dimanche 16 mars 2025

En vrac (160) - Février 2025


Chroniques de disques :
- John Zorn/JACK Quartet, The Complete String Quartets (Avant Music News).
- Naked City, 1990 (Pienemmat Purot).

Photos:
- John Zorn, Torino Jazz Festival, 2024.
- Exposition Zorn au Drawing Center : 1 - 2 - 3

Audio :
- Electric Masada,  live at the Walker Art Center, Feb. 17, 2006.

Texte :
- John Zorn and Laurie Anderson Reunite in Brooklyn (JazzTimes).

 

Vidéo - New Masada Quartet, Porgy and Bess, 30 avril 2024

 

 

jeudi 6 mars 2025

John Zorn: Impromptus

John Zorn: Impromptus [#9322]

With Suite for Piano in 2022, Zorn began exploring classical forms in the context of the jazz piano trio. The second CD in the series was a beautiful collection of Ballades, released in July 2024. This third project presents nine Impromptus—freewheeling forms that unfold like brilliantly imaginative short stories. Brian, Jorge, and Ches outdo themselves here with telepathic interplay, endless creativity, and a courageous ability to go places that have never been discovered before. With each new recording, this trio gets both tighter and more explorative. Essential! 


lundi 24 février 2025

PainKiller, The Great God Pan

 

À paraître en avril : 

PainKiller, The Great God Pan.

The reunion of PainKiller, the world’s most extreme sax-bass-drums trio, was one of the great musical events of 2024. For the third installment of their new trilogy of albums, Zorn, Harris, and Laswell take a more moody direction, creating two long tracks combining heavy metal intensity with ambient textures and a brooding lyricism. Inspired in part by Arthur Machan’s gothic novella The Great God Pan, the music weaves a frightening tapestry of mystery, horror, and the imagination.



dimanche 23 février 2025

En vrac (159) - Janvier 2025

 
Photos :
- John Zorn en couverture du magazine Bad Alchemy, 1989.
- John Zorn et Jorge Roeder au MET.
- JACK Quartet et Ikue Mori, Roulette.
- John Zorn / JACK Quartet, The Complete String Quartets.

Chroniques de disques :
- PainKiller, Samsara (The Free Jazz Collective).
- John Zorn / JACK Quartet, The Complete String Quartets (Strings Magazine).

Compte-rendu :
- Jumalattaret par Barbara Hannigan and Bertrand Chamayou, Paris (Olyrix).

Concerts :
- New Masada Quartet, Philadelphie, 2 mars.

 

mardi 4 février 2025

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).


vendredi 24 janvier 2025

Pochette - Chaos Magick, Through The Looking Glass

Chaos Magick, Through The Looking Glass (mars2025)



mardi 21 janvier 2025

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.