While I’m not exactly the biggest fan of this particular brand of high-class chamber music, I found his group’s set to be entertaining. Bischoff performed with a group of four fellow musicians on orchestral instruments including violin, stand-up bass, etc., while he would alternate between a standard bass guitar, Cavern bass and rototom. There was only one opening act, one Jherek Bischoff, revered Seattle-based neo-classical composer that’s worked with many acclaimed artists including Xiu Xiu, Amanda Fucking Palmer and Parenthetical Girls. If you want to see a worryingly-pretentious five-minute masturbation session, watch the music video for Arcade Fire’s “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)”. One in particular I caught was fucking ridiculous. As fate would have it, the show didn’t end up starting until about 9:30, and I spent pretty much all of this waiting time watching the indie rock music videos they were playing on a TV. I arrived at The Crocodile at around 7:00, as the website said the show would start at 8:00.
Zion has released seven albums over the course of their career, with the most recent being this year’s Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything, which, if you ask me, is one of the best albums they’ve released to date. Zion Memorial Orchestra is an experimental rock band from Montreal that’s most commonly recognised as being a musical side project of several members of the seminal post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor, though I personally like Silver Mt. I’ve never felt more appropriate to be a part of a crowd before in my life, for better or worse. Pretty much all of the attendees were wearing Swans T-shirts, plaid and flannel shirts, jean vests, drinking PBR and talking about how amazing bands like Cloud Nothings and The Mars Volta are. My fellow attendees were just as I’d hoped that is to say, cartoonishly hipster to the degree of the Pitchfork Music Festival. Zion Memorial Orchestra concert at The Crocodile. May 1st was my 16 th birthday, and I spent my one and only sweet 16 doing the best thing possible: going to a Thee Silver Mt.
Most of my teenage years have been spent attending metal concerts and festivals, and I usually feel ill-fitting when in crowds of scene kids, pit ninjas, and dad rockers trying to understand the appeal of contemporary –core bands the teens are into. Sometimes when you go to a concert, you can’t help but feel out of place among the other attendees. Zion Memorial Orchestra’s latest album, Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.0 Shares Thee Silver Mt. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice.
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