- Masada: Zayin
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Masada: Zayin Studio album by John Zorn Released 1996 Recorded April 16, 1996 Genre Jazz Length 60:43 Label DIW Producer John Zorn and Kazunori Sugiyama Masada chronology Masada: Vav
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(1996)Masada: Zayin, also known as Masada 7, is a 1996 album by American composer and saxophonist John Zorn and released on the Japanese DIW label. It is the seventh album of Masada recordings.
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Reception
The Allmusic review by Don Snowden awarded the album 3 stars stating "Masada's seventh volume sounds almost like an odds-and-sods collection. It's a more fragmentary and disparate disc that doesn't have much musical middle ground -- the extremes between the group's atonal free improv bursts and its more melodic or atmospheric pieces are very pronounced... The music flies all over the map and it sounds like Masada is just wrapping up loose ends or spewing out material based on Zorn's concepts that could have stayed out in the woodshed. Although it's good to hear the group taking some different roads, this is a minor entry in its catalog".[1]
Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic [1] Track listing
- All compositions by John Zorn.
- "Shevet" – 7:58
- "Hath-Arob" – 3:24
- "Mahshav" – 6:16
- "Shamor" – 5:09
- "Bacharach" – 1:24
- "Otoit" – 3:27
- "Nevuah" – 8:22
- "Kedem" – 9:55
- "Zemer" – 2:14
- "Evel" – 5:35
- "Tekufah" – 6:59
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- Recorded at the Power Station, New York City on April 16, 1996
Personnel
References
- ^ a b Snowden, D. Allmusic Review accessed July 26, 2011
Categories:- 1996 albums
- Masada albums
- Albums produced by John Zorn
- DIW Records albums
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