Results for "Tzadik"

The Cleansing

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2022
Track listing: Brion Gysin; Aleister Crowley; Austin Osman Spare; William Burroughs; Alejandro Jodorowsky; The Cleansing

O, Sun

By Zoh Amba

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2022
Track listing: 1 Hymn To The Divine Mother 2 O, Sun 3 Northern Path 4 Gardener 5 Holy Din 6 Crossing 7 Satya

John Zorn and Bill Laswell: The Cleansing

by Nenad Georgievski
February 16, 2022

The Cleansing represents a meeting between two titans of contemporary music--composer and saxophonist John Zorn, and bassist and composer Bill Laswell. Both have spent over forty years camped out in spaces between avant-garde, experimental, jazz, improv, psychedelia, noise and ambient, each having created immersive, forward-thinking, sometimes brutal, and colorful music worlds. They have been pushing the ...

Your Eggs Scrambled, Any Way You Like

by Mike Jacobs
October 27, 2021

This edition of BackTracks takes a look at a few selections that might rewire, reset, thoroughly scramble or even short-circuit the “normal" music pathways of your noodle. These five selections are each capable of this in subtle or sometimes not-so-subtle ways. Everything from stylistic jumbles and conceptual twists to abandonment of premeditated form and utter mayhem ...

Pat Metheny: From This Place

by John Kelman
February 14, 2020

It's been a full six years since Pat Metheny last released a studio recording. This, despite the guitarist who has become, in a career now in the midst of its fifth decade, one of the most famous and influential jazz guitarists of his (or, some would argue, any) generation, reportedly having enough material in the can ...

John Zorn: Nove Cantici per Francesco d'Assisi

by Don Phipps
January 14, 2020

Those who admire Spanish guitar music will greatly appreciate the beautiful airy set of compositions on Nove cantici per Francesco D'Assisi by John Zorn. Zorn, best known for his challenging, cerebral and complex avant-garde offerings, conjures up a set of pastoral tunes composed as part of a residency at New York's Frick Museum. The tunes feature ...

Nove Cantici per Francesco d'Assisi

By John Zorn

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2019
Track listing: Brother Sun, Sister Moon; Admonitions; Nativity; Laudes Creaturarum; Poor Clares; Sister Death; Mother Earth; Le Laudi; Fioretti; Meditations.

Tractatus Musico-Philosophicus

By John Zorn

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2019
Track listing: Tractatus Musico-Philosophicus.

John Kelman's Best Releases of 2019

by John Kelman
December 20, 2019

Well, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome continues to be a challenge, as it has been since mid-2014. 2019 represents, in fact, the worst year when it comes to the actual number of articles written. Still, I've been finding an increasingly satisfying niche in the arena of in-depth, detailed and extensive/exhaustive (exhausting, for you as much as I!!) articles. ...

John Zorn: Tractatus Musico-Philosophicus

by Don Phipps
November 5, 2019

John Zorn begins his 38-minute musical treatise, Tractatus Musico-Philosophicus with a bitten reed while racing up and down the keys of his saxophone. What remains is some of the most interesting music in modern jazz—a wonderful treatise on the absurdity of life. Zorn wrote and plays all the instruments on this fascinating album--and the soundscapes he ...