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Esmerine
Esmerine is a Canadian modern chamber music group that incorporates genres such as post-rock, drone music, post-punk, and Turkish folk. Founded in Montreal in 2000 by Bruce Cawdron (drums) and Beckie Foon (cello), the band has released six albums. History 2000-2002: Founding The chamber rock group Esmerine was formed in 2000 and was initially a duo consisting of percussionist Bruce Cawdron and cellist Beckie Foon. The two had recently met in Montreal while both were recording the debut album of Canadian post-rock band Set Fire To Flames. Cawdron and Foon had independently contributed to other Montreal based groups as well, notably Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band, Saltland, Fifths of Seven and Mile-End Ladies' String Auxiliary. However, instead of using the guitar-focused sound of their other projects, the duo initially focused on percussion and cello, drawing on minimalist classical music and chamber music. The band initial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saltland
Rebecca Foon (born 13 December 1978) is a Canadian cellist, vocalist, and composer. Foon currently records under her own name, as well as the alias Saltland, and is a member and co-founder of the modern chamber ensemble Esmerine. Summary of career Foon has also been a member of several groups associated with the post rock, experimental, and chamber music scenes of Montreal and New York City, including Set Fire to Flames, A Silver Mt. Zion, and Colin Stetson’s Gorecki Symphony of Sorrow ensemble. Esmerine's Turkish folk-influenced album ''Dalmak,'' released in 2013, was awarded the Juno Award for Instrumental Album of the Year in 2014 as was their 2022 album ''Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More''. In 2013, she released her first Saltland album, which '' Exclaim.ca'' called "a captivating combination of genres from dream pop to chamber music to ambient and shoegaze", followed by her album A Common Truth which The Skinny stated, "is a bona fide stunner". In 2020, Foo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
If Only A Sweet Surrender To The Nights To Come Be True
''If Only a Sweet Surrender to the Nights to Come Be True'' is the debut album by Esmerine Esmerine is a Canadian modern chamber music group that incorporates genres such as post-rock, drone music, post-punk, and Turkish folk. Founded in Montreal in 2000 by Bruce Cawdron (drums) and Beckie Foon (cello), the band has released six albu .... It was released on June 2, 2003. Track listing # "Red Fire Farm" - 4:33 # "There Were No Footprints in the Dust Behind Them..." - 12:27 # "Nohna's Lullaby" - 5:43 # "Where There Is No Love There Is No Justice" - 5:52 # "Tungsten" - 5:30 # "Sweet Surrender Be True" - 7:49 # "Luna Park" - 1:26 # "Marvellous Engines of Resistance" – 7:07 References 2003 debut albums Esmerine albums {{2000s-indie-rock-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aurora (Esmerine Album)
''Aurora'' is the second album by post-rock band Esmerine Esmerine is a Canadian modern chamber music group that incorporates genres such as post-rock, drone music, post-punk, and Turkish folk. Founded in Montreal in 2000 by Bruce Cawdron (drums) and Beckie Foon (cello), the band has released six albu .... It was released by Madrona Records in 2005. Track listing # "Quelques Mots Pleins d'Ombre" – 7:22 # "Histories Repeating as One Thousand Hearts Mend" – 16:47 # "Mados" – 2:34 # "Why She Swallows Bullets and Stones" – 5:21 # "Ebb Tide, Spring Tide, Neap Tide, Flood" – 3:48 # "Le Rire de l'Ange" – 4:21 References 2005 albums Esmerine albums {{2000s-post-rock-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lhasa De Sela
Lhasa de Sela (September 27, 1972 – January 1, 2010), also known by the mononym Lhasa, was an American-Canadian singer-songwriter who was raised in Mexico and the United States and divided her adult life between Canada and France. Her first album, ''La Llorona'', went Platinum in Canada and brought Lhasa a Félix Award and a Juno Award. Following this success, Lhasa toured with Lilith Fair and then joined her sisters in a French circus troupe, contributing her husky voice to the musical backdrop. She lived in Marseille and began to write more songs, then she moved back to Montreal and produced a second album, '' The Living Road''. Once again, she toured in support of her album and collaborated with other musicians on their projects. During this time, BBC Radio 3 honoured her as the best world music artist of the Americas in 2005. She published a book about her impressions of life on the road. Lhasa recorded a third album, titled ''Lhasa'', but she was diagnosed with breast c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Godspeed You! Black Emperor (sometimes abbreviated to GY!BE or Godspeed) is a Canadian post-rock collective that originated in Montreal, Quebec in 1994. The group releases recordings through Constellation Records (Canada), Constellation, an independent record label also located in Montreal. The group released their debut album ''F♯ A♯ ∞'', in 1997 and toured regularly from 1998 to 2003. Their second album ''Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven'' (2000) received critical acclaim and has been named as one of the best albums of the decade. Following the release of ''Yanqui U.X.O.'' (2002), the band went on hiatus in 2003 to pursue other musical interests. The band was rumored to have broken up, but reformed in 2010. Their first post-reunion album '''Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!'' (2012) won the 2013 Polaris Music Prize. This was followed by ''Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress'' (2015), ''Luciferian Towers'' (2017), ''G_d's Pee at State's End!'' (2021) and ''N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constellation Records (Canada)
Constellation Records is a Canadian independent record label based in Montreal, Quebec. It has released albums by many post-rock bands, including Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band and Do Make Say Think. Label philosophy The package of the Godspeed You! Black Emperor album '' Yanqui U.X.O.'' was especially noteworthy, containing an extensive chart which demonstrated the links between four major record labels— AOL Time-Warner, BMG, Sony, Vivendi Universal—and various arms manufacturers. The band later apologized for some extensions of the chart, conceding that some of their research had been inaccurate. On 25 February 2010, Constellation Records founders Ian Ilavsky and Don Wilkie signed, together with 500 artists, the call to support the international campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israeli Apartheid. In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the label announced that the artists on its rost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Set Fire To Flames
Set Fire to Flames was a Canadian instrumental music ensemble consisting of 13 musicians from Montreal, Quebec." Set Fire to Flames Sings Reign Rebuilder Review" ''BBC'', Dan Hill, 2002. The band was often considered a side project of , as the two groups shared several members. History Set Fire to Flames was initiated by David Bryant. The group released two s on[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fifths Of Seven
Fifths of Seven was a Canadian instrumental string/piano/accordion trio based in Montreal, Quebec. The band members were Spencer Krug, Beckie Foon, and Rachel Levine (Cakelk). The group's instrumental music combined elements of pop, classical and eastern European music."Fifths of Seven Spry from Bitter Anise Folds" ''Exclaim!'', By Chris Whibbs Sep 01, 2005 History Fifths of Seven was formed in 1995 in , Their debut album, ''Spry from Bitter Anise Folds'', was recorded in Montreal atBreakglass Studio
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Minimalism
In visual arts, music, and other media, minimalism is an art movement that began in the post-war era in western art. The movement is often interpreted as a reaction to abstract expressionism and modernism; it anticipated contemporary post-minimal art practices, which extend or reflect on minimalism's original objectives. Minimalism's key objectives were to strip away conventional characterizations of art by bringing the importance of the object or the experience a viewer has for the object with minimal mediation from the artist. Prominent artists associated with minimalism include Donald Judd, Agnes Martin, Dan Flavin, Carl Andre, Robert Morris, Anne Truitt, and Frank Stella. Minimalism in music often features repetition and gradual variation, such as the works of La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Julius Eastman, and John Adams. The term has also been used to describe the plays and novels of Samuel Beckett, the films of Robert Bresson, the stori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
