Thierry Amar

Infobox musical artist
Name = Thierry Amar


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Background = solo_singer
Born = Canada
Genre = Post-rock
Occupation = Musician, Singer
Years_active = 1997 – present
Label = Constellation
Kranky (1998 – 2002)
Associated_acts = Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band
Black Ox Orkestar
Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Thierry Amar is a Canadian musician. He is most notable for participating in Godspeed You! Black Emperor, as well as being co-founder of Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band with Efrim Menuck and Sophie Trudeau.Cite web|url=http://www.cstrecords.com/bands_silvermtzion.html|title=A Silver Mt. Zion biography|accessdate=2006-12-23|publisher=Constellation Records|year=2006|author=Constellation Records|work=Bands Index|format=html] Amar also participates with Black Ox Orkestar, a Yiddish folk band.

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. However, when playing with Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band or Black Ox Orkestar,Cite web|url=http://www.cstrecords.com/bands_blackox.html|title=Black Ox Orkestar biography|accessdate=2006-12-23|publisher=Constellation Records|year=2006|author=Constellation Records|work=Bands Index|format=html] he can most often be found using the double bass. He was also once found playing violin on the EP "The "Pretty Little Lightning Paw" E.P.".Cite web|url=http://www.cstrecords.com/cst030_release_info.html|title=Thee Silver Mountain Reveries – "The "Pretty Little Lightning Paw" E.P."|accessdate=2006-12-23|publisher=Constellation Records|year=2006|author=Constellation Records|work=Bands index|format=html]

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, one of the most prominent orchestras in the world.

In 2006, Amar, with Efrim Menuck and Sophie Trudeau, assisted in the recording of Carla Bozulich's first release for Constellation, "Evangelista".Cite web|url=http://www.cstrecords.com/cst041_release_info.html|title=Carla Bozulich – "Evangelista"|accessdate=2006-12-23|publisher=Constellation Records|year=2006|author=Constellation Records|work=Bands Index|format=html]

Discography

with Godspeed You! Black Emperor

*"F#A#∞" (1998)
*"Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada EP" (1999)
*"Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven" (2000)
*"Yanqui U.X.O." (2002)

with A Silver Mt. Zion

*"He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms…" (2000)
*"Born into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward" (2001)
*""This Is Our Punk-Rock," Thee Rusted Satellites Gather + Sing," (2003)
*"The "Pretty Little Lightning Paw" E.P." (2004)
*"Horses in the Sky" (2005)
*"13 Blues for Thirteen Moons" (2008)

with Black Ox Orkestar

*"Ver Tanzt?" (2004)
*"Nisht Azoy" (2006)

References

External links

* [http://www.cstrecords.com Constellation Records Official Homepage]
* [http://www.tra-la-la-band.com A Silver Mt. Zion Official Homepage]
* [http://www.hotel2tango.com Hotel2Tango Official Homepage]

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SHORT DESCRIPTION= Musician, Singer
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