John Zorn 2022
John Zorn - The Hermetic Organ Vol. 10 - Bozar, Brussels (2022) Music
Posted by Rtax at July 1, 2023
John Zorn - The Hermetic Organ Vol. 10 - Bozar, Brussels (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 180 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 115 MB
50:18 | Jazz, Classical | Label: Tzadik
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 180 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 115 MB
50:18 | Jazz, Classical | Label: Tzadik
Recorded at the powerful organ at Henri 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!
Bill Laswell & John Zorn - The Cleansing (2022) Music
Posted by Rtax at Jan. 31, 2022
Bill Laswell & John Zorn - The Cleansing (2022)
FLAC (tracks) - 237 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 109 MB
46:37 | Jazz | Label: Tzadik
FLAC (tracks) - 237 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 109 MB
46:37 | Jazz | Label: Tzadik
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.
John Zorn - Suite for Piano (2022) Music
Posted by Rtax at Aug. 13, 2022
John Zorn - Suite for Piano (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 261 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 104 MB
45:43 | Jazz, Classical | Label: Tzadik
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 261 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 104 MB
45:43 | Jazz, Classical | Label: Tzadik
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.
John Zorn - Spinoza (2022) Music
Posted by Rtax at April 18, 2022
John Zorn - Spinoza (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 256 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 96 MB
42:17 | Avant-garde Jazz, Fusion, Noise | Label: Tzadik
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 256 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 96 MB
42:17 | Avant-garde Jazz, Fusion, Noise | Label: Tzadik
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!
John Zorn - A Garden Of Forking Paths (2022) Music
Posted by Rtax at March 7, 2022
John Zorn - A Garden Of Forking Paths (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 197 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 99 MB
43:14 | Jazz | Label: Tzadik
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 197 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 99 MB
43:14 | Jazz | Label: Tzadik
This is the fifth CD of new music written expressly for the all-star guitar trio of Bill Frisell, Julian Lage and Gyan Riley. Here Zorn draws inspiration from the enigmatic short stories of Argentine philosopher/writer Jorge Luis Borges. Like a collection of short stories, each composition is a miniature world in itself and touches on philosophy and mysticism as well as music. Blending folk, classical, jazz, bluegrass, world music and more, this is truly music of the 21st century—unclassifiable and unique.
Filled with telepathic interplay and surprising compositional twists and turns, the music is achingly beautiful and intensely evocative. Another gorgeous creation from downtown alchemist John Zorn and this incredible trio of musical masters!
John Zorn - The Hermetic Organ Vol. 9 - Liber VII (2022) Music
Posted by Rtax at Oct. 11, 2022
John Zorn - The Hermetic Organ Vol. 9 - Liber VII (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 178 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 102 MB
44:44 | Jazz, Classical, Avantgarde | Label: Tzadik
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 178 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 102 MB
44:44 | Jazz, Classical, Avantgarde | Label: Tzadik
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 heartyou have never heard such sounds!
John Zorn - Perchance To Dream (2022) Music
Posted by Rtax at March 26, 2022
John Zorn - Perchance To Dream (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 225 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 103 MB
44:37 | Jazz | Label: Tzadik
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 225 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 103 MB
44:37 | Jazz | Label: Tzadik
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.
John Zorn - John Zorn's Bagatelles (Vol. 13-16) (2023) Music
Posted by Rtax at July 1, 2023
John Zorn - John Zorn's Bagatelles (Vol. 13-16) (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 974 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 439 MB
3:11:55 | Jazz | Label: Tzadik
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 974 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 439 MB
3:11:55 | Jazz | Label: Tzadik
From March to May 2015, John Zorn composed 300 new tunes that were eventually collected into a book of music
he called The Bagatelles. After 5 years of performances around the world in venues large and small, the choicest
ensembles have gone into the studio and the recordings are finally being made available in a series of limited edition
4-CD BOX sets. Each set will present four ensembles performing a unique program of Zorn’s Bagatelles.
Eugene Chadbourne - John Zorn's Olympiad Vol. 3 - Pops Plays Pops: Eugene Chadbourne Plays The Book Of Heads (2023) Music
Posted by delpotro at March 9, 2023
Eugene Chadbourne - John Zorn's Olympiad Vol. 3 - Pops Plays Pops: Eugene Chadbourne Plays The Book Of Heads (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 308 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 145 Mb | 01:03:14
Avant-Garde Jazz | Label: Tzadik Records
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 308 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 145 Mb | 01:03:14
Avant-Garde Jazz | Label: Tzadik Records
The third volume in John Zorn's "Olympiad" series is this solo performance in 2007 at the Kompo Cultural Center in Gyungee, Korea by Zorn associate and eccentrically eminent improviser Eugene Chadbourne, performing on electric and acoustic guitars as he interprets 15 compositions for improvisers from John Zorn's seminal 1976 series: The Book of Heads.
John Zorn - Incerto (2022) Music
Posted by delpotro at April 24, 2023
John Zorn - Incerto (2022)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 298 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 130 Mb | 00:56:36
Contemporary Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz | Label: Tzadik Records
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 298 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 130 Mb | 00:56:36
Contemporary Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz | Label: Tzadik Records
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 Freud, Sartre, and the Uncertainty Principle, the music explores possibilities, probabilities, inevitabilities, and impossibilities.