Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada
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| EP by Godspeed You! Black Emperor | |||||
| Released | March 8, 1999 | ||||
| Recorded | The Gas Station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||||
| Genre | Post-rock | ||||
| Length | 28:36 | ||||
| Label | Constellation CST006 Kranky KRANK034 |
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Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada is the first EP released by Godspeed You! Black Emperor on the Montreal-based record label Constellation records in 1999.
The front of the album contains Hebrew characters, in transliterated form, "tohu va vohu". This phrase is used in both Genesis 1:2 and Jeremiah 4:23, and means loosely "and lo, it was waste and void" The dots and dashes above the letters are called trope. They dictate the tune and intonation and are found in the Torah as well as the rest of the Hebrew Bible. On the inside cover, this text is put into greater context, with Jeremiah 4:23–27 provided in both Hebrew and English (seemingly the Jewish Publication Society version):
- 23 I beheld the earth,
- And, lo, it was waste and void;
- And the heavens, and they had no light.
- 24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled,
- And all the hills moved to and fro.
- 25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man,
- And all the birds of the heavens were fled.
- 26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful field was a wilderness,
- And all the cities thereof were broken down
- At the presence of the LORD,
- And before His fierce anger.
- 27 For thus saith the LORD:
- The whole land shall be desolate;
- Yet will I not make a full end.
The back of the album contains a diagram with instructions in Italian on how to make a molotov cocktail.
"BBF3" refers to the vox pop interviewee, Blaise Bailey Finnegan III, whose eccentric ramblings form the core of the EP's second track. Finnegan recites a poem which he claims to have written himself. The poem is, in fact, mostly composed of lyrics from the song "Virus" by Iron Maiden that were written by their then-vocalist, Blaze Bayley. Blaise Bailey Finnegan III is apparently the same person being interviewed at the beginning of F♯A♯∞'s "Providence," and indeed some concert performances of "BBF3" also incorporate that sample. Additionally, the "Providence" sample was used by the band to end their performance of "Steve Reich" during their live session for VPRO Radio in 1998.
[edit] Track listing
- "Moya" – 10:51
- "BBF3" – 17:45
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