En vrac (158) - Décembre 2024

 

Chroniques de disques :
- PainKiller, Samsara (Album of the Year).
- PainKiller, Samsara (Hybrid Moments).
- PainKiller, Samsara (Delay and Distorsion).
- PainKiller, Samsara (Burning Ambulance).
- PainKiller, Samsara (Avant Music News).
- Secret Chiefs 3, Malkhut, Masada Book 3 (Progarchives).
- John Zorn/JACK Quartet, The Complete String Quartets (Broadway World).
- New Masada Quartet. Volume 3 (Diario de Sevilla, en espagnol).
- New Masada Quartet. Volume 3 (The Free Jazz Collective).

Photos :
- Barbara Hannigan et Bertrand Chamayou en t-shirt Messiaen / Zorn.
- John Zorn avec Bertrand Chamayou et Barbara Hannigan.

Concerts :
- Trigger plays Zorn's Bagatelles, The Stone, New York, 18 juin 2025.
- Improv night with John Zorn, The Stone, New York, 4 juin 2025.
- Brian Marsella joue John Zorn, The Stone, New York, 13-16 août 2025.

Texte :
- Spillane, by John Zorn: Aural Cinema and the Lettrist Legacy (Springer).

Pochette - Chaos Magick, Through The Looking Glass

Chaos Magick, Through The Looking Glass (mars2025)

Chaos Magick: Through The Looking Glass

 À paraître en mars : 

Chaos Magick: Through The Looking Glass [#9320]
Medeski, Marsella, Hollenberg, and Grohowski are Chaos Magick—a powerful electric quartet formed to perform Zorn’s twisted and challenging compositions. Founded in 2021 as a spinoff of the heavy metal organ trio Simulacrum, they have released no less than five CDS in three years—Chaos Magick, The Ninth Circle, Multiplicities, 444, and Parrhesiastes. Their sixth, Through the Looking Glass, presents three extended works that unfold like a philosophical treatise. Sweet, funky, soulful, imaginative, quirky, and intensely stimulating, this is music that pushes formal musical ideas into fresh new directions. The phrase “Nothing is real—everything is permitted” has never had greater meaning.

Vidéo - John Zorn and Ryan Streber

 

Vidéo - Jennifer Choi, Hockey, The Stone

 

 Jennifer Choi (violon) James Moore (guitare) Kathleen Supove (piano), The Stone, 30 août 2024.

Pochette _-The Equinox

 PainKiller, The Equinox (février 2025)

John Zorn en 2024 - Bilan discographique

 

The Hermetic Organ Volume 11 - For Terry Riley	The Hermetic Organ Volume 12 - The Bosch Requiem	Love Songs Live	Her Melodious Lay
Ballades	Hannigan Sings Zorn Volume One	Lamentations	The Hermetic Organ Volume 13 - Biennale Musica Venezia
Hannigan Sings Zorn Volume Two	New Masada Quartet, Volume Three	Samsara	Ou Phrontis

Les Bagatelles en albums individuels

 John Zorn: The Bagatelles vol. 1 - Mary Halvorson Quartet [#5211]

May 2015, John Zorn composed 300 new tunes that were eventually collected into a book of music he called The Bagatelles. After five years of performances around the world in venues large and small, the choicest ensembles have gone into the studio and the results are some of the most exciting and varied music Zorn has ever presented. This first volume features the remarkable Mary Halvorson Quartet. Dynamic, fiery and endlessly imaginative, this is a fascinating first peek into the world of Zorn’s Bagatelles.

(January 2025)

John Zorn: The Bagatelles vol. 2 - Erik Friedlander and Michael Nicolas [#5212]

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 five years of performances around the world in venues large and small, the choicest ensembles have gone into the studio and the results are some of the most exciting and varied music Zorn has ever presented. The second volume features the telepathic interplay of two of the most important cellists working today—Erik Friedlander and Michael Nicolas. Touching, sensitive and deeply heartfelt, this is a further view into the world of Zorn’s Bagatelles.

(February 2025)

Painkiller - The Equinox

 

À paraître en février  :

PainKiller: The Equinox [#9319]

The Equinox is the exciting follow-up to PainKiller’s acclaimed 2024 release Samsara, and this time around there is greater variety and flexibility in their approach. Six tracks of various feels and tempi are performed with trademark Painkiller intensity, with jazz, metal, noise, grindcore, techno, and more coming together into the PainKiller gristmill. Inspired by the magickal procedures of Aleister Crowley, this new recording is filled with great melodic, rhythmic, and textural invention. Almost orchestral in its layered complexity, The Equinox is an exhilarating masterwork from three radical and uncompromising forces of nature.

(February 2025)

En vrac (157) - Novembre 2024

 

Photos :
- Barbara Hannigan & Stephen Gosling.

Concerts :
- JACK Quartet, Roulette, 17 janvier.
- John Zorn et Laurie Anderson, Roulette, 15 février.

Chroniques de disque :
- Simulacrum, The Painted Bird (Progarchives.com)