Name Thierry Amar Labels ConstellationKranky | Years active 1997–present Instruments Bass Role Musician | |
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Born Canada Associated acts Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La BandBlack Ox OrkestarGodspeed You! Black Emperor Genres Post-rock, Folk music, Drone music Similar People Efrim Menuck, Sophie Trudeau, Mauro Pezzente, Jessica Moss, Mike Moya | ||
Alexandre st onge and thierry amar duo
Thierry Amar is a Canadian musician. He is a member of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and co-founder of Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band with Efrim Menuck and Sophie Trudeau. Amar also participates with Black Ox Orkestar, a Yiddish folk band.
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- Alexandre st onge and thierry amar duo
- Thierry amar and charity chan duo
- with Godspeed You Black Emperor
- with A Silver Mt Zion
- with Black Ox Orkestar
- References
Amar joined Godspeed You! Black Emperor around the time of its debut album, F♯ A♯ ∞. He, with Mauro Pezzente, plays the electric bass in the group. When playing with Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band or Black Ox Orkestar, he usually plays double bass. He also played violin on the EP The "Pretty Little Lightning Paw" E.P..
Amar is also a singer for Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band, which shares vocals with all of its band members.
Along with Howard Bilerman, Efrim Menuck and Radwan Moumneh, Amar owns and operates the Hotel2Tango. Once a living space, it is now a professional recording studio, practice area, and live performance venue. Offering its facilities for almost anyone, Amar will sometimes take up the role of record producer for band sessions.
Amar also dabbles in the jazz and improvisational music scene, and studies with Jacques Beaudoin of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.
In 2006, Amar, with Efrim Menuck and Sophie Trudeau, assisted in the recording of Carla Bozulich's first release for Constellation, Evangelista.