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Black Ox Orkestar
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Montreal, Canada (2000 – present)
Black Ox Orkestar began in the summer of 2000, the project of four Montreal, Canada musicians exploring their common Jewish heritage for sounds that could speak to them today. Listening to pre-war recordings of Jewish and non-Jewish music from Eastern Europe and the Balkans, they wanted to capture the rawness and emotional intensity they heard there. They also threw their own musical histories into the mix, their years of playing out-jazz, punk rock, or weird folk, creating not so much a fusion of old and new as a way to tear the old sounds from the past and make them resonate in the present. The band tries to be true to the strangeness and beauty of these archaic songs, translating them into new forms, and writing new material that continues an imaginary tradition still humming in their ears.
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The Yiddish language has always been at the center of the project. A unique mixture of German, Hebrew, and Slavic elements, it was the everyday speech of Eastern European Jews for centuries. The voice of the Jewish political and artistic radicalism of the 19th and early 20th centuries was uttered in Yiddish. Suffragettes, sweatshop activists, anarchists and modernist poets all participated in a global, cosmopolitan culture that followed the exodus of Jews from Eastern Europe. This flowering of modern Yiddish was cut short by the Shoah and by the emergence of the state of Israel, which enshrined Hebrew as a national Jewish language.
On Yiddish
The Yiddish language has always been at the center of the project. A unique mixture of German, Hebrew, and Slavic elements, it was the everyday speech of Eastern European Jews for centuries. The voice of the Jewish political and artistic radicalism of the 19th and early 20th centuries was uttered in Yiddish. Suffragettes, sweatshop activists, anarchists and modernist poets all participated in a global, cosmopolitan culture that followed the exodus of Jews from Eastern Europe. This flowering of modern Yiddish was cut short by the Shoah and by the emergence of the state of Israel, which enshrined Hebrew as a national Jewish language.
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Igor_Zukunft wrote:
Sounds very nice, but it's not post-rock for sure.
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1800sseamonster wrote:
Fucking best shit.
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_lonelyness_ wrote:
What a magnificent music is that! Everything but post-rock of course! Eheh.
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AzTeK88 wrote:
Niiice. )
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rinistiltskin wrote:
As an avowed fan of post-rock (as it's traditionally applied to bands such as Do Make Say Think or Mono), I say don't ban the tag, ffs, but use it sparingly and judiciously.
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confu wrote:
if you like post-rock, give Myndfly (http://www.lastfm.de/music/myndfly) a listen. Feel free to leave your comments and opinions.
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YYYnnnCOMPUTE wrote:
klezmer yes
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YYYnnnCOMPUTE wrote:
post-jew-folk?)
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LuckymanGreg wrote:
post-rock? O_o
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daile wrote:
they're magical, i adore them
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PsychoBells wrote:
post-farce
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darsysparks wrote:
Who gives a shit what classification people think they are under... theyre associated with a lot of post-rock bands most likely because theyre on the same label. Theyre good music and thats all that matters.
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calamarimon wrote:
great band? yes. post-rock? not a chance.
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Hklti36Fljf wrote:
agreed with tsintskaro, not even close to post-rock, even if they come from a postrock background or not.
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tsintskaro wrote:
Post Rock is a bad enough tag for bands like Mouse on Mars and Tortoise, bands that don't have anything in common with Black Ox Orkestar. Hrafinn you seem to have thought about more than most who have applied the tag, though I think for the most part it is being used by people who don't listen to a lot of music outside of the indie scene and its fads. I have a really good set of CDs of pre and post war music from the Jewish community in Eastern Europe, Palestine and the USA, and there are tracks on there that are not far from BOO's sound, but I wouldn't dream of labelling them post-rock. It could be construed as odd or avant garde to modern ears, but the music was made by people who weren't even considering those labels, they were just playing with what they had. I don't get the impression that Black Ox Orkestar want to be a rock band at all, so post-rock doesn't really work. Pre-rock is probably more like it, but lets not go there.
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Hrafinn wrote:
The musicians come from a post-rock background (and I like to think I can hear some a silver mt. zion resonating through at times). Especially the doublebass by Thierry is very distinct. It is a good synthesis of post-rock/experimental and klezmer elements. Like bands such as The Cracow Klezmer Band or Kroke; those are both (avantgarde) jazz and klezmer, not either specifically.
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Maroe wrote:
Please ban the post-rock tag.
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xspikex wrote:
Yes,Post Post-Rock can be anything.But actually,is there enough tradition in it,to be straight up Klezmer?I don't know much Klemzer but they seem to bring in alot of their influences and the stuff they have been doing in the past into the mix. But yes,it's mostly based on Klezmer and them exploring their religious and spiritual roots.
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ihavesoldout wrote:
This is the best post-rock group I have ever heard <3
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h2t wrote:
http://www.lastfm.it/group/thee+mighty+hotel2tango
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