Following last week's first taste of the upcoming Godspeed You! Black Emperor LP, the sublime drone of "Undoing A Luciferian Towers", The Quietus are hosting an exclusive listen of the more boisterous "Anthem For No State, Pt.III", the ultimate section of a longer composition that wraps up the record. Take a listen >>here<<.
 
Pre-order "Luciferian Towers" from Constellation if you are in Canada, or from one of our many international pre-order partners (list on release page) before the album officially hits stores on 22 September.

 
Take a spin over at Bandcamp to listen to "Undoing A Luciferian Towers", the first track from the new GYBE album, "Luciferian Towers". It's as sublime and engrossing a drone as Godspeed gets. Consider supporting the record and the awesome people at Bandcamp by pre-ordering your digital copy on that platform. But if physical music is still your thing, check out our pre-order links on the release page.
 
"Luciferian Towers" is available everywhere on 22 September 2017.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor's third album since the group's reunion in 2011 will feature the band's own artwork. Check out the video below for a detailed reveal of the packaging.
The CD comes in a custom mini-gatefold jacket printed on thick 24pt. 100% recycled Orford uncoated paperboard with a printed CD inner sleeve.

The LP is pressed on 180 gram audiophile vinyl at Optimal (Germany) and comes in a gatefold jacket with a printed inner dust sleeve, a 24" x 24" pull-out art poster, and a download code for 320kbps MP3 of the album audio. All printed in uncoated papers and boards.
Pre-order here.
 

 

 

The seventh record by Godspeed You! Black Emperor will be released by Constellation on 22 September 2017.

 

 

GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR
 
"Luciferian Towers"

CST126
180gLP • CD • DL
Out 22 September 2017
 

PREORDER

"Luciferian Towers" was recorded during the winter of 2016/2017 at Montreal's Hotel2Tango, with Greg Norman once again engineering and co-producing (as he did on the band's previous album 'Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress').
 
The music on "Luciferian Towers" took shape over the past two years, amidst GYBE's collaborative performances with the Holy Body Tattoo dance company's monumental, and spurred by the commissioning of new compositions memorializing the 100th anniversary of the WWI Battle of Messines, which premiered at a live concert event on the site of the massacre at Heuvelland, Belgium this past June.
 
"Luciferian Towers" is Godspeed's third album since the group's reunion in 2011 and their second consecutive single LP-length record (following three double-album releases in 2000, 2002 and 2012).
 
The band provides this statement and track description for the new album:
 

this, this long-playing record, a thing we 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.
 
(context as follows:)
 
1. UNDOING A LUCIFERIAN TOWERS – look at that fucking skyline! big lazy money writ in dull marble obelisks! imagine all those buildings much later on, hollowed out and stripped bare of wires and glass, listen- the wind is whistling through all 3,000 of its burning window-holes!
 
2. BOSSES HANG – labor, alienated from the wealth it creates, so that holy cow, most of us live precariously! kicking at it, but barely hanging on! also – the proud illuminations of our shortened lives! also – more of us than them! also – what we need now is shovels, wells, and barricades!
 
3. FAM / FAMINE – how they kill us = absentee landlord, burning high-rise. the loud panics of child-policemen and their exploding trigger-hands. with the dull edge of an arbitrary meritocracy. neglect, cancer maps, drone strike, famine. the forest is burning and soon they’ll hunt us like wolves.
 
4. ANTHEM FOR NO STATE – kanada, emptied of its minerals and dirty oil. emptied of its trees and water. a crippled thing, drowning in a puddle, covered in ants. the ocean doesn’t give a shit because it knows it’s dying too.
 
 
finally and in conclusion;
the “luciferian towers” L.P. was informed by the following grand demands:
+ an end to foreign invasions
+ 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
 
 
much love to all the other lost and wondering ones,
xoxoxox god's pee / montréal / 4 juillet, 2017


 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 
 
 
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Fall 2017 Tour Dates
 

DD/MM/YY	PLACE	VENUE
03.09.17	Montréal, QC	Mile Ex End Musique Montréal Festival
22.09.17	Guadalajara, MX	C3 Stage
23.09.17	Ciudad de México, MX	Festival Aural
13.10.17	Rome, IT	Romaeuropa Festival
14.10.17	Rome, IT	Romaeuropa Festival
15.10.17	Fribourg, CH	Frison
16.10.17	Toulouse, FR	Le Bikini
17.10.17	Bordeaux, FR	Krakatoa
18.10.17	Rennes, FR	Théâtre National de Bretagne
19.10.17	Rouen, FR	Le 106
20.10.17	Lyon, FR	Le Tobogan
21.10.17	Strassbourg, FR	La Laiterie
22.10.17	Lille, FR	La Condition publique
23.10.17	Brighton, UK	Brighton Dome
25.10.17	Newcastle, UK	Boiler Shop
27.10.17	Glasgow, UK	ABC
28.10.17	Manchester, UK	Victoria Warehouse
30.10.17	Bristol, UK	Motion
31.10.17	London, UK	Troxy
01.11.17	Brussels, BE	Vorst Nationaal
02.11.17	Amsterdam, NL	Paradiso
03.11.17	Berlin, DE	Festsaal Kreuzberg
05.11.17	Hanover, DE	Indiego
07.11.17	Paris, FR	Elysée Montmartre

 
Godspeed You! Black Emperor will be embarking on a considerable tour across Europe and the UK this autumn. The band has not been on the road since a significant string of dates in early 2016.
 
The tour kicks off in Rome, with two special performances of a collaborative project with Canadian dance company Holy Body Tattoo. Godspeed’s collaboration on the troupe's renowned monumental piece has been shown across the world in performing arts festivals and halls since its premiere at Vancouver's PuSh Performing Arts Festival in January 2016.
 
Fribourg (CH) will mark the beginning of the band's own progress with stops in France, the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany. The tour will end at Paris' Elysée Montmartre on 07 November. Please see below for a complete list of dates.
 
Listen to "Peasantry or 'Light! Inside Of Light!" from their March 2015 release Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress
 

 

DD/MM/YY	PLACE	VENUE
03.09.17	Montréal, QC	Mile Ex End Musique Montréal Festival
22.09.17	Guadalajara, MX	C3 Stage
23.09.17	Ciudad de México, MX	Festival Aural
13.10.17	Rome, IT	Romaeuropa Festival
14.10.17	Rome, IT	Romaeuropa Festival
15.10.17	Fribourg, CH	Frison
16.10.17	Toulouse, FR	Le Bikini
17.10.17	Bordeaux, FR	Krakatoa
18.10.17	Rennes, FR	Théâtre National de Bretagne
19.10.17	Rouen, FR	Le 106
20.10.17	Lyon, FR	Le Tobogan
21.10.17	Strassbourg, FR	La Laiterie
22.10.17	Lille, FR	La Condition publique
23.10.17	Brighton, UK	Brighton Dome
25.10.17	Newcastle, UK	Boiler Shop
27.10.17	Glasgow, UK	ABC
28.10.17	Manchester, UK	Victoria Warehouse
30.10.17	Bristol, UK	Motion
31.10.17	London, UK	Troxy
01.11.17	Brussels, BE	Vorst Nationaal
02.11.17	Amsterdam, NL	Paradiso
03.11.17	Berlin, DE	Festsaal Kreuzberg
05.11.17	Hanover, DE	Indiego
07.11.17	Paris, FR	Elysée Montmartre

David Bryant and Karl Lemieux are no strangers to collaboration. Along with Kevin Doria, Bryant is one of the musical forces behind the drone-inflected soundscapes of Hiss Tracts, while Lemieux welds manipulated 16mm film to the duo’s haunting narratives. Bryant is also one of the members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, with whom Lemieux has been collaborating as co-creator and projectionist of fluttering 16mm tapestries for years now. Aesthetically resonant with the Hiss Tracts project, Quiet Zone addresses the lived experience of people afflicted by electromagnetic hypersensitivity as captured by Lemieux and Bryant, with experimental film treatments by Lemieux, and sound design by Bryant. The result is a sensitive and sense-rich short work of throbbing flux and eruptive empathy.
Watch the film in its original English version here:

Quiet Zone, David Bryant & Karl Lemieux, National Film Board of Canada

Vous pouvez également visionner le film avec des sous-titres en français ici.


Check out an interview in English with David Bryant here.


Lisez une entrevue avec Karl Lemieux ici.

 
As international presentations of 'monumental' – their widely acclaimed collaboration with the Holy Body Tattoo dance troupe – continue, Godspeed You! Black Emperor has announced a series of home-town shows to take place this Fall.
The band (minus the dance company) will take over Ville-Émard's Théâtre Paradoxe September 19-21. Tickets will be available for sale, limited to 4 per customer, starting Thursday, April 14, at local stores L'Oblique, Phonopolis, Cheap Thrills, Atom Heart and Aux 33 Tours; and online via the following links:

• MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

• TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

• WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21


See below for the full listing of Godspeed's dates through the Fall, including more presentations of 'monumental' in Quebec City, Toronto, and Edinburgh.
 

DD/MM/YY	PLACE	VENUE
15.04.16	Quebec City, QC	Grand Théâtre de Québec collaboration w/ Holy Body Tattoo
14.06.16	Toronto, ON	Hearn Generating Station collaboration w/ Holy Body Tattoo
15.06.16	Toronto, ON	Hearn Generating Station collaboration w/ Holy Body Tattoo
08.08.16	Edinburgh, UK	Edinburgh International Festival collaboration w/ Holy Body Tattoo
09.08.16	Edinburgh, UK	Edinburgh International Festival collaboration w/ Holy Body Tattoo
18.08.16	London, UK	Coronet
19.08.16	Bristol, UK	ArcTangentFesival
19.09.16	Montreal, QC	Théâtre Paradoxe
20.09.16	Montreal, QC	Théâtre Paradoxe
21.09.16	Montreal, QC	Théâtre Paradoxe

 
 

 

While our recently announced Leap Year Sale includes all our full-length albums from 2013 to 2015, we’d like to take this opportunity to draw a little attention to the year just past in particular, which we feel was a real special one for Constellation, marked by one superb album after another by musicians who’d released at least one or more records previously on the label. It's incredibly gratifying to see artists and bands with whom the label has already established a relationship, making consistently challenging, deeply engaged, restlessly creative, thoroughly substantial and uncompromising new albums – whether their second, third... or fifth/sixth! (here's looking at you Eric Chenaux and Godspeed). We’re humbled, awed and proud. Here’s a round up of our 2015 releases – all of which are available in our webshop at a 20% discount through the end of February – in order of appearance:
 
 
 
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CST109
Released 20 January 2015



 
 
SISKIYOU


Nervous
 
 

LONG-LISTED FOR THE 2015 2015 POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE
 

ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "A brooding, nervy, and darkly satisfying slab of overcast alt-pop that flirts with dissonance, yet remains ultimately committed to harmonic agreement. Those melodies are solemn, however, and the aptly named Nervous serves them up repeatedly encased in barbed wire."
 
 

 
 

CBC MUSIC: "Siskiyou’s Nervous is needles, bees, blood, voices in your head, a spider crawling up your neck — and then just as quickly, the album's awash in a sunny glow, becomes a slow-burning kiss, a walk in the woods, a heated blanket on a winter’s night. Whatever you’re most afraid of and whatever brings you tiny respites of joy, 'Nervous' is a conjuror one minute, a soothsayer the next... With every arch lyric and whispered confession, every crashing chorus and shimmery hook, Siskiyou has crafted a visceral and vibrant, risky and rewarding experience."
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
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CST110
Released 03 February 2015



 
 
MATANA ROBERTS


Coin Coin Chapter Three:
river run thee
 
 

THE WIRE: #2 Album of 2015
A CLOSER LISTEN: #2 Album of 2015
THE QUIETUS: #5 Album of 2015
TINY MIX TAPES: #25 Favorite Album of 2015
PITCHFORK: #6 Experimental Album of 2015
SPIN: #4 Avant Album of 2015
ROLLING STONE: #15 Avant Album of 2015

 
THE QUIETUS: "An astonishing work of history, memory and sensed experience, river run thee confirms Roberts' place as one of the most important living artists in any field."
 
 
PITCHFORK: "Three albums into Coin Coin, it’s now clear that Roberts isn’t just a storyteller, musician, ethnographer, historian, bandleader, arranger, improviser, or activist. She plays all of those roles, yes; collectively, they power one of the most provocative ongoing bodies of work by any American musician."
 
 

 
 

THE WIRE: "Part three of Matana Roberts' ongoing Coin Coin series sees her reaching new heights of troubling majesty. Or rather, new depths, given the churning, oceanic feel that underlies these multilayered tales of slavery, courage, tradition, history and counter-history. The first two chapters in the series fell somewhere between, above and below free jazz. Her 'panoramic sound quilting', as she describes her method, created historical narratives with multiple instrumentalists, operatic incursions and the persistent reminder of musical and historical debts. This third chapter sees Roberts in solitary, vocal-heavy mode, without an ensemble but producing looped music such sustained complexity it's like a host of angels (or demons) attempting to express the entire history of everything all at once."
 
 
 
 
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CST112
Released 17 February 2015



 
 
ERIC CHENAUX


Skullsplitter
 
 

EXCLAIM: "Chenaux's combination of hacked music box guitar experimentation and lonely lounge crooning conjures a spell simply too enchanting to break... Skullsplitter dispatches the listener on a mission to crack the mysteries of time and space, and without offering much in the way of answers, its potential for repeat listens is enough of a reward. Skullsplitter is a triumph of post-modern songwriting."
 
 

 
 

UNCUT (8/10): "Genuinely distinctive...recalls John Martyn, Marc Ribot and Arthur Russell as it weaves between improv, electronica, folk-drone and lounge."
 

TINY MIX TAPES: “Whereas Guitar & Voice was prominently a deconstruction of traditional form into textures, Skullsplitter is a unification of divergent strands that Chenaux has found structural commonalities between. Although it is exploratory in terms of space and texture, Skullsplitter is anything but incidental; it unfolds like an epic poem, in all its boundary-dissolving creativity and intentional patterning. A breathtaking feat of balladry and engineering.”
 
 

 
 
 
 
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CST111
Released 31 March 2015



 
 
GODSPEED YOU!


BLACK EMPEROR


'Asunder, Sweet And
Other Distress'
 

MAGNET: #19 Album of 2015
DROWNED IN SOUND: #36 Album of 2015
A CLOSER LISTEN: #11 Album of 2015
CRACK MAGAZINE: #48 Album of 2015
THE SKINNY: #24 Album of 2015
A.V. CLUB: A-   POPMATTERS: 9/10   PASTE: 9.3
 
 
THE GUARDIAN: “This relatively curt 40-minute set...ranks among their most immediate. Fist-pumps accompany the sawing crescendo on “Piss Crowns Are Trebled.” The journey back from the abyss on “Peasantry or ‘Light! Inside of Light!” begins halfway through, when major chords come chorusing in like a cavalry of the just. Obsessive God’s Pee watchers may recognize these four tracks from the 45-minute live suite known as 'Behemoth' – not a bad summation of this album’s threat and grandeur.” ★★★★
 
 

 
 

STEREOGUM: “Things sound bigger and bolder and more emotionally loaded, for whatever reason, when Godspeed’s music is playing. A lonely pigeon flying past your window can look like an ominous harbinger of doom, or like a symbol for collective hope, depending on what part of the album you’re at. With Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress, they’ve cut out some of the more atmospheric elements of their sound — the scratchy foundsound samples, the faraway ambient crackles. But they haven’t lost any of the primal force that makes them some thing more than a band. If it catches you at the right moment, this is music that can make you glad to be alive.”
 
 
 
 
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CST113
Released 28 April 2015:



 
 
COLIN STETSON


AND SARAH NEUFELD


Never were the way she was
 


NORMAN RECORDS: #1 Album of 2015
ROLLING STONE: #6 Avant Album of 2015
POP MATTERS: #5 Avant-Garde/Experimental Album of 2015
A CLOSER LISTEN: Top Ten Modern Composition Albums of 2015
JUNO NOMINEE: INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR
 
 

DROWNED IN SOUND: “A triumph for instrumental music...more than genre-hopping, it’s genre-reviving.”
 
 
THE WIRE: "Pugilistic and pointilistic...exhibits two players of formidable range and ability."
 
 
EXCLAIM: "From the lightness of "The sun roars into view," as the tenor sax and violin timbres oscillate alongside each other, to the grimy dirge of "With the dark hug of time," as the violin simmers pensively and contrabass clarinet chugs along in a grim march while a tortured howl emotes through the texture, Never were the way she was feels like it was destined to be."
 
 

 

PITCHFORK: "The eight pieces on the album feel simultaneously contemplative and busy—the sound of active minds idling in a lower gear. The record is fantastic morning music, its tone and pace mirroring the moment in the day when your thoughts are murmuring, not yet speaking, and all you sense are their shades. It is too eventful, its surface too agitated, to be ambient, but it might help you think more clearly anyway... It’s an anxious sound, and listening to the jagged little peaks and valleys it hits is its own perversely pleasurable discomfort... Never were the way she was has a bracing air, an implicit reminder of the things that can be done with two instruments and two hands."
 
 

 
 
 
 
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CST114
Released 04 September 2015



 
JERUSALEM IN MY HEART


If He Dies, If If If If If If
 
 


THE QUIETUS: #24 Album of 2015
THE WIRE: #39 Album of 2015
A CLOSER LISTEN: Top 10 Rock/Post-Rock/Folk/Jazz Albums 2015

 

TEXTURA: "In this bold and emotionally charged collection, the eight settings alternate between vocal pieces featuring his melismatic Arabic singing and instrumentals rooted in expressive buzuk playing... The listener new to the project might expect such an unusual Arabic-electronic fusion to pose something of a challenge, but the forty-one-minute album's uncluttered arrangements, strong vocal melodies, and concision help make it eminently approachable."
 
 
AD-HOC: "If He Dies, If If If If If If is a stunning, of-the-moment record that speaks to the intersection of the personal and political with supreme confidence."
 
 
THE SKINNY: "Riveting... a sombre and haunting work. Moumneh's voice (a beautiful, limitless instrument) and his buzuk (the lute-type instrument similar to the Greek bouzouki) playing underpin his flexing of Arab traditions. Delivers a heady and oddly plaintive euphoria."
 
 

 
 

 
 
 
 
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CST115
Released 18 September 2015



 
 
OUGHT


Sun Coming Down
 
 


STEREOGUM: #29 Album of 2015
SPIN: #8 Song of 2015 ("Beautiful Blue Sky")
LOUD AND QUIET: #13 Album of 2015
EXCLAIM: #13 Rock & Pop Album of 2015
THE SKINNY: #42 Album of 2015
 
 
PITCHFORK: “Ought make indie rock that sounds like how urbanity makes you feel: nervous, antsy, sometimes hostile, yet intoxicatingly vibrant. And [singer] Tim Darcy, likewise, gesticulates like a dutiful office drone who’s played by the rules his whole life but just can’t take it anymore. Ought’s 2014 debut More Than Any Other Day, was an album of slowly unfurled epiphanies, stoking simmering tension into fiery, exultant release. Those sort of affirming moments are a little harder to come by on the more chaotic and caustic Sun Coming Down, but the album’s relentless drive and uncompromising attitude constitute their own special kind of thrill. If More Than Any Other Day was about the hard-fought, triumphant ascent, Sun Coming Down is the giddy, daredevil "wheeeeee!" down the other side of the peak.”
 
 

 
 

STEREOGUM: “There’s an overwhelming, all-pervading anxiety to Ought...a deeply impressive second album. Play this music loud enough, and it can have an almost physical effect, making jaws clench and tendons go taut. That stress-ball intensity was also there on the band’s debut, last year’s More Than Any Other Day. But Sun Coming Down builds on that feeling, showing us a band refining its attack in ways that bands ideally should do on their sophomore albums. Sun Coming Down isn’t some great leap beyond the last album — an album that, after all, is still less than a year and a half old. But it’s sharper and more focused, and also grander and more expansive.”
 
 

 
 
 
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CST116
Released 16 October 2015



 
 
ESMERINE


Lost Voices
 
 

A CLOSER LISTEN: #4 Album of 2015
JUNO NOMINEE: INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR
JUNO NOMINEE: RECORDING PACKAGE OF THE YEAR
 
 

EXCLAIM: "A dynamic nine-song collection that ranges from dark and brooding to uplifting and celebratory... Soaring, dramatic and entirely engaging."
 
 
POP MATTERS:"An immediate and arresting expedition into new wilds for Esmerine...Lost Voices is a burning lament, a hopeful swing at the void, bright moments of clarity wrenched from the impenetrable."
 
 

 
 

QUICK BEFORE IT MELTS: "Timeless, contemporary, and at the same time rooted in Western tradition – but not without questioning and challenging it."
 
 
THE SKINNY: "The fifth album from the Montreal chamber rock collective is a beguiling mass of dialed-down post-rock, classical figures and exploratory soundscapes...At its most muscular (the driving electric guitars of '19/14') or its most tender (the delicate 'A Trick of the Light'), Lost Voices manages mood and melody with a deft and hypnotic grace. 'My Mama Pinned a Rose On Me' introduces marimba and even here, where texture takes precedence over melody, the whole remains dynamic and taut. Lost Voices takes time, on occasion, to breathe and relax but it steadfastly avoids the indulgence of 'ambient' or wanton noodling. Beyond words, beyond beautiful."

 
 

 
Godspeed You! Black Emperor have announced two Montreal performances of monumental, their collaboration with Vancouver-based experimental dance troupe Holy Body Tattoo, to take place at Place des Arts in April of next year. The local dates follow the first presentation of monumental in Vancouver, previously announced alongside North American tour dates for the band in January and February; the group will take the show to Quebec City on April 15.
 
Vancouver's PuSh Festival, producing the first of the monumental performances, describe the work as follows:
 

monumental, with nine dancers mounted on pedestals and the eight-piece band, is the expression of the madness of urban life—the repetition, the confinement, the alienation. Movement turns into metaphor, dance into poetry and sound into substance. The result is as violent, beautiful and cathartic as art can get. For fans of the band, lovers of contemporary dance, or anyone open to the most radical possibilities of human creativity, this is a once-in-a-lifetime experience that can’t be missed.

 
See below for dates for the monumental performance; full Godspeed tour dates are listed here.
 

DD/MM/YY	PLACE	VENUE
28.01.16	Vancouver, BC	Queen Elizabeth Theatre
11.04.16	Montreal, QC	Place des Arts
12.04.16	Montreal, QC	Place des Arts
15.04.16	Quebec City, QC	Grand Théâtre de Québec

 
 

 
Godspeed You! Black Emperor, presently finishing up several weeks of tour in Europe, have announced another run of live dates in North America early next year.
The tour kicks off in Vancouver, with an extremely special one-night performance of a collaborative project with the city's acclaimed Holy Body Tattoo dance troupe, called monumental. The PuSh Performing Arts Festival, who will present the piece as part of their 2016 programming, say monumental aims to channel "the madness of urban life—the repetition, the confinement, the alienation... by turning movement into metaphor, dance into poetry and sound into substance... The eight-member band draws us into a trance as the dancers’ movements — equal measure of balletic grace and brutal athleticism — shifts from gestures of our everyday lives to acts of abandon. The result is unlike anything you’ve seen — as violent, beautiful and cathartic as art can get." Later in the year, the groups will mount performances of monumental in several cities internationally (including Quebec City in April).
See below for the North American dates:
 

 

DD/MM/YY	PLACE	VENUE
28.01.16	Vancouver, BC	Queen Elizabeth Theatre collaboration w/ Holy Body Tattoo dance company
29.01.16	Seattle, WA	Neumos
30.01.16	Seattle, WA	Neumos
31.01.16	Portland, OR	Wonder Ballroom
01.02.16	Portland, OR	Wonder Ballroom
03.02.16	Oakland, CA	Fox Theatre
04.02.16	Los Angeles, CA	Immanuel Presbyterian Church
05.02.16	San Pedro, CA	Warner Grand Theatre
06.02.16	Phoenix, AZ	The Crescent Ballroom
08.02.16	Englewood, CO	Gothic Theatre
10.02.16	Omaha, NE	The Slowdown
11.02.16	Minneapolis, MN	First Avenue
12.02.16	Milwaukee, WI	Turner Hall
13.02.16	Chicago, IL	Rockefeller Chapel
14.02.16	Chicago, IL	Thalia Hall
15.04.16	Quebec City, QC	Grand Théâtre de Québec collaboration w/ Holy Body Tattoo dance company

 
 

Quiet Zone is a stunningly elegiac short film directed by David Bryant and Karl Lemieux, who are also in a sense two thirds of Hiss Tracts, the post-industrial drone/soundscape duo of Bryant and Kevin Doria (with Lemieux providing live 16mm projections) who released their immersive debut album Shortwave Nights last year. Quiet Zone resonates strongly with the Hiss Tracts aesthetic on many fronts, with its subject matter of people afflicted by electromagnetic hypersensitivity framed by haunting footage shot by Bryant and Lemieux, experimental film treatments by Lemieux, and sound design by Bryant. The work can also be thematically linked to the emotive humanism and techno-social concerns of Bryant's best known group, Godspeed You! Black Emperor (where Lemieux has served in recent years as co-creator and live projectionist for the band's trademark in-concert 16mm film-loop visuals).

Quiet Zone was produced with the support of the NFB and receives its Canadian premiere as part of the Toronto Film Festival's Short Cuts programme this year.

SCREENINGS:
Wednesday 16 September at 6:45pm
Sunday 20 September at 3:15pm.

TICKETS

 
It's been a crazy month, and we couldn't be happier with the reception met by Godspeed You! Black Emperor's 'ALLELUJAH! DON'T BEND! ASCEND!, from fans and critics alike. We're happy to say that, though we're still waiting on a restock of the vinyl, we're now able to make the album available on CD from our webshop once again. If you've been waiting, you can order it RIGHT HERE.
Meanwhile, to coincide with our fast-approaching 15th anniversary shows, we're also putting in place a limited-time deal for a selection of CD's from our catalog: when you buy the new GY!BE album, we'll take 50% off a selection of other discs (15 of them!). Click HERE for the info.
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As for the vinyl format of 'ALLELUJAH..., a restock is on the way, and will be available again by the middle of November, but WE WON'T BE TAKING ANY ORDERS UNTIL IT ARRIVES. Our regional mailorder partners are expecting vinyl restocks within the same time frame. Some are still accepting orders, and in any case going through a local service will mean significant savings on postage, so we encourage you to follow these links:
SC Distribution • Experimedia (US) • Insound (US) • Norman (UK) • Boomkat (UK) • Piccadilly (UK) • Flight 13 (DE) • Finest Vinyl (DE) • Music Fear Satan (FR) • Souffle Continu (FR) • Ground Zero (FR) • Platekompaniet (NO)

To find a local indie store in the USA, use Record Store Day's store locator HERE.
Once again, many thanks again for your patience and support.
 

Constellation celebrates its 15th Anniversary with a series of five mini-festivals in Europe this November: the locations are Bern, Paris, Munich, Vienna and Leipzig, in partnership with some of our favourite venues and partners that have supported the label and its artists over the years,
 
Go here for an at-a-glance round-up of the line-ups, locations and ticket links.
 
Read here for a longer post about the events.
 
See below for a rendering of the commemorative screenprinted poster that will be available at the events (being printed by the Dis-patch Collective from Belgrade, Serbia – whose Constellation artwork exhibit will also be on display in Bern and Vienna) and a little video clip we produced for the celebrations.
 

 
 

The Paris 15th Anniversary CST shows are now sold out.


Information about all CST 15th events can be found HERE.


Nous invitons nos camarades français à prendre note des autres concerts en France en novembre, ainsi que de nos événements à Berne et à Bruxelles...

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While we realise it's a bit of an extra journey for the good people of France, we remind everyone that about 50 passes still remain for the CST fest in Bern, Switzerland.


CST Heartland Festival passes for Bern are available here.


The Bern event is a Constellation takeover of the Heartland Festival and represents an expanded 4-day affair, with a CST art exhibit curated by Dis-patch Collective (Belgrade) and performances by several artists who cannot make the Paris weekend: Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Colin Stetson, Hrsta, Nick Kuepfer and Khora.


Details for each night of the Bern event (and single night tickets) can be found HERE.


If you are looking for information about Bern accommodations, we encourage you to contact Dachstock@Reitschule HERE.

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We would also like to note the following Constellation-related concert dates happening in France and Belgium as the label celebrates throughout November with many artists on tour:


DO MAKE SAY THINK
16.11.12  Metz FR  Musiques Volantes Festival  TIX


SANDRO PERRI + ERIC CHENAUX
15.11.12  Nantes FR  Stakhanov
16.11.12  Limoges FR  Centre Culturel John Lennon


THEE SILVER MT ZION + MATANA ROBERTS
19.11.12  Tourcoing FR  Le Grand Mix  TIX
20.11.12  Strassbourg FR  La Laterie  TIX


COLIN STETSON
14.11.12  Brussels BE  Ancienne Belgique VZW  TIX
20.11.12  Poitiers FR  Confort Moderne  TIX
21.11.12  Rennes FR  UBU1  TIX
22.11.12  Nantes FR  Pôle Etudiant
23.11.12  Gent BE  Theaterzaal Vooruit  TIX
24.11.12  Rouen FR  Le 106  TIX
25.11.12  Tourcoing FR  L'Hospice d'Havré - Maison Folie de Tourcoing  TIX


DO MAKE SAY THINK + SANDRO PERRI + ERIC CHENAUX
CONSTELLATION LABEL NIGHT @ AUTUMN FALLS FESTIVAL
26.11.12  Brussels BE  Atelier 210  TIX


 

 
'ALLELUJAH! DON'T BEND! ASCEND!, the first recording in a decade from Godspeed You! Black Emperor, is now available in stores and online.
MP3 and FLAC formats are available in our shop now: CLICK HERE.
We've been genuinely blown away and humbled by the response the album has received in the two weeks since its announcement. There's been a truly overwhelming outpouring of sincere excitement and support from fans of the band, alongside thoughtful critical acclaim: The Needle Drop loved it, Pitchfork BNM'ed it and SPIN gave it a 9/10; Tiny Mix Tapes and Chromewaves and Alain Brunet of La Presse interrogated the significance of Godspeed's work as political statement and cultural text at this point in history. Of course we'd also direct anyone who hasn't yet done so to take a look at Maddy Costa's interview feature in The Guardian, and Sophian Fanen's three-part treatment of Constellation and Godspeed (also featuring an interview with the band) in France's Libération newspaper.
Sorry to say, we won't be able to take any more direct orders for physical formats of the album for a little while longer, though we've got a number of other options for getting your hands on one HERE. As always, we strongly encourage you to support local independent record shops.
Thanks again for listening, and let's also celebrate with Efrim being interviewed by a hand puppet, followed by kids grooving to a "rockets fall on Rocket Falls" dance party:
 

 

photo by Francois Marchard

To all who pre-ordered the new GYBE record, thanks! We're almost finished packing the last batches and hope to complete shipping by Thursday 10 October. While most orders will arrive pretty close to the release date, a few may not, but will get there soon after.
Regarding the free MP3 that comes with orders placed through our web shop, delivery of that MP3 is triggered as we change the status of an order to "shipped". Even though all orders will have shipped, we will be changing the status to "shipped" only on release date (16 October). On the same date, the MP3 codes inside the vinyl version will become active.
Thanks again for your support and patience. It's been a wooly couple of weeks here at CST HQ.
 

 
If the various rips floating around the internet aren't really doing it for you, Godspeed You! Black Emperor's forthcoming LP, 'ALLELUJAH! DON'T BEND! ASCEND!, is now streaming in full at The Guardian:
 
STREAM: 'ALLELUJAH! DON'T BEND! ASCEND!
 
As reported previously, 'ALLELUJAH! DON'T BEND! ASCEND!, the band's first new recording in a decade, will be released next week (Oct. 15 in Europe, Oct. 16 in North America). We're actually not taking any more pre-orders directly, but our release page has listed several options for pre-ordering it elsewhere.
 

 
Day two after the GYBE album announcement and our web shop has been pleasantly, unexpectedly and utterly overwhelmed by orders for the new Godspeed album.
 
In light of the limited time left before the record hits shops on October 15/16, and because we can no longer guarantee shipment by release date for any further pre-orders, we've suspended sales through our web store.
 
If you've received confirmation from our web store about an order you've placed, we promise we are working around the clock to get all pre-orders in the mail to all regions of the globe so that they arrive by the Oct 15 release date.
 
Please rest assured that plenty of records (on both LP and CD) have been pressed and will be widely available at shops around the world on (or in some cases, possibly shortly after) the release date.
 
Our release page provides links to recommended independent retailers (physical shops and mail-order services) that we encourage you to consider.
 
This is a follow-up announcement to our previous post yesterday.
 
Thanks for your support and understanding; both are appreciated immensely!

 
The response to our GYBE album announcement and pre-order has been overwhelming. The band is humbled and so are we. Huge thanks to everyone who cares so passionately about the group.
 
In the past 15 hours we have received as many LP orders as we can fulfill and mail out from our Montreal HQ such that they still arrive to customers by the official release date 2 weeks from now. CDs are still available for pre-order, and we'll start taking orders for the LP again soon, but for the time being:
 

LP PRE-ORDERS IN OUR WEB STORE ARE NOW SUSPENDED.

 
Please check back on our site over the next couple of days for further developments.
 
Meantime...
 
We apologise for any inconvenience. We sincerely and strongly encourage you to support independent music retailers by buying the album when it is in stores or appears on other mail-order sites. Constellaton and GYBE care deeply about keeping indie record shops alive and viable – please support them by requesting/reserving the album, or if you do not live anywhere near a good indie store, check out the many stores that do also have online shops.
 
Record Store Day has an excellent indie store locater here:
www.recordstoreday.com/Venues
 
Our UK distributor Cargo Records has a list of UK indie shops here:
www.cargorecords.co.uk/collective
 
Good pricing from indie retail on the GYBE LP would be in the 18.00-23.00 range (USD/CAN/EUR/GBP - we can't really speak for other currencies or territories).
 
We have pressed a pretty large amount of vinyl but because of the proximity of the announcement to release date, this LP stock is already allocated and moving through numerous distributors to get the album in shops. There is no need to be paying any sort of premium on e-bay or elsewhere in the next couple of weeks as substantial LP stock is going to be out there and available upon release date.
 
Utmost thanks again for your interest and support!
 
Ian & Don at Constellation

 
GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR
'ALLELUJAH! DON'T BEND! ASCEND!
CST081    180gLP+7"/ CD / DL
 
Out 15/16 October 2012
 
AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW.
 
We are proud to announce the first new recordings by Godspeed You! Black Emperor in a decade. Featuring two twenty-minute slabs of epic instrumental rock music and two six-and-a-half minute drones, 'ALLELUJAH! DON'T BEND! ASCEND! provides soaring, shining proof of the band's powerful return to form.
 
Having emerged from hiatus at the end of 2010, GYBE undeniably picked up right where they left off, immediately re-capturing the sound and material that had fallen dormant in 2003 and driving it forward with every show of their extensive touring over the last 18 months. The new album presents the fruits of that labour: evolved and definitive versions of two huge compositions previously known to fans as "Albanian" and "Gamelan", now properly titled as "MLADIC" and "WE DRIFT LIKE WORRIED FIRE" respectively. Accompanied by the new drones (stitched into the album sequence on CD; cut separately on their own 7" for the LP version), GYBE have offered up a fifth album that is absolutely as vital, virulent, honest and heavy as anything in their discography.
 
We don't have much time for mythology, but we'd be lying if we said the return of Godspeed You! Black Emperor in 2010 didn't signify a whole lot to us as a marker from which to look back on the past decade, to reflect on what's been gained or lost within the confines of independent music culture and what's been gained or lost in the socio-political landscape writ large. Godspeed's music will do that to you. It is music that bears witness to, channels and transforms this predominantly terrible, infuriating, venal and nihilistically sad story we're all living, sharing, resisting, protesting, deconstructing and trying to change for the better. GYBE once again provide a uniquely moving and compelling soundtrack for these acts of analysis, defiance and ascension.
 
More info about 'ALLELUJAH! DON'T BEND! ASCEND! is on our official release page.
 
The band has set off for two weeks of live dates around the United States, beginning Monday 01 October in Boston. They head to Europe in November, and Australia in February. All currently confirmed dates are here.
 

 
BERN • PARIS • MUNICH • VIENNA • LEIPZIG
 
As previously announced, this November we're staging some mini-festival events in France, Switzerland, Austria and Germany to celebrate our 15th year as a record label. These have come together really nicely, more artists have been added in recent weeks, and a whole new city (Munich) as well!
 
Check this page for confirmed lineups and ticket links, and keep reading below for further details and testimonials.
 
We truly feel the present is a great moment to take stock of what we've done over the past decade and a half. Bands with whom we have some of our longest-standing relationships continue to make music among the most vital and inspiring to grace our ears, while in the past few years we've begun new relationships with artists producing equally jaw-dropping work, whose vision and integrity remind us why we started doing this in the first place.
 
We've felt an outpouring of warm support from our many friends and allies in Europe and around the world in organizing these events, while back home we've had the privilege of participating in the inspiring and unprecedented (in Canada) popular movement protesting tuition increases and the fraud of neo-liberal "austerity" economics that took over the streets of Montreal this spring. These days we truly feel more connected than ever to the local and global communities we consider ourselves part of, accountable to, and inspired by.
 
We're deeply grateful to everyone who's found occasional or sustained meaning and common cause with Constellation thus far, and genuinely look forward to spending time and celebrating with everyone that can make it out to these events in Europe.
 
And it goes without saying, we are utterly humbled and honoured by the support we've received from all of our presenting partners in these five European cities, most of whom we've had a long-standing relationship with in various respects. We set out to collaborate with the people who historically have meant a lot to us and our artists, and could not have hoped for more. Thanks from the bottom of our hearts.
 
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While the mighty Siskiyou has sadly had to pull out of any further appearances this year (read a message from the band here), our European mini-fest anniversary shows continue to be anchored by Do Make Say Think and Silver Mt Zion, along with Sandro Perri (backed by a full band), Eric Chenaux, Elfin Saddle and Hangedup. These six artists will be present at all four of our previously announced events in Bern, Paris, Vienna and Leipzig.
 
We have also now confirmed the participation of Carla Bozulich and Matana Roberts at all four of these events as well - whether as part of the "main stage" line-ups or in interesting site-specific or off-site performances. We're still ironing out a few of those ideas and logistics, but rest assured no performances will be running concurrently.
 
Additionally, we'll have Hrsta at most engagements, and have managed to yank Colin Stetson out of his crisscrossing solo tour schedule to appear on the final night of the Bern fest.
 
The Bern weekend will be truly epic, with a minimum of eleven CST bands appearing over four days, and the Dis-patch Art Collective from Belgrade, Serbia installing their wonderful exhibit "Ce côté en haut: The Fragile World of Constellation" - an exhaustive retrospective of the label's album and poster artwork. Looks like there will also be a label-related photo exhibit in Bern, as well as a couple of day shows, art talks and other off-site things going on too.
 
Also: Munich! The excellent Feierwerk venue in Munich has come on board to host two nights featuring 3-band bills each evening, with DMST, Perri and Chenaux playing on Nov 19 and SMZ, Hrsta and Matana Roberts playing on Nov 21.
 
Again, click HERE for a re-cap of the main stage line-ups in each city along with ticket links, and/or watch the video clip at the end of this post for a listing of those main stage line-ups at each event.
 
 

 
 
Other cool things we can tell you about:
 
It's already pretty darn exciting that Do Make Say Think will be performing their classic album Goodbye Enemy Airship The Landlord Is Dead in its entirety for their live set, but our presenting partner the Viennale will additionally be programming a series of experimental films to be projected during the band's set in Vienna. Since the Viennale is one of Europe's most respected and iconoclastic film festivals, this is sure to be a very special visual accompaniment to a very special musical performance.
 
Mike Moya was a founding member of Godspeed You! Black Emperor back in the early 1990s but pulled back from the band by the end of that decade to concentrate on Montreal-based projects as well as his excellent psych-folk group Hrsta throughout the 2000s. Moya then re-joined GY!BE when the group came off hiatus in 2010 and has been back in the third guitar chair with them ever since. Hrsta will perform at all the CST European events except Paris, and will be joined by new Godspeed drummer Tim Herzog, GY!BE/SMZ violinist Sophie Trudeau and Musique Fragile artist Nick Kuepfer for these sets.
 
Carla Bozulich will be premiering new material in a non-Evangelista guise; admittedly the distinction between these two identities has always been somewhat fluid, but we are super excited about the new music Carla has been working on and this will be a first opportunity to hear some of this stuff live.
 
Jerusalem In My Heart will perform in Leipzig. Date and location specifics have yet to be finally determined, but rest assured this will be very special and very cool. JIMH is the mutli-media project founded by Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, a musician and sound engineer who is a close collaborator of Constellation on many fronts. He has engineered and/or mixed numerous albums in the CST catalogue, has made films and videos for several CST artists, has performed as part of Land Of Kush, and will be helping to stage-manage the Europe events. JIMH now includes experimental filmmaker Malena Szlam, who will join Radwan for the performance in Leipzig, involving multiple 16mm film projections and his totally unique and intense blend of synthetic and organic Arabic-influenced sound.
 
The Dis-patch album art exhibit will transition from Bern to Vienna and be installed in an anteroom of the Porgy & Bess venue in Vienna from opening night of the first CST show on Nov 21 through to the end of the 4-day Blue Bird festival on Nov 24.
 
Dis-patch will also be bringing limited edition screenprinted posters and hand-stitched cotton LP bags which are going to be quite lovely. We'll have 100 posters (4-colour on archival A2 size paper) and 50 bags available at each event in Bern, Paris, Vienna and Leipzig (apologies, but these will not be available in Munich). We promise these are going to be really nice items, reasonably priced and, y'know, all commemorative and stuff.
 
Anyway, we think these are going to be good times for all.
 
Now watch a video:
 

 

We're very pleased to announce a series of 15th Anniversary concerts that will take place in Europe this fall.
We'll be partnering with some of our favourite venues and arts organisations to present multiple-night mini-festival events featuring a diverse cross-section of artists, including newer groups like Sisksiyou and Elfin Saddle, long-standing roster acts like Sandro Perri, Eric Chenaux and Hangedup, and two of the label's best-known bands: Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Do Make Say Think.
Thee Silver Mt Zion will be returning to Europe for the first time since touring behind their acclaimed Kollaps Tradixionales album in early 2010, and premiering new material including pieces released as a tour-only 2x7" in the USA earlier this year. Do Make Say Think, one of the most consistently acclaimed and long-standing instrumental rock groups of the past decade-and-a-half, will be performing their classic sophomore album, Goodbye Enemy Airship The Landlord Is Dead, in its entirety.
At each of the two-night events, Do Make Say Think will close one show and Thee Silver Mt Zion will close the other. Exact line-ups for each night in each town will be confirmed and announced later this summer, but every concert will feature at least 4 bands and sets by at least 8 different artists across the two nights.
The event at Bern's Reitschule is unique in that it runs for a full three days, starting on Friday 16 November with the final European date of Godspeed You! Black Emperor's fall 2012 tour (a golden opportunity to see the group in a smaller, grittier venue with some truly awesome natural room compression).


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Here's the plan:
NOV 16-18 • Bern, CH • Dachstock Reitschule

Presented by Heartland Festival and Dachstock
3-night passes available now HERE and HERE


The Constellation event in Bern is a full label takeover and collaboration with Heartland Festival, in conjunction with the Dachstock collective who administer an awesome 700 capacity live room at the Reitschule complex - where many a fine Constellation memory has been forged over the years (and often then half-obliterated in the ensuing post-show massacre of brain cells at the bar).
 
NOV 17-18 • Paris, FR • La Maroquinerie

Presented by Volume


Running concurrently with the Bern weekend, these two nights at La Maroquinnerie will be anchored by Do Make Say Think and Thee Silver Mt ZIon respectively, with three other bands each night. La Maroq has been a favourite venue of Constellation artists over the years, and the site of beautifully raucous yet wonderfully attentive packed houses for several of the label's artists.  Despite the club's literally subterranean and cave-like setting, the full range of Constellation sounds have always gone down perfectly there, from the quietest and most fragile moments to galloping punk-rock explosions.  La Maroq brings out the passion and devotion of music-hungry Parisians who don't mind getting a little down and dirty to achieve sustained experiences of musical immersion, levitation and physicality. This will be good times!
 
NOV 21-22 • Vienna, AT • Porgy & Bess

Presented by Viennale and Blue Bird Festival


Constellation has had a very special and heartfelt relationship with the Viennale (Vienna International Film Festival) in recent years, beginning with their production of filmmaker Jem Cohen's "Empires Of Tin" project.  We are very proud to be celebrating its 15th Anniversary in conjunction with Viennale's 50th Anniversary this year, and excited to be partnering with the Blue Bird Songwriter Festival as well, which will be expanding to a four-day event with the first two days devoted to Constellation.
 
NOV 23-24 • Leipzig, DE • UT Connewitz

Presented by UT Connewitz and Southern DE


Another venue and local promoter collective that is close to Constellation's heart, UT Connewitz is a glorious old theatre space that has hosted countless of the label's artists over the years. Like Paris, this will be 4-band bills anchored by Do Make Say Think and Thee Silver Mt Zion each night, in one of our favourite settings, booked by some of the very best people.  Simple as that.


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Stay tuned for more information and finalized lineups in the coming months. There will be also be special collaborations and other little surprises at various events, for which we will supply more information down the road (or, regarding the surprises, maybe not, so that they in fact remain surprises). In the meantime, here's an assortment of MP3s to tide you over:
 
MP3s:
Do Make Say Think • The Landlord is Dead

A Silver Mt Zion • Thee Dirty Olde Flag

Hangedup • Klang Klang

Siskiyou • This Land

Elfin Saddle • The Wind Come Carry

Sandro Perri • Love & Light

Eric Chenaux • Dull Lights (White or Grey)

 
 
 
 

 
The Godspeed behemoth keeps on rolling, as extensive touring plans for this Fall continue to take shape. As we've already announced, after hitting the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago next week and ATP's I'll Be Your Mirror in New Jersey in September, the band will spend two weeks on the road in the United States. They've now unveiled a second leg of touring this fall, which will cover a sizeable chunk of continental Europe as well as well as two (already announced and almost sold out) appearances in London, from 28 October to 16 November. The band's final date will coincide with the first of Constellation's 15th anniversary celebrations in Bern, CH.
 
Check out new dates below - their full schedule is listed on our tours page - and listen to a stream of their most recent, Yanqui U.X.O.:
 

 
 

DD/MM/YY	PLACE	VENUE
28.10.12	Porto, PT	Amplifest
30.10.12	Madrid, ES	Teatro Kapital
31.10.12	Barcelona, ES	Sala Apolo
01.11.12	Bordeaux, FR	Le Rocher de Palmer
02.11.12	Nantes, FR	Lieu Unique - Soy Festival
03.11.12	Lille, FR	La Condition Publique
04.11.12	London, UK	Kentish Town Forum
05.11.12	London, UK	Kentish Town Forum
07.11.12	Brussels, BE	Cirque Royal
08.11.12	Berlin, DE	SO36
09.11.12	Berlin, DE	SO36
10.11.12	Dresden, DE	Reithalle
11.11.12	Prague, CZ	Lucerna Music
12.11.12	Vienna, AT	Arena
14.11.12	Ljubljana, SL	Kino Siska w/ Dirty Three
15.11.12	Zurich, CH	Rote Fabrik
16.11.12	Bern, CH	Dachstock Reitschule

 
 

 
Following appearances at Chicago's Pitchfork Music Festival this July and New Jersey's All Tomorrow's Parties festival in September, Godspeed You! Black Emperor will head out on the road for two weeks of shows in the United States of America. Beginning October 1, they'll head south for the Lone Star State and then back up, finishing in Detroit on the 14th. Tickets for all new dates except Philadelphia go on sale Wednesday the 9th; Philadelphia goes on sale Friday.
 
Check out dates below, and listen to a non-album "Outro" track, released a while back as part of our Song of the Silent Land.
 
 

 
 

DD/MM/YY	PLACE	VENUE
13-15.07.12	Chicago, IL	Pitchfork Music Festival
23.09.12	Asbury Park, NJ	ATP I'll Be Your Mirror NJ
01.10.12	Boston, US	Orpheum Theatre
02.10.12	Philadelphia, US	Union Transfer
03.10.12	Baltimore, US	Rams Head Live
04.10.12	Carrboro, US	Cats Cradle
05.10.12	Atlanta, US	Buckhead Theatre
06.10.12	Birmingham,AL, US	Bottletree
07.10.12	New Orleans, US	Tipitinas
09.10.12	Austin, US	The Mohawk
11.10.12	Dallas, US	Granada Theatre
12.10.12	Nashville, US	Cannery Ballroom
13.10.12	Louisville, US	Headliners Music Hall
14.10.12	Detroit, US	Majestic Theatre

 
 

(photo by Kevin Lo)
 
Rejoice, Californians: Godspeed You! Black Emperor will join you for about a week this April, to stock up on Vitamin D and play some shows in Big Sur and San Francisco. See below for dates, and a stream of 2002's, Yanqui U.X.O., or check our tours page.
 
 

 
 

DD/MM/YY	PLACE	VENUE
04.15.12	Big Sur, CA	Henry Miller Library
04.16.12	San Francisco, CA	Great American Music Hall
04.17.12	San Francisco, CA	Great American Music Hall
04.18.12	San Francisco, CA	Great American Music Hall
04.19.12	San Francisco, CA	Great American Music Hall
04.20.12	San Francisco, CA	Great American Music Hall

 
 
 

Phew, all of this just in. Godspeed re-groups in July to play the Portishead-curated I'll Be Your Mirror ATP event in London in late-July, Evangelista curates a program and performs at Austria's Donau Festival on 07 May, and Thee Silver Mt Zion rises again for the Portishead-curated I'll Be Your Mirror in Asbury Park (New Jersey) at the beginning of autumn.

Tickets for all three late April shows at Montréal’s Corona Theatre sold-out in the first hour or so after going on sale. The band has decided to add two final shows on May 1 and May 2 at Theatre Olympia. Tickets will go on sale Saturday December 11 and will once again be available from Atom Heart, Cheap Thrills, L’Oblique, Phonopolis and The Blues Skies Turns Black web site. They rocked ATP, line-up early…

We’re happy to finally announce the home town shows.  Presented by Blue Skies Turn Black, Godspeed will perform April 27, 28, and 29 at Montréal’s Corona Theatre (2490 Notre-Dame Ouest).  Guests will be announced at a later date and the band will donate all profits from the shows to beneficiaries that will be made public as the shows approach.  Tickets are $12 and go on sale 25 November at Atom Heart, Cheap Thrills, L’Oblique, and Phonopolis.  A limited number will also be available through the Blues Skies Turn Black web site.  There will be no media accreditations for these shows.

At long last, the dates for Godspeed's swing across the continent can be announced (actually, it appears several have already been announced as they seem to be sold-out). So far as we're aware, and with the exception of a couple of Italian dates that are still in the works, this is the complete story for Europe.
Update: Italian dates now added (26-27 January).

Godspeed appears to be a hot ticket, with the two additional shows announced for New York last week selling out in about 30 minutes, and most of the other North American shows also sold-out. In an effort to quench at least the NYC thirst, the band has announced a fifth show, at Terminal 5 in Manhattan. Tickets are set to go on sale at noon on Friday 01 October. That ought do it.
Closer to home, we can now confirm three shows in Toronto on 22/23 April, and an all-ages matinee on 24 April. Tickets will go on sale this Thursday at 10 AM at The Horseshoe, Rotate This, Soundscapes, and Ticketmaster.
An announcement for Montreal is still to come...
Update 16 October: New show added in Chicago.
Update 18 October: New show added in Toronto.
[Photo by Stefan Claudius]

Tickets moved fast for the Brooklyn & Manhattan shows announced last week, selling out in about 6 hours.  This Saturday (25 September) tickets for two additional shows will go on sale.  Links to the ticket outlets along with dates, etc, are on our shows page.