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FOCUS ON: Masada
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- Label: Tzadik >>
- Genre: Jazz, World & Blues
Started in 1994, Masada has quickly become one of John Zorns most popular and adventurous musical projects.
The Masada songbook is Zorns attempt at forging a new form of Jewish music, one consciously rooted in the past and with an eye to the future of Jewish culture.
Zorns two hundred or so Masada compositions integrate elements of klezmer, Eastern and Middle music with jazz, avant-garde, and classical, to produce this new form of Jewish music.It does not emphasize the unity and permanence of the Jewish experience, but rather its many facets and aspects. Zorn doesnt draw on one tradition, but on many. Like Zorns "Great Jewish Music" series on Tzadik, he identifies Jewish music as not just klezmer, but all kinds of music that Jews of the ages have lived with, composed and performed. All these types of music, from Mahlers symphonies to Burt Bacharachs pop melodies and Lou Reeds dissonant rock are echoed in the Masada songbook.
