View basket “Down The River Of Golden Dreams” has been added to your basket. Everything Returns Black Ox Orkestar SKU: CST169LP Barcode: 0666561016913 26.00 £26.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Constellation Released Date: 2nd December 2022 Buying Format: 180g 1LP Includes Download Code Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Recorded by Greg Norman (Jason Molina, Nina Nastasia, Electrical Audio). Everything Returns reunites the original Black Ox Orkestar lineup following a 15-year hiatus. Arising from the fertile Montréal post-punk agit-prop 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. These early albums have since become lodestars for many among a new generation of Yiddish, Klezmer and radical Jewish diasporic music practitioners and fans. First revealing its resurrection in February 2022 with a surprise flexi 7” single issued by left journal Jewish Currents as a gift to its thousands of subscribers, Black Ox has indeed fully and fruitfully reunited. Exquisitely recorded by Greg Norman (Jason Molina, Nina Nastasia, Electrical Audio), Everything Returns 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. This 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 19th century repertoire from Jewish shtetls, the improvisational traditions of nusakh in Jewish music and taqsim in Arabic music, and a wider polyglot dialogue of Jewish, Slavic, Arabic, and Central Asian musical traditions. Lyrically and stylistically, Everything Returns 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. The 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. Everything Returns is a haunting, richly textured, darkly sparkling song cycle at once from a vanished world and very much of our time and place. RIYL: A Hawk And A Hacksaw, Leonard Cohen, Daniel Kahn, Xylouris White, Arooj Aftab, Tindersticks, Nick Cave, Alasdair Roberts, Geoff Berner, The Klezmatics. Deluxe 180gLP with 350gsm Arktika jacket/inner + 36”x12” art/lyrics fold-out + DL. Artist Black Ox Orkestar Genre Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label Constellation Buying Options 180g 1LP Includes Download Code Format 180g , 1LP , Includes Download Code Condition New Country UK Track Listings Tish Nign Perpetual Peace Oysgeforn / Bessarabia Hora Mizrakh Mi Ma’arav Skotschne Viderkol (Echo) Epigenetik Moldovan Zhok Lamed-Vovnik Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo View Product Quick View Desert Sessions Vols. 11 & 12 Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Matador | 1LP Released 25th October 2019 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Desert Sessions Vols. 11 & 12 £23.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Matador SKU: OLE1488LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 25th October 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Heart To Gold Tom Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Memory Music | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 23rd September 2022 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Heart To Gold Tom £22.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Memory Music SKU: MM28LPC2 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 23rd September 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Craig Brown Band The Lucky Ones Forget Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Third Man Records | 1LP Released 31st March 2017 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Craig Brown Band The Lucky Ones Forget £19.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Third Man Records SKU: 0813547023346 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 31st March 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View LIFE Popular Music Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Afghan Moon | 1LP Released 26th May 2017 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders LIFE Popular Music £19.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Afghan Moon SKU: AFG003LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 26th May 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Longings Dreams In Red Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Don Giovanni | 1LP Released 7th July 2023 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Longings Dreams In Red £21.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Don Giovanni SKU: LPDG217 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 7th July 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Press To MECO Here’s to the Fatigue Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Marshall Records | 1LP Released 30th March 2018 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Press To MECO Here’s to the Fatigue £17.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Marshall Records SKU: 0190296957598 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 30th March 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Spotlights Alchemy For The Dead Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Ipecac | 1LP Released 4th August 2023 £34.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Spotlights Alchemy For The Dead £34.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Ipecac SKU: IPC263LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 4th August 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Dearly Beloved Admission Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Aporia | 180g, 1LP Released 25th January 2017 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Dearly Beloved Admission £16.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Aporia SKU: AP076LP Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 25th January 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Rise Against Nowhere Generation Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Loma Vista | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 4th June 2021 £23.00 - £24.00 Select options Rise Against Nowhere Generation £23.00 - £24.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Loma Vista Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 4th June 2021 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Haybaby Sleepy Kids Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Tiny Engines | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 12th January 2016 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Haybaby Sleepy Kids £17.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Tiny Engines SKU: TE144 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 12th January 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Start again
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