View basket “White Lightning” 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 Chats, The Get Fucked Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Bargain Bin Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 19th August 2022 £19.00 - £21.00 Select options Chats, The Get Fucked £19.00 - £21.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Bargain Bin Records Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 19th August 2022 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Menzingers, The After The Party (RSD Indie Exclusive) Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Epitaph | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 3rd February 2017 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Menzingers, The After The Party (RSD Indie Exclusive) £19.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Epitaph SKU: 8714092748932 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 3rd February 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Hotelier, The It Never Goes Out Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Tiny Engines | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 24th June 2015 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Hotelier, The It Never Goes Out £17.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Tiny Engines SKU: TE140 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 24th June 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View SASAMI Squeeze Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Domino | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 25th February 2022 £25.00 - £26.00 Select options SASAMI Squeeze £25.00 - £26.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Domino Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 25th February 2022 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Hovvdy HOVVDY Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Arts & Crafts | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 17th May 2024 £33.00 Select options Hovvdy HOVVDY £33.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Arts & Crafts Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 17th May 2024 Read More Select options 2023's picks View Product Quick View Das Koolies DK.01 Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Strangetown Records In association with Amplify Music | 2LP Released 22nd September 2023 £29.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Das Koolies DK.01 £29.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Strangetown Records In association with Amplify Music Released Date: 22nd September 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Girls Against Boys House of GVSB (25th Anniversary Edition) Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Touch and Go | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 25th March 2022 £31.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Girls Against Boys House of GVSB (25th Anniversary Edition) £31.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Touch and Go SKU: TG375LP Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 25th March 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Okkervil River Down The River Of Golden Dreams Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Jagjaguwar | 1LP Released 21st April 2020 £14.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Okkervil River Down The River Of Golden Dreams £14.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Jagjaguwar SKU: nn200741 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 21st April 2020 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Hipshakes, The Shot/Samba Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Nerve Centre | 7", Single Released 20th October 2017 £7.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Hipshakes, The Shot/Samba £7.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Nerve Centre SKU: NC002 Formats: 7", Single Released Date: 20th October 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Drain Living Proof Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Epitaph | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 1st December 2023 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Drain Living Proof £22.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Epitaph SKU: 278396 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 1st December 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Start again
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