Sunday Mix Tape – A SIlver Mt. Zion’s “Old Thund’rous Mixtape #1”

Rather than return to the hackneyed formula of scouring one of my hard drives for some new tunes you haven’t heard, I figured I would take tonight off. It’s Valentine’s Day, after all, surely there’s something more rewarding I could be doing. That’s when I remembered how A Silver Mt. Zion‘s — yes I still refer to them as their first incarnation — Efrim Menuck recently posted his own “mix tape” on his band’s website. Of course, it was either taken down by the-powers-that-be or by his own hand a short while after, but a couple small blogs picked up on it and shared the compilation with us. My rudimentary understanding of Russian helped me finally locate the damned thing after days of searching. Now here it is for your listening pleasure. Some of these artists you’ll recognize from my own mixes, from the canonic MC5 and Television to the slightly more arcane International Harvester. Maybe you’ll like Judy Henske more now that she’s A Silver Mt. Zion approved.

“i know, with a terrible certainty, that one day my son will turn to me and ask, “why are they called mix-tapes? huh what’s a tape? why isn’t it called a ‘mix-file’?”, and like a melancholy robot, overcome with nostalgia for the lost tactility of certain dead technologies, and keenly aware that me too i’m a dead technology, i’ll put my dumb arms around him and weep like a motherless child.” – Efrim

Various Artists
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Tracklisting:
01. Billy Childish’s Armitage Sharks – Shirts Off
02. Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood Of Breath – MRA
03. Judy Henske – Love Henry
04. Blind Willie McTell – Delia
05. Television – Prove It (Demo 1975)
06. The Flying Burrito Brothers – Wheels
07. Soul Messengers – Our Lord And Savior
08. Swan Arcade – Babylon
09. Raymond Scott – The Bass Line Generator
10. Crass – You’ve Got Big Hands
11. MC5 – Borderline
12. William Bell – I Forgot To Be Your Lover
13. Ben E. King – It’s All Over
14. International Harvester – Sommarlaten / The Summer Song
15. Kletka Red – Prizadujumal
16. Nina Simone – Everything Must Change (Live 1977)
17. Itzhak Perlman & Vladimir Ashkenazy – Brahms Violin Sonata No.1 In G Major, Op.78: I. Vivace Ma Non Troppo
18. Waylon Jennings – 6 White Horses
19. L’Eglise Orthodoxe Ethiopienne De Jerusalem – La Messe Ethiopienne: Litanies De La Veillee De L’Assomption