Tzadik: Search & Destroy

Also: Has anyone ever seen her live installations?

Destroy: Well, so much of sounds fascinating, but besides not having the money, I'm always afraid that I'm getting suckered in by the tantalizing descriptions and won't actually listen to the records much. Therefore, I haven't heard much else from the label that doesn't have Zorn on it.

As far as other stuff on Tzadik goes, here's some recommendations:

Arnold Dreyblatt, Animal Magnetism - kinda like a cross between downtown minimalism and a marching band. Really great, esp. when played LOUD. Luc Ferrari, Cellule 75 - interesting pieces from probably the most interesting 20th Century (and still alive, I saw him a couple weeks ago) French composer, played by William Winant and some other people. Jim O'Rourke, Terminal Pharmacy - admittedly not for everyone, but I like it.

Also, I don't have 'em, but the Milford Graves ones are good. Same with the already-mentioned Wadada Leo Smith.

I remember Susie Ibarra's Flower After Flower being good too.

TMFTML
http://intonation.blogspot.com

Marc Feldman "Music For Violin Alone" (This man is my hero)

Susie Abarra Trio

Ikue Mori "B/Side"

Masada String Trio

Jennifer Charles and Oren Bloedow's Tzadik release (blanking on the name).

Carla Kilstedht and Rob Berger from Tin Hat Trio both have solo albums coming out soon that are very interesting.

anthony coleman "sephardic tinge"

naked city (s/t and live releases)

"A native of Mexico, where as a young man he encountered and became friends with American marverick Conlon Nancarrow, Ernesto Martinez has been sculpting remarkably original polyrhythmic compositions for well over a decade. Inspired equally by Balinese Gamelan techniques, the player piano masterworks of Nancarrow, and Mexican folk traditions, Ernesto Martinez and his group Micro-ritmia blends complex and virtuosic hocketing techniques, meticulously performed on a combination of piano, marimba and altered guitars, with a striking sense of drama. Tzadik is proud to present the first recordings outside Mexico of this iconoclastic composer."

destroy: zorn

Some searches:

Massacre - Funny Valentine.
Ikue Mori - Garden is marvy too. Intricate layered Alessis drum machines.
Yes, Ibarra's Flower After Flower, absolutely.
Merzbow - 1930

Horse Tricks by Mark De Gli Antoni is one of my favorite albums of all time.

Yes to: destroy Zorn

Zorn's 50th Birthday Celebration Concerts Vol. 1: Masada String Trio (volume 2 is a Zorn/Graves duo disc, can't fucking wait!)

Kabell Years - Wadada Leo Smith (great reissue of 4 privately pressed 70s Smith albs w/ extra tracks etc. - all of the Wadada Tzadik releases I've heard are superb, and reason enough to 'justify' the label's existence)

Filmworks XIV: Hiding and Seeking - John Zorn (beautiful soundtrack recorded by most of the Electric Masada group)

Meditations for Piano - Borah Bergman ("solid enough")

Plus I finally heard Solo for Wounded CD by Yasunao Tone, a wonderful piece of electronica that offers a v. different take on micro-glitch

also 'ganryu island': a 'solid' improv sesh between zorn and michihiro sato.

''Zorn's 50th Birthday Celebration Concerts Vol. 1: Masada String Trio (volume 2 is a Zorn/Graves duo disc, can't fucking wait!)''

:-o

Cathode is also great, yes. First track is something I heard a couple of seconds of and knew I could easily listen to it if it went on for an hour or so.

I'm really looking forward to that Zorn/Graves cd too.

I n t e r e s t i n g sounds, but like much of this music, it doesn't hit me on an emotional level.

I definitely like Ibarra's own Folkloriko more.

This is from the Tzadik website :
http://www.tzadik.com/volume.php?VolumeID=745

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ExsXRpp0js

book of angels stuff has been on-point all year

9 tracks into Phantom Orchard Ensemble's Through the Looking-Glass and OMG this is great (http://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=4003). So many artists I love playing together and listening and connecting so well; a beautiful dreamscape.

I wonder who would be easier to stump: Robert Pollard about song titles or John Zorn about albums he has released.

I really am enjoying the 5049 Records podcasts lately. Read about them in The Wire and listened to a lot of them. That and the last Arcana volume of essays.

Eveningstar(Sun4r), are you aware of the album 'The Adorables´ by Zeena Parkins? Music similar to the Phantom Orchard projects.

No, I don't know that album. I'll look for it!

Featuring the same magical Templar quartet from “In Sacred Blood”, “The Last Judgment” is the final CD in the remarkable Moonchild septology. This project has explored many different worlds in the past 8 years, and this CD takes a moody and lyrical approach with Medeski’s organ fully integrated into the band. Once again inspired by the legend of the powerful Knights Templar and their tragic demise under accusations of heresy in 1307, Zorn has composed a suite of pieces with a strong sense of continuity and emotional impact. Mike Patton draws on every vocal technique in his huge arsenal and the rhythm section of Dunn and Baron are tighter than ever. The last piece of the Moonchild puzzle—essential!

Personnel:
Joey Baron: Drums
Trevor Dunn: Bass
John Medeski: Organ
Mike Patton: Voice

i've been hearing medeski everywhere recently (and he's great so no complaints) - this looks fab.

I would recommend Aram Bajakian's brilliant and seemingly underrated There Were Flowers Also In Hell lp from last year, well it isn't on Tzadik but his debut was and he is a former Zorn band member and sounds a bit like Ribot and I couldn't think of a more appropriate thread.

All the Moonchild albums are fantastic. The last two, In Sacred Blood and The Last Judgment, are basically prog rock.

http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=807438

The Book Of Angels 24 has a load of Mexican musicians on board and it is brilliant!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4YDYfN41VA

ooo i've been looking forward to that one, happy to hear it's great

I'm a bit hyped on it at the moment but would say it is one of the best, up there with the Kang one.

Wow, hearing "The Goddess" for the first time, what a lovely record.

Tzadik albums showing up on Spotify?

Mayim Rabim

Nothing on the Tzadik website about this to confirm, but the Tzadik Label facebook page has a post announcing everything is 25% off through the month of November to celebrate the label's 25th anniversary. https://www.facebook.com/TzadikLabel/posts/3780391991993906
Might be fake, can't tell.

Post now updated with "Give us a moment to figure out an unexpected delay for the sale. Sorry about the wait." Seems legit though, thanks for the heads up! Ive got a long list of discs I've been meaning to grab from them, thisll be the perfect excuse.

Ooops, dang: "For a variety of reasons out of our control we've had to cancel and re-evaluate our ability to celebrate with an anniversary sale at this time. Please continue to support Tzadik"

Email today from Downtown Music Gallery, the store that seems to handle Tzadik's mail order that theyre offering all Tzadik titles 25% off through December - but they seem to not know how to update the webstore? Email amusingly contains what appears to be a list of ALL in-print Tzadik titles with an invitation to email them directly to order. Seems like a clusterfuck in the making but I feel like I'll give it a shot.

Bought the complete Masada studio recordings box from DMG and just got the shipment confirmation email. Should be here before my birthday!

Nice one. Enjoy!

OK, fine, I'll buy one

I just bought one

Fomo really makes me want one, this is some of my favorite music, but I just can't pull the trigger on a pricey CD boxed set, especially for CDs I used to own.

I used to own two of the CDs but one went missing several years ago.

Maybe it's in the boxed set.

Box just arrived. The packaging is pretty sweet...

https://www.instagram.com/p/C0xNbD-vNNV/

Nice. Wish I could check out the book.

Looks fantastic. Let's see if one of these boxes makes it to Europe these days. Tzadik website is still down.

Does anyone know if the 'hour of rare alternate takes, rehearsals, and inserts' on the Masada box duplicates anything from the Sanhedrin two-disc set of unreleased Masada studio recordings?

Does anyone know if the 'hour of rare alternate takes, rehearsals, and inserts' on the Masada box duplicates anything from the Sanhedrin two-disc set of unreleased Masada studio recordings?

Not 100% sure, but I don't think so. There's only one overlapping track from Sanhedrin and Disc 4 of the box set ("Tiferet") and the new box set it says it's a rehearsal take. Discogs listing of the 10xCD box has no track times though so I'm not entirely sure.

Thanks!

Wait, the box is billed as the complete studio recordings, but it doesn't include Sanhedrin?

The box is the original 10 albums as they were issued in Japan in the 90s, with 7 bonus tracks (rehearsals, punch-ins and alternate takes) added to the fourth disc to bring it up from 20 minutes to 78. There’s a note in the book saying basically “there’s even more stuff on Sanhedrin!”.

Huh. At least "Sanhedrin" is on streaming.

I may wind up buying Sanhedrin at some point, but I got this box because I'd never owned any Masada stuff in physical form; I just downloaded the albums (and Sanhedrin) at some point.

I've got to admit, my adult brain is fighting the fomo ...

I came super close to buying this but didn't. I did, however, see that Second City Prints, which was handling Tzadik Limited stuff, just declared bankruptcy, and that some people that bought the autographed copy got a regular copy instead (and that SCP has not always been responding/refunding). Didn't Zorn recently get hosed by a *different* third party label that went bankrupt? Dude needs to find/pick better businesses.

Shoestring gonna shoestring, what can you really do

Anyway, you can get them mail order from Downtown Music Gallery

https://roulette.org/event/improv-nights-2024/

A BENEFIT FOR TZADIK RECORDS

Limited Run, the online distributor for Tzadik’s direct-to-consumer mail order projects has declared bankruptcy owing the label $70,000. To help rebalance this loss these kind musicians have generously offered to make these three concerts benefits for Tzadik.

Please come, donate, and help Tzadik continue its mission to support and document new music in the 21st century.

A three-night run bringing together master improvisers to perform in multiple configurations and combinations, organized by and featuring John Zorn with Ikue Mori, Wendy Eisenberg, Dave Douglas, Sean Ono Lennon, Peter Evans, Kalia Vandever, Miles Okazaki, and many others.

It's crazy to me how even artists I've been listening to for more than 30 years, who are known worldwide, are balancing on a knife's edge financially. Zorn, Laswell...these are major cultural figures, and they're basically living gig to gig.

Laswell I believe, especially after the last couple of years. But Zorn, I suspect he's doing fine between gigs, grants, etc. If people are curating multi-night festival appearances featuring him and several of his bands, I'd hope he's at least got some pretty good guarantees coming to him. Granted, he likely rolls a lot of that into his labels/projects, but that's a choice. (A choice I'm glad he's making, mind.)

Interview with Heung-Heung Chin: https://www.freejazzblog.org/2024/01/the-art-and-design-world-of-heung-heung.html

Cool ty, I always wondered about the art!

Yeah, that was great.

Yeah, that's great stuff.

It's crazy to me how even artists I've been listening to for more than 30 years, who are known worldwide, are balancing on a knife's edge financially.

It's not that crazy. thanks, Spotify!

I gotta be honest, I wish Zorn would sell more merch! Bring on the posters, the prints, t-shirts, the coffee table books! The Tzadik site has pretty slim pickings.

Related, I wonder when/if they are going to (home) release the Zorn docs that the actor Mathieu Amalric has been making:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5ybQOI5M3g