Tzadik: Search & Destroy

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.

Not yet, sundar. It's not difficult to listen to really, it just doesn't excite me much. But since it's not difficult to listen to, I will probably throw it on at least a few more times. I might just keep it around for the sake of having some of that sort of thing on hand.

Missing Italics.

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?

Destroy: Tzadik and its prices and its founder

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

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).

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.

There really is a Jewish conspiracy!

(joke)

But Zorn's sax playing really does suck.

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.

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.

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

This new On Ka'a Davis album is terrific.