title: Thierry Amar
text: # Thierry Amar
  
  Thierry Amar is a Canadian musician, engineer and producer. He is a member of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band, Earthquake Architecture, The Craig Pedersen Quartet and Black Ox Orkestar.
  
  He is co-founder/creator of Hotel2Tango.
  
  ## Career
  
  Amar joined Godspeed You! Black Emperor around the time of its debut album, F♯ A♯ ∞. He, with Mauro Pezzente, plays the electric bass in the group. When playing with Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band or Black Ox Orkestar, he usually plays double bass. He also played violin on the EP The "Pretty Little Lightning Paw" E.P..
  
  Amar is also a singer for Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band, which shares vocals with all of its band members.
  
  Along with Howard Bilerman, Efrim Menuck and Radwan Moumneh, Amar owns and operates the Hotel2Tango. Once a living space, it is now a professional recording studio, practice area, and live performance venue.
  
  In 2006, Amar, with Efrim Menuck and Sophie Trudeau, assisted in the recording of Carla Bozulich's first release for Constellation, Evangelista.
  
  ## Discography
  
  ### with Godspeed You! Black Emperor
  
  * F♯ A♯ ∞ (1998)
  * Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada (1999)
  * Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (2000)
  * Yanqui U.X.O. (2002)
  * 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! (2012)
  * Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress (2015)
  * Luciferian Towers (2017)
  * G_d's Pee at State's End! (2021)
  
  ### with A Silver Mt. Zion
  
  * He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms... (2000)
  * Born into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward (2001)
  * "This Is Our Punk-Rock," Thee Rusted Satellites Gather + Sing,, (2003)
  * The "Pretty Little Lightning Paw" E.P. (2004)
  * Horses in the Sky (2005)
  * 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons (2008)
  * Kollaps Tradixionales (2010)
  * Hang On to Each Other (2014)
  
  ### with Black Ox Orkestar
  
  * Ver Tanzt? (2004)
  * Nisht Azoy (2006)
  