#Efrim Menuck

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godspeed you! black emperor

Nine members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor have a Rick Rubin number of 3, while the rest have a Rick Rubin number of 4.

Timothy Herzog was a drummer on Godspeed You! Black Emperor's "NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD".

"NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD" features performances from Aidan Girt, David Bryant, Efrim Menuck, Mauro Pezzente, Sophie Trudeau, and Thierry Amar.

Christopher Comte, Mike Moya, and Thea Pratt performed on Godspeed You! Black Emperor's F♯ A♯ ∞.

F♯ A♯ ∞ features performances from Aidan Girt, Bruce Cawdron, David Bryant, Efrim Menuck, Mauro Pezzente, Norsola Johnson, and Thierry Amar.

Aidan Girt, Bruce Cawdron, David Bryant, Efrim Menuck, Mauro Pezzente, Norsola Johnson, Rodger Tellier-Craig, Sophie Trudeau and Thierry Amar performed on Yanqui U.X.O.

Yanqui U.X.O. was produced by Steve Albini.

Steve Albini was an engineer for Nine Inch Nails' Even Deeper.

Even Deeper features mixing assistance from Dr. Dre.

Dr. Dre was an executive producer on Eminem's Revival.

Revival was executive-produced in part by Rick Rubin.

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The "Pretty Little Lightning Paw" EP by Thee Silver Mountain Reveries is Nonbinary!

requested by @draculaugust

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Godspeed You! Black Emperor on Chic-A-Go-Go (Pitchfork Fest)

This never stops being delightful.

[deramin2]

Oh shit! I just noticed Godspeed You! Black Emperor put the lost tape "all lights fucked on the hairy amp drooling" on Bandcamp (2 years ago). This was Efrim's solo project before GY!BE formed. It was lost for decades until piracy saved it in 2022.

"this was a retirement letter,

recorded spring/summer/fall summer of 1993.

all of it by efrim, and a little bass from mauro.

vocals on $13.13 by d.c., acoustic gtr. snippet and backwards hash by dan-o.

no relation to the band that followed.

be gentle.

xoxoxox efrim

This was a 2-tape set, handmade and sold at a few very underground shows in 1993. Only 33 were made. By the time it was a legend among GY!BE fans but no one could find one however hard they looked. It was assumed lost to time.

And now it's back on Godspeed's music store page (but not streaming which is why I didn't notice it) where the band can get paid for it again. Scary to put such early experimental DIY work out there, but it's so important to seeing who Efrim Menuck would become as a musician.

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323: Black Ox Orkestar // Ver Tanzt?

Ver Tanzt? Black Ox Orkestar 2004, Constellation (Bandcamp)

Early Constellation releases frequently had a rough, industrial texture to their packaging that added to the sense they’d emerged from some secretive turn-of-the-century worker’s collective that survived hidden in the ruins of Montreal’s Farine Five Roses plant, growing weirder by the decade. Cryptic imagery, half-mystic, half-agit-prop, set against photography of crumbling brickwork and rusted metal, titles as long as your arm and far hairier. The design of Black Ox Orkestar’s Ver Tanzt? (Yiddish: Who’s Dancing?) is a perfectly representative example, a white maze on black field containing at its centre an antique symbol.

Most of Black Ox Orkestar’s core members are best known for their tours of duty with A Silver Mt. Zion: the elevator pitch for the Orkestar is that they excavate the klezmer and Jewish classical roots at the bottom of the music of the Efrim/Godspeed/Mt. Zion scene, presenting it in a more traditional form while retaining a degree of Constellation signature sooty intensity. The Orkestar occasionally swirl up into the kind of shrieking violin catharsis that Godspeed songs are known for, but these moments are brief, bursts of sudden flame that die back down to flickers of candlelight. They play these ancient melodies with a skittering energy derived from free jazz and avant-garde chamber music—new methods of evoking the unease, sorrow, and passionate endurance that have been a part of this art for centuries and beyond.

It’s difficult to speak of Jewish art in this moment without the spectre of the Israeli state’s ongoing genocide in Palestine surfacing. It’s to Black Ox Orkestrar’s immense credit that even 20 years ago they recognized the sickness that was growing in that state. The booklet packaged with Ver Tanzt? includes the lyrics to the title track (by vocalist Scott Levine Gilmore) in Yiddish and English, reproduced below:

Who’s Dancing? Who’s dancing here On the walls of Jerusalem? A Jew? A hangman? A young soldier. He dances a hora on Arab bones. He sings over Arab graves. “There’s no peace, no truth. All oaths are broken.” Do the oppressed mirror the oppressor? The beaten child is in the street with fists And the sad race of wise men Sends brutes To the border.

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Friday Records

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HAHAHAHAHA LET'S FUCKING GO BEST SPLATFEST THEME EVER SORRY CHOCOLATE SPLATFEST

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EPIC ALBUM COVER #82

ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT - "Darling The Dawn"

Released: 2022 (Constellation)

Post-rock, drone, dream pop

[garaktime]

TDOV2024 has officially rolled around in Australian hours. It's been a rough one, and I don't think I'll have any pics of myself to post this year.

I've said a few times TERFS aren't welcome on my blog, and I'd like to put forth that neither are Zionists. There is still an active genocide going on in Palestine and here are a few ways you can help.

eSims for Gaza

Palestinian Childrens Relief Fund

Doctors Without Borders

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Hospitals and Heavy calls and Other symptoms of our age Let's get it on Until we're gone And catch the dawn before it goes away

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I was so happy when I saw this at their show in Minneapolis a few years ago. I wish I had gotten a picture of my own. And when I was in the balcony a month or two later in Milwaukee, I knew what it said even though I was too far to see anything but the pink tape.

GY!BE has not stopped surprising and delighting me since I first started listening in 2005.

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"Sunny" isn't Comrade Sunny's actual name. Her full name is Ephraim Ahab Menuck. I've decided on this based upon a handful of references that I feel connect together well sonically as a name.

"Ephraim" is a nod to The Lighthouse, and Ephraim Winslow, one of the two characters in the movie. The Lighthouse is one of my favorite films and the aesthetics of it are something Incredibly dear to me.. I truly adore it, so to have a way to pay homage to it with her is very lovely.

"Ahab" is of course a reference to Captain Ahab of Moby Dick fame. A seafaring captain reference for an ex-Zailor, hm? And her ambition, chasing after whatever Whitlock was going for, could almost be seen as a white whale, though it may be realer than expected! Though it may well spell her downfall, too.

"Menuck" is more niche, but it is a genuine nod to Efrim Menuck [who also inspired the first name...] a notable member of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, one of my favorite bands. The band's music has genuinely changed my life, and I do not know who I'd be without them.... A lot of their moody atmospheres I also find fitting for the image of a long night at Zee.

She is called Sunny because she was far, far too optimistic when she first began Zailing.

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157: The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band // "Born Into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward."

"Born Into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward." The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band 2001, Constellation (Bandcamp)

22 years ago Montreal’s other iconic prodigiously-membered post-rock band released their second LP. It’s not easy keeping all of these pro-Zion-but-not-Zionists straight, so I’ve helpfully listed and ranked each of the musicians who have passed through this constantly shifting collective from first to least-first. Let’s go!

Members of A/The/e Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band, Ranked

1. Mike Garson - piano 2. Annie Clark - guitar, keyboards, backing vocals 3. Brian Teasley- percussion 4. Daniel Hart - violin 5. Szabolcs Szczur – accordion 6. Davey 'Crabsticks' Trotter – Mellotron 7. Timothy Matthews – mbira 8. Buffi Jacobs – cello 9. Bach Norwood – piano, keyboards, backing vocals 10. Harriet Ballance - triangle, backing vocals 11. Japhy Ryder – floristry 12. Stuart "Peebs" Peebles – piccolo 13. Chandler Petrino – natural horn, oboe 14. Jared Pechonis – theremin 15. Toby Halbrooks - theremin 16. Corn Mo - backing vocals 17. Patrick Hewitt – theremin 18. Darin Hieb – trumpet, backing vocals 19. Rachel Woolf – flute 20. Mark Beardsworth – claviola 21. Allen Halas – percussion 22. Edwin Mendoza – viola 23. Todd Beaupré – vibraslap 24. Thaddeus Ford – trumpet 25. Paul Deemer – trombone, trumpet 26. Mike St.Clair – trombone, synth effects 27. Josh Guyer – trombone, spoons 28. Chris Curiel – trumpet 29. Heather Test – French horn 30. Victoria Arellano – classical harp 31. Sean Redman – violin, mandolin 32. Kelly Test – percussion 33. Mike Mordecai – percussion 34. Jason Garner – drums 35. Audrey Easley – flute, piccolo, EWI 36. Rick G. Nelson – viola 37. Nick Groesch – piano, keyboards 38. Keith Hendricks – percussion 39. Evan Hisey – keyboards 40. Dylan Silvers – guitar 41. Daniel Hart – violin 42. John Lamonica – percussion 43. Marcus Lopez – percussion 44. Matt Bricker – trumpet, synth effects 45. Taylor Young – percussion 46. Joe Butcher – steel drum 47. Evan Jacobs – piano, keyboards 48. Todd Berridge – viola 49. Nick Earl – guitar 50. Evan Weiss – trumpet 51. Jay Jennings – trumpet 52. Tamara Brown – violin 53. Merritt Lota – steel drums 54. Daniel Huffman – guitar 55. Timothy Blowers – harp 56. Anthony Richards – steel drums 57. Louis Schwadron – French horn 58. Andrew Tinker – French horn 59. Nick Wlodarczyk  – trombone 60. Paul Gaughran – flute 61. Isabelo Cruz – French horn 62. Bryan Wakeland – drums 63. Hayley McCarthy – viola 64. Dave Dusters – percussion, backing vocals 65. Billy Mills-Curran – flute 66. Logan Keese – trumpet 67. Ricky Rasura – classical harp 68. Tonya Hewitt – banjo 69. Daniel Poorman – slide whistle 70. Andy Parkerson – clarinet 71. Joseph Singleton – viola 72. Jenelle Valencia – violin 73. James Reimer – trombone 74. Regina Chellew – guitar, trumpet, backing vocals 75. Ryan Fitzgerald – guitar, backing vocals 76. Cory Helms – guitar, backing vocals 77. Jessica Jordan – backing vocals 78. Jenny Kirtland – backing vocals 79. Kristin Hardin – backing vocals 80. Elizabeth Evans – backing vocals 81. Neil Smith – backing vocals 82. Julie Doyle – backing vocals 83. Christine Bolon – backing vocals 84. Natalie Young – backing vocals 85. Constance Dolph – backing vocals 86. Elizabeth Brown – backing vocals 87. Apotsala Wilson – backing vocals 88. Jennie Kelley – backing vocals 89. Roy Thomas Ivy – backing vocals 90. Jamey Welch – backing vocals 91. Ethan Voelkers – backing vocals 92. Mark Pirro - bass 93. Frank Benjaminsen – backing vocals 94. Stephanie Dolph – backing vocals 95. Jennifer Jobe – backing vocals 96. Mike Elio – backing vocals 97. Kelly Repka – backing vocals 98. Jason Rees – backing vocals 99. Jeneffa Soldatic – backing vocals 100. Michael Turner – backing vocals 101. Don Congeler – backing vocals 102. Michael Musick – backing vocals 103. Melissa Crutchfield – backing vocals 104. Sandra Powers Giasson – backing vocals 105. Paul Hillery – backing vocals 106. Stephen Dix – backing vocals 107. Jessica Berridge – backing vocals 108. Melisma MacDonald – backing vocals 109. Ross Cink - backing vocals 110. Lucy Williams - choreography 111. Josh David Jordan – backing vocals 112. Brad Butler – backing vocals 113. Jason Rees – backing vocals 114. Andrew Aldenenotti – backing vocals 115. Getting hit by a bus wearing a flowing white robe 116. Tim DeLaughter - vocals, guitar, piano

Hold on. I’ve just received word that these musicians are actually members of some other band? Apologies for the confusion!

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Virus2020 - Radio Flouka: The Culling (18/12/2024)

Rami Harrabi, aka Virus2020, is a Tunisian artist born in 1989 in Sousse, Tunisia.

The composer derives great influence from Arab and North African art, instruments, traditions, and rituals.

Tracklist:

Zorna (Oboe) Solo Efrim Manuel Menuck - Black Flags Ov Thee Holy Sonne VIRUS2020 - فيروس٢٠٢٠ ـ تلاقينا Cities Last Broadcast - Towers Of Blight VIRUS2020 ft Sarla - Don't be maniac فيروس٢٠٢٠ و سارّة الزواري ـ لا تتمنيك Inner Paradise - Rasta Liturgy VIRUS2020 - Do you like Voodoo فيروس٢٠٢٠ ـ فوودوو HLER - Vector Spaces Religious Songs To Accompany Ecstatic Dances The Tara Experiment -Roswell Methadone Clinic Ying shui di jiang - 堪忍地 Saint Abdullah & Eomac - At the Opposite Pole of Architectural Virtue

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