this debut album is a compelling blend of originals and new arrangements for pieces pulled from various Eastern European songbooks
The album's ten songs are predominantly minimal and delicate
with Menuck's massive spectrum-spanning electric guitar sound emerging as the spine around which two violins
Having premiered a couple of these new songs at a small art gallery show in Montreal in May 2011
The fantastic non-album track "Waiting" from the More Than Any Other Day sessions (and the first tune to be given out via Constellation when we announced the Ought signing) rounds out this 4-song
CST038 Black Ox Orkestar | Nisht Azoy CST082 this debut album is aThe second record by Montreals Black Ox Orkestar placed the group at the forefront of a new Jewish music that rejected contemporary fusion and musty nostalgia in equal measure. With backgrounds in folk, punk rock and free jazz, the groups four musicians distilled Balkan, Central Asian, Arabic and Slavic sources into a coherent, impassioned sound that gave teeth to old Jewish songs. Never relying on museum piece reverence or an obvious, forced