Slow Riot for New Zerø Canada
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| Extended Play by Godspeed You! Black Emperor | ||||
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Publication |
March 8, 1999 |
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admission |
1998 |
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| Label (s) | Constellation Records CST006 , Kranky KRANK034 | |||
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Format (s) |
CD, LP |
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Title (number) |
2 |
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running time |
28:36 |
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Studio (s) |
The Gas Station, Toronto |
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Slow Riot for New ZERO Canada is the first EP by Godspeed You! Black Emperor , released in 1999 on the Montreal record label Constellation Records and later re-released by Kranky Records in Chicago .
packaging
The artwork and the packaging of the EP only briefly mentions the name of the band or the record. The names are not on the cover or on the back cover. Only in the liner notes is the name Godspeed You! Black Emperor mentioned. The album title is only on the back of the CD. The song titles are not mentioned at all.
The CD's jewel case is also unusual. It does not open - as usual - on the right, but on the left. This is due to the Hebrew text on the cover, which is read from right to left.
When transcribed, the Hebrew letters are "Tohu va bohu" ( תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ). Tohu va bohu is used in both Genesis 1: 2 and Jeremiah 4:23. One could translate it as “wasteland” and “nothing”. The King James Bible translates it in Genesis 1: 2 with “without form, and void”, the German Luther Bible (version 1984) with “wüst und leer”. In the inlay of the CD, this text is placed in a higher context through an excerpt from Jer 4: 23-27 - in both Hebrew and English .
The back cover of the EP shows a diagram with Italian instructions on how to make a Molotov cocktail .
BBF3
The song title "BBF3" refers to the interviewee , who calls himself "Blaise Bailey Finnegan III", whose eccentric and angry statements form the core of the song. He is interviewed by the band in a field recording . Finnegan quotes a poem that he allegedly wrote himself, but it actually consists of the lyrics to Virus , a song by the hard rock band Iron Maiden , which was written by their then singer Blaze Bayley . GY! BE apparently didn't know anything about it when they released the EP. Blaise Bailey Finnegan III is most likely the same person interviewed at the beginning of the song Providence (on her first studio album F♯A♯∞ , 1997) and some versions of BBF3 also include this sample.
Track list
- Moya - 10:51
- BBF3 - 17:45
Web links
- Slow Riot for New Zerø Canada on the Constellation Records official website.
Individual evidence
- ^ William L. Holladay: A concise Hebrew and Aramaic lexicon of the Old Testament . 1971.