Hi, --- Theo Klaase <river_of_dogs@yahoo.com> escribió:
I liked most of the Unknown Masada but found the Filmworks CD tiresome in the been there, done that category.
What i really found boring was "The Unknown Masada". I didn't really like Zorn's picks for this album. Not that I found "Voices in the Wilderness" specially outstanding, but this is even worse, imho. Fantomas, Eyvind Kang and Tatsuda Yoshida's covers are, at least, covering different ground, but the rest of them I find questionable. Even Kobi Israelite's interpretation sounds great -despite my 100% negative impressions on his "Dance of the Idiots" on Tzadik- but the rest of the material seems too traditional. An what about Jamie Saft here? I certainly preferred his old taste for collaborators. When I read about Jon Madof sitting in with E Masada I shuddered!!
Ribot's playing on the album - it's stellar work along with the contributions from the other musicians.
I think Ribot isn't specially remarkable here, too much discretion perhaps. I really like him on acoustic, but in my opinion he did much a better job with Tim Sparks on "At the Rebbe's Table" than in "Hiding and Seeking". However, I pretty much like the overall sound of the ensemble, although I'm still looking for the Denny connection. It's
the compositions themselves, like I've heard these same tunes on other Zorn releases. Anyone else get this feeling? Like Zorn is essentially creating the same composition over and over. Is he running out of gas?
Could be, but he seems to have approached the Jewish-stuff from a different angle this time and as far as I'm concerned, the compositions are among the strongest of his latest stuff. I don't get that reiterative feeling in comparison to his former albums, but perhaps inside "Filmworks XIV" itself. OK, it's a soundtrack, and it's all about a few themes with variations, but the latter don't seem to "vary" that much here. At least you noticed some actual differences in "Invitation to a Suicide", for example, but the sound is too homogeneous in this case.
I don't think so but I do think this "need" for Klezmer-like compositions is limiting in vision. So it's a Jewish movie (again), why box oneself in?
Maybe we were used to short-life Zorn projects and we perceive this Jewish period as repetitive, I don't know. Best, Efrén del Valle n.p: JZ "Songs from the Hermetic Theater" (Tzadik)
-Theo
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