone is almost completely devoid of percussion, allowing the album to achieve a more sweeping dynamic. Adding to the profoundly personal nature of the record is the relative lack of tape- recorded wackos ranting about the end of the world.

Erscheinungsdatum November 1999. Labels Constellation. Musik GenrePost-Rock. Mitglieder die dieses Album besitzen3. 1. Broken Chords Can Sing a Little. 2. Sit In the Middle of Three Galloping Dogs. Anderen Alben von A Silver Mt. Zion. Kollaps Tradixionales. 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons. Horses in the Sky. The. This Is Our Punk-Rock, Born into Trouble As the Sparks Fly Upward. He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Room. lben in Post-Rock.

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Zion album bestography. Members who like this album also like: Kid A by Radiohead, OK Computer by Radiohead and Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven by Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

Album · 2000 · 8 Songs. More By Silver Mt. See All. Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything.

Tracklist Hide Credits

"Lonely As The Sound Of Lying On The Ground Of An Airplane Going Down."
1 Broken Chords Can Sing A Little. 8:59
2 Sit In The Middle Of Three Galloping Dogs.
Drums – Aidan*
 5:08
3 Stumble Then Rise On Some Awkward Morning. 6:04
4 Movie(Never Made). 3:23
"The World Is SickSICK;(So Kiss Me Quick)!
5 13 Angels Standing Guard 'Round The Side Of Your Bed. 7:22
6 Long March Rocket Or Doomed Airliner. 0:05
7 Blown-Out Joy From Heaven's Mercied Hole.
Clarinet [Patient] – Mr. Gordon Krieger*Guitar [Left, Right, Enter] – Sam Shalabi
 9:47
8 For Wanda.
Effects [Fireworks, Tank Rumble] – Aidan*
 6:38

Companies, etc.

  • Recorded At – Hotel2Tango
  • Duplicated By – Duplication.ca

Credits

  • Artwork [Cover Drawing And Rocket Etching] – Arthur John Tinholt*
  • Contrabass [Contrebasse], Electric Bass – Thierry*
  • Mastered By, Sequenced By – Harris Newman
  • Piano, Guitar, Voice, Organ, Electronics [Radio] – Efrim*
  • Violin, Voice – Sophie*

Notes

Released in a special cardboard sleeve with a single liner notes sheet.

All of it recorded in the month of November at the Mighty Hôtel2Tango.

Tracks indexed as I to IV.
At sleeve track durations given in times rounded to whole minutes.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Matrix / Runout (Variant 1): www.duplication.ca CD06809 CID-S001 AMT#20160 CST009
  • Matrix / Runout (Variant 2): 311Q1<1040>CST009 DUPLICATION.CA
  • Matrix / Runout (Variant 3): WWW.DUPLICATION.CA CST009 AMT20160R 20160
  • Mastering SID Code (Variant 2): IFPI L483
  • Mould SID Code (Variant 2): IFPI8107
  • Mould SID Code (Variant 3): IFPI ZP03
  • Barcode (Sticker): 666561000929

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
cst009 A.S.M.Z.* He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corner Of Our Rooms… ‎(LP, Album) Constellation cst009 Canada 2000
cst009 A Silver Mt. Zion He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corner Of Our Rooms… ‎(LP, Album) Constellation cst009 Europe 2000
cst009 A Silver Mt. Zion He Has Left Us Alone, But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corner Of Our Rooms… ‎(CD, Album, RE) Constellation cst009 US Unknown
cst009 A Silver Mt. Zion He Has Left Us Alone, But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corner Of Our Rooms… ‎(CD, Album) Constellation cst009 Canada 2000
cst009 A.S.M.Z.* He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corner Of Our Rooms… ‎(LP, Album) Constellation cst009 Canada Unknown


Talk about A Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us Alone, But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corner Of Our Rooms…


Low_Skill_But_Happy_Deagle
Absolutely stellar for a debut album. Elements of Godspeed are certainly here, yet Silver Mt. Zion has created their own style at the same time. Classical, rock, etc. are accurate genres to the album. It puts me in utter awe and sadness at points, but I think the track that really defined the album's purpose - being that it's a dedication to Efrim Menuck's sad passing of his dog Wanda - would be "13 Angels Standing Guard 'Round the Side of Your Bed". It's terribly depressing and it pretty much summarizes a pretty shit time in my life, which is why when I bought it at that point, I listened to the song over & over & over again. "He Has Left Us Alone..." is a beautiful album with many emotions that come with it. Listen and enjoy.
Iarim
this thing came out around the last year of high school. i wasn't much of a social person then, although i was much more social than i am now. like a thousand other high school kids, 'slow riot for new zero kanada' had thoroughly kicked my ass into a sense of blistering awe. never had i heard anything as powerful....so, i was, to say the least, eager to hear new material. this album did not disappoint. a silver mt. zion was, in many ways, originally a direct overflow of godspeed material. the band here is a shrunken version of everyone's favorite apocalyptic nonet, but shrunken only by personnel - the album actually adds a large amount of piano to the overall sound. we end up with something that is equally haunting, eerie and disturbing as early godspeed but considerably more dreamy. a few of the tracks have the rise/build thing going on but they aren't as pronounced as they are with godspeed. we are even treated to some very beautiful purely string music, with heavily processed guitars thrown in as a fifth string instrument beside the violins, violas, basses and cellos. we also have efrim's vocal debut here with a sad, angry rant about bankers and tear gas and what not....like everything the godspeed entourage has produced, there is a level of humour here. however, it's so subtle that the vast majority of people miss it entirely. certainly, if you listen to the radio samples on the first track you hear pieces of satire with such phrases as "don't look it up yourself, i'll just read it to you". efrim's own lyrics, while presented in a brutally honest approach, have a likewise questionable integrity to them. it was this album that allowed me to piece together the thought that godspeed was more than anything else poking fun at doomsday millennium christians, all the while making a profit off of their confused and rebellious children. why did it never strike anyone else as a little odd that a band full of people with jewish names seems remarkably interested in the christian version of the apocalypse?there is a level of brilliance in this, particularly as it seems to have gone on undetected. however, i urge you to listen carefully for it through all of their albums. if searching for it, it's really hard to miss.musically, however, this is a very powerful record. although it is at times incredibly bleak, it is at times incredibly uplifting, and it's arranged almost like a symphony with a very small orchestra. there are layers of beethoven, layers of debussy, layers of stravinsky, layers of pink floyd, layers of arvo part and layers of noam chomsky. academically, it's minimalist. aesthetically, it's impressionist. emotionally, it's romanticist. however, at it's very basic it's still just punk rock.an excellent album that you will appreciate if you enjoy the epic and the powerful, or if you want a heads up on what your grandchildren will study when it comes to late 20th century / early 21st century music.
Trash Obsession
A perfect release. Strings, piano and minimal synths with very sporadic vox (there's only 1 track with vocals). Absolutely gorgeous. The best silver mt. zion there is and (so far i have found) there is nothing like it. The term "post-rock" doesn't do it justice. neither does "ambient". way better than any godspeed... or anything else for that matter. the only thing i can think of is "lush beauty". My 2nd favorite release of all time. I wish more musicians made note of it.
Ericaz
There are actually 2 tracks with vocals on this album
jorik
track five is heartbreakingly beautiful and sad. like whale music but made with instruments. a really gorgeous ambient post rock album, very dark. this band features members of gospeed you black emperor. shame about the poncey band names and titles of tracks/albums cos the music is spot on.
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