A silver mt. zion was born in 1999. we played our first show at the
constellation loft. efrim wrote the music in pencil in the pages of a
dollar store notation book=a failed experiment in self-taught music
theory that did not stick. later on, we recorded those songs onto
1/2-inch 8-track at thee mighty hotel2tango. mark moves to england and
aidan plays some drums. wanda was dying, and we made the record for
her. A couple of years later and we book our first tour. european
winter. 5 weeks of playing quietly to drunks, and a bad digital piano.
we wrote “the triumph of our tired eyes” on the road. came back home
and recorded our second LP straight away. mixed it slowly, before and
after the riots in quebec city, and named it “born into trouble as the
sparks fly upwards”. hardly any piano this time, but a whole lot of
bowed strings and very many noisy guitars. A year and a bit later. we
write a bunch of songs in our jamspace and record our third LP. the
neighbourhood’s changing, and nobody’s laughing at america’s president
yet. we hustle up an amateur choir. we decide to tour again, but loud
this time. we set up in a semi-circle and tear each other’s heads off.
also, we start group-singing together. a handful of shows during
canadian winter and then back over the ocean again. We tour steadily
for the next few years, and record “horses in the sky”. we record one
of the tunes around a campfire in the laurentians. we tour north
america proper for the first time. We record “kollaps tradixionales”
in the summer of 2009. jessica and efrim have a baby. the new record’s
got songs that we wrote as the tra-la-la band, and a couple of new
ones too. touring again, and we’re ten years old. in our own country
we’re pretty much invisible. We believe in what we do, and move
forward slowly. we’re lucky and we know it. we earn an honest living,
though it gets harder all the time."
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