Tzadik: Search & Destroy

btw the zion80 is fantastic. it should've been their debut.

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Of all the tzadik releases this year i still think the Haggai Cohen-Milo - Penguin album is the best.

i listened to zebrina - hamidbar medaber yesterday; i thought it was really good - very crisp and smart playing.

Anyone heard the Gnostic Trio album? I'm excited for this.

yes, i listened a little bit today. the testament of solomon one, right? i have to listen more, very understated

Wish Tzadik releases were on Spotify :(

the testament of solomon one, right?

Yes, that's the one I meant. I love The Gnostic Preludes.

I like the Zebrina track here: https://soundcloud.com/something-else-reviews/zebrina-with-ben-goldberg-the

Bought Testament of Solomon. I might actually like it more than The Gnostic Preludes.

Biggest Tzadik-discovery this year for me was Tobias Picker's ´Invisible Lilacs', especially the piano quartet ´Live Oaks´. Also catching up on Sylvie Courvoisier's output on both Tzadik and Intakt records.

Yeah Double Windsor is a very good album.

Haven´t heard Double Windsor yet but I´m curious to hear it, same for the Phantom Orchard Orchestra. The first one (Trouble in Paradise) had some nice surprises so I´m happy to see the continued the extended line-up.

Zorn is releasing more own stuff than before it seems. I enjoyed his idea to mix improvisation and scored classical music on ´Rimbaud´, now he seems to further develop this approach. Oh and choosing Tyshawn Sorey as a recording artist, a great talent.

On a major John Zorn jag...The Frisell/Wollason/Emanuel trio are golden...'The Mysteries' is real nicey...

Is it significantly different from Gnostic Preludes and Testament of Solomon?

Not heard TOS but for me a little more compelling than TGP even though there's nowt wrong with TGP

i keep listening over + over to zebrina

Tradescantia zebrina, formerly known as Zebrina pendula, is a species of spiderwort more commonly known as an inch plant or wandering jew. The common name is shared with closely related varieties T. fluminensis and T. pallida.

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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.

Who wrote this bit of foolishness?

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.

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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.