Artist: john zorn

Music and dance in the Twin Cities at the Walker Art Center continues to not only be the best source for witnessing and experiencing incredible talent from around the world but also remains as one of

By my calculations, John Zorn has been featured on Doklands more than any other musician. He's a fascinating figure. With raw materials such as jazz, klezmer, punk and experimental classical music he has built a new land of the fringes of what has been done before. But more than that, he's managed to populate that musical land. Let's leave that metaphor before it suffers any further damage. Today's track comes from his 1989 album Spy vs Spy: The Music of Ornette Coleman . What would free jazz sound like, it asks, if [...]

• John Zorn - C&D

I don't really get many John Zorn albums anymore. It's not that I don't like them. I just have A LOT. Way more than I have time to listen to. So I'm a lot more choosey these days. This one struck me as pretty unique. This is a score Zorn composed for a Polish stage version of Nosferatu . The quartet of musicians includes long-time collaborator Bill Laswell. There's quite a bit of diversity throughout this hour of music. It opens with ambient sounds and textures. There are the louder more abrasive songs that Zorn [...]

Masada en vivo Miércoles 14 de marzo de 2012 Teatro Caupolicán Fotos: Álvaro Guerra Lo que sucedió anoche en el escenario del Teatro Caupolicán, fue, literalmente encender los fuegos y no encargarse de apagar el incendio. Porque, sin miedo a exagerar, Masada dejó pidiendo agüita al respetable justo en el momento en que más cantidad necesitaba (que calidad hubo mucha). En su primera visita a Chile, el cuarteto liderado por el saxofonista John Zorn hizo muestra, muy en resumen, de lo que han desarrollado en una prolífica carrera de casi [...]

Tracklist: All you are going to want to do is get back there - The Caretaker Poison - Laurie Anderson The Earlie King - Baby Dee Shake That Devil - Antony and The Johnsons Is That All There Is? - Cristina Beg Your Pardon - Crass cerebrus - John Zorn Spoonful - Keiji Haino & Coil

El prolífico saxofonista y compositor John Zorn tocará en Chile el 14 de marzo en el Teatro Caupolicán. Ampliamente conocido por su virtuosismo y sus colaboraciones con músicos como Mike Patton o Bill Frissel, además de su trabajo en distintas bandas sonoras para películas y su propio sello, Tzadik , donde da rienda suelta a su conocida inquietud experimental. El neoyorquino se presentará junto a su aventajado grupo de jazz Masada , ofreciendo una experiencia más que interesante para cualquier amante de la música. Los tickets para el evento bordean entre los $25.000 y $35.000 y [...]

This is one of those Christmas records that truly inspires peace on earth and good will toward men. -- NPR.org Read more »

John Zorn interview via Altered Zones "My choices as artistic director at The Stone is not to curate per se, but to choose the curators, and I approach the job with the same compositional head that I use in everything I do, from my writing to my improvising and even my cooking! Imagination, curiosity and openness. What I look for in the various curators is the ability to galvanize a scene, and present not only one's own work to the public but the work of an entire community."

Interzone is the best thing John Zorn has done in YEARS. One album, three long tracks, and an inspired combination. Zorn first came to attention for his "filing card" compositions, music made using similar methods to those that Burroughs used for his cut-up writing. It's those techniques that Zorn has returned to for 2010's Interzone an album that veers sharply between scientific noise, ethnological field recordings, serialist piano, dirty blues and all points between. And isn't points between what the interzone is all about? It's the nowhere that borders everywhere. This [...]

We appreciate that some of our readers might not have heard of Paul Catten - he has, after all, been making music for longer than some of our readers have been alive. For those of us in our late 20s and beyond though, Paul Catten first became known to us as the frontman of the notorious and furious [...]

Regardless of your spiritual allegiance or thoughts regarding freezing temperatures, the winter/holiday season is an interesting one. There's something about this period of the calendar year that just feels different from everything else. Summer has the vibe and energy of hot, sticky freedom; spring lives and breathes with the promise of a reawakening; and fall is all about getting in line and preparation. Winter, though, is slightly more splintered. Some people see Christmas/Hanukkah/the Winter Solstice/Festivus as a time for family and friends and celebrating the inherent warmth and goodness in us all. Others view these as tired traditions, [...]

There has been no shortage of support within the music community for the ongoing Occupy movements. Jeff Mangum , Talib Kweli , Tom Morello , and Crosby Stills and Nash have all delivered performances, and Kanye West an appearance at Occupy Wall Street, and Rage Against the Machine's Zach De La Rocha recently showed his support with a poem . Now, a number of prominent musicians have bonded together and launched their own movement called Occupy Musicians. According to an issued press release , "Occupy Musicians will serve as a resource to facilitate performances [...]

The NYC concert calendar chills out a bit this week. But there's still plenty of action, including a jam-packed weekend of shows that's going to set up some tough decisions....

A Christmas album in the middle of October can be a hard sell. However, little Santas and jingle bells will soon be popping onto drugstore shelves, so maybe it's not that far out of season. Even more convincing is the fact that we're talking about a John Zorn Christmas. The MacArthur Genius brought back a cabal of frequent collaborators from 20082s Dreamers (and 20012s The Gift ) to lend some jazzy eccentricity to your holiday parties. Despite the fact that Zorn himself can be notoriously odd and [...]

Maybe it's because I'm Jewish, or maybe I'm just an evil liberal participating in The War on Christmas, but few things annoy me more than holiday songs. They pretty much universally suck. Except for Dean Martin's "Let it Snow." I like that one. But that may just be because it was used at the end [...]

JAIR TAHAH Masada Alef DIW : 1994 John Zorn, alto; Dave Douglas, trumpet; Greg Cohen, bass; Joey Baron; drums. The first salvo in what would turn out to be a tremendous creative outlet for Zorn: the Masada songbook. Here, on the occasion of the Jewish new year, are a couple of tunes from that first Masada record. Recorded at a marathon session [...]

• John Zorn - Jair
• John Zorn - Tahah

Also, John Zorn's The Dreamers are releasing a Christmas Album!. "The biggest surprise of the year is John Zorn's beautiful Christmas CD. Zorn has hand picked seven of his favorite Christmas songs, penned two lovely originals and they are performed here in classic Dreamers style with plenty of exciting solos, exotic colors and catchy lyricism." (via le zornographe: John Zorn's a Dreamers Christmas ) And last but not least, we missed John Zorn's 58th birthday by a week. So a happy belated birthday wish from us, here's to a creative year!

The John Zorn Radio Hour (1989-90) Well it seems I haven't looked enough in the past for John Zorn selections. Here's a rare promo one from 1990, with once again an impressive selection. Esquivel, Hüsker Dü, Hasil Adkins, Napalm Death, Funkadelic and Naked City. (via Lucky Psychic Hut )

John Zorn Mix for FatCat Records Podcast It's the first time I've seen John Zorn do a mixtape, and boy it is good (and quite eclectic)!. The first part features exotica & soundtrack artists such as Les Baxter and Lesiman alongside Henry Purcell, free jazz from Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Beach Boys and more. There's also a Part 2 with more weirdness, like Ottoman music from Marko Melkon, Zamfir, Sinatra, Duke Ellington and bunch of artists whom I'll frankly admit to never hearing. Schooltime! " "About 30 years ago Derek Bailey invited me [...]

John Zorn Mix for FatCat Records Podcast ( FatCat ) It's the first time I've seen John Zorn do a mixtape, and boy it is good (and quite eclectic)!. The first part features exotica & soundtrack artists such as Les Baxter and Lesiman alongside Henry Purcell, free jazz from Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Beach Boys and more. There's also a Part 2 with more weirdness, like Ottoman music from Marko Melkon, Zamfir, Sinatra, Duke Ellington and bunch of artists whom I'll frankly admit to never hearing. Schooltime!