A Dreamers' Christmas - 45 tours

 

Un 45 tours extrait de l'album Christmas de The Dreamers est annoncé chez Tzadik.

 

Nouveautés John Zorn à paraître

 

(Limited Edition) Vinyl
John Zorn: A Dreamers Christmas [#6002]
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. Filled with a joyful holiday spirit, innocence, a touch of nostalgia and a charming lyricism, this is music for all ages that will make you smile with delight from the very first notes. As a special treat, vocalist Mike Patton delivers an intimate and heartfelt rendition of Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire, making A Dreamers Christmas an instant classic, and an essential CD for any
contemporary Christmas celebration. PICTURE DISC ALSO AVAILABLE ON HI
QUALITY LIMITED EDITION VINYL.

Archival
John Zorn: At The Gates Of Paradise [#7392]
Channelling the work of Romantic visionary William Blake and ancient Gnostic writings from the Nag Hammadi archives, At the Gates of Paradise is the newest installment in Zorn’s ever growing catalog of mystical works. The music is filled with bright light and a childlike innocence, and ranges from long form compositions with constantly shifting time signatures that unfold with a compelling inner logic to mysterious ballads and hypnotic moods. Featuring an all-star quartet of Zorn true believers, 20-year veterans who perform this music with a special passion and searing intensity, the performances are filled with exciting solos and brilliant group interaction.

John Zorn: A Dreamers Christmas [#7393]
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. Filled with a joyful holiday spirit, innocence, a touch of nostalgia and a charming lyricism, this is music for all ages that will make you smile with delight from the very first notes. As a special treat, vocalist Mike Patton delivers an intimate and heartfelt rendition of Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire, making A Dreamers Christmas an instant classic, and an essential CD for any
contemporary Christmas celebration. PICTURE DISC ALSO AVAILABLE ON HI
QUALITY LIMITED EDITION VINYL.
 

Réédition de Elegy

 

Une réédition de Elegy est prévue, avec des textes de certains des musiciens (Patton, Winant...).
 

Keiji Haino & John Zorn 1991/12/23 @ CBGBs, New York

 




 

New York Art Quartet 2002

 

Le New York Art Quartet live à Willisau, Suisse, en 2002.
Roswell Rudd - trombone
John Zorn - alto sax
Reggie Workman - bass
Milford Graves - drums, vocals











 

Yoshie Fruchter - Masada Guitars Revisited

 


 

John Zorn's a Dreamers Christmas

 

Le prochain disque de The Dreamers, en cd et en vinyle, avec Marc Ribot, Jamie Saft, Kenny Wollesen, Trevor Dunn, Joey Baron, Cyro Baptista, Mike Patton.

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. Filled with a joyful holiday spirit, innocence, a touch of nostalgia and a charming lyricism, this is music for all ages that will make you smile with delight from the very first notes. As a special treat, vocalist Mike Patton delivers an intimate and heartfelt rendition of Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire, making A Dreamers Christmas an instant classic, and an essential CD for any contemporary Christmas celebration.
Source : Heung-Heung Chin
 

Entrevue avec Bill Laswell

 

Entrevue avec Bill Laswell. Le dernier paragraphe concerne sa relation avec John Zorn :

BL: Well, we started around the same time in New York. I think around in the late ‘70s neither of us really had any idea what we were gonna do, and we would sort of run into each other and we started playing just improv things. And he started building his concepts and what would turn into an empire later, but…doing his game pieces…and this was before he was doing a lot of written music – he was mostly improv. And that’s how we met. And gradually we started to play more and more. At the time I don’t think he even thought about making a career or success. And he didn’t care about money, didn’t care about really anything. He just wanted to play and wanted to create things. Over time we went in different directions. During the early ‘80s I started to do more accessible things and bigger label things, and he started to develop his repertoire and his army of musicians, and then periodically we would come together for different projects. So it’s one of the few people that I’ve known…it’s probably the only person that I’ve played consistently with from that time. In fact, we have things coming in the future. We do a lot of duets. We’re very interested in doing this duet thing where there’s no drummer, just two people. And I hope we can continue doing that. And we had a trio with Laurie Anderson that I thought worked pretty well. So we’ve always played either trio or duet and it’s always been with different kinds of drummers, sometimes Milford Graves, sometimes Japanese drummers – x`x from The Ruins, and for a brief time Mick Harris originally from Napalm Death and Scorn. So it’s always been these different things, it’s always been predominantly improv. But it’s someone who I’ve worked with consistently and I will continue to work with consistently, and probably our take on music is completely different, which is I think why it works. We have a completely different value system, and he’s got his world and I’ve got a world…and I think it’s interesting that we’re completely different and that’s probably why it’s able to last – we don’t cancel each other out.
 

John Zorn and Tyshawn Sorey @ the Stone NYC - June 15 2011

 


 

Enregistrements de John Zorn

 

Marc Urselli indique sur sa page que John Zorn vient d'enregistrer la bande originale d'une pièce de théâtre polonaise sur Nosferatu, avec Bill Laswell, Rob Burger et Kevin Norton. Il y a quelques semaines, il enregistrait une nouvelle composition file card.