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The first-ever official video by Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra. Features a live recording of the song from their 6th album Kollaps Tradixionales (2010) as performed in their rehearsal space at the ‘old Hotel2Tango’ in Montréal.
http://cstrecords.com/releases/cst063
Directed by Seth W. Owen
Director of Photography: Ian MacMillan
8-track analog audio tape recording by Howard Bilerman
“Chesnutt’s second album to feature musicians from Thee Silver Mt. Zion,
Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Witchies and Guy Picciotto from Fugazi
(who also co-produced the record with Howard Bilerman) picks up where
North Star Deserter (2007) left off, with an explosive group of arrangers
and players allowing Vic to conjure snarling spittle and devastating
fragile grace in equal measure.”
“…impish, surly, witty, unflinching perspective, brilliantly unique wordsmithery
and a profound playfulness that thumbs its nose at a life of seriously hard knocks.
Vic’s prolific writing – chock of full of real irony, wonderful turns of phrase,
humour, rage and tenderness, brutal literalism and ornate observation
– constitutes a truly original voice and reflects a truly indomitable spirit…
humour, rage and tenderness, brutal literalism and ornate observation
– constitutes a truly original voice and reflects a truly indomitable spirit…
A core group of players emerged from this first recording to accompany
Vic on two European tours in support of the album: Thierry Amar (bass),
Efrim Menuck (guitar), Jessica Moss (violin) and David Payant (drums)
all of Silver Mt. Zion, along with Guy Picciotto (guitar). Together with
studio members (and occasional live players) Nadia Moss (piano, organ)
and Chad Jones (guitar), this same troupe has reunited for Vic’s second
Constellation album, once again recorded by Howard Bilerman at
Hotel2Tango in Montreal…
Vic on two European tours in support of the album: Thierry Amar (bass),
Efrim Menuck (guitar), Jessica Moss (violin) and David Payant (drums)
all of Silver Mt. Zion, along with Guy Picciotto (guitar). Together with
studio members (and occasional live players) Nadia Moss (piano, organ)
and Chad Jones (guitar), this same troupe has reunited for Vic’s second
Constellation album, once again recorded by Howard Bilerman at
Hotel2Tango in Montreal…
Vic hacks away, “throwing myself at the cut / with a force heretofore
unknown to me”…sweet pastoral childhood reminiscence,
“Flirted With You All My Life” a quite literal ode to the dance
with death, delivered with a perfect and unaffected mix of exuberance,
defiance and insouciance…
unknown to me”…sweet pastoral childhood reminiscence,
“Flirted With You All My Life” a quite literal ode to the dance
with death, delivered with a perfect and unaffected mix of exuberance,
defiance and insouciance…
For an album so overtly shaped by ruminations on mortality, by a man
from Athens, GA who certainly knows of what he sings (having survived
a car accident at age 18 that confined him to a wheelchair and has subjected
him to an endless cavalcade of complications, procedures, emergencies and
towering medical bills ever since), it is both refreshing and unbelievably
heartwarming to hear how Vic Chesnutt sidesteps any of the obvious Southern
Gothic tropes, lyrically and musically. No vaulted arches, gaping abysses or
burning fields here – no ‘voicing’ of the preacher or the devil, no putting on airs.
Vic manages to sing so authentically and wholeheartedly from and about his
sense of place (the South, the wheelchair, 21st century America) because he
refuses to sentimentalise any of it and rails against his personal fate without
bitterness, without apology, with a sardonic and sometimes angry poetics of
the passionately humanist and secular variety: wholly framed by the back
porch, championing a humble wisdom, a sincere ethics (without moralising)
and a natural literateness, certainly permitting a wisecrack or three, but never
allowing for anything hackneyed or cornball or fake. At The Cut is a
bona fide classic by a man better positioned than most to sing it strong and true.”
from Athens, GA who certainly knows of what he sings (having survived
a car accident at age 18 that confined him to a wheelchair and has subjected
him to an endless cavalcade of complications, procedures, emergencies and
towering medical bills ever since), it is both refreshing and unbelievably
heartwarming to hear how Vic Chesnutt sidesteps any of the obvious Southern
Gothic tropes, lyrically and musically. No vaulted arches, gaping abysses or
burning fields here – no ‘voicing’ of the preacher or the devil, no putting on airs.
Vic manages to sing so authentically and wholeheartedly from and about his
sense of place (the South, the wheelchair, 21st century America) because he
refuses to sentimentalise any of it and rails against his personal fate without
bitterness, without apology, with a sardonic and sometimes angry poetics of
the passionately humanist and secular variety: wholly framed by the back
porch, championing a humble wisdom, a sincere ethics (without moralising)
and a natural literateness, certainly permitting a wisecrack or three, but never
allowing for anything hackneyed or cornball or fake. At The Cut is a
bona fide classic by a man better positioned than most to sing it strong and true.”
Villa Villa Nola is very proud to carry this record. It costs 8 dollars 69 cents.
“Flirted With You All My Life”
FROM At the Cut
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“Philip Guston”
FROM At the Cut
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“Chain”
FROM At the Cut
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VVN announces the Suoni Per Il Popolo Recording Series:
Mastered recordings from festival, free for download and streaming from suoniperilpopolorecordings.com.
The series begins with Silver Mount Zion, Vic Chesnutt, & Evangelista.
More information on the festival here: suoniperilpopolo.org.
“The Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival is a dynamic, community based leftfield music festival which takes every June in Montréal, Québec. It presents an eclectic collection of musical genres which includes but is not limited to free jazz, noise, electronica, turntable art, pop, soundscapes, experimental rock, twentieth century avant garde, electronica, musique actuelle and spoken word. Given the context in which much of this music is made and the reaction it provokes, it is also music that resonates with progressive social movements. The festival is committed to presenting both established musicians who bring a wealth of tradition, experience and history to their playing as well as younger, emerging artists.”
Arbutus Records is based in Montreal, download the free Spring 2009 compilation, songs by Claire Boucher, Oxen Talk, Sean Nicholas Savage, & Jurassic Park.
Arbutus Records Spring 2009
>>>>>> DOWNLOAD NOW <<<<<<
More information is available on the label’s website, or contact info [at] arbutusrecords.com.
- SOFA
- GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR
- EXHAUST
- DO MAKE SAY THINK
- SACKVILLE
- FLY PAN AM
- SILVER MT ZION
- FRANKIE SPARO
- 1-SPEED BIKE
- RE:
- HANGEDUP
- SANDRO PERRI / POLMO POLPO
- ELIZABETH ANKA VAJAGIC
- BLACK OX ORKESTAR
- HRSTA
- GLISSANDRO 70
- FEU THERESE
- EVANGELISTA / CARLA BOZULICH
- ERIC CHENAUX
- LULLABYE ARKESTRA
- VIC CHESNUTT
- THE DEAD SCIENCE
- TINDERSTICKS
- JEM COHEN
- LAND OF KUSH
- CLUES
- ELFIN SADDLE
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“Planet Claire is dark and warm. Though populated by the otherworldly, the simple, industrious and anthropomorphic inhabitants will rarely lead you to danger. They can be only in the shadows. Homey reverb will lull your midnight swamp cruise to sleep in black water. The ripples of these tides echo through dreams, and warm ukelele serenades will lead you always from harm. Claire is periodically in and out of the studio, working on her first album.”
-Arbutus
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“The prehistoric sound of Jurassic Park sends tremors through this ancient land. Ride the back of a brontosaurus like a slide, or graze with the stegosauruses. Just watch out for those cunning raptors because they can open doors even though they only have three fingers.”
- Arbutus
Jurassic Park are:
Jeff Boyd
Charlie Neufeld
Susil Sharma
Luke Neima
Jurassic Park are set to release their debut album in Spring 2009.
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