2008 - 06/04 - Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La / Blk Tygr - 9pm $12 adv / $14 dos
hee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band began life as the more manageably named A Silver Mt. Zion in 1998, and the group continues to use SMZ as band shorthand to this day. The Montreal-based group was initially formed by Efrim Menuck, Thierry Amar and Sophie Trudeau (all of Godspeed You! Black Emperor). Their early performances centered around Menuck's plaintive piano themes, supported by Amar's first forays into upright acoustic bass playing and Trudeau's swirling violin cascades. The full band's next release - another double album - followed in 2006. Their most urgent and fully-realised record to date, this release in many ways completed the group's transition to full-on, vocal-driven, highly charged and uniquely inventive punk-rock. With song titles like "God Bless Our Dead Marines", "Teddy Roosevelt's Guns" and "Ring Them Bells (Freedom Has Come And Gone)", the record captured and commented on our new war conditions like few others, and was hailed as one of the most devastating and original protest records of these dark, outrageous times. The group toured Europe and North America in spring and summer of 2006, after which drummer Gilmore quit the band to pursue school. Eric Craven (ex-Hangedup) was drafted to fill the drum chair and this line-up toured Europe again in spring 2007, playing much of the new material that would go on to appear on the band's latest record, 13 Blues For Thirteen Moons, releasing in March 2008.
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| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La posted on Sunday April 27, 2008 |
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