Results for "Pitom"

Pitom

Alive and Well

By Yoshie Fruchter

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: The Faint of Heart; Stark Reality; False Profits; Song 3; Buzzsaw; Emotion and Intellect; Alive and Well; Lament.

Yoshie Fruchter's Pitom: Alive and Well

by Max Kutner
December 12, 2025

Yoshie Fruchter has been a presence within the Radical Jewish and Modern Klezmer music circles for nearly 3 decades. His ensemble, Pitom, showcases many facets of his deep knowledge in those scenes as filtered through the sludge-clouded lenses of grunge, doom, and just straight metal. The band has released three full length albums since its inception, including ...

Slivovitz: Bani Ahead

by Dave Wayne
January 6, 2012

Slivovitz--also the generic name for a type of plum brandy popular throughout the Mediterranean--is a fascinating jazz-rock band that's been around for a decade or so. Bani Ahead, its second recording for the MoonJune label and third overall, is a charming blend of jazz and progressive rock with pronounced Balkan and circum-Mediterranean folk influences. Part of ...

Blasphemy And Other Serious Crimes

By Pitom

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2011
Track listing: In the Merit of...; Blasphemy and Other Serious Crimes; Head in the Ground; Resentful Repentance; Stumbling Block; Confusion of the Heart; A Crisis of Faith; Neilah; Epic Encounter; Vos Zogt Ir; Azazel.

Pitom: Blasphemy and Other Serious Crimes

by Glenn Astarita
August 20, 2011

Recorded for John Zorn's Tzadik Records, and sustaining the spirit of radical Jewish music, Pitom's second album is a psychodramatic crash-and-burn event. Spanning Sonic Youth-like reckless abandon, hardcore grunge, jazz improvisation and the blasphemous morphing of traditional Jewish music stylizations with jazz-rock, the unit abides by a take-no-prisoners approach. Offering an antithesis to the norm, with ...

Pitom: Blasphemy and Other Serious Crimes

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 20, 2011

Pitom - progetto acclamato e prodotto da John Zorn - guidato da Yoshie Frutcher, chitarrista, bassista e compositore è uno strano miscuglio di umori scuri e travagliati, con dosi massicce di rock, melodie klezmer, variazioni prog. Blasphemy and Other Serious Crimes è un'atipica colonna sonora ad episodi (non c'è cantato), ma compaiono spesso all'interno dei brani ...

Pitom: Blasphemy and Other Serious Crimes

by Eyal Hareuveni
April 7, 2011

The sophomore release of Pitom, of one of John Zorn's Radical Jewish Culture series outfits, symbolizes a dead-end in this important musical and cultural movement that began in early nineties. Pitom, led by guitarist Yoshie Fruchter, is influenced by iconic musical figures from visionary seventies fusion bands like Frank Zappa and John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra, as ...

Pitom

By Yoshie Fruchter

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Released: 2009
Track listing: 01. Skin and Bones; 02. Go Go Golem; 03. The Robe of Priestly Proportions: Part I; 04. The Robe of Priestly Proportions: Part II; 05. Freigel Rock; 06. Lungs and Spleen; 07. Shikora; 08. Minim: Part I; 09. Minim: Part II; 10. The Dregs; 11. The Binding of the Burning Books; 12. Davita; 13. Sadie’s Splinter.

Yoshie Fruchter: Pitom

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 17, 2009

Occhio, questi graffiano! Evidentemente il buon John Zorn ha deciso di prendere alla lettera il nome che ha assegnato alla fortunata serie “Radical Jewish Culture". Dopo Koby Isrealite, Jamie Saft, Jon Madof & Rashanim, Eyal Maoz e altri, arriva il tempo per il quartetto guidato dal chitarrista Yoshie Fruchter. Con questo Pitom ci troviamo nel bel ...