Horses in the Sky
by Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band
- Type: Album
- Released: 2005-03-21
- Label: Constellation
- Country: Canada
- Length: 58:12
- Community rating: 4.1/5 from 11 ratings
Artists on this release: Ian Ilavsky, Rebecca Foon, Sophie Trudeau, Scott Levine Gilmore, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band, Efrim Menuck, Thierry Amar, Jessica Moss
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Efrim Menuck's post-rock collective incorporates more vocals and acoustic instruments on this passionate album. The lyrics are political and desperate, pleading for peace in a war-torn world. It is a raw, emotional folk-punk symphony.
Genres
Descriptors: political, protest, war, anarchism, orchestral, strings, crescendo, choral, experimental, long-form
Tracklist
- God Bless Our Dead Marines (11:44)
- Mountains Made Of Steam (09:28)
- Horses In The Sky (06:39)
- Teddy Roosevelt鈥檚 Guns (09:45)
- Hang On To Each Other (06:38)
- Ring Them Bells (Freedom Has Come And Gone) (13:58)
Credits
- Luc Paradis - artwork [dead marine, horse & tumbling bird]
- A Silver Mt. Zion - artwork [everything else scavenged, filtered, scribbled or collaged by]
- Nadia Moss - artwork [side 4 etching]
- Garfield Lamb - engineer
- Howard Bilerman - engineer
- Jean-Fran莽ois Chicoine - mastered by
- Sophie Trudeau - performer [broken red tooth echo hiccups, stubborn downward gluestick plummets, busted collarbone + mighty treble needles], vocals [sang], percussion [handclaps]
- Scott Levine Gilmore - performer [interdisciplinary baltimore diaganols, bullfrog mallets, transister fuzz kvetch, gentlemanly flatpicking + unhindered tardiness], vocals [sang], percussion [handclaps]
- Jessica Moss - performer [semitonal crayon smears, flamout krash-landings, bumblebee cloudburts + double stop gypsy cliffhangers], vocals [sang], percussion [handclaps]
- Rebecca Foon - performer [steadfast bow-grind, muddy birdwing glissanto, angel-hair sailor knots + blossoming deadpan], vocals [sang], percussion [handclaps]
- Ian Ilavsky - performer [sweet giant claw pluckings, astonishing leg kicks, 7 fing chords + constant troubled brow], vocals [sang], percussion [handclaps]
- Thierry Amar - performer [worried bass as load bearing wall, pan-octave fingertip ruckus, low-down gospal skreech + beloved mechinical pencil], vocals [sang], percussion [handclaps]
- Efrim Menuck - performer [worried yelps + weepy hollers, nicotine scribbles, helicopter tremolo + too much delay], vocals [sang], percussion [handclaps]
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