John Zorn - Masada Guitars
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Artist: John ZornEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-01-21
Music Label: Tzadik
Soundtracks:
- Abidan
- Kodashim
- Kedem
- Bikkurim
- Rayvayah
- Hadasha
- Katzatz
- Kanah
- Hodaah
- Kisofim
- Sippur
- Sansanah
- Galgalim
- Elilah
- Kedushah
- Shevet
- Kochot
- Tzalim
- Kivah
- Avelut
- Moshav
Music reviews of Masada Guitars
Music Review: Spare, passionate
Rating: 5 Stars
There's really not much that needs to be said about this album, is there? Music Zorn composed for Masada, interpreted here by Tim Sparks, Marc Ribot, and Bill Frisell. (NOT in trio format - each track features only one of the three, Frisell on seven cuts, Sparks on five, Ribot on nine -- all kinda mixed-up together, so that I haven't had a chance to figure out how I feel about each player individually; track 10 obviously jumps out as being a Bill Frisell performance, but it's the only one I've had that reaction to, really NOTICING the identity of the player -- I'm slow about such things). The Tzadik obi, or whatever those things are called when it's a non-Japanese release, talks about the music including "a nod to Fahey, Julian Bream, Segovia, Van Eps and others." That, really, is accurate to the point of making my blather redundant. Strangest thing to me is that Zorn seems to be crossing over into some sort of mainstream success with this disc; the local Virgin Records ordered 15 copies of it, when usually they MIGHT pick up one or two copies of a new Tzadik release -- many they ignore outright, tho'). And this IS very accessible, easily-listened to stuff; you could probably play it for your most unhip relatives, even people who own a Kenny G disc, and they'd like it. (People with no taste can sometimes appreciate beauty, too). My only misgiving, if slight: I guess I feel a smidgen weird about the two photos of Zorn, one on the obi-thing, the other in the booklet, which have him just-kinda bathed in divine illumination, looking a little too too "Great Artist"; I kinda dug those days when his photo simply didn't show up anywhere in his releases, and don't know why he's fronting it NOW (unless it's some move to actually get the light of celebrity shining on him, which just doesn't seem very Zorn-like, tho' wouldn't be a bad idea, in some ways... maybe he's just caught sufficient flak for the various pornographic/brutal images he's shared with us previously that he's tryin' another tack; maybe there's even IRONY in these images, I dunno). But to heck with me for sayin' such things; they make the CD no less beautiful an experience, to those who appreciate beauty; the music is passionate and sincere and exquisitely played, and the disc will be one you'll wanna spin frequently. It WOULD be weird if Zorn somehow became a mainstream pop icon, of some sort, tho', wouldn't it? But, like, there ain't much water in this here desert, so why not...
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