Released May 24, 2011 Length 42:08 Release date 24 May 2011 Label Constellation Records | Recorded Hotel2Tango, Various Artist Efrim Menuck Producer Efrim Menuck | |
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Genres Post-rock, Experimental rock, Alternative rock Similar Efrim Menuck albums, Post-rock albums | ||
Plays "High Gospel" (2011) is the debut album from Canadian musician Efrim Menuck, best known for his work as a founding member of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Thee Silver Mt. Zion. The album alternates instrumental and vocal tracks, an aspect of his work which began with the Silver Mt. Zion album Horses in the Sky. It was self produced and recorded at the Hotel2Tango and various other locations in Canada in 2010.
Contents
Overview
The Constellation record page describes the release as a "personal album that serves as an ode to his adopted Montreal hometown (where he has now lived for two decades), the passing of great friends (Vic Chesnutt, Emma) and new fatherhood." The album art is a painting of Efrim with his son Ezra, whom he fathered with Mt. Zion bandmate Jessica Moss, and who is sung about in the album's final track.
Track listing
- "Our Lady of Parc Extension and Her Munificent Sorrows" – 7:00
- "A 12-pt. Program for Keep on Keepin' On" – 9:00
- "August Four, Year-of-Our-Lord Blues" – 3:01
- "Heavy Calls & Hospitals Blues" – 2:33
- "Heaven's Engine Is a Dusty Ol' Bellows" – 2:08
- "Kaddish for Chesnutt" – 7:18
- "Chickadees' Roar Pt. 2" – 4:44
- "I Am No Longer a Motherless Child" – 6:24
All music and lyrics by Efrim Manuel Menuck
Personnel
Songs
1Our Lady of Parc Extension and Her Munificent Sorrows7:01
2A 12-Pt Program for Keep On Keepin' On9:00
3August Four - Year-of-Our-Lord Blues3:01