Tzadik: Search & Destroy

Is that Metheny very new? I've never seen it before, but I haven't checked in with Tzadik for a while. Thanks for the updates.

yes, the Metheny-cd was released this month.

i love the city of slaughter - also of new stuff i really like the carlebach/fela kuti crossover zion80 album from jon madoff, and i'm greatly anticipating the metal album from deveykus coming out soonish

I have to review the Metheny disc for Jazziz, even though from what I've heard it is not in any way a jazz album.

PM's fans will know not to be too surprised by anything, surely.

Anyway, "Metheny plays Zorn" is basically the ultimate bait for me. (I LOVE The Gnostic Preludes feat Frisell and expect this will be every bit as good.) The iTunes clips sound promising. This is definitely going to be my next purchase.

have to review the Metheny disc for Jazziz, even though from what I've heard it is not in any way a jazz album.

Predictably, I love it, except for the last track. I can see it becoming my favourite album from this year. (Colin Stetson's the other contender right now.)

i'm working on one of the Zorn @ 60 shows; he's doing a "purely improvisational" session with Ryuichi Sakamoto in October.

Is he doing as big a series of shows as the @50 series?

yeah, internationally.
http://www.lincolncenterfestival.org/zorn-60/
https://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=14834
http://www.lepoissonrouge.com/event_attributes/zorn60/
http://fimav.qc.ca/en/edition/john-zorn-60/

i mean i dunno how it stacks up against the @50 honestly, but he's doing a lotta shows through september.

Really want to see that Moonchild show - that's my favorite thing he's done since the Painkiller albums.

Eyvind Kang's new interpretations of Book of Angels songs album is as dazzling and exquisite as could be expected.

ooh, cool. i was looking forward to that.

yes, exciting!!

kind of amazing that Tzadik is still doing their thing, almost 20 years on.

They truly release what the hell they want from Guerilla Toss to Haggai Cohen-Milo, long may they continue.

looking forward to this Haggai Cohen-Milo debut on Tzadik as well.

Hailing from Israel and currently living in Brooklyn, Haggai Cohen-Milo is a gifted bassist and composer exploring the nexus of Jazz and Jewish music. His Tzadik debut features a tight and exciting band of young virtuosos who passionately perform Haggai’s beautiful and lyrical compositions. Brilliant improvisations, poignant melodies and driving rhythms all come together in this exciting program of New Jewish music at its best.
(Release date: May 2014)

yea I also wonder how the label keeps going sometimes. so many releases and only cds!

big grant for Zorn helped. Plus these days they often don't pay anything to artists (other than giving them copies of CDs). They rarely reprint CDs, and have a built-in market of experimental music buyers, so can afford to do lots of small run new releases.

Another case of a Genius grant supporting old media tsk tsk

ah, yes. forgot about that grant.

Well fuck whoever is losing out in this Genius grant deal because I doubt they are as worthwhile and unique as Tzadik.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga3E-70u4g0

the grant all went to the Stone if i'm not mistaken

that could well be, i would imagine it didn't hurt the long term financial health of tzadik tho'

the stone is great, I'm ok with that too

tho they should use the remaining genius grant funds to add an rss feed to the stone's website because I never remember to check it and always miss out on cool stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB4HfSRq3fw

It's always been my understanding that the "big-name" releases (Zorn's own stuff, Laswell, others) pay for the really off-the-wall ones destined to sell in the dozens of copies. Plus they never do publicity or anything, so expenses are low.

I wonder who the pianist is on that Eyvind Kang track. Sounds like Anthony Coleman's style.

Kang himself is the only pianist listed in the album credits.

the kang album is so good. thanks for the recommendation xelab

also liking zorn's 'fragmentations, prayers and interjections" release

"sakriel" on the kang album is shocking + beautiful

Missed the Bladerunner tour (Zorn/Laswell/Lombardo), but I could get down with Zorn releasing something from this nu-Painkiller project.

"also liking zorn's 'fragmentations, prayers and interjections" release"
Just caught up with this tonight and am blown away, particularly with Kol Nidre, which is so majestic and very beautiful. Holy shit!

yes otm kol nidre my standout track too

This is a different version but still as essential.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5DbKzbLzUU

the grant all went to the Stone if i'm not mistaken

― whatchutola khomeini (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, May 1, 2014 3:16 PM (2 weeks ago)

i thought he spent it on the label and recording/touring, but maybe i'm confusing him with kenny vandermark

pretty excited for this - comes out on the 27th:

Ty Citerman celebrates the May 27 release of his latest CD "Bop Kabbalah" on Tzadik Records (Radical Jewish Culture series) with a special concert performance by this fantastic new quartet of Ken Thomson (bass clarinet), Ben Holmes (trumpet), Adam D Gold (drums) and Citerman (guitar). Delving deep into his Jewish roots and drawing inspiration from sources as varied as the Beat Generation, medieval Eastern European and Asian music modes, and the rich depths of Kabbalistic mysticism, Citerman has fashioned an intense and colorful program of modernist music that blends klezmer, nigunim, jazz, rock, classical and more. With the acclaimed punk/jazz/new music ensemble Gutbucket, he has pioneered what Guitar Player called “kinetic punk-jazz opuses” that reveal “an explosive concoction containing lethal doses of Ornette Coleman, King Crimson, John Zorn, Black Sabbath, Stravinsky, and Fugazi” (The Guardian). Citerman's compositions for Bop Kabbalah explore his Jewish life, past and present – they are a soundtrack of memories and musings: the stories his grandmother told him growing up, an alternate version of his Bar Mitzvah, the day he played hooky from Hebrew school, his first trip to Israel, old-country recipes (Ty bakes a mean challah), jokes, family arguments and much more. Ty’s most ambitious and powerful project to date is also his most personal and heartfelt and gives a glimpse of 21st century new Jewish music to come.

(the album, i won't be able to attend the release concert)

Filmworks XXI: Belle de Nature/Rijksmuseum came up in shuffle, and it was lovely.

xp
That sounds brilliant and Bop Kabbalah is an ace title. Been listening to a lot of Omer Klein albums recently so loving music with old world Israeli/Middle Eastern influences. Not familiar with Ty's Gutbucket project which sounds like it is from the noisier Many Arms end of the spectrum.

Good little teaser here with short clips and Citerman talking about Bop Kabbalah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C73bvfMD-aQ

Staring to really dig his Gutbucket band as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwUEgWctPTs

John Zorn's acclaimed Arcana series, now in its seventh installment, is a major source on new music theory and practice in the twenty-first century. The most varied collection to date, Arcana VII includes personal essays by New Music luminaries Pat Metheny, Bryce Dessner, Irvine Arditti, Thurston Moore, Kenny Werner, Eugene Chadbourne and David Krakauer alongside articles on musical theory and practice by veterans Joe Morris, Matt Shipp, Ben Goldberg, Ches Smith, George Steel, Billy Martin, Hilda Paredes and Gloria Coates and insightful new views by younger musicians Chris Otto, James Moore, Theresa Wong, Shanir Blumenkranz, Jay Campbell, Du Yun, James Ilgenfritz, Chuck Bettis, Aya Nishina and many others. A kaleidoscope of manifestoes, scores, interviews, critical papers, musical studies, rants and more, Arcana VII is a fascinating compendium from first word to last.

http://www.amazon.com/Arcana-VII-Musicians-John-Zorn/dp/0978833740

there isn't that big an age difference between Ches Smith and Theresa Wong -- weird seeing one as a "veteran" and the other as a "younger musician"

I really like that Haggai Cohen-Milo release, it is a modest little album but very nice and quite moving. The Garden is one of my fave tracks right now.

http://i.imgur.com/PN3lMyZ.jpg

The Alchemist Live @ North Sea Jazz Festival July 13, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y61S791kCvQ

Zorn’s string quartets are some of the most important modern contributions to the canon and a new Zorn quartet is truly a cause for celebration. His sixth quartet is inspired by the hermetic Angelic actions of John Dee and is replete with the procedures of distillation, calcination, crystallization, sublimation, purification, rotation as well numerology, prayers, canons, contrapuntal complexity and the ghost of a familiar fugue. Also included is Zorn’s mystical response to the ancient Newgrange sacred site in Ireland, a beautiful and evocative setting of Amergin, one of the oldest Celtic sacred texts, written for three female voices.