Eat yr heart out post rock swell-on from GY!BE man Efrim Manuel Menuck and Kevin Doria ov ambient/noise unit Growing . “Efrim Manuel Menuck — founding member of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Thee Silver Mt. Zion — and Kevin Doria from Growing and Total Life, are now officially a duo. Menuck recruited Doria to help him translate his acclaimed 2018 album Pissing Stars from the studio to the stage, and the pair have been touring under the Efrim Manuel Menuck moniker for the pasty ear (often with Doria’s latest solo project KGD opening the proceedings). They’ve also been co-writing piles of new material, diving deeper into whirling maximalist electronics, still shot through with Menuck’s incantatory singing awash in plaintive distortion and hope.
Canadian musician Efrim Manuel Menuck was born in Montreal Canada, November 22, 1970. Famed for his work as a guitarist and prominent member of the ground-breaking Montreal post-rock bands Godspeed You! Black Emperor and A Silver Mt. Zion, Menuck is also an established music producer in the Montreal area.
Pissing Stars is a fever dream whose central tensions feel all too real. Of course, Menuck never has and is never likely to create straightforward, routine, or prosaic music. Consequently, it's down to his expressive soundscapes to drive the narrative…