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Zion is newly ascendant as a soloist, captivating audiences with gritty, warmly expressive electronic- and drone-inflected post-classical Minimalism (and sometimes Maximalism), accented by a distinctive melodic sensibility that channels Klezmer, Balkan and Middle Eastern tropes. Moss has played 80 shows in the past year, including appearances at Big Ears, WSO New Music, Le Guess Who?, Zemlika and Supersonic, participation in multiple editions of Basilica Hudson’s 24-Hour Drone Fest, and a mix of headlining dates and opening slots for the likes of Zu, BIG|BRAVE (on whose most recent album she also plays), and labelmates Godspeed You! Black Emperor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn \u003cem\u003eEntanglement\u003c\/em\u003e, her new and second album, Moss channels quantum theory as a metaphor for creating energetic connections through esoteric processes. 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Here, Moss wields the violin with a narrative intent perhaps more commonly associated with solo horn in the jazz tradition – the power of the single melodic line, the instrument as expressive analogue to human speech and voice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProfoundly informed by the experiences of traveling alone – playing in precarious spaces preserved by passionate subcultural communities, attempting fragile, intimate, abstract transmissions through sound and performance – Moss’s new music on \u003cem\u003eEntanglement\u003c\/em\u003e invokes the striving for communication\/connection in isolation, the mysterious energies that bind the singular and the universal, and the indomitably terrestrial energies that bring micro-communities of people together to partake sustainably and attentively in human-scale shared experiences. 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Festival, the Basilica Hudson 24-Hour Drone, the Winnipeg New Music Festival and the Montréal Museum of Contemporary Art, among others. \u003cem\u003ePools Of Light\u003c\/em\u003e is her first full-length solo album, following the 2015 self-released cassette Under Plastic Island (recorded with Guy Picciotto of Fugazi).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs fans of the aforementioned projects will know, Moss has developed a distinctive and impressive approach to violin that combines a natural technical fluidity, a recombinant command of folk, classical and modern idioms, and an adventurous exploration of signal-bending and analog effects that uniquely expand the spectrum of the violin as sound source. Her solo work is deeply rooted in live performance, where she builds up and breaks down stunning longform compositions in real time with an array of pedals – including distortions, octave\/harmonizers and samplers\/loopers. To hear all of this brilliantly rallied and unfolded on a wholly solo recording (without reliance on software-based dubbing or effects) is intensely rewarding.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComprised of two side-length multi-movement compositions, \u003cem\u003ePools Of Light\u003c\/em\u003e unfolds at a stately, inexorable pace, combining sound-art and signal-processed timbres, extended melodic and contrapuntal lines, and the periodic deployment of stark, minimalist vocals. “Entire Populations” is a 24-minute tour de force on Side One, opening with gently blown-out solo violin layering a maqam- and klezmer-inflected theme that gradually recedes to near-silence as vocals are introduced, with Moss singing a single phrase (anchored by the song’s title) which builds up anew in careening stacked vocal loops, towards a majestic juxtaposition of dive-bombing electronics and strident melodic string excursions, ending in a tender scorched-earth denouement. “Glaciers I” and “Glaciers II” on Side Two are more explicitly textural and cinematic, moving between minimalist and maximalist, widescreen and intimate, ice and heat; a highly compelling suite of drone-inflected, nuanced and subtly plaintive instrumental pieces.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoss explains: “As a solo performer, I feel an alignment with the transportive nature of storytelling tradition. My music is narrative, and I feel it’s subjects are already on everyone’s mind (climate change, refugee crisis, plastic garbage island floating in the sea...). My aim is to create a space where we can reflect on these things together. I prefer not to use too many words to relate; once the ideas are contextualized, conjuring images with sounds and melodies feels just as powerful to me and also more accessible in many ways. I don’t have an agenda, certainly not a solution, just a great sense of empathy and desire to be sharing space and experiences. 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Following the acclaimed 2013 debut \u003cem\u003eI Thought It Was Us But It Was All Of Us\u003c\/em\u003e, Foon performed Saltland live in various successful configurations, but as the concept and compositions for a new album began to materialize, she wished to further expand on an approach with her cello as primary source for all sounds on the record. Combining unadulterated, processed and sampled cellos, \u003cem\u003eA Common Truth\u003c\/em\u003e largely reflects this commitment and results in an album of gorgeous integrity, restraint, and meditative intensity. The one notable exception: longtime friend and prior collaborator Warren Ellis (Nick Cave, Dirty Three) is the album's special guest player, contributing violin, pump organ and loops to the album's four instrumental tracks.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eWorking with engineer Jace Lasek (The Besnard Lakes), Foon has produced a song cycle that alternates between wordless instrumentals and lyric-driven pieces, balancing austere, organic intimacy and lush, multi-layered expansiveness. The analog warmth of Lasek’s naturalistic rock production anchors Saltland’s juxtaposition of dry and processed strings, with the placement of Foon's voice very much within the mix but never veiled or concealed; a voice described as \"an instrument of somnolent, gossamer allure which floats gracefully amid the eddying, amniotic music\" (Mojo, 2013). 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The album features several tracks that are hands down among the band’s most rocking, making newfound use of electric guitars (courtesy a variety of guest players) alongside the group’s nucleus of marimba, strings and percussion. Expanding from Dalmak’s core quartet, Esmerine also welcomes bassist Jeremi Roy (who began touring with the group in 2013) as an official member; his contrabass work adds potent low-end to the heavier and more muscular jams on the new album.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLost Voices\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis equally notable for the appearance of GY!BE\/Silver Mt. Zion violinist Sophie Trudeau as a featured guest; her intense and incomparable string sounds\/styles elevate the potency of the record’s most soaring and high-octane pieces, particularly on opener “The Neighborhoods Rise”, “19\/14” and the centerpiece track of Side Two, “Funambule”. 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Moss is by now a seasoned practitioner of immersive isolation music; across three previously acclaimed solo records of minimal and maximal post-classicism, her acoustic, amplified, looped, distorted and electronically-shifted violin is the raw material for deeply expressive, palpably haunting, wholly committed longform compositions. But \u003cem\u003ePhosphenes\u003c\/em\u003e is the most incisive and inexorable music Moss has made to date, inscribing halos of refracted light out of deep solitude and hermitic darkness with especially solemn determination and intensity. 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Arising from the fertile Montréal post-punk scene of the early 2000s, the band comprises Scott Gilmore, Jessica Moss and Thierry Amar of Thee Silver Mt. Zion (Amar also continues to compose and play bass for Godspeed You! Black Emperor) and Gabriel Levine of Sackville. Black Ox made two acclaimed albums of roiling acoustic avant-folk in the mid-2000s, exploring Eastern European and North African folkways through the lens of a gritty, resonant indie rock sensibility, juxtaposing interpretations of instrumentals from various Jewish, Romani and Arabic traditions with originals led by Gilmore’s politically-charged Yiddish vocals. 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Exquisitely recorded by Greg Norman (Jason Molina, Nina Nastasia, Electrical Audio), \u003cem\u003eEverything Returns\u003c\/em\u003e picks up right where the band left off: an incisively atmospheric, melancholic yet resolute album of uniquely modern Jewish folk music, with piano, violin, upright bass, clarinet and cymbalom making up the core instrumentation, and the vocal tunes sung primarily in Yiddish, alongside album centerpiece “Viderkol” and closer “Lamed-Vovnik” where English also features. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eThis is not fusion music, but diaspora music: a cross-cultural call and response of musical lexicons, emerging from the history of Jewish persecution and displacement, the musicology of 19\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century repertoire from Jewish \u003cem\u003eshtetls\u003c\/em\u003e, the improvisational traditions of \u003cem\u003enusakh\u003c\/em\u003e in Jewish music and \u003cem\u003etaqsim\u003c\/em\u003e in Arabic music, and a wider polyglot dialogue of Jewish, Slavic, Arabic, and Central Asian musical traditions. Lyrically and stylistically, \u003cem\u003eEverything Returns\u003c\/em\u003e connects key current issues—from refugees forced to leave their homes, to the return of fascism and exclusionary nationalism—with the legacy of modernist Yiddish poetry and song.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eThe new Black Ox Orkestar album is a sublime, poetic, politically-informed statement of re-energized diasporic musical intent, where Gilmore’s voice and the band’s simmering arrangements conjure an ardent, doleful balladry that echoes the sound and sensibility of artists like Tindersticks, The National, Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen. \u003cem\u003eEverything Returns\u003c\/em\u003e is a haunting, richly textured, darkly sparkling song cycle at once from a vanished world and very much of our time and place.\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Constellation Records","offers":[{"title":"180gLP+WAV+7\" Flexi","offer_id":39925895200902,"sku":"CST169LPF","price":37.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"180gLP+MP3","offer_id":39925893595270,"sku":"CST169LPM","price":30.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"180gLP+WAV","offer_id":39925893562502,"sku":"CST169LPW","price":30.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD+MP3","offer_id":39925893628038,"sku":"CST169CD","price":16.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"MP3","offer_id":39925893693574,"sku":"CST169MP3","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"WAV","offer_id":39925893660806,"sku":"CST169WAV","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0071\/5581\/0415\/products\/CST169_Digital_v1.jpg?v=1663280734"},{"product_id":"cst171-all-hands_make-light-darling-the-dawn","title":"CST171 ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT | ''Darling The Dawn''","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT is the recently minted duo of Ariel Engle (La Force, Patrick Watson, Broken Social Scene) and Efrim Manuel Menuck (Godspeed You! 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On “Darling The Dawn”, ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT weaves two unique voices through lustrous tendrils of blown-out tones and drones, imbued with searing soulful warmth and soaring melodies. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eThe duo speak about the inspiration behind the record, their work likened to a “dawn” which is coming for us in the real world. \u003cem\u003e“These times are in-between times.”\u003c\/em\u003e says Efrim Manuel Menuck, \u003cem\u003e“the old things are sinking with their hands around our throat.”\u003c\/em\u003e But, like they speak of on the record, a brighter world is coming - \u003cem\u003e“there’ll be even more beauty there, during the unravelling, and then even more after the dark times are through.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eThe record’s melancholic yet resolute hopefulness shines through in electronic shoegaze suffused with freak-folk, kosmische, darkwave and post-industrial. Flowing from ambient minimalism to pulsing maximalism, conjuring traditionals sung in the haze of earliest light accompanied by overdriven circuit boards which are powered with ungrounded wires.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eAbove all, it’s the singing and lyrics, in method and melodic delivery, that conjure certain freak-folk furrows. Ariel Engle calls this \u003cem\u003e“music inspired by ancestor music, sea shanties for seas we’ve never sailed”.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eThe duo have indeed forged a collection on “Darling The Dawn\" where vocals often feel strangely rooted in traditionals, while the instrumentation resonates out-of-time, in a liminal space at once glistening, both synthetic and analogue. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eAs the album title suggests, sleepless anxiety\/euphoria and a sense of somatic channelling is vital to these songs: \u003cem\u003e“I mostly kept the first thought I had, like a cold read, I wanted the melodies to be immediate and to surprise me, not a laboured process; it’s about being a weather vane, guided by preconscious impulses”\u003c\/em\u003e says Engle. For Menuck, the record started \u003cem\u003e“with an idea of making a long thing about ‘THE DAWN’, the different weights of its radiance, the way it kisses our dumb faces when we rise and leave the night behind, the heaviness of that light when you haven’t slept.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e“Darling The Dawn” is an album of preternaturally genre-bending sonics and songwriting, with the lyrics capturing, according to Ariel, \u003cem\u003e“the uncanniness of living on a sphere, the smallness of us in contrast to the size and motion of planets and the comfort of the eternal return of dawn and sun after the night.” \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eEngle and Menuck see ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT in an idiosyncratic folk lineage traced through the most leftfield of pastures and timeless traditions. While there is no discernable guitar or acoustic instrumentation on the album, off-kilter drone incantations like “A Sparrow’s Lift” and “A Workers’ Graveyard (Poor Eternal)” perhaps sit most overtly within these seams of the skewed-folk substratum. Warm and distorted synths provide the palette, along with signal-processed violin contributions from fellow-traveller Jessica Moss. The resplendent drumming of guest Liam O’Neil (Suuns), accompanies the 10-minute methodical longform centerpieces “We Live On A Fucking Planet And Baby That’s The Sun” and the motorik-driven “The Sons And Daughters Of Poor Eternal”, propelling both tracks to their spiralling peaks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e“Darling The Dawn” captures a wholly compelling collaboration between Engle and Menuck in an album thrumming with alternately tender and serrated beauty as only their combined strengths and sensibilities could conjure. 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Menuck met them in 2015 when recording Ada’s final self-titled album at Montréal’s Hotel2Tango, the same studio where they combined to make this record. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e“NO MORE APOCALYPSE FATHER”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e is an album about witnessing bleakness from a place of safety. Carrying newfound descriptive depth, thanks to the quartet’s open-ended songs freeing him from writing in meter, Menuck likens his lyrics to photorealism. On opener ‘Rats and Roses’ he sings of an unnamed city struck by an unknown cataclysm, but the details are local: specifically, his neighbors inadvertently poisoning birds when tackling a rat infestation. It’s backed by blown out synths and guitars reaching a soaring crescendo. “Seeing things from a distance and not being able to intervene happens a lot on the record,” Menuck explains. “If you’re a feeling and thinking person, that’s just part of the human condition. We watch horror unfolding from afar, unable to do anything concrete to change it.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eA powerless witness, able to describe but not intervene. ‘Dangling Blanket From A Balcony (White Phosphorous)’ references Michael Jackson holding his child over a hotel balcony in 2002—the bizarre media spectacle still lodged in Menuck’s psyche. This and the album’s closing track also elegize white phosphorous, a technology of war designed to light up battlefields but capable of inflicting horrific burns on those it touches. Illumination and horror in one, here underpinning scenes picturesque and terrifying. “The last song ‘(Goodnight) White Phosphorous’ is deliberately like a lullaby,” says Menuck. “Written from the viewpoint of watching white phosphorous falling outside your window.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eScorched and tarnished and laden with harrowing imagery, “\u003ci\u003eNO MORE APOCALYPSE FATHER” \u003c\/i\u003eis also a record bathed in light: the bewilderment of hopeful spirits witnessing despair, watching a blizzard of distress unfold outside from a place of relative shelter and comfort. You could call that emotional ambivalence, maybe numbness. 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This consummate sibling duo unfolds a sumptuous suite of thematic variations that interweave meditative pastoralism with the underlying despair and tragedy of ecocide.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eRebecca’s post-rock, electroacoustic, and semi-improvised sensibility, honed by nearly three decades of composing and playing in a wide range of projects rooted in Montréal’s fertile DIY\/punk-influenced exploratory instrumental music scene, combines with Aliayta’s more recent trajectory from virtuosic youth performer to academic music study and the formation of independent ensembles interpreting classical and modern repertoire. Following several years in London at both the Royal Academy and Royal College of Music, Foon-Dancoes’ recent move to Princeton University for a Composition PhD brought her into geographic proximity with her sister to the north, where they had already begun writing and playing together during a couple of post-pandemic retreats at Lost River, Rebecca’s converted barn studio in the Laurentian mountains of Québec. Aliayta also joined Rebecca’s chamber-rock group Esmerine for various performances in support of its celebrated 2023 album \u003cem\u003eEverything Was Forever Until It Was No More\u003c\/em\u003e (winner of the Canadian Juno awards for Best Instrumental Album and Best Album Packaging), while the two concurrently continued developing their own body of work. Further influenced by the acoustic space of the barn studio and the production style of Lasek (a long-standing Foon collaborator and the recording\/mixing engineer for Esmerine’s award-winning run of albums from 2013-2023), the sisters forged a musical language and rapport drawn from composition and improvisation in equal measure, along with additive reinterpretation animated by ongoing recording processes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eReverie\u003c\/em\u003e is anchored by a clutch of recurring themes, with many of the album’s 11 tracks refracting various melodic and harmonic passages through different timbral and temporal lenses, evoking shifts in both subjective mood and external atmosphere. 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The ex-Silver Mt Zion member and Black Ox Orkestar co-founder draws from post-classical, drone, minimalism, industrial\/metal, power electronics, Klezmer and other folkways: this is not abstract ambient music. Layers of violin melody, electroacoustic processing, intermittent voice, and percussion from The Necks drummer Tony Buck, yield deeply emotive genre-defying compositions, guided by a spirit of searching and summoning that unfolds in a prevailing atmosphere of incantation and mournful restraint.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eWorking closely with producer Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Jerusalem In My Heart), Moss notes \"\u003cem\u003eUnfolding\u003c\/em\u003e was made slowly, over the last 12 months, the second full year of genocide in Palestine, in direct response to our collective witnessing, our collective grief, as a portal to collective mourning, as a searchlight through our internal weather systems, seeking one another out in the dark.\" The inseparability of the personal and political has wrung ever tighter for Moss these past two years, as for so many. She’s co-organized and played several benefit shows as a core member of the Montréal chapter of Musicians For Palestine, and she released the solo album \u003cem\u003eFor UNRWA\u003c\/em\u003e in spring 2024 (garnering over 800 supporters and raising thousands of dollars).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eMoss’s music was already moving towards heightened fragility and deep listening, becoming increasingly durational and ceremonial. Despite the plummeting financial viability of touring, her devotion to holding space, conjuring entanglement, and connecting with intimate live audiences has become her creative lodestar, especially following lockdown. With her solo praxis shaped by committing to and communing in these rooms, recent political and personal upheavals have only intensified her ritualistic, reparative musical processes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eThe two longform tracks on Side One of \u003cem\u003eUnfolding\u003c\/em\u003e embody this sensibility. “Washing Machine” weaves layers of string drone and filigree, gently noised by distortion pedals and amplification, with indecipherably blown-out spoken voice intermittently enveloping the mix as fragmentary palimpsests of shrouded recitation and ineffable feeling. The piece traces its origins to a phone recording of a European laundry machine, captured by Moss as she sat next to it, heartbroken on the bathroom floor, finding solace by humming a melody along to the mechanical harmonics of the washer working through its cycles. 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