― Ivan G (Ivan), Friday, 22 September 2006 05:17 (seventeen years ago) link
This is excellent. Sometimes it's jazz in a fairly straight ahead way, sometimes it's more modern classical (usually with a downton NYC sort of feel), with melodies and harmonies that often seem like they would work in pop. I hear things that remind me of Steve Reich, Joan LaBarbara (although mostly her vocal technique is pretty standard), maybe Bjork? Even Shiina Ringo, though I don't want to say it, because I'm sure any resemblance there is strictly coincidental. There's also someone else (I think) doing Persian classical vocals in a couple places. I certainly find it more interesting than most of Zorn's own Jewish tinge recordings. The biggest drawback (for me) might turn out to be that it tends to be a very theatrical sort of recording, which I find tends to wear out more quickly for me. The lyrics are all from the Songs of Songs (sung in the Hebrew) and I think the theatrical tone of the music comess out of the way the original text is written as a dialogue. But it's very good and after a few listens, I'm still feeling I need to listen several times to get a better handle on it, which isn't to say it's inaccessible, just fairly rich.
― R_S (RSLaRue), Saturday, 4 November 2006 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link
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― R_S (RSLaRue), Saturday, 4 November 2006 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link
not destroy so much as, well, just kinda uneven: the two milford graves solo records. both have their moments, particularly "transcendence" on grand unification. but too much of the material sounds unfocused, nowhere near the impact of his esp-disk with sunny morgan.
― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Saturday, 4 November 2006 23:16 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 7 May 2007 01:23 (seventeen years ago) link
So are any of these Radical Jewish Culture series discs I keep seeing any good?
― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 04:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes. Let me just add that I love Tzadik. Whenever I don't have anything to listen to I look up what's at Tzadik. The tribute to Marc Bolan is one of the best tribute albums I've ever heard.
― filthy dylan, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 07:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Erik Friedlander's installment of the Book of Angels is on my to-buy list.
― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 12 November 2007 02:08 (sixteen years ago) link
the New Klezmer Trio discs are great...
― m0stlyClean, Monday, 12 November 2007 14:05 (sixteen years ago) link
this thread is too large to read all, but...
- George Lewis- Voyager - Barbez- Force of Light (saw them last week and was blown away) - any of the Painkiller records - Yosunao Tone- Songs for Wounded CD - any of the Zeena Parkins records
and there are so many more good ones that i can't think of off the top of my head.
― the table is the table, Monday, 12 November 2007 16:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Otomo Yoshihide New Jazz Ensemble Dreams is a good one - kind of noir-lounge jazz with plaintive vocals by Japanese singers Phew and Togawa Jun - with some interesting touches, like the sine waves provided by Sachiko M - covering tunes by Asa-Chang & Junray and Jim O'Rourke.
― o. nate, Monday, 12 November 2007 17:14 (sixteen years ago) link
hmm, i'll have to check out that one. i had an intense love affair with asa-chang & jun-ray a few years ago.
― the table is the table, Monday, 12 November 2007 21:01 (sixteen years ago) link
So has anyone heard the new Book of Angels? Mycale? It looks super amazing, it has Ayelet Rose Gottlieb and Basya Schecter (ie: Pharoah's Daughter) singing on it. I don't see any instruments on the personal list, so it might all be vocal, which is awesome. Too bad no Jewlia Eisenberg, tho :(
― Mordy, Monday, 25 January 2010 15:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Saw Zorn tonight, bitchin show.
― Mordy, Thursday, 18 February 2010 04:59 (fourteen years ago) link
what kind of thing is he doing these days? The last time I saw him was a show at Tonic w/Ribot, Medeski, and ben perowsky and it unexpectedly turned out to be almost entirely straight gutbucket preachy soul jazz. I guess i have a hard time even imagining what Zorn 2010 plays out like
― Bangelo, Thursday, 18 February 2010 06:03 (fourteen years ago) link
he seems to be enjoying his faux-naive easy-listening jazz these days (via his dreamers project), but it comes across as a bit too cynical to have he same charm as, say, vince guaraldi or bill wells.
it's probably the first phase of zorn's career to have zero appeal for me, tbh.
― m the g, Thursday, 18 February 2010 10:02 (fourteen years ago) link
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― Mordy, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 23:58 (eleven years ago) link
anton brühin and koichi makigami's "electric eel" is a long time favourite. jaw harps & buzzing & gibbering. gets cosmic.sajjanu's "pechiku!!" is tangled anti-rock slapstick beefhearty twang action with thee most intermittent rockingest stop start interludes if they go on a riff for 10 seconds it seems like an eternity, and it always seems like the best riff you never heard. goofy cross-eyed genius. monster tension release dialogue in this.
― iglu ferrignu, Friday, 12 October 2012 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_250/MI0003/481/MI0003481561.jpg
gorgeous
― Mordy, Sunday, 31 March 2013 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
holy crap this track "pale of settlement" is insanely good. total klezmer-riff blizzards
― Mordy, Sunday, 31 March 2013 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
search: jacques coursil, minimal brass. fucking astounding.
^ this. Brilliant record, one of the best of the decade (and it comes after a 37-year recording hiatus!)
― Darth Magus (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 31 March 2013 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
Metheny does Masada on its way ...
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 1 April 2013 02:50 (eleven years ago) link
lotta tzadik reviews on freejazz-stef lately:
http://www.freejazzblog.org/
― j., Monday, 1 April 2013 03:00 (eleven years ago) link
http://c3.cduniverse.ws/resized/250x500/music/145/8892145.jpgAnthony Coleman - The End of Summer.Listened to this a lot lately, very somber and sad music about loss, very beautifully performed and with lots of Morton Feldman and Scelsi influences, but Coleman's compositions have their own voice. Very much recommended.
http://c3.cduniverse.ws/resized/250x500/music/845/8837845.jpgPhantom Orchard Orchestra - Trouble in ParadiseThe duo of Zeena Parkins and Ikue Mori, augmented with five players (two of them are Parkins' sisters). Stand-out track is the 10-minute 'Red, Blue and Green', which sounds as a through-composed piece rather than improvised as most of the other material.
http://c3.cduniverse.ws/resized/250x500/music/317/7900317.jpgRob Burger - City of StrangersSounds like a Tin Hat album and as good as one.
― EvR, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZipYpex68tg/UZs78-OuFAI/AAAAAAAANlU/ehsLEG4mGgI/s200/cover.jpgPat Metheny - Book of Angels Volume 20: TapThis will come as a surprise to PM's fans, but less so for those who know the BoA series, for whom this is just another cd in the series. There's nothing wrong with this cd, but I wish this was a group affair like his latest Quartet-cd, rather than an immensely overdubbed recording where Metheny plays almost every instrument (except for the drums).
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_250/MI0000/422/MI0000422055.jpg?partner=allrovi.comMorton Feldman - Patterns in a Chromatic FieldFeldman goes jump-cut style! Ok, less radical than Zorn's own compositions, but still...new ideas are introduced and abandoned every few minutes, and the mood is always changing. Challenging music, and long...the disc is over 80 minutes but very enjoyable (ok I'm a Feldman fan, so I'm happy with everything he did).
http://www.israbox.com/uploads/posts/2013-03/1364677772_front.jpgJohn Zorn - Filmworks XXV: City of SlaughterAs mentioned above, Zorn's latest Filmworks-cd, consisting of only solo piano music. Interesting not only for Zorn's own piano playing, but also for a beautiful version of 'Beyond the Infinite' by Rob Burger.
― EvR, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Methodology for Experimental County Population Estimates for the (_Rudipherous_), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
yes, the Metheny-cd was released this month.
― EvR, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Mordy , Wednesday, 29 May 2013 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― 誤訳侮辱, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
PM's fans will know not to be too surprised by anything, surely.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 30 May 2013 03:20 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 30 May 2013 03:36 (eleven years ago) link
have to review the Metheny disc for Jazziz, even though from what I've heard it is not in any way a jazz album.
― EvR, Thursday, 30 May 2013 07:24 (eleven years ago) link
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.)
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 1 June 2013 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
i'm working on one of the Zorn @ 60 shows; he's doing a "purely improvisational" session with Ryuichi Sakamoto in October.
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 1 June 2013 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
Is he doing as big a series of shows as the @50 series?
― Thank you for talkin' to me Williamsburg (WilliamC), Saturday, 1 June 2013 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, internationally.http://www.lincolncenterfestival.org/zorn-60/https://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=14834http://www.lepoissonrouge.com/event_attributes/zorn60/http://fimav.qc.ca/en/edition/john-zorn-60/
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 1 June 2013 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
i mean i dunno how it stacks up against the @50 honestly, but he's doing a lotta shows through september.
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 1 June 2013 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
Really want to see that Moonchild show - that's my favorite thing he's done since the Painkiller albums.
― 誤訳侮辱, Saturday, 1 June 2013 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
Eyvind Kang's new interpretations of Book of Angels songs album is as dazzling and exquisite as could be expected.
― xelab, Thursday, 1 May 2014 19:33 (ten years ago) link
ooh, cool. i was looking forward to that.
― Mordy, Thursday, 1 May 2014 19:33 (ten years ago) link
yes, exciting!!
― original bgm, Thursday, 1 May 2014 19:55 (ten years ago) link
kind of amazing that Tzadik is still doing their thing, almost 20 years on.
― festival culture (Jordan), Thursday, 1 May 2014 20:00 (ten years ago) link
They truly release what the hell they want from Guerilla Toss to Haggai Cohen-Milo, long may they continue.
― xelab, Thursday, 1 May 2014 20:06 (ten years ago) link
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)
― xelab, Thursday, 1 May 2014 20:40 (ten years ago) link
yea I also wonder how the label keeps going sometimes. so many releases and only cds!
― original bgm, Thursday, 1 May 2014 21:36 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Dominique, Thursday, 1 May 2014 21:40 (ten years ago) link