Tzadik Label

18/12/2023

TERTON

OUTER, INNER, SECRET

TZA CD 4044

Louie Belogenis, Trevor Dunn, Ryan Sawyer.

Outer * Unconditioned * Foretold * Arising * Unfolding * Transmute * Inner * Embody * Secret * Dissolving

Remaining true to the alchemical beginner’s mind, “Terton” is a band that places exploration and improvisation first and foremost. Featuring saxophonist Louie Belogenis, bassist Trevor Dunn, and drummer Ryan Sawyer, the music pushes the envelope of free jazz and points in many directions at once. In Tibetan Buddhism, a terton uncovers and reveals esoteric spiritual teachings currently unknown and unpracticed. Like the teachings referred to, the music here are similar treasures—a music deeply buried within the human psyche waiting for an opportune time to appear. Louie, Trevor and Ryan mine this hidden terrain with great honesty, imag-ination, and craft.

28/11/2023

JOHN ZORN
Parrhesiastes
TZA CD 9305

John Medeski, Brian Marsella, Matt Hollenberg, Kenny Grohowski.

In the Footsteps of Hermes * The Evental Devalorization of the Perhaps * Form, Object, and Desire

This fifth CD by the Chaos Magick band is one of Zorn’s greatest recent achievements. Three extended compositions that run the gamut from Funk, Metal, Contemporary Classical, and more blended into a dramatic narrative that is constantly surprising and yet deeply inevitable. Featuring four of the most accomplished performers in Zorn’s inner circle, this is a mind blowing document of Zorn’s kaleidoscopic compositional vision
Astonishing and utterly essential!

16/11/2023

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24/10/2023

ANNA WEBBER AND MATT MITCHELL
CAPACIOUS AERATION
TZA CD 4043
Anna Webber, Matt Mitchell. Most Capacious * Glarbs 2.0 * Zooquaria * Maximum Cadence * re-aeration

Two of new music’s most powerful and virtuosic composer-performers get together for a dazzling and thoughtful program of radical compositions and improvisations. Featuring brilliant writing and telepathic improvisational interplay, the music is concise, intense, and endlessly imaginative. An essential view into the Downtown scene’s newest generation of musical masters.

24/10/2023

JOHN ZORN
NOTHING IS AS REAL AS NOTHING
TZA CD 9304
Bill Frisell, Julian Lage, Gyan Riley. Stirrings, Still * The Calmative * The Unnameable * Eleuthéria * The Dream Paradox * Endgame
A new release by the all-star guitar trio of Frisell-Lage-Riley is always a cause for celebration and this sixth volume in their transcendent legacy completes Zorn’s sec-ond trilogy of CDs with a beautiful and intricate suite of music dedicated to one of the 20th century’s greatest literary visionaries—Samuel Beckett. Performing this gorgeous book of music with a soulful sensitivity, these three master musicians weave musical magic in this stunning collection of acoustic guitar music. Zorn’s most intimate and ethereal ensemble at its very best!

26/09/2023

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Pre-order: Expected to ship the week of October 30JOHN ZORN, Dave Douglas, GREG COHEN, JOEY BARON Alef * Beit* Gimel * Dalet * Hei* Vav * Zayin * Het * Tet * Yod The premier ensemble of Radical Jewish Culture, Masada is one of Zorn's most popular, personal, long-lasting, and powerful projects. Here....

17/09/2023

JOHN ZORN
HOMENAJE A REMEDIOS VARO

TZA CD 9303
Archival Series

Brian Marsella, Julian Lage, Jorge Roeder, Ches Smith.

Blue Equinox * Somnambula * The Three Wands * Nocturnals * The Week with Nine Mondays * A Wilderness of Mirrors * Emerging Light * A Luminous Parable of Indeterminate Import * Patience

Featuring four of the most accomplished musicians in the rich firmament of modern jazz, Incerto is one of Zorn’s newest and most exciting projects—a chamber ensem-ble of striking virtuosity that is capable of covering the full range of Zorn’s deepest passions and wildest fantasies. Their fourth CD is a touching tribute to the magical surrealist painter Remedios Varo. Filled with exotic juxtapositions, lush harmonies, lyrical explorations, and fiery solos, this music is a soulful and quirky homage to one of the world’s greatest alchemical artists.Brian

08/08/2023

JOHN ZORN
QUATRAIN
TZA CD 9302
Archival Series

Julian Lage, Gyan Riley.

The Innocent Voyage * Restless Melancholy * Hallucinations * Amor Fati * A Childhood Memory

Julian Lage and Gyan Riley are two of new music’s most accomplished guitar virtuosos and their duo performances are transcendent experiences filled with meticulous detail and telepathic interplay. Here they perform a dramatic book of music inspired by the haunting and enigmatic novel “A High Wind in Jamaica”—the story of a group of children that gets mixed up with pirates—the twist being the children turn out to be even more dangerous than the pirates. A precursor to “The Lord of the Flies”, it is considered one of the best English novels ever written. Filled with ominous mystery and a dangerous innocence, “Quatrain” is another beautiful project from the pen of alchemist John Zorn.

26/06/2023

JOHN ZORN
FULL FATHOM FIVE

Brian Marsella, Julian Lage, Jorge Roeder, Ches Smith.
Where the Wild Thyme Blows * I Cried to Dream Again * Behold the Night of Our Solemnities * My Troublous Dreams * Phantasma * The Shadow of a Dream * Swift as Shadow

The newest CD by Zorn’s most recent quartet Incerto is a beautiful and moody suite of nocturnes inspired by the night imagery of Shakespeare. Heart wrenchingly beautiful, the music carries you to a lush romantic world of modern lyricism, blend-ing elements of jazz balladry with classical atonality and minimalism into a vibrant new sound world. Featuring four of the most accomplished musical masters out of the Downtown scene—trusted members of Zorn’s inner circle—this is modern chamber music at its very best!

12/06/2023

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27/05/2023

JOHN ZORN-BILL LASWELL MEMORIA
TZA CD 4042

John Zorn, Bill Laswell.

Pharoah Sanders * Milford Graves * Wayne Shorter

Towering figures of New York’s Downtown scene, Zorn and Laswell have been working together since the late 1970s. Following up on their acclaimed 2022 duo project “The Cleansing”, this new volume presents musical memorials to three artistic visionaries whose powerful legacies remain touchstones of creativity and artistic integrity. Here the music takes on more of an ambient edge, and is distinguished by telepathic improvisational interplay and a unique virtuosity. Three heartfelt tributes from one generation of mavericks to another, “Memoria” is a beautiful collection of modern improvisation at its best.

27/05/2023

JOHN ZORN
MULTIPLICITIES II: A REPOSITORY OF NON-EXISTENT OBJECTS
TZA CD 8399

Brian Marsella, Julian Lage, Jorge Roeder, Ches Smith.

X is C * Difference and Repetition * Oxymora * Apophrades * Time Image * Soothsayer * 1,000 Plateaux * The Planes of Immanence * Chaosmos * Objects of the Mind

THE ACOUSTIC COMPANION PIECE TO MULTIPLICITIES VOLUME ONE! Written in December of 2020, “Multiplicities: A Repository of Non-Existent Objects” is a collection of twenty musical aphorisms inspired by the writings and thought of Gilles Deleuze. Volume One, released in 2022, featured the first set of ten composi-tions performed by the powerful electric ensemble Chaos Magick. This second set is played here by Zorn’s newest acoustic jazz ensemble Incerto, featuring virtuoso masters Julian Lage, Brian Marsella, Jorge Roeder, and Ches Smith. The perfor-mances are passionate, tight, and endlessly imaginative. Filled with unexpected twists and turns, this is a wildly varied exploration of instrumental music at its most extreme! Modern musical philosophy for adventurous, discerning minds.

07/04/2023

JOHN ZORN
444
TZA CD 8398

John Medeski, Brian Marsella, Matt Hollenberg, Kenny Grohowski.

Splendor Solis * Retort * In Sulphur and in Flame * Astral Projection * Civil Disobedience * With Blood I Summon Thee * Salt and Mercury * Tayy al-Ard

In 2020 Brian Marsella joined the heavy metal organ trio Simulacrum to spawn the astonishing fusion quartet Chaos Magick. This fourth CD in their ever-expanding legacy is a magical collection of instrumental music at its finest. Tighter and wilder than ever, Medeski, Hollenberg, Grohowski, and Marsella perform with a remark-able rapport in this provocative new direction from Downtown alchemist John Zorn, who has been exploring new musical worlds and confounding expectations since the 1970s!

26/02/2023

JOHN ZORN

THE FOURTH WAY

Brian Marsella, Jorge Roeder, Ches Smith.

Meetings with Remarkable Men * Journey to the Inaccessible * Into the Abyss * The Book of Pleasure * Sacred Steps * Matins

Zorn’s latest book of music for piano trio is inspired by the writings and thought of the elusive mystical figure Georges Gurdjieff. The music is expansive, ranging from heartfelt lyricism to textural madness and is brilliantly performed by a tight trio of musical masters—treasured members of Zorn’s innermost circle. Brian Marsella, Jorge Roeder, and Ches Smith form a fiery, soulful unit capable of jumping from a whisper to a scream at the drop of a hat. Following up on their acclaimed debut “Suite for Piano,” they continue their exploration of Zorn’s challenging compositions in this stunning collection of music that transports you to a beautiful new world of spirituality and emotional depth.

26/02/2023

JOHN ZORN

NEW MASADA QUARTET, VOLUME TWO

TZA CD 8396

John Zorn, Julian Lage, Jorge Roeder, Kenny Wollesen.

Katzatz * Idalah-Abal * Rahtiel * Jair * Abidan * Ne’eman * Achshaph

The first release by John Zorn’s newest and most exciting ensemble, New Masada Quartet was one of Tzadik’s best selling and most popular recent releases. Here the quartet returns to perform seven more classic compositions from the Masada song-books. One of the best bands Zorn has ever had, here they are tighter than ever, and the performances are filled with burning solos, telepathic group interaction, heartfelt lyricism, and hypnotic grooves. Spontaneously structured by Zorn’s ever-surprising conducting techniques, a crackling live energy brings the Masada music to life like never before. Masada at its passionate best.

27/01/2023

Composer and alto saxophonist John Zorn brings eight eclectic bands to the Big Ears Festival stage, ranging from solo classical piano to all-out electrified jams.

01/01/2023

John Zorn

JOHN ZORN’S OLYMPIAD―Vol. 3 POPS PLAYS POPS—EUGENE CHADBOURNE PLAYS THE BOOK OF HEADS

TZA CD 8395

Archival Series

Eugene Chadbourne.

Étude 2 * Étude 29 * Étude 17 * Étude 33 * Étude 23 * Étude 16 * Étude 27 * Étude 35 * Étude * Étude 22 * Étude 34 * Étude 8 * Étude 12 * Étude * Étude 5 * Étude 1 * Étude 3

Composed in 1976 and studied by guitarists the world over, “The Book of Heads” is one of Zorn’s most popular and oft-performed compositions. Concentrated into 35 “heads” that can be used as jumping off points for improvisation, the score uses an hermetic language of meticulously notated sounds inspired by contemporary classical extended techniques, cartoons, film noir, Zen philosophy, and the idiosyncratic guitar languages of free improvisation via Chadbourne, Frith, Bailey et al.Interpreted here by the madcap virtuoso they were originally created for: Eugene Chadbourne, they receive a passionate and creative interpretation—looser, wilder and more open than the textbook readings of James Moore and Marc Ribot. Vexingly entertaining, this curious release contains fifteen of the original 35 études: sixty minutes of the most gonzo music ever created for solo guitar!

01/01/2023

John Zorn

THE HERMETIC ORGAN VOLUME 10—Bozar, Brussels

TZA CD 8394

Archival Series

John Zorn, Barbara Hannigan.

Faust * The Angel of Redemption

Recorded at the powerful organ at Henry LeBoeuf Hall, Bozar in Brussels, this is one of Zorn’s most beautiful and personal solo performances—a dramatic musical reading of the epic Faust legend. Featuring a guest appearance by the sensational vocalist Barbara Hannigan, who is improvising with Zorn for the very first time—this exciting concert is presented here in a special limited edition 2-disc set that includes both a CD and a bonus DVD hi-quality film document of the event. No one plays the organ quite like Zorn and many of his unusual techniques, usually hidden in performance, are presented in close focus. Beautifully filmed by state of the art equipment, this is a wild and colorful concert by two mavericks of new music. Essential!

22/10/2022

JOHN ZORN
MULTIPLICITIES: A REPOSITORY OF NON-EXISTENT OBJECTS

TZA CD 8393
Archival Series
John Medeski, Brian Marsella, Matt Hollenberg, Kenny Grohowksi. Perceptors * Ariadne * Erewhon * Lines of Flight * Conundrum * Meinong’s Jungle * Virtualities * Functives * The Nidus * Succession

“Multiplicities: A Repository of Non-Existent Objects” is a book of twenty new Zorn com-positions in the form of musical aphorisms. Inspired by the writings and thought of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, the music is wildly imaginative and meticulously structured, filled with unexpected twists and turns jumping from rock, jazz, and classical, to funk, metal, and more. This first volume presents the first ten aphorisms performed by Zorn’s dynamic new ensemble Chaos Magick. John Medeski, Brian Marsella, Matt Hollenberg, and Kenny Grohowski (four members of Zorn’s innermost circle) perform with an intense passion and painstaking attention to detail. Filled with fiery solos and bizarre juxtapositions, this is a multifaceted exploration of instrumental music at its wildest extremes.

17/10/2022

Bagatelles Box 3.
Limited edition.
250 Signed.
Asmodeus with Marc Ribot
Julian Lage and Gyan Riley
Jim Black Quartet
Cleric
Available at the link

This item is on pre-order and expected to ship the 1st week of November.From March to May 2015, John Zorn composed 300 new tunes that were eventually collected into a book of musiche called The Bagatelles. After 5 years of performances around the world in venues large and small, the choicestensemble...

30/09/2022

John Zorn’s NEW MASADA QUARTET
Sunday, November 27, 2022
8:00 pm
Roulette
ONLY PERFORMANCE UNTIL SPRING 2023

A surprise and rare appearance of Zorn’s newest and most exciting ensemble, performing classic compositions from the Masada songbooks.

22/09/2022

John Zorn
Incerto
TZA CD 8392

Brian Marsella, Julian Lage, Jorge Roeder, Ches Smith.

The Future of an Illusion * Nausea * Totem and Taboo * The Black Swan * Im Rosigten Licht * Cascades * Eros and Ananke * Sisyphus * Ens Causa Sui * Nemesis * Thanatos

“Incerto” is the birth of an exciting new modern jazz ensemble featuring the remarkable trio from Suite for Piano (Brian Marsella, Jorge Roeder, Ches Smith) joined by the brilliant guitarist Julian Lage. A quartet capable of anything, this is the perfect group to realize Zorn’s quirky compositional twists and turns. The music is wildly varied—maddeningly complex, powerfully driving, heartbreakingly beautiful—and embraces complex meter changes, atonal melodies, unusual harmonies, and bizarre structural complexity. Inspired by Sartre, Freud, and the Uncertainty Principle, the music explores possibilities, probabilities, inevitabilities, and impossibilities. Modern chamber jazz at its very best!

22/09/2022

TITAN TO TACHYONS
VONALS
TZA CD 4041

Sally Gates, Matt Hollenberg, Trevor Dunn, Kenny Grohowski.

Neutron Wrangler * Vacuum Symmetry * Critical Paranoia * Wax Hypnotic * Close The Valve & Wait * Blue Thought Particles

Born in New Zealand and now residing in New York, Sally Gates is a powerful young guitarist with a striking compositional vision. Expanding her instrumental trio into a quartet with the addition of bassist extraordinaire Trevor Dunn, Vonals takes another step forward into rhythmic and melodic complexity. Pounding grooves, hypnotic riffs, and plenty of fiery solos make this her strongest statement to date. Surrealistic science fiction meets the worlds of metal and improvisation in this searing instrumental masterpiece.

22/09/2022

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The Song of Songs
This very special CD BOOK presents John Zorn’s evocative musical setting of the Biblical love poem “The Song of Songs,” with singer/conductor Barbara Hannigan and film director/actor Mathieu Amalric narrating. Featuring extensive notes, the full text of Jeremy Fogel’s passionate new translation (commissioned expressly for this project), and 35 illustrations by Zorn himself, this limited edition one-of-a-kind CD BOOK is an absolute treasure.

John Zorn
Song of Songs Shir Hashirim (31’03)

featuring
Barbara Hannigan narration
Mathieu Amalric narration
and a new translation from the Hebrew by Jeremy Fogel

THE DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM
Martha Cluver, Lisa Bielawa, Abigail Fischer, Kathryn Mulvehill, Kirsten Sollek voices

The Song of SongsThis very special CD BOOK presents John Zorn’s evocative musical setting of the Biblical love poemThe Song of Songs, with singer/conductor Barbara Hannigan and film director/actor Mathieu Amalric narrating.Featuring extensive notes, the full text of Jeremy Fogel’s passionate new...

18/08/2022

JOHN ZORN

THE HERMETIC ORGAN VOLUME 9— LIBER VII
TZA CD 8391

John Zorn.

Office nr 29—Mars: Birth Words * Saturn: And I Behold Pan * Jupiter: IIIOOShBTh-IO-IIIIAMAMThIBI-II * Sol: Into My Loneliness Comes * Mercury: V.V.V.V.V. * Luna: Even to the Abyss, Annihilation * Venus: The Sixfold Star

Filled with wild sounds, bizarre juxtapositions, soulful melodies, and pulsating drones, this outrageous recital is one of Zorn’s very best. Inspired by Aleister Crowley’s Liber Liberi vel Lapidis Lazuli, and performed in a kind of trance state, this is music beyond thought, beyond beauty, beyond rationality. Recorded at St. John’s Cathedral in Knoxville, Tennessee during the 2022 Big Ears Festival, this is Zorn at his metaphysical zenith. Organ improvisations with Mystery at its very heart—you have never heard such sounds!

12/07/2022

JOHN ZORN

JOHN ZORN’S OLYMPIAD―VOL. 2
FENCING 1978

TZA CD 8390

Eugene Chadbourne, Duck Baker, Randy Hutton, Polly Bradfield, John Zorn.

Fencing (live at The Theatre of Musical Optics) * Fencing (live at Bard)

Two extremely rare live recordings of the classic Zorn composition “Fencing” from the early days of the Downtown scene. Featuring two realizations of the piece—one recorded at Zorn’s artist loft The Theatre of Musical Optics with Eugene Chadbourne, Duck Baker, and Randy Hutton on guitars—and the other at Bard College with Chadbourne, Polly Bradfield, and John Zorn, a legendary concert that took place with George Lewis, Anthony Braxton, and Roscoe Mitchell in the audience. The music is astonishing—strange sounds, odd juxtapositions, stark silences, sudden explosions, all held together by a bizarre overarching compositional logic. Featuring a 16-page booklet replete with photos, scores, and extensive notes and remembrances by Zorn, Chadbourne, Baker, and George Lewis, this is a collector’s dream. Vexing and powerful sounds from the 1978 New York Underground!

12/07/2022

IKUE MORI
TRACING THE MAGIC

TZA CD 4040

Ikue Mori, Makigami Koichi, Sae Hashimoto, Ned Rothenberg, Sylvie Courvoisier, Erik Friedlander, Satoko Fujii, Natsuki Tamura, Zeena Parkins, Charmaine Lee, David Watson.

Moving Off Earth * You Better Grow Up * Falling Blue * Outburst * Beauty in Disarray * Down Below * Dusk to Dawn

“Tracing The Magic” is Ikue Mori’s most varied and fabulous CD to date and it is an absolute masterpiece! Seven pieces, each inspired by (and dedicated to) women artists whose powerful vision and creativity drove them to continue creating well into their ’80s and ’90s: Joan Jonas, Louise Bourgeois, Agnes Martin, Judit Reigl, Leonora Carrington, Jakucho Sekuchi, and Toko Shinoda. The ensemble lineups feature some of the most exciting musicians working today and include friends new (Charmane Lee, Sae Hashimoto) and old (Sylvie Courvoisier, Makigami Koichi, Erik Friedlander, Satoko Fujii, Natsuki Tamura, Zeena Parkins, Ned Rothenberg, David Watson). Moody, lyrical, textural, and evocative, the music is driven by Ikue’s unique electronics and showcases her brilliant ear for orchestration, melody, and texture.

12/07/2022

JOHN ZORN
SUITE FOR PIANO

TZA CD 8389

Brian Marsella, Jorge Roeder, Ches Smith.

Praeludium * Allemande * Sarabande * Scherzo * Menuet * Passacaglia * Gigue * Pavane * Intermezzo * Air

Inspired in part by the Goldberg Variations and Schoenberg’s solo piano music, “Suite for Piano” is Zorn’s very personal take on some of the oldest traditional classical forms. It is performed here by one of the most dedicated, virtuosic, and passionate interpreters in the Zorn universe, Brian Marsella, whose educational experience (too “jazz” for the classical world and too “classical” for the jazz world) makes him the perfect interpreter of Zorn’s cross-pollinating musical poetics. Accompanied by the telepathic rhythm section of Jorge Roeder and Ches Smith (Heaven and Earth Magick) this is a beautiful and soulful program of music for the classic instrumentation of piano, bass, and drums.

24/05/2022

Charming Hostess
The Ginzburg Geography
TZA CD 4039

Jewlia Eisenberg, Cynthia Taylor, Marika Hughes, Max Baloian, Dan Cantrell, Jason Levis, Jason Ditzian, Jeremiah Lockwood, Laura Inserra, Morgan Nilsen, Dina Maccabee, Jessica Ivry, Sylvain Carton, Darren Johnston, Kat Covell, Alisa Rose, Nina Rolle, Ganda Suthivarakom, Nils Frykdahl, Dawn McCarthy, Dan Rathbun.

Revolution in Borgo San Costanzo * Marciar, Marciar * Corso Re Umberto * La Situazione * La Filera * Guerra di Popolo * These Three Friends * Old Ones Remain * La Lega * Memoria * Winter in Abruzzo * All You Fascists Bound to Lose * Waiting

The Ginzburg Geography is an examination of the lives and work of Natalia and Leone Ginzburg during World War II. As with her other Charming Hostess endeavors, Jewlia Eisenberg plunged deeply into research and created songs inspired by their life, love and writings as well as including songs of protest and cultural significance from the time. Jewlia laid down vocals and oversaw the recording of the majority of band tracks but was not able to finish. Since her passing, her longtime collaborator Marika Hughes has completed the album consistent with Jewlia’s vision based on her notes and past performances. Tzadik is deeply honored to present this historic and heartfelt final project by the endlessly creative force that was Jewlia Eisenberg.

24/05/2022

John Zorn
Spinoza
TZA CD 8388

John Medeski, Matt Hollenberg, Kenny Grohowksi, Bill Frisell, John Zorn.

Immanence * Spinoza

Spinoza is Zorn’s latest creation for the searing jazz-metal trio Simulacrum—perhaps the most extreme organ trio ever. Inspired by the life and thought of one of the world’s greatest philosophers he has composed two extended concerti: one for guitar genius Bill Frisell, and another featuring himself on saxophone. The musical mosaic flows seamlessly from one world to another, touching upon heavy metal, jazz, minimalism, atonality, noise, ambient moods, funk, and so much more. A musical vision as radical as the philosophy of Spinoza himself, this is one of Zorn’s greatest recent works—an essential and exhilarating project as powerful as it is sensitive. Cinema for the ears!

21/03/2022

John Zorn
Perchance to Dream…

TZA CD 8387
Archival Series

Bill Frisell, John Medeski, Brian Marsella, Kenny Wollesen.

Introit * A Secret Twilight * Lacrimosa * Eventide * Midnight Vespers * Hekate * Tenderness

A beautiful suite of music for late night listening, spiritual and evocative, performed by an all-star unit of four members of Zorn’s inner circle. Structured like a religious mass, these seven lovely nocturnes take you to an otherworldly space of beauty and tenderness, unlike any other Zorn compositions you have ever heard. Gorgeous and restful music from a compositional seeker who continues to defy categorization, Perchance to Dream… is one of the most unusual and haunting collections in his catalog.

21/03/2022

Zoh Amba
O, Sun

TZA CD 4038
Spectrum

Zoh Amba, Micah Thomas, Thomas Morgan, Joey Baron.

Hymn to the Divine Mother * O, Sun * Northern Path * Gardener* Holy Din * Crossing * Satya

Hailing from Tennessee and now residing in New York, Zoh Amba is a 21 year-old tenor saxophonist who performs with a deep sense of spirituality and emotional power. Growing up in the mountains she practiced and played in the forest before continuing her studies in San Francisco and Boston. For her first CD she has chosen a fabulous quartet featuring her close friend, rising NYC star Micah Thomas on piano, and the formidable rhythm section of Thomas Morgan and Joey Baron. Hypnotic phrases, beautiful folk-like melodies and a soulful tone takes this powerful and moving music toward the feeling tones of a sacred ritual.

18/02/2022

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The Song of Songs

This very special CD BOOK presents John Zorn’s evocative musical setting of the Biblical love poem “The Song of Songs,” with singer/conductor Barbara Hannigan and film director/actor Mathieu Amalric narrating. Featuring extensive notes, the full text of Jeremy Fogel’s passionate new translation (commissioned expressly for this project), and 35 illustrations by Zorn himself, this limited edition one-of-a-kind CD BOOK is an absolute treasure.

John Zorn
Song of Songs Shir Hashirim (31’03)

featuring
Barbara Hannigan narration
Mathieu Amalric narration

and a new translation from the Hebrew by Jeremy Fogel

THE DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM
Martha Cluver, Lisa Bielawa, Abigail Fischer, Kathryn Mulvehill, Kirsten Sollek voices

The Song of SongsThis very special CD BOOK presents John Zorn’s evocative musical setting of the Biblical love poemThe Song of Songs, with singer/conductor Barbara Hannigan and film director/actor Mathieu Amalric narrating.Featuring extensive notes, the full text of Jeremy Fogel’s passionate new...

25/01/2022

JOHN ZORN-BILL LASWELL
THE CLEANSING

TZA CD 4037

John Zorn, Bill Laswell.

Brion Gysin * Aleister Crowley * Austin Osman Spare * William Burroughs * Alejandro Jodorowsky * The Cleansing

Zorn and Laswell have been friends and musical compatriots since they first met in 1978, and have been responsible for some of the most intense and memorable music in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Recorded in early 2021, near the end of the year’s pandemic lockdown, it marks the first time Zorn had touched the saxophone in over fifteen months. Laswell had spent most of the year locked in his apartment. Something special was happening that day—and after the session Laswell felt rejuvenated—as if all the toxins and poisons had left his body. Soulful and essential, “The Cleansing” is an historic meeting—and the first recorded duo project by these two Downtown magicians.

11/01/2022

JOHN ZORN
THE NINTH CIRCLE

TZA CD 8385 Archival Series
John Medeski, Brian Marsella, Matt Hollenberg, Kenny Grohowski.

Canto I * Canto II * Canto III * Canto IV * Canto V * Canto VI * Canto VII * Canto VIII * Canto IX

The latest recording by Zorn’s newest ensemble Chaos Magick is a suite inspired by the ancient Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice. Combining contemporary classical with jazz, funk, rock, blues, film soundtrack, noise improvisation and so much more this is a wild and evocative trip thru Hell and back. Tight conductions, complex melodies, burning solos, telepathic group interaction and all the wit, humor, joy and mystery that one has come to expect from Zorn’s dedicated and passionate crew of virtuosi are in abundant display in this beautiful and unique rendering of the classic Orpheus legend.