Style: Progressive Electronic, Experimental
Vibe/Mood: Ethereal, Spacey, Futuristic, Mysterious, Suspenseful, impressionistic
Musical Attributes: Atmospheric, Instrumental, Studio-as-an-instrument (Loops, Editing, Dubs), Vignettes, Improvisation
Instrumentation: Synthesizer, Drum Machine
Tag: Constellation
Le Fly Pan Am – Ceux qui Inventent n’ont Jamais Vécu(?)
Style: Experimental Rock, Post-Rock, Noise Rock
Influences: Kosmische Musik, No Wave, Musique Concrète
Vibe: Noisy, Groovy, Spacey, Raw
Musical Attributes: Rhythmic, Studio-as-an-Instrument, Repetitive
Matana Roberts – Coin Coin Chapter 3: River Run Thee
Released in 2015 on Constellation Records Recorded June 3-5, 2014 Format: LP
Fly Pan Am – N’Ecoutez Pas
Released in 2004 on Constellation Records Format: LP Style: Experimental Rock, Post-Rock, Noise Rock Influences: Kosmische Musik, Shoegaze, Post-Punk Vibe: Chaotic, Noisy, … More
Carla Bozulich – Evangelista
Released in 2006 on Constellation Records Format: LP Purchase from label: http://cstrecords.com/products/carla-bozulich-evangelista/
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra – Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything
Released in 2014 on Constellation Records Format: LP
Carla Bozulich – Boy
Released in 2014 on Constellation Records Format: LP
Favorite Records of 2019 [List & DJ Mix]
The other day I asked myself how I could possibly be thinking about music when the continuing dangers of capitalist-imperialism, … More
Fly Pan Am – C’est ça
Released in 2019 on Constellation Records Format: LP
Land of Kush – Sand Enigma
Released in 2019 on Constellation Records Format: LPx2
Matana Roberts – Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis
Released in 2019 on Constellation Records Format: LP
Do Make Say Think – Stubborn Persistent Illusions
Released in 2017 on Constellation Records Format: LPx2, etching on side D
Efrim Manuel Menuck – Pissing Stars
Sandro Perri – Impossible Spaces
The surrealist sophisti-pop of Impossible Spaces feels both breezy and intricately progressive. Sandro Perri’s evocative songwriting and catchy melodicism are brought into high-definition by warm, futuristic production, atmospheric synthesizers, and lush arrangements for strings, horns, and woodwinds.
Ought – Sun Coming Down
There is a certain beauty just to being alive, and Ought make it their mission to find it through raw rock n’ roll that veers seamlessly between upbeat post-punk, meditative feedback drones, dramatic ballads, and cathartic guitar freak outs.
Recommended for fans of post-punk that blends the moodiness of Joy Division, Iceage, and Television with the experimentation and noisiness of This Heat and No Wave.
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra – Kollaps Tradixionales
Released in 2010 on Constellation Records Format: 10″x2
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend, Ascend
Released in 2012 on Constellation Records Format: LP + 7″
Efrim Manuel Menuck & Kevin Doria – “are SING SINCK, SING”
Released in 2019 on Constellation Records Format: 12″ EP
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennae to Heaven
Released in 2000 on Constellation Records Format: LPx2
Efrim Manuel Menuck – Plays “High Gospel”
Released in 2011 on Constellation Records Recorded 2009-2010 Format: LP
Fly Pan Am – Fly Pan Am
Style: Experimental Rock, Post-Rock
Influences: Kosmische Musik, Minimalism
Vibe: Minimalistic, Exploratory, Spacey, Raw, Noisy, Abstract
Musical Attributes: Instrumental, Repetitive, Analogue Recording
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band – 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons
Released in 2008 on Constellation Records Format: LPx2
Black Ox Orkestar – Ver Tanzt? Yeah
These impassioned, and often mournful, renditions of klezmer folk songs (both traditional and original) are infused with elements of free jazz, drone, and chamber music to create something both rooted and urgently modern (Even 15 years after its release). The mostly acoustic band features violinist Jessica Moss (also of Silver Mt. Zion) and upright bassist Thierry Amar (asmz, GY!BE) in addition to singer/multi-instrumentalist Scott Levine Gilmore and Clarinetist/Guitarist Gabe Levine.
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-La-La Band – Horses in the Sky
Released in 2005 on Constellation Records Format: LPx2, etching on D-side
The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band with Choir – “This is Our Punk-Rock,” Thee Rusted Satellites Gather + Sing
Released in 2004 on Constellation Records Format: LPx2
The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band – “Born Into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward.”
Released in October, 2001 on Constellation Records. Recorded at the mighty Hotel2Tango Format: 10″x2
Godspeed You Black Emperor! – Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada EP
“Side A is cut at 45rpm and features “Moya”, a broiling cascade of upward scales that repeatedly explodes beyond its own threshold. “BBF3” on Side B clocks in at 18 minutes, and was the band’s most lyrical, multi-movement music to date — more elaborated melodic figures wind around an angry spoken-word field recording (infamously culminating in the recital of the speaker’s poem — verses lifted straight from Iron Maiden)”
Esmerine – Dalmak
Whilst in Istanbul for an artist residency, the adventurous Canadian chamber rock group (featuring past members of Silver Mt. Zion and GY!BE) recorded with an ensemble of Turkish musicians, augmenting their core sound of cello, marimba, drums, and tenor banjo with the saz and several other instruments used in Turkish and Arabic folk music.
Eric Chenaux – Slowly Paradise
Eric Chenaux’s gentle falsetto is the most constant, tangible element on an album characterized by a permanent state of flux. The guitars are warbly and unsteady with their fluctuating tones, volume, and pitch. Yet, despite their experimental nature, they never sound abrasive and, together with some mellow Wurlitzer, create a soft, pillowy environment for Chenaux’s romantic crooning about the nature of love, the moon, and warm nights.
Do Make Say Think – Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn
Released in 2004 on Constellation Records Format: LPx2, Side D is blank
Do Make Say Think – & Yet & Yet
Information: Released in 2002 on Constellation Records
Jerusalem in My Heart – If He Dies, If If If If If If
Godspeed You Black Emperor! – F#A#
Album Information: Released in 1997 on Constellation Records Format: LP, includes inserts, a flyer, and a penny smashed by a … More
Esmerine – Lost Voices
Album Information: Released in 2014 on Constellation Records
Do Make Say Think – Do Make Say Think
Album Information: This album was self-released on CD in 1997 This pressing was released by Constellation Records in 2013 Format: … More
Do Make Say Think – You, You’re a History in Rust
Album Information: Released in 2007 on Constellation Records
A Silver Mt. Zion – He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corner Of Our Rooms…
Album Information: Released in 2000 on Constellation Records Recorded November 1999 at the mighty Hôtel2Tango
Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld – Never Were the Way She Was
Saxophonist Colin Stetson and violinist Sarah Neufeld employ innovative performance techniques, mutating ostinatos and an atmospheric sense of texture to compose minimalist compositions that are as brooding and haunting they are hypnotically beautiful.
Do Make Say Think – Goodbye Enemy Airship, The Landlord is Dead
“Recorded in an old wooden barn, this second album is swaddled in twilight autumnal ambiance. While the record is bookended by the band’s awesome psych-rock explosions, much of the material here shows increased referencing of jazz influences (modal horns, brushed percussion) and a more organic deployment of micro-electronics. Raw and polished, visceral and cerebral, the band combines rock and jazz traditions of space music with the ‘instrumental’ potentials of mixing room to present a true gem of a record.” (Press Release)
Do Make Say Think – Other Truths
Album Information: Released in 2009 on Constellation Records Tracklist A1 – Do A2 – Make B1 – Say B2 – … More
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Yanqui U.X.O.
Godspeed’s last album before their 10 year hiatus was produced by the legendary Steve Albini, resulting in what might be their heaviest and most direct album to date. Coming off the heels of September 11th, Yanqui U.X.O. seems to be a reaction against the ramped up military-industrial complex and its promotion of fear and xenophobia, as well as protesting Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. The back cover even goes as far as connecting each major record label to some type of weapons manufacturer.
Ought – More Than Any Other Day
An anxious, eccentric celebration of the mundane informed by post-punk, noise, no wave, and drone.