JOHN ZORNFEMINA (2009)
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If one is interested in dipping their toes into the pool of John Zorn's more avant music, this would be a good place to start. At times boisterous and rowdy and at other times soothingly beautiful, Feminia encompasses all that's great about John Zorn the Composer. There is a good mix of the style of his more accessible Film Works series paired with the unpredictability of his "game pieces" (i.e, Cobra, Xu Feng). I'd also perhaps throw in a bit from his classical works as well for reference.
For this recording Zorn enlisted a small ensemble of talented women who should be familiar names to devoted followers of the Tzadik label. If you think you've got what to expect from this CD all figured out because of the title and the cast involved then you're going to be pleasantly surprised. I've heard some of these performer's solo works and I was still highly intrigued how their talents interacted with one another.
Feminia is only 35 minutes, but is filled with many more inspired passages than most CDs double it's length. A must hear even if you're not a Zornhead.
For this recording Zorn enlisted a small ensemble of talented women who should be familiar names to devoted followers of the Tzadik label. If you think you've got what to expect from this CD all figured out because of the title and the cast involved then you're going to be pleasantly surprised. I've heard some of these performer's solo works and I was still highly intrigued how their talents interacted with one another.
Feminia is only 35 minutes, but is filled with many more inspired passages than most CDs double it's length. A must hear even if you're not a Zornhead.
1. Femina-part one
2. Femina-part two
3. Femina-part three
4. Femina-end titles
2. Femina-part two
3. Femina-part three
4. Femina-end titles
11 comments:
Thank you!
will download soon!
hello from France,
it seems that your rar files on rapidshare are 0.2ko only (i tried 3 recent shares). Help?
It's a textfile for the link.
guess i was not curious enough, thanks ;-)
Indeed.
Enjoy the music! :)
Mr. Moodswings, I was under the impression that you usually wrote your own reviews of albums? I couldn't help but notice that this one is almost verbatim copied from an amazon.com review. And the bummer about that is that the amazon.com review in this case is pretty lousy--this recording doesn't sound like "a bit of filmworks, mixed with game pieces."
I listened to the first couple of minutes of this piece and immediately recognized it as a new "file card" or "index card" piece, in block form, ala Spillane and Godard. This makes it a highly significant recording, as Zorn hasn't used this approach in some time.
The original reviewer must never have heard "spillane" or he/she would've detected the lineage immediately.
Ok, here goes, I post 4 or 5 albums a day. For each of these I try to find the most accurate review sometimes editing what I found, sometimes writing it from scratch when nothing satisfactory is available.
Did you seriously think I had enough time to write 4 reviews a day? I have a life you known and, though I enjoy running with blog and do it with dedication, I cannot spend more time on it than I actually do.
So, okay, this Zorn review may not be the best but I found it good enough to indicate people what a terrific album this is.
Ha, point taken. That would be a LOT of reviewing, for sure. And it is a truly phenomenal album.
Sometimes for Tzadik's albums ... review could be just taken from album's Tzadik's page :)
You're right but I feel the Tzadik reviews to be a little too promotional...
Major Zornhead here, thanks :D
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