Black Ox Orkestar is a quartet that formed in Montreal, Quebec in 2000 who play modern Jewish diasporic music that draws influence from Klezmer, Romani, Arabic, Balkan and other East European traditions alongside indie rock, experimental folk and avant-jazz. The band interprets traditional tunes and composes originals sung primarily in Yiddish. The members are Thierry Amar, Scott Gilmore, Gabriel Levine and Jessica Moss; they were also active in various other notable Montréal bands in the 1990s-2000s including Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt. Zion and Sackville. Thierry Amar continues to play in Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Jessica Moss pursues a solo practice rooted in electroacoustic violin composition. Black Ox Orkestar released two albums on Constellation Records in 2004 and 2006. The band reunited in 2021 and announced a new album Everything Returns on 20 October 2022, which was released on 02 December 2022. History They formed in the summer of 2000 to explore their common Jewish heritage through music, which was entirely acoustic and sung in Yiddish. Constellation Records released two albums, Ver Tanzt?, in 2004. and Nisht Azoy in 2006, both albums recorded in Montreal's Hotel2Tango studio) The band played live through 2006. Following the band's hiatus, Thierry Amar (contrabass) continued as a member of Thee Silver Mt. Zion, and Godspeed You! Black Emperor and is one of the one of the co-founders of Hotel2Tango recording studio in Montreal. Scott Levine Gilmore (vocals, cymbalom, guitar, mandolin, piano played with Thee Silver Mt. Zion and Land of Kush (with composer Sam Shalabi). He played in Luftmentsch Fareyn (with Josh Dolgin), and was a founding member of Le Petit Théâtre de l'Absolu, a puppet theatre that toured through Israel and the West Bank in 2003. Gabriel Levine (clarinet, bass clarinet), guitar) played in Sackville, and Land of Kush and the Wild Lawns. He worked in Vermont for the Bread and Puppet Theater, and was a co-founder of Le Petit Théâtre de l'Absolu. Levine has published Art and Tradition in a Time of Uprisings with MIT Press in 2020 Jessica Moss (violin) has released five solo records in her own name, was a member of Thee Silver Mt. Zion, and has contributed to recordings by Vic Chesnutt, Carla Bozulich, Big Brave, Sarah Davachi, and Broken Social Scene Following an interview with Jewish Currents magazine conducted in August 2020, the group has reunited and recorded their first new music in more