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 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!
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.
Levine has published Art and Tradition in a Time of Uprisings with MIT Press in 2020 [7] Jessica Moss (violin) has released five solo records in her own name, was a member of Thee Silver Mt.
In 2001, Le Petit Theatre de L'Absolu performed at the Chicago Cultural Center as part of Puppetropolis,[10] a two-week, city-sponsored festival of puppet theater.
[11] In the autumn of 2003, the theatre toured their children's show, The Rooster and the King, through the occupied Palestinian territories, performing in schools, community centres, and refugee camps.
The alt.theatre journal described their work as "activist puppet theatre ... using history to rekindle revolutionary flames and tackle contemporary social issues.
Steve Abrams writes that they performed "Birds of the Coming Storm, directed by Hermine Ortega, [which] offered stories of seven anarchist demonstrators in 19th-century Chicago who were executed for protesting factory working conditions.