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Sophie Trudeau (musician)
Sophie Trudeau is a Canadian musician. She is best known as a member of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and co-founder (with Efrim Menuck and Thierry Amar) of Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band. She also plays in a number of other bands, including Valley of the Giants and The Mile End Ladies String Auxiliary. Biography Trudeau first served as violinist for Godspeed You! Black Emperor on their first EP, ''Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada'', which was released in 1999. Trudeau went on later to co-found Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band, where she serves as one of two principal violinists. Trudeau has also played the bass guitar on '' The "Pretty Little Lightning Paw" E.P.'', as well as trumpet on ''Horses in the Sky''. She is also credited as playing violin on the Arcade Fire track " Wake Up" from their debut album ''Funeral''. Sharing the responsibility with the other six members, Trudeau sings with Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Post-rock
Post-rock is a form of experimental rock characterized by a focus on exploring textures and timbre over traditional rock song structures, chords, or riffs. Post-rock artists are often instrumental, typically combining rock instrumentation with electronics. The genre emerged within the indie and underground music scene of the 1980s and early 1990s. However, due to its abandonment of rock conventions, it often bears little resemblance musically to contemporary indie rock, borrowing instead from diverse sources including ambient, electronica, jazz, krautrock, dub, and minimalist classical. Artists such as Talk Talk and Slint have been credited with producing foundational works in the style in the early 1990s. The term post-rock itself was notably employed by journalist Simon Reynolds in a review of the 1994 Bark Psychosis album '' Hex''. It later solidified into a recognizable trend with the release of Tortoise's 1996 album ''Millions Now Living Will Never Die''. The term has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wake Up (Arcade Fire Song)
"Wake Up" is an indie rock song by Canadian rock band Arcade Fire. It was the fifth and final single released from the band's debut album, ''Funeral''. The single was released as a one-sided 7" vinyl record on November 14, 2005. Reception In 2009, ''NME'' ranked "Wake Up" as the 25th best song of the 2000s, and in 2014 ranked "Wake Up" as the 25th greatest song of all-time. ''Rolling Stone'' ranked "Wake Up" as the 42nd best song of the 2000s. In October 2011, ''NME'' placed it at number 22 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years". , "Wake Up" holds the number 61 spot on Rate Your Music's Top Singles of the 2000s. In popular culture A live version of the song performed with David Bowie appears on the 2005 ''Live EP (Live at Fashion Rocks)''. This song was played during the beginning of the U2's Vertigo Tour shows, usually followed by "City of Blinding Lights". A brief snippet of the song's pre-concert appearance opens U2's concert film '' Vertigo 2005: Live from Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
G D's Pee At State's End!
''G_d's Pee at State's End!'' (stylised as ''G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!'') is the seventh studio album by Canadian post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor, released on 2 April 2021 by Constellation Records. Background In August 2019, the band played two new songs, "Glacier" and "Cliff", as a part of their live sets for the first time. According to a statement by the band, the material for the album was recorded in October 2020. On 2 March 2021, the band released a video with a minute-long preview of the first track on the album: "A Military Alphabet (five eyes all blind) (4521.0kHz 6730.0kHz 4109.09kHz) / Job's Lament / First of the Last Glaciers / where we break how we shine (Rockets for Mary)". The following day, 3 March 2021, Constellation Records announced the scheduled release of ''G_d's Pee at State's End!'' for 2 April 2021. As with the band's previous album, ''Luciferian Towers'', a statement including a list of demands was released with the announcement: * empty t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luciferian Towers
''Luciferian Towers'' (sometimes stylized as ''"Luciferian Towers"'') is the sixth studio album by Canadian post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor, released on 22 September 2017 by Constellation Records Background According to the Constellation Records one sheet about the album, ''Luciferian Towers'' was made "in the midst of communal mess, raising dogs and children. Eyes up and filled with dreadful joy – we aimed for wrong notes that explode, a quiet muttering amplified heavenward. We recorded it all in a burning motorboat." A list of "grand demands" also accompanied the information about the album, including: * an end to foreign invasion * an end to borders * the total dismantling of the prison–industrial complex * healthcare, housing, food and water acknowledged as an inalienable human right * the expert fuckers who broke this world never get to speak again Reception ''Luciferian Towers'' was well received by contemporary music critics upon its release. At Metacriti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress
''Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress'' is the fifth studio album by Canadian post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor, released on 31 March 2015 by Constellation Records. The album was recorded with Electrical Audio engineer Greg Norman in North Carolina and Montreal, and was the first to feature completely new material since the band's reformation in 2010. It is also, with the exception of the vinyl version of ''F♯ A♯ ∞'' (ignoring the locked groove), the group's shortest album to date, timing in at just forty minutes. The album was announced on 24 February 2015; the group also shared an excerpt of "Peasantry or 'Light! Inside of Light!'" on SoundCloud. On 24 March 2015, Constellation streamed the album on their SoundCloud. Critical reception At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from music critics, the album has received an average score of 84, indicating "universal acclaim". Pitchfork rated the album 7.6 out of a possible 10 and Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
''Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!'' (sometimes stylized in ''all caps'') is the fourth studio album by Canadian post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor, released by Constellation Records. It was their first album since 2002's ''Yanqui U.X.O.''. After reforming in 2010, the group went on tour and silently released the album at a concert in Boston on October 1, 2012, with official release dates on October 15 in Europe and the following day in other countries. The album received positive reviews and has been heralded as a comeback for the collective, winning the 2013 Polaris Music Prize. The album marked the beginning of a major stylistic change for Godspeed You! Black Emperor, being less technically complex and emphasizing further on drones while abandoning the concept of movements altogether – a compositional format they would continue to employ until 2021's ''G_d's Pee at State's End!''. Reception ''Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!'' received positive reviews from critics. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yanqui U
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Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
''Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven'' (often shortened to ''Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven'', ''Lift Your Skinny Fists'', or ''LYSF''), or on the rear of physical releases, is the second studio album by Canadian post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor, released as a double album on October 9, 2000, on vinyl by Constellation and November 8, 2000, on CD by Kranky. It has been listed on multiple decade-end lists as one of the greatest albums of the 2000s. Structure and details The four tracks on ''Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven'' are composed of individually named internal movements. The album is primarily instrumental, except for sampled voice inserts and the one minute "Moya Sings 'Baby-O'...". The samples on the album are often used to send some satirical, political, or poetic message. The inner panels of the vinyl edition released by Constellation contain a diagram used to illustrate the relative lengths of movements within ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carla Bozulich
Carla Ragin Bozulich (born December 24, 1965) is an American musician based in Los Angeles, known as the lead singer, lyricist and founder of The Geraldine Fibbers and Evangelista as well as a founding member of Ethyl Meatplow and Scarnella. The Geraldine Fibbers recorded two albums for Virgin Records. Their first album (''Lost Somewhere Between The Earth And My Home'') was described as "...a Country Feedback Masterpiece" by Vice (magazine) Bozulich's Evangelista project began in 2006. The album was under her own name and titled ''Evangelista''. The album was released by Montreal, Quebec-based Constellation Records and was that label's first release by a non-Canadian artist. In 2007, The Sunday Times called ''Evangelista'' "...a vivid inner darkness which shames rock's weeping millionaires." On the albums ''Hello, Voyager'' (2008), ''Prince of Truth'' (2009) and ''In Animal Tongue'' (2011), Bozulich adopted Evangelista as a project name. Some consistent members include bassist Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exclaim!
''Exclaim!'' is a Canadian music and entertainment publisher based in Toronto, which features in-depth coverage of new music across all genres with a special focus on Canadian and emerging artists. The monthly Exclaim! print magazine publishes 7 issues per year, distributing over 103,000 copies to over 2,600 locations across Canada. The magazine has an average of 361,200 monthly readers and their website, exclaim.ca, has an average of 675,000 unique visitors a month. History ''Exclaim!'' began as a discussion among campus and community radio programmers at Ryerson's CKLN-FM in 1991. It was started by then-CKLN programmer Ian Danzig, together with other programmers and Toronto musicians. The goal of the publication was to support great Canadian music that was otherwise going unheralded. The group worked through 1991 to produce their first issue in April 1992, with monthly issues being produced since. Ian Danzig has been the publisher of the magazine since its start. James Keast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hangedup
Hangedup was an experimental rock duo from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, featuring Genevieve Heistek on Viola and Eric Craven on drums and percussion. They combined viola with strong percussion, sometimes using self-made instruments, to create intense experimental Post-rock music. History Heistek and Craven performed with the band Sackville. Heistek was also part of The Mile End Ladies String Auxiliary, Set Fire to Flames, HṚṢṬA, and Land of Kush. Craven was associated with Shortwave, HṚṢṬA, and formerly Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band. In 1999 they came together to form Hangedup, and were signed in Montréal by Sackville's label, Constellation Records. Their first album, self-titled, was recorded at Hotel2Tango studios and released in 2001. In 2002, they released ''Kicker in Tow''. ''Clatter for Control'' came out in 2005. In 2012, Constellation released ''Musique Fragile 02'', a limited-edition boxed set of three vinyl LPs: one each from the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genevieve Heistek
Hangedup was an experimental rock duo from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, featuring Genevieve Heistek on Viola and Eric Craven on drums and percussion. They combined viola with strong percussion, sometimes using self-made instruments, to create intense experimental Post-rock music. History Heistek and Craven performed with the band Sackville. Heistek was also part of The Mile End Ladies String Auxiliary, Set Fire to Flames, HṚṢṬA, and Land of Kush. Craven was associated with Shortwave, HṚṢṬA, and formerly Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band. In 1999 they came together to form Hangedup, and were signed in Montréal by Sackville's label, Constellation Records. Their first album, self-titled, was recorded at Hotel2Tango studios and released in 2001. In 2002, they released ''Kicker in Tow''. ''Clatter for Control'' came out in 2005. In 2012, Constellation released ''Musique Fragile 02'', a limited-edition boxed set of three vinyl LPs: one each from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
