Articles tagged "john zorn"

Sound Affects

Rashanim: Healing Music for Unrighteous Times

by Sean Murphy

[13.Aug.09] :. Rashanim's work is quite clearly grounded in tradition (both religious and musical), but their invocation of other places and times are very rooted in a modern sensibility: it’s definitely jazz and it is certainly imbued with a distinctively Jewish sensibility. Above all, it rocks.

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John Zorn: Rebel with a Cause

by Sean Murphy

[31.Mar.09] :. I’ve not said much to say, in print, to this point about John Zorn for a variety of reasons, but it ultimately boils down to two very simple issues. First, there is so much to say it’s...

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Books Review

John Zorn by John Brackett

by Michael Patrick Brady

[28.Jan.09] :. One must be willing to risk being consumed by the dark, cabalistic world Zorn has created around his art.

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Column: Canon Fodder

DIY: Takahiko Iimura

by Michael Barrett

[8.Oct.08] :. Takahiko Iimura read about the American underground film movement and began making experimental works based only on what he'd read. Soon he was a leading experimental filmmaker.

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Film DVD Review

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

by Marc Calderaro

[25.Sep.08] :. We're given the legacy of one of the 20th century’s most influential avant-garde filmmakers and artists, but also the sad, thin-skinned ego of a societal outcast.

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Crazed by the Music

Zorn and Britney: The strange dance between artist and press

by Jason Gross

[10.Mar.08] :. When composer/saxist John Zorn invited journalists to a pair of weekend shows, his one request was that they would not write about it. Of course, the next thing that happened was that a flurry of...

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The Microscopic Septet: Seven Men in Neckties/Surrealistic Swing

by Will Layman

[12.Jan.07] :. Possibly the most vital jazz group of the 1980s, in retrospect.