Favorite Masada Book Two Albums?
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Topic: Favorite Masada Book Two Albums?
Posted By: Good Aural
Subject: Favorite Masada Book Two Albums?
Date Posted: 05 Jun 2011 at 12:31am
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I love John Zorn's Book of Angels. 1. Azazel by Masada String Trio 2. Sother by Bar Kokhba 3. Malphas by Mark Feldman & Sylvie Courvoisier 4. Ipos by The Dreamers 5. Zaebos - Medeski, Martin, & Wood What about yours? ------------- --- New at Good Aural: http://goodaural.com/2011/06/whats-coming-for-john-zorns-book-of-angels-in-2012/" rel="nofollow - What's Coming for John Zorn's Book of Angels in 2012? |
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Posted By: snobb
Date Posted: 05 Jun 2011 at 2:28am
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Asmodeus (Marc Ribot) Balan (Cracow Klezmer Band) Baal (Ben Goldberg Quartet) Ipos (The Dreamers) Good, but not so good as previous four for me: Astaroth (Jamie Saft Trio) Stolas (Masada Quintet & Joe Lovano) Mycale (Mycale) Caym (Banquet Of The Spirits) Didn't listen every album from Book Of Angels series, but from what I heard no album is bad or boring.
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: 05 Jun 2011 at 5:36am
That applies to the original Masada to me, Boof of Angels had a few misses (especially Koby Israelite [IV] and Cracow Klezmer Band [V]). As for my favourites: Lucifer (Bar Kokhba), Zaebos (Medeski, Martin & Wood), Stolas (Masada Quintet with Joe Lovano) and Malphas (Mark Feldman & Sylvie Courvoisier). ------------- 
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snobb wrote:Posted By: snobb
Date Posted: 05 Jun 2011 at 5:54am
| Original Masada is great musical concept and great musicianship, but for me the idea is overexploited - each album is good, but there are only small differences between them. Book of Angels series contain albums of more various level, but they are much more different between each other |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: 05 Jun 2011 at 6:11am
No, I definitely like the unity of the klezmer rather than the various musicianship in the second. After an evening of, say, three hours of flamenco, you'd probably feel the same "overexploatation" of the specific dance, no matter how various the repertoire was. Besides, some musicians not interpreting Zorn's scores too well or interesting is precisely why I said that some albums are a miss. -------------
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Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: 06 Jun 2011 at 4:02am
| Nice topic! I will listen to those albums to see what I'll buy. |
Posted By: Good Aural
Date Posted: 06 Jun 2011 at 7:00am
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Just listened to Mycale and wow. Amazing voices. The solos are irresistible. ------------- --- New at Good Aural: http://goodaural.com/2011/06/whats-coming-for-john-zorns-book-of-angels-in-2012/" rel="nofollow - What's Coming for John Zorn's Book of Angels in 2012? |
Posted By: snobb
Date Posted: 06 Jun 2011 at 7:11am
| If you like Mycale, try Charming Hostess (from Tzadik as well) - excellent albums in similar key (I like their Sarajevo Blues) |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: 06 Jun 2011 at 8:30am
Agreed. -------------
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Posted By: koit
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2011 at 4:43am
if there are some links to listen to the music ,more people will  join this topic and post their opinions!will somebody?  ------------- peace is the best!
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2011 at 9:21am
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Don't mind me saying, but availability of samples goes both ways, for provider and searcher. Besides, this topic isn't primarily the recommendation type. -------------
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