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Godspeed You! Black Emperor

  • 8:30pm Sunday, January 31, 201610:00pm Monday, February 1, 2016

Legendary intrumental collective Godspeed You! Black Emperor bring their crescendo orchestral heavy sounds to the Wonder for 2 nights this Winter. GYBE's shows sell out fast, so take advantage of our presale and get your tickets early.

The instrumental multimedia Montreal group Godspeed You! Black Emperor create extended, repetition-oriented chamber rock. The minimal and patient builds-to-crescendo of the group's compositions results in a meditative and hypnotic listen that becomes almost narrative when combined with found-sound splices and the films of their visual collaborators.

GY!BE performances generally include at least nine or more musicians and a projectionist. The instrumentation consists of three guitars, two basses, French horn, violin, viola, cello, and percussion. The year 2000 brought about the release of Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven, pushing their diverse orchestral rock sound even further into the universe.

GY!BE played sporadically for much of 2013 and 2014 as they worked on their sixth album. Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress was recorded in Montreal and North Carolina; it marked the band's first single LP-length release since 1999. Recorded and mixed by Greg Norman, it was issued in the spring of 2015.

Two nights show. 
1/31 tickets ~ Sold Out
2/1 tickets: http://bit.ly/GYBE201POR

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