Constellation We were fortunate enough to have seen Esmerine a number of times many years ago and their chamber music / post-rock hybrid has a vitality of its own that translates well to the recorded format. I must confess to losing touch with them over the last little while, but here we are, five years on from 2017’s Mechanics Of Dominion with their third record in the trilogy […]
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Constellation Bruce Cawdron (Godspeed You! Black Emperor) and Becki Foon’s (Thee Silver Mt. Zion) latest release as Esmerine (now expanded to a quartet, with harpist Sarah Page and percussionist Andrew Barr) is dedicated to Lhasa de Sela, the Montréal-based singer-songwriter who succumbed to breast cancer in 2010. I know nothing about Lhasa, but I’m guessing this is a fitting and heartfelt tribute. The tones are uniformly elegiac and […]