13 Blues for Thirteen Moons

Infobox Album
Name = 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons
Type = Studio
Artist = Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band


Released = 10 March, 2008 (Europe)
Recorded = Hotel2Tango
Genre = Progressive rock
Art rock
Post-rock
Length = 59:10
Label = Constellation
Producer =
Reviews =
*Sonic Frontiers [http://www.sonicfrontiers.net/php/review-172.html link]
*The Skinny rating|4|5 [http://www.skinnymag.co.uk/content/view/6714/ link]
*Pitchfork Media (5.2/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/49479-13-blues-for-thirteen-moons link]
*Allmusic.com rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:39fuxzrjldje link]
*The Silent Ballet (6/10) [http://thesilentballet.com/dnn/Reviews/EntireList/tabid/99/ctl/Details/mid/483/ItemID/1257/Default.aspx link]
Last album = "Horses in the Sky" (2005)
This album = "13 Blues for Thirteen Moons" (2008)
Next album =
Misc =

"13 Blues for Thirteen Moons" is the fifth full-length album by the Canadian post-rock group, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band. The album was released in March 2008. [cite web| url=http://www.alarmpress.com/1775/music-news/thee-silver-mt-zion-announces-13-blues-for-thirteen-moons/| title= Thee Silver Mt. Zion Announces 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons] [cite web| url=http://www.musicremedy.com/s/Silver_Mt_Zion/album/13_Blues_For_Thirteen_Moons-4725.html| title= Silver Mt Zion - 13 Blues For Thirteen Moons] [cite web| url=http://www.cstrecords.com/cst_news.html| title= Constellation Records - News] The album consists of an instrumental intro, split into twelve extremely short tracks, and four full songs, which had been played live on recent tours. [cite web| url=http://www.cstrecords.com/mailorder_silvermtzion_can.html| title= Constellation Records]

The liner notes are found in the CD booklet titled "Himnos de Sion". The booklet also contains lyric sheets, presented in the block-capital handwriting that will be familiar to owners of other Silver Mt Zion records. As such, this is the first ever album package by Silver Mt Zion to contain what appear to be words to all the songs on the record in written form.

Track listing

# [untitled] – 0:05
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# [untitled] – 0:07
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# [untitled] – 0:11
# "1,000,000 Died to Make This Sound" – 14:42
# "13 Blues for Thirteen Moons" – 16:45
# "Black Waters Blowed / Engine Broke Blues" – 13:05
# "BlindBlindBlind" – 13:17

Personnel

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band

*Efrim Menuck – guitar, vocals
*Thierry Amar – contrabass, electric bass, vocals
*Sophie Trudeau – violin, vocals
*Jessica Moss – violin, vocals
*Ian Ilavsky - guitar, organ
*Beckie Foon – cello, vocals
*Eric Craven – drums, vocals

Other musicians

*Brian Lipson – trumpet (on "13 Blues for Thirteen Moons")
*Nadia Moss – organ (on "13 Blues for Thirteen Moons")

Technical

*Howard Bilerman and Radwan Moumneh – producers
*Harris Newman – mastering

References