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That is, not counting Zorn's own output... Is "the story of Iceland" by Eyvind Kang any good?

― Simone, Saturday, 13 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

search: melt banana record; otomo yoshihide's "cathode," and hideki/mori/firth's "death ambient." unfortunately - outside of zorn himself - thats as far as my knowledge goes.

― jess, Saturday, 13 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I quite enjoy the Great Jewish Muzak (oops Music) series.

― Helen Fordsdale, Saturday, 13 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

It's come up a few times already, but those w/ an affinity for experimental drone/noise should check out Maryanne Amacher's Sound Characters. I've never heard anyone say they didn't like it.

Also: Has anyone ever seen her live installations?

― Mark, Saturday, 13 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Don't forget: Ruins, Korekyojin, Satoko Fuji, and Ground Zero. I would give them the thumbs up just for exposing a lot of great new Japanese music. Haven't heard many of the composer series releases.

― dleone, Saturday, 13 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Search: Wadada Leo Smith...his quartet record with Jack deJohnette is one of the most listenable and committed free jazz records that I've heard (I'm thinking rhythmically free too, not counting Ornette-style freebop).

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.

― Jordan, Sunday, 14 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Never seen a Maryanne Amacher installation, but I did get to see her play "live" last year. Very excellent, esp. when the really high tones (if you've heard Sound Characters, you know 'em) came in and basically destroyed my head (I recovered).

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.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Add another vote for Sound Characters.

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

― sundar subramanian, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

s: Ruins!! d: Zohar!

― chaki, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

search Mamoru Fujieda's "Patterns of Plants" -- microtonal chamber music on traditional Japanese instruments that makes me feel warm and nice.

― Dan, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

11 months pass...

Ibarra's _Flower After Flower_ is solid enough. Fujieda's _Patterns of Plants_ I found to be a complete waste, however. I know Kang's _7 Nades_ is all right, nothing too special (not aware of the one in question). Recently I purchased Christian Wolff _Burdocks_ on Tzadik, which is considered his "classic" work, to which I found solid enough. Tzadik simply releases too often, therefore some of these releases tend to suffer some quality for quanity (certainly within Zorn's discography this is the case). However, I do realize the point of releasing so often as to get what otherwise would not be released on such a scale out there, but.

― Allison Vega, Thursday, 19 September 2002 05:33 (10 years ago) Permalink

Derek Bailey's "Ballads" - that's the "but."

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 19 September 2002 06:22 (10 years ago) Permalink

that's a big ''but''!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 19 September 2002 09:18 (10 years ago) Permalink

steer clear of "saisoro" by derek & the ruins - anaemic martin bisi production & the two just aren't gelling - tohjinbo on some other label works like this fails. come to think of it, hyderomastgroningem isn't really a stand-out ruins album. yoshida's ZUBI ZUVA acapella disc is pretty rocking, though, and keiji haino's solo disc is quite calmly spooky if a bit sterile if yr used to his more abrasive stuff. i always get the whole label mixed up with avant anyhow

― bob snoom, Sunday, 22 September 2002 15:55 (10 years ago) Permalink

haha i wuv the phrase "solid enough" esp as a positive review of improv

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 22 September 2002 22:18 (10 years ago) Permalink

I think the prob with the ruins is that there's 'no soul' dude (as someone told me).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 23 September 2002 10:14 (10 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

To answer the question, "Story of Iceland" is genius.

TMFTML
http://intonation.blogspot.com

― TMFTML (TMFTML), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 18:04 (10 years ago) Permalink

What is the vision of Judaica that Zorn is propagating here? It always seemed a little murky to me.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 18:07 (10 years ago) Permalink

apaprt from ballads search the two solo milford greaves percussion sets. One is called 'grand unification', the other I can't recall right now.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 18:10 (10 years ago) Permalink

SEARCH:

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.

― Mer (Mer), Thursday, 16 January 2003 03:19 (10 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Okay, can anyone say anything about the other 700,000,000 titles Tzadik has released?

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 13 March 2003 21:18 (10 years ago) Permalink

madsada chamber ensembles "bar kokhba" and "the circle maker" are both great. new masada "guitars" is supposed to be very good as well.

anthony coleman "sephardic tinge"

naked city (s/t and live releases)

― marcg (marcg), Thursday, 13 March 2003 21:33 (10 years ago) Permalink

Destroy: Tzadik's refusal to put .mp3 samples online.

― Ryan McKay (Ryan McKay), Friday, 14 March 2003 00:24 (10 years ago) Permalink

search Milford Graves Grand Unification. I avoid the label like the plague though because I hate Zorn and think, overall, his tastes exemplify the downtown avant wankery I despise so very much.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 14 March 2003 00:28 (10 years ago) Permalink

I don't expect to like most of what Zorn himself has done, but after buying New Traditions in Asian Bar Bands, I'm thinking I should cautiously explore his work some more. Same goes for the Tzadik label itself. I absolutely want to avoid being so seduced by the packaging (which I like) that I buy disc after disc, despite disappointments, but I have a feeling that at least a small percentage of this stuff has to be good. (Ha ha, but I don't trust anyone else's advice in this case, for the most part.)

― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 14 March 2003 01:10 (10 years ago) Permalink

The new Ben Perowsky album 'Camp Songs' is fantastic. It's a jazz trio with Uri Caine and Drew Gress doing songs that he learned in Jewish summer camp as a kid.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 14 March 2003 04:40 (10 years ago) Permalink

I saw that album and was intrigued. So it's worth checking out then?

― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 14 March 2003 04:53 (10 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, it swings more than most Tzadik stuff (which is fine by me), but the playing is great and there's a nice sense of playfulness as well as a couple beautiful arrangements. There's one track with chimes and acoustic guitar over the jazz trio stuff that's especially great.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 14 March 2003 07:31 (10 years ago) Permalink

Say, would you mind naming me a couple of the songs they re-interpret? I'm curious as to whether I sang any of them myself as a kid.

― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 14 March 2003 16:18 (10 years ago) Permalink

Though I suppose I could just check it out at Tzadik's website or something.

― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 14 March 2003 16:18 (10 years ago) Permalink

Adon Olam, Shema (two versions), Aleinu, Birkat Hamazon, Yigdal, and a couple of originals.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 15 March 2003 03:01 (10 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

i now shall second the above proposition that Eyvind Kang's "the story of iceland" is THE SHIT.
watch me go start an eyvind thread....

― bob snoom, Wednesday, 4 June 2003 09:02 (9 years ago) Permalink

9 months pass...

Ernesto Martinez: Mutaciones looks very promising.

"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."

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Sunday, 14 March 2004 22:46 (9 years ago) Permalink

the early Jess posting here almost made me cry

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Sunday, 14 March 2004 22:51 (9 years ago) Permalink

'Cosmic Tree' by the Rabbinical School Dropouts - a mini-orchestra playing traditional and non-traditional Jewish music - is both listenable and fun. I'd like to buy more of this stuff, but last time I picked up a Painkiller album. That was hard work.

― Jason J, Sunday, 14 March 2004 23:04 (9 years ago) Permalink

ruins symphonica and anything with marc ribot

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Sunday, 14 March 2004 23:18 (9 years ago) Permalink

the kayo dot album is the first thing on tzadik i've cared about in years. since otomo yoshihide's "cathode," at least.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Monday, 15 March 2004 00:35 (9 years ago) Permalink

Hoahio's Peek-Ara-Boo is a cool record, kind of DIY avant-pop. Sachiko M isn't with them anymore, but the new percussionist is great.

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 15 March 2004 01:14 (9 years ago) Permalink

search: danny cohen, rodd keith

destroy: zorn

― jack cole (jackcole), Monday, 15 March 2004 01:19 (9 years ago) Permalink

I wonder what John could have meant by that comment.

― Broheems (diamond), Monday, 15 March 2004 01:20 (9 years ago) Permalink

before jess became fred astaire.

― jack cole (jackcole), Monday, 15 March 2004 01:23 (9 years ago) Permalink

just want to second the rodd keith / i died today [1996] call. good stuff

― Nick Sylvester, Monday, 15 March 2004 05:03 (9 years ago) Permalink

I haven't disliked anything I've heard on Tzadik. I know there was some debate about it on this board but I really like the sound/production aesthetic of Tzadik. Clean, crisp, detailed.

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

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 15 March 2004 05:09 (9 years ago) Permalink

Cathode by Otomo Yoshihide is one of my favorites on the label

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

Yes to: destroy Zorn

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Monday, 15 March 2004 06:34 (9 years ago) Permalink

Recentish releases I've heard and enjoyed on Tzadik:

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

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 15 March 2004 08:36 (9 years ago) Permalink

maryanne amacher

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

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 15 March 2004 12:35 (9 years ago) Permalink

That Kayo Dot record is (mostly) excellent. Love the gurgling, distorted vox on the third track, the whole doom metal vibe on the last... and just the way they managed to really make disparate elements really FLOW together. A couple of corny emo mumbling bits, but I can forgive em. The earlier MotW material is good too but didn't really accomplish the loose, flowing vibe nearly as well. Not the usual type of release for the label but I think it fits in. A much better 'rock' release for Tzadik than, say, that dull Mono one.

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.

― Alan N (Alan N), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:05 (9 years ago) Permalink

Where did all the Zorn hate come from?

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

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 15 March 2004 15:08 (9 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

I listened again to the first half of Mephista's Entomological Reflections and I found myself thinking I really don't need much more of this kind of music. It kind of reminds me of Kontankte, but with an occasional, brief, tangential jam. (Four second jams?)

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.

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 16:35 (8 years ago) Permalink

Destroy.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 16:37 (8 years ago) Permalink

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i haven't been following this stuff for a couple years, but these discs just crossed my desk:

bar kokhba sextet vol. 2
sanhedrin: masada 1994-1997: unreleased studio recordings
jamie saft trio: astaroth

anyone got anything to say about any of them?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:26 (7 years ago) Permalink

ftp://ftp.bunglefever.com

― I've Said It Before, Friday, 29 July 2005 15:38 (7 years ago) Permalink

The only thing I have from Tzadik is Bailey/Tacuma/Weston's Mirakle and I remember the musicianship being excellent but I can't think of a single note.

― When an eel hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's a moray! (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 30 July 2005 13:59 (7 years ago) Permalink

Search: DNA "Live at CBGBs" cd

Destroy: Tzadik and its prices and its founder

― ghetty green (eman), Saturday, 30 July 2005 14:18 (7 years ago) Permalink

how am i going to go through this stuff, it's like 6 discs!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 30 July 2005 15:55 (7 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Hoahio "Peek-ara-boo" is sooo great! I think i'm gonna lap up the whole New Japan series because of it

― Baaderonixx and the choco-pop babies (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:36 (7 years ago) Permalink

Search - The Gainsbourg covers album

Destroy - MArc Ribot, Yo! I Killed Your God.

― mzui (mzui), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:26 (7 years ago) Permalink

Wha? What's wrong with that Ribot album?

Is the Hoahio a new release? The most recent Tzadik releases I picked up were Ikue Mori's Myrninerest (one long computer music composition - quite impressive) and Merzbow's Sphere (interesting - I need to listen some more).

― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:33 (7 years ago) Permalink

Nah the Hoahio is from 2003, I was just late to the party... How's their first album?

― My life with Baaderonixx and the Choco-pops babies (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:40 (7 years ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

This looks good: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=19234

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 30 September 2005 14:13 (7 years ago) Permalink

11 months pass...

I am so happy this is being reissued. I think it's a good moment for it too. (On the other hand, I barely remember what it sounds like. Maybe I will be disappointed.) I enjoyed the live performance by this group that I saw in 1987.

Henry Kaiser / Charles K. Noyes / Sang Won Park: Invite the Spirit 2006 [#7617]

One of the most evocative and successful meetings of East and West reunites to weave their magic spell via kayagum, electric guitar and percussion. Invite the Spirit was a sensation when it was first released in 1983 and now over twenty years later they are sounding better than ever. Joined by two scintillating Korean P’ansori vocalists on several tracks this is a whole new take on the Korean shamanistic tradition. Over seventy minutes of timeless, ecstatic, magical music unlike anything you’ve ever heard.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:40 (6 years ago) Permalink

Except maybe it's not clear that it's just a reissue. Why the 2006 added to the title, if it's just a reissue? I will give it a chance either way.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:44 (6 years ago) Permalink

Destroy: Zorn's saxophone

― señor citizen (eman), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:41 (6 years ago) Permalink

zeena parkins' new CD necklace is my favorite zeena on tzadik, why'd she wait till now to write string quartets

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:51 (6 years ago) Permalink

I got that too, and also like it -- though my fave tzadik is Ruins Symphonica, which is so not surprising that by posting I am opening a little black hole right....here

― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:05 (6 years ago) Permalink

*Genius Grant*

There really is a Jewish conspiracy!

(joke)

But Zorn's sax playing really does suck.

― Hot Hot Heat (Hot Hot Heat), Thursday, 21 September 2006 22:08 (6 years ago) Permalink

Zorn is a *great* sax player and can run circles around any of the nu-jazz morons out there. Get one Masada record.

― Lynco (lync0), Thursday, 21 September 2006 22:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

Of course he's better than any nu-jazzer. But I still find his tone to be too strident. But that's just me, I guess.

― Hot Hot Heat (Hot Hot Heat), Thursday, 21 September 2006 22:27 (6 years ago) Permalink

I don't think he won the award primarily for his sax playing anyway. I don't like his sax playing either, but what do I know being a "what's with the constant cymbal tapping" douche bag.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 21 September 2006 22:34 (6 years ago) Permalink

The cymbal tapping, yes. I forgot about that.

I also hate the pompous uniform design of Tzadik releases. Who's the *genius* that thinks it's "avant-garde" to place light-coloured font over metallic paper on the 'New Japan' series, thus rendering the entire thing completely unreadable?

Oh, and 'New Japan' is a silly, lazy moniker as well.

― Hot Hot Heat (Hot Hot Heat), Thursday, 21 September 2006 22:41 (6 years ago) Permalink

I like the pompous uniformity of Tzadik design. I still think the CDs look really sharp. As for his series, I just hope he has a little bit of a sense of humor about some of the names he assigns them.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 21 September 2006 22:58 (6 years ago) Permalink

i admit i haven't given masada a listen. got tired of hearing his patented squawk on every release. despite all that, i still think painkiller was pretty great live.

― señor citizen (eman), Friday, 22 September 2006 02:39 (6 years ago) Permalink

He's a good player who falls into shtick and overused licks way too often. Electric Masada allows him to really run some of those licks into the ground. Search: the Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet album, the Masada studio albums, and the Classic Guide to Strategy records.

― The Bearnaise-Stain Bears (Rock Hardy), Friday, 22 September 2006 02:49 (6 years ago) Permalink

http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/BT/colbertzorn.mpg

― Ivan G (Ivan), Friday, 22 September 2006 05:17 (6 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

(Definitely one of my favorite releases this year.)

― R_S (RSLaRue), Saturday, 4 November 2006 19:28 (6 years ago) Permalink

People who like strong adventurous female vocalists who also wrote some/all of their own material should be all over this CD.

― R_S (RSLaRue), Saturday, 4 November 2006 20:40 (6 years ago) Permalink

Okay, it looks like "Persian trope" is a specifically Jewish Persian style of singing. I'm not sure it makes sense for me to talk about "Persian classical" vocals then, but it is definitely recognizably Persian. Anyway, it's just a minor part of the whole recording.

― R_S (RSLaRue), Saturday, 4 November 2006 20:46 (6 years ago) Permalink

search: jacques coursil, minimal brass. fucking astounding.

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

Okay, as likely as not this is just a reflection of all the music I don't listen to or don't even know about, but sometimes it seems like Tzadik is especially remarkable in its efforts to keep alive chamber music for strings along European classical lines, but bringing it into the present. Keeping it alive by finding an audience for it?

This Ned Rothenberg CD, Inner Diaspora is getting better with each listen, I think. I feel a sense of continuity between this and, oh, stuff like Steve Reich, but a lot of other downtown NYC music, that I was listening to a lot a long time ago.

― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 7 May 2007 01:14 (6 years ago) Permalink

Classical + contemporary + a little bit new AND accessible seems like no small feat, and I keep hearing new Tzadik releases which can be described that way. (Granted, Zorn still releases a lot of more challenging work, not any different from hardcore academic modern classical music.)

― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 7 May 2007 01:17 (6 years ago) Permalink

Zorn, purveyor of middle-brow light classical music of the likes of me?

― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 7 May 2007 01:23 (6 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

So are any of these Radical Jewish Culture series discs I keep seeing any good?

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 04:58 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

Erik Friedlander's installment of the Book of Angels is on my to-buy list.

― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 12 November 2007 02:08 (5 years ago) Permalink

the New Klezmer Trio discs are great...

― m0stlyClean, Monday, 12 November 2007 14:05 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

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 (3 years ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

Saw Zorn tonight, bitchin show.

― Mordy, Thursday, 18 February 2010 04:59 (3 years ago) Permalink

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 (3 years ago) Permalink

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 (3 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

http://nyufasp.com/2012/10/watch-live-stream-of-save-the-village-starting-at-730pm/

― Mordy, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 23:58 (7 months ago) Permalink

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 (7 months ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

gorgeous

― Mordy, Sunday, 31 March 2013 17:52 (1 month ago) Permalink

holy crap this track "pale of settlement" is insanely good. total klezmer-riff blizzards

― Mordy, Sunday, 31 March 2013 18:16 (1 month ago) Permalink

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 (1 month ago) Permalink

Metheny does Masada on its way ...

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 1 April 2013 02:50 (1 month ago) Permalink

lotta tzadik reviews on freejazz-stef lately:

http://www.freejazzblog.org/

― j., Monday, 1 April 2013 03:00 (1 month ago) Permalink

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