Hrsta

Hrsta
Hrsta
Origin	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Genres	Post-rock
Years active	2001–present
Label	Constellation Records
Members	Mike Moya; Brooke Crouser; Harris Newman; Eric Craven; Lisa Gamble; Nick Kuepfer
Past members	Geneviève Heistek; Sophie Trudeau

Hrsta (stylized as HṚṢṬA) (/ˈhɜːrʃtə/; Sanskrit: हृष्ट hṛṣṭa [ɦr̩ʂʈɐ], 'thrilling with rapture', 'rejoiced'¹²) is a Montreal post-rock band currently signed to Constellation Records. The band's leader, Mike Moya (guitar and vocals), was one of the founding members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor. The other members of the band are Brooke Crouser, Harris Newman, and Eric Craven. Lisa Gamble joined in 2007 and Nick Kuepfer in 2009.

Hrsta's sound has been compared to that of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Set Fire to Flames, owing to Mike Moya's contributions to each. Hrsta, however, differs from these previous projects in that it features Moya as a vocalist.

Their latest album, Ghosts Will Come and Kiss Our Eyes, was released in the fall of 2007.³

Discography

L'éclat du ciel était insoutenable (Album, 2001)
Stem Stem in Electro (Album, 2005)
Ghosts Will Come and Kiss Our Eyes (Album, 2007)

Participation in other projects

Molasses - Mike Moya and Lisa Gamble
Elizabeth Anka Vajagic's live band - Mike Moya
Lonesome Hanks - Mike Moya
Set Fire to Flames - Mike Moya and Brooke Crouser
Harris Newman - Harris Newman, solo project
Sackville - Harris Newman, Eric Craven and Geneviève Heistek
Hangedup - Eric Craven and Geneviève Heistek
Shortwave - Eric Craven
Jackie-O Motherfucker - Brooke Crouser
Swords Project - Brooke Crouser
Gambletron - Lisa Gamble
Evangelista - Lisa Gamble
Clues - Lisa Gamble

References

Monier Monier-Williams; Ernst Leumann; Carl Cappeller (1899). A Sanskrit-English Dictionary: Etymologically and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate Indo-European Languages. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 1303.
"Monier-Williams IAST'ed". University of Washington. Archived from the original on 2010-03-16.
Ghosts will Come and Kiss Our Eyes at AllMusic. Retrieved Jan 2, 2026.

External links

Hrsta homepage
Constellation Records
Alien8 Recordings Archived 2011-02-08 at the Wayback Machine

[1] Monier Monier-Williams; Ernst Leumann; Carl Cappeller (1899). A Sanskrit-English Dictionary: Etymologically and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate Indo-European Languages. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 1303.

[2] "Monier-Williams IAST'ed". University of Washington. Archived from the original on 2010-03-16.

[3] Ghosts will Come and Kiss Our Eyes at AllMusic. Retrieved Jan 2, 2026.

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