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Ahleuchatistas: Of The Body Prone
by Mark Corroto
Tzadik label chief John Zorn has never lost his passion for hard-core music. Although his band Naked City is no more, he continues to promote artists who, to quote Allen Ginsberg, are “destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix." The band Ahleuchatistas certainly does know ...
Jessica Pavone: Songs of Synastry and Solitude
by Troy Collins
Violist and composer Jessica Pavone has been a fixture on the New York scene for over a decade. Her work alongside Anthony Braxton, Mary Halvorson and Taylor Ho Bynum has been well documented, revealing her skills as an inventive interpreter and improviser. Her own writing, on the other hand, has only been selectively recorded, and is ...
Anthony Coleman: Freakish
by Warren Allen
Great composers put heavy demands on the people who play their music. No matter how long ago they wrote the tunes that continue inspire after they are gone, their presence continues to hover over the music, almost haunting the pianos that would crank out their concertos and rags. It takes work to deal with these ghosts. ...
Frank London - Lorin Sklamberg: Tsuker-zis
by AAJ Italy Staff
Tsuker-zis, dolce come lo zucchero. In effetti, questo terzo capitolo (dopo Nigunim e Zmiros) che Frank London e Lorin Sklamberg dedicano all'esplorazione del canto popolare ebraico, soprattutto di derivazione yiddish, potrebbe cadere nella tentazione del cosiddetto tongue-in-cheeck o, peggio, dello heart-in-sleeve, la bieca speculazione sulla memoria emotiva dei bei vecchi tempi andati. Non vi è traccia ...
Eyal Maoz's Edom: Hope and Destruction
by Eyal Hareuveni
The second release of New York-based Israeli guitarist Eyal Maoz alt-klezmer quartet Edom is a schizophrenic one. On one hand, Maoz faithfully follows Tzadik founder John Zorn's hybridized post-modern pastiche of klezmer and Jewish musical traditions, and musical references that are typical of the label's Radical Jewish Culture series. This is most audible in the manner ...
Wu Fei: Yuan
by Kurt Gottschalk
Composer Wu Fei , as evidenced by the five compositions on Yuan, occupies a world that straddles traditional Chinese music and more contemporary styles of writing and playing. Fei seems to be particularly interested in strings and percussion, as well as in percussive strings and melodic percussion. The instrumentation ranges from solo percussion ...
Cyro Baptista's Banquet of the Spirits: Infinito
by Joel Roberts
Multi-talented percussionist Cyro Baptista may have the most dazzlingly eclectic resumé in contemporary music. He's performed and recorded with mainstream jazzers like Herbie Hancock and Wynton Marsalis; downtown experimentalists like John Zorn and Laurie Anderson; pop icons like Sting and Paul Simon and major Brazilian stars like Milton Nascimento and Ivan Lins. And he may be ...
Frank London / Lorin Sklamberg: Tsuker-zis
by Eyal Hareuveni
Trumpeter Frank London and vocalist/accordionist Lorin Sklamberg have always attempted to introduce a fresh perspective when redefining traditional Jewish music. As founders of the Grammy award-winning alt-klezmer band The Klezmatics, they adapt ancient and traditional holiday songs of the Jewish diaspora into a modern, surprising sphere.Tsuker-zis, (sugar-sweet), their third installment of Hasidic religious songs ...
John Zorn: The Crucible
by Mark Corroto
John Zorn is not one to rest on his laurels. It is probably not possible for Zorn to rest, period. With The Crucible, the fourth installment of his Moonchild band, the saxophonist/composer delivers a recording that will be attractive to both hardcore metal and jazz fans. Twenty years ago Zorn unleashed his band Naked ...
Tafillalt: Tafillalt
by Eyal Hareuveni
This innovative alt-klezmer/alt-Jewish music ensemble represents the growing interest of John Zorn's Tzadik label in the Israeli Jewish music scene. Tafillalt fits into the Radical Jewish Culture series of the label, not only by exploring and interpreting ancient and modern Hebrew prayers--songs in adventurous and compelling new soundscapes--but also because of the group's multicultural improvisational attitude ...
