Best Ever Albums - 2,000 - 1,001 - 1,848 A Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace The Corners of our Rooms

 

I like a bit of portentiousness. Some would call it pretentiousness. That's a slippery term. And subjective I'd say. People use it about things they don't understand and as a judgement on others..

 Silver Mt. Zion were a project for Godspeed You ! Black Emperor's Efrim Menuck. Godspeed. A collective who are no strangers to high vaulting artistic missions and bold artistic statements.

He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace The Corners of our Rooms, was a great discovery and experience last night and again earlier this morning. It was not a record to process so much as experience in an immersive way,

I found it a tonic at a moment when people are having political demonstrations on the streets of England where people are expressing themselves in inchoate and furious rage against other human beings who have different coloured skin from the skin that they have. And with no more coherence or rationale than that. Listening to this was a restful, soothing suite. A ride a much as a rite. A thing of incredible power and beauty 

Music for me is not really a escape so much as an alternative. A vision, This is truly a sustained vision.