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DIGEST #87, 09-25-95
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-From b-long@nwu.edu Mon Sep 18 12:11:11 1995
-Subject: zorn's elegy
I have a issue of Zorn's Elegy on Eva records, a Japanese import. I believe
that Elegy is a tribute -- or elegy, if you wish -- to Jean Genet, the
French thief-poet-queer-author. It's organized in four movements named after
colours (blue, yellow, pink, and black). The primary solo instruments are
flute and viola, with occasional typical chaotic Zorn departures featuring
guitar, turntables and sound effects. But don't expect any real strong
rhythm section. There's some great vocal work from Mike Patton (mostly moans
and growls, etc.). I wouldn't characterize it as jazz and certainly not
heavy metal; it has more in common with twentieth century avant-garde,
whatever that means. There's really more tension than release here, so the
noisy parts come as a real surprise. It's real short, but packaged
beautifully and is repeatably listenable. Cinematic stuff. I'd check it out.
-- Brook Long
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-From srsvobod@piper.hamline.edu Mon Sep 18 13:30:17 1995
John Zorn's Elegy is the scariest album I've heard in a long time. Elegy
is four compositions (named blue, yellow, pink, and black, I think (I
don't have the album in front of me right now)) written by John Zorn,
however, he does not appear on the album. Mike Patton and Scummy from Mr.
Bungle, a few guys all named Dave, including David Shea, turntablist
extraordinare, and a female flute player whose name I forget. There's a
cello/viola player on there too.
The album is half an hour long, and there is never really any "jazz" or
"metal" part in it. Do you remember those old high school biology films
of little one-celled protozoa floating around? The soundtracks to those
were just weird because it seemed like it was just a bunch of random
notes for a melody, with basically the same instrumentation (almost) as
Elegy. The first two tracks remind me of those old films, with a variety
of other noises included.
The last five minutes of Pink, and all of Black is some really scary
stuff though. It's very ambient really, with what seems like those
Tibetan monks droning on one really low-pitched note forever, and a bunch
of screams and banging on metal, etc. which makes those songs scary as
hell to listen to with the lights out.
One last note: Just because Mike Patton and Scummy are on this album,
doesn't mean it sounds anything like Mr. Bungle. In the credits, Patton
is listed simply as "voice", and he appears only in parts of the album.
He doesn't say anything coherent- he's either screaming, or growling, or
spitting up stuff instead of real vocals. There is one part which hurts
to listen to where it sounds like PAtton is getting stretched on the rack
and he screams in agony for a while. Scummy, the guitar player, is mixed so
incredibly low it's hard to hear him at all.
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-From twalker@uclink3.berkeley.edu Thu Sep 21 23:21:40 1995
-Subject: Re: ZORN DIGEST #86
hello,
just bought three new tzadik releases:
john zorn: redbird (very quiet and repetitive...the first part, "dark
river," is simple heavy room-rattling bass drums...very nice ambient (*not*
in the laswellian sense, tho)...the second is more "traditional" in that
feldman-esque sort of way. nice.)
john zorn: the book of heads (marc ribot playing Zorn solo guitar
stuff...amazingly funny and simply all around great. a winner in the
greatest sense of the word)
john zorn & yamantaka eye: nani nani (chaos! chaos! not exactly my cup of
tea, but, wow, is it funny...)
anyway, just had to let y'all know my two cents...of you that have heard
these, what's your opinion?
-todd
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