Black Ox Orkestar | |
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| Origin | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Years active | 2000–2005 |
| Labels | Constellation Records (Canada) |
Black Ox Orkestar was a quartet of musicians from Montreal, Quebec who played European Jewish folk music. They formed in the summer of 2000 to explore their common Jewish heritage through music, which was entirely acoustic and sung in Yiddish. They played their last show in 2005 and released their final album in 2006.[1][2]
Contributors
- Thierry Amar (contrabass) is now a member of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band.
- Scott Levine Gilmore (vocals, cymbalom, guitar, mandolin, saz, violin, percussion) plays in Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band and Land of Kush (with composer Sam Shalabi). He has played in Luftmentsch Fareyn (with Josh Dolgin, and was a founding member of Le Petit Théâtre de l'Absolu, a puppet theatre that toured through Israel and the West Bank in 2003.
- Gabriel Levine (clarinet, guitar) played in Sackville, and Land of Kush and the Wild Lawns. He worked in Vermont for the Bread and Puppet Theatre, and was a co-founder of Le Petit Théâtre de l'Absolu.
- Jessica Moss (violin) plays in Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band, and has played with Broken Social Scene.
Discography
- Ver Tanzt? (Constellation Records, 2004)
- Nisht Azoy (Constellation Records, 2006. Recorded in Montreal's Hotel2Tango studio)
References
- ^ [1]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-05-26. Retrieved 2009-07-13. Constellation Records