― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 14 March 2003 16:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 15 March 2003 03:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― bob snoom, Wednesday, 4 June 2003 09:02 (twenty years ago) link
"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 (twenty years ago) link
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Sunday, 14 March 2004 22:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Jason J, Sunday, 14 March 2004 23:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Sunday, 14 March 2004 23:18 (twenty years ago) link
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Monday, 15 March 2004 00:35 (twenty years ago) link
― dleone (dleone), Monday, 15 March 2004 01:14 (twenty years ago) link
destroy: zorn
― jack cole (jackcole), Monday, 15 March 2004 01:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Broheems (diamond), Monday, 15 March 2004 01:20 (twenty years ago) link
― jack cole (jackcole), Monday, 15 March 2004 01:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Sylvester, Monday, 15 March 2004 05:03 (twenty years ago) link
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 (twenty years ago) link
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 (twenty years ago) link
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 (twenty years ago) link
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 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― original bgm, Monday, 15 March 2004 13:05 (twenty years ago) link
I'm really looking forward to that Zorn/Graves cd too.
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 15 March 2004 15:08 (twenty years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 16:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 21:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 21:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 11:12 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 12:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 13:01 (nineteen years ago) link
Missing Italics.
― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 13:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Typhoon is Coming!!! :O (ex machina), Monday, 2 August 2004 13:11 (nineteen years ago) link
bar kokhba sextet vol. 2sanhedrin: masada 1994-1997: unreleased studio recordingsjamie saft trio: astaroth
anyone got anything to say about any of them?
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― I've Said It Before, Friday, 29 July 2005 15:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― When an eel hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's a moray! (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 30 July 2005 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link
Destroy: Tzadik and its prices and its founder
― ghetty green (eman), Saturday, 30 July 2005 14:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 30 July 2005 15:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx and the choco-pop babies (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link
Destroy - MArc Ribot, Yo! I Killed Your God.
― mzui (mzui), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:26 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― My life with Baaderonixx and the Choco-pops babies (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 30 September 2005 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― señor citizen (eman), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lynco (lync0), Thursday, 21 September 2006 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hot Hot Heat (Hot Hot Heat), Thursday, 21 September 2006 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 21 September 2006 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link
Nice. Wish I could check out the book.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 22:12 (four months ago) link
Looks fantastic. Let's see if one of these boxes makes it to Europe these days. Tzadik website is still down.
― EvR, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 10:39 (four months ago) link
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?
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 10:49 (four months ago) link
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.
― EvR, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 11:41 (four months ago) link
Thanks!
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 11:43 (four months ago) link
Wait, the box is billed as the complete studio recordings, but it doesn't include Sanhedrin?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 13:29 (four months ago) link
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!”.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 14:11 (four months ago) link
Huh. At least "Sanhedrin" is on streaming.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 14:16 (four months ago) link
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.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 17:01 (four months ago) link
I've got to admit, my adult brain is fighting the fomo ...
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 December 2023 14:09 (four months ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 4 January 2024 12:25 (four months ago) link
Shoestring gonna shoestring, what can you really doAnyway, you can get them mail order from Downtown Music Gallery
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 4 January 2024 16:52 (four months ago) link
https://roulette.org/event/improv-nights-2024/
A BENEFIT FOR TZADIK RECORDSLimited 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.
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 17:57 (four months ago) link
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.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 18:11 (four months ago) link
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.)
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 19:01 (four months ago) link
Interview with Heung-Heung Chin: https://www.freejazzblog.org/2024/01/the-art-and-design-world-of-heung-heung.html
― that's when I reach for my copy of Revolver (WmC), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 19:31 (three months ago) link
Cool ty, I always wondered about the art!
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 20:01 (three months ago) link
Yeah, that was great.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 20:04 (three months ago) link
Yeah, that's great stuff.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 20:05 (three months ago) link
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!
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 20:07 (three months ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 20:13 (three months ago) link
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
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 20:28 (three months ago) link