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Tzadik Records
Tzadik Records is a record label based in New York City specialising in avant-garde and experimental music. The label was established by the eclectic composer and saxophonist John Zorn in 1995; Zorn is the executive producer of all Tzadik releases. Tzadik is a not-for-profit, cooperative record...
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Bar Kokhba
Bar Kokhba is a double album by John Zorn, recorded between 1994 and 1996. It features music from Zorn's Masada project, rearranged for small ensembles.
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- 1996
Lepton
Lepton is a composition scored for celeste, harp, and piano by Charles Wuorinen and the name of an album of compositions by Wuorinen released on Tzadik (#7007) in 2002 as part of their composer series. Lepton is also the name of Wuorinen's cat.
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Adult Themes for Voice
Adult Themes for Voice is an album recorded by Mike Patton (vocalist for Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Fantômas, Tomahawk, Peeping Tom, etc.) in hotel rooms during a Faith No More tour. It consists of vocal noises by Patton himself. The 34 tracks aren...
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- Apr 23, 1996
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- 2,661.093 s (44.35155 min )
Tenshi No Gijinka
Tenshi No Gijinka is an album by Japanese musician Keiji Haino, released on John Zorn's Tzadik label in 1995. The album features nine untitled pieces, consisting of Haino's voice and percussion.
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- 1995
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One Atmosphere
One Atmosphere is an album composed entirely by Texas-born saxophonist Julius Hemphill. Tzadik Records released the album in August 2003. It is considered experimental and avant-garde.
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- Aug 2003
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Hearing Voice
Hearing Voices is the 2001 CD of experimental artist David Mahler released on Tzadik Records. Hearing Voices features very little instrumentation, eerie soundscapes, and mostly voices and edited sounds throughout the whole CD.
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- 2001
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Book of Heads
The Book of Heads (1978), composed by John Zorn, is a set of 35 etudes for solo guitar. It was recorded and released in 1995, and featured Marc Ribot. The piece uses multiple extended techniques.
Condensed from roughly 80 other compositions, the...
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- 1995
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Sphere
Sphere is a studio album by the Japanese noise musician Merzbow.
"Untitled for Vasteras" is a recreation of a live set Merzbow performed at the Jazz Festival in Västerås, Sweden in late 2004.
All music by Masami Akita.
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- Apr 26, 2005
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1930
1930 is a studio album by the Japanese noise musician Merzbow. The cover art is of the Art Deco Installation at the Isetan department store.
All music by Masami Akita.
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- 1998
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The Big Gundown
The Big Gundown is an album by American composer and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist John Zorn. It comprises radically reworked covers of tracks by the Italian film composer Ennio Morricone. It was originally to be called "Once Upon a Time in the...
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- 1986
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At The Rebbe's Table
At the Rebbe's Table is the third recording by guitarist Tim Sparks on the Tzadik Records label.
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- Apr 23, 2002
Neshamah
Neshamah (Songs from the Jewish Diaspora), (or simply Neshamah) is the title of the first solo recording by American guitarist Tim Sparks on the Tzadik Records label. "Neshamah" means "soul." The arrangements adapt Ashkenazic klezmer, Sephardic and...
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- Aug 17, 1999
Tanz
Tanz is the title of the second recording by guitaris Tim Sparks on the Tzadik Records label. "Tanz" means "dance."
Allmusic stated "Sparks comes from a classical guitar background more than a fingerpicking folky background, and his virtuosic...
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- Sep 26, 2000
Lacrosse
Lacrosse is a double live album by John Zorn. It is made up of different takes his early game piece, "Lacrosse". The first disc is from WKCR in June 1978 where Mark Abbott, Polly Bradfield, Eugene Chadbourne, and LaDonna Smith and Zorn recorded 6...
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- Jan 25, 2000
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Under the Pipal Tree
Under the Pipal Tree is the first full-length album from Japanese post-rock band Mono. It was released in November 2001 on Tzadik Records.
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- Nov 11, 2001
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- 3,831.333 s (63.85555 min )
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Kaleidoscalp
Kaleidoscalp is the fifteenth studio album by avant-garde guitarist Buckethead. Some of the songs on the album use instruments and effects that have been circuit bent to create sounds quite unlike anything previously heard on Buckethead albums....
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- Nov 22, 2005
Pranzo Oltranzista
Pranzo Oltranzista is Mike Patton's second solo project. It is subtitled "Musica da Tavola per Cinque (literally translated as Banquet Piece for Five Players)," and is based on "Futurist Cookbook" by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, written in 1932....
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- Apr 22, 1997
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- 1,912.4 s (31.873 min )
Choirs of the Eye
Choirs of the Eye is the debut album by Kayo Dot, released on John Zorn's Tzadik Records in 2003.
In maudlin of the Well the compositions were often "brought to life" using astral projection, a relatively New age phantasmagorical practice which...
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- Oct 21, 2003
Eye to Ear
Eye to Ear is a studio album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith. It is a collection of film and theatre music composed and performed by Frith, and was recorded in Germany and the United States between 1992 and 1995. Eye to Ear...
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- 1997
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Pacifica
Pacifica is a studio album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith. It was composed by Frith in 1994 as "a meditation for 21 musicians with texts by Pablo Neruda" , and was performed, under the direction of Frith, by the Bolognese...
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- 1998
Freedom in Fragments
Freedom in Fragments is a studio album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith. It was composed by Frith in 1993 as "a suite of 23 pieces for saxophone quartet" , and was performed by the Rova Saxophone Quartet between February 1999...
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- 2002
Clearing
Clearing is a guitar solo album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith. It was Frith's first solo guitar recording since Live in Japan (1982) and his first solo guitar studio recording since his landmark 1974 album Guitar Solos....
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- 2001
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Filmworks VII: Cynical Hysterie Hour
Filmworks VII: Cynical Hysterie Hour is a 1989 album by John Zorn featuring music written for a series of Japanese animated shorts that were created by Kiriko Kubo. It features Zorn's first music for cartoons and was originally released on the...
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- 1989
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Eye to Ear II
Eye to Ear II is a studio album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith. It is a collection of film music composed and performed by Frith, and is his second album, after Eye to Ear (1997), dedicated to his work for short films. It...
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- 2004
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Filmworks 1986-1990
Filmworks 1986-1990 features the first released film scores of John Zorn. The album was originally released on the Japanese Wave label in 1991, on the Nonesuch Records label in 1992, and subsequently re-released on Zorn's own label, Tzadik Records,...
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Moonchild: Songs Without Words
Moonchild: Songs Without Words is an 2006 album by John Zorn featuring performances by Joey Baron, Mike Patton, and Trevor Dunn (sometimes referred to as the "Moonchild Trio"). It was inspired in part by Aleister Crowley, Antonin Artaud and Edgard...
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- Apr 18, 2006
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- 2,700 s (45 min )
Astronome
Astronome is an album by John Zorn featuring the "Moonchild Trio" of Joey Baron, Mike Patton and Trevor Dunn. It is the second album by the trio following Moonchild: Songs Without Words.
Theater director Richard Foreman staged an opera Astronome: A...
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- Oct 17, 2006
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- 2,640 s (44 min )
Kore Ga Mayaku Da
Kore Ga Mayaku Da is an album by Afrirampo, released on John Zorn's Tzadik label.
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- Jun 21, 2005
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MxBx 1998/13,000 Miles At Light Velocity
MxBx 1998/13,000 Miles at Light Velocity is the first live album by Melt-Banana.
The album is not a conventional "live" album: it was not recorded at a concert, but live in the studio specially for John Zorn's Tzadik Records during the band's 1998...
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- Feb 16, 1999
Six Litanies for Heliogabalus
Six Litanies for Heliogabalus is an album by John Zorn. It is the third album to feature the "Moonchild Trio" of Mike Patton, Joey Baron and Trevor Dunn, following Moonchild: Songs Without Words (2005) and Astronome (2006) and the first to feature...
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- Mar 27, 2007
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- 2,640 s (44 min )
Naked City: The Complete Studio Recordings
Naked City: The Complete Studio Recordings is a five disc box set that contains all of the studio albums released by Naked City during their five year history.
The five discs are accompanied by a book, Eight Million Stories: Naked City Ephemera,...
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- 2005
Painkiller: The Collected Works
Painkiller: The Collected Works is a four disc box set that contains the two EPs Guts of a Virgin and Buried Secrets, the album Execution Ground and a live album previously released on the Japanese edition of Execution Ground.
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- 1997
Naked City Live, Vol 1, The Knitting Factory 1989
Naked City Live is the first and only live album released by Naked City. All of these songs, with the exception of "Erotico", "the Way I Feel" and "Skate Key", were later recorded in the studio for the band's debut album.
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- 2002
Masada Guitars
Masada Anniversary Edition Vol. 1: Masada Guitars is the first album in a series of five releases celebrating the 10th anniversary of John Zorn's Masada songbook project. It features 21 Masada songs performed by solo guitar. The tracks are split...
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Yo! I Killed Your God
Yo! I Killed Your God is a concept album by Marc Ribot, recorded live between 1992 and 1994. It was released May 18, 1999 on Tzadik Records.
All songs were written by Marc Ribot, except where noted.
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- May 18, 1999
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The Circle Maker
The Circle Maker is a double album by John Zorn featuring Zorn's Masada compositions performed by the Masada String Trio (on Disc One: Issachar) and the Bar Kokhba Sextet (on Disc Two: Zevalun).
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- 1998
Live at Tonic 2001
Live at Tonic 2001 is a double album by Masada featuring two sets recorded live at Tonic during one evening in New York's Lower East Side.
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- Sep 2001
From Silence to Sorcery
'From Silence to Sorcery' is an album of contemporary classical music by John Zorn which features three instrumental works touching upon themes of magic and mysticism. "Goetia" is a set of variations for solo violin written in 2002. "Gris-Gris" ...
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- Jun 2007
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- 2,160 s (36 min )
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht is an album by John Zorn that is based on the events before, during, and following the infamous Night of Broken Glass. Zorn first released the album in 1993 on the Japanese Eva label and subsequently in 1995 on his own Tzadik Records...
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- 1995
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- 2,580 s (43 min )
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Back to Life
Back to Life is a studio album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith. It comprises five classical chamber music pieces composed by Frith between 1993 and 2005, and was performed between 1998 and 2007 by Belgian pianist Daan...
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- Jan 2008
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Elegy
Elegy is an album by John Zorn. It is a contemporary classical chamber music piece dedicated to Jean Genet consisting of four movements titled after colors. The Allmusic review by Blake Butler describes the album as "Another smeared blossoming...
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- 1992
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Black Box
Black Box is a compilation album by John Zorn's band Naked City featuring Yamatsuka Eye on vocals. The album is a collection of the "hardcore miniatures" from Naked City and Grand Guignol that were originally released on Torture Garden in 1990 and...
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- 1997
Electric Masada: At the Mountains of Madness
At the Mountains of Madness is a 2005 double live album by American composer and saxophonist John Zorn's Electric Masada featuring performances recorded in Moscow and Ljubljana. It is the second release by Electric Masada.
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- 2005
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Filmworks II: Music for an Untitled Film by Walter Hill
Filmworks II: Music for an Untitled Film by Walter Hill features the second release of scores for film by John Zorn. The album was originally released on the Japanese Toys Factory label in 1995 and subsequently re-released on Zorn's own label,...
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The Classic Guide to Strategy
The Classic Guide to Strategy is a compilation album by John Zorn featuring his two early solo records The Classic Guide to Strategy Volume One (1983), (tracks 1-2) and the Classic Guide to Strategy Volume Two (1985), (tracks 3-8). The albums were...
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Locus Solus
Locus Solus is an album of improvisations by John Zorn and other musicians. Originally released as a double vinyl album on Rift records in 1983 it was re-released as a CD with additional tracks on Eva/Wave in 1990 and on Zorn's Tzadik Records label...
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Hockey
Hockey is an album by John Zorn featuring his early "game piece" composition of the same name. The album, first released on vinyl on Parachute Records in 1980, (tracks 4-9), and later re-released on CD on Tzadik Records with additional bonus tracks...
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Ganryu Island
Ganryu Isalnd is an album by John Zorn featuring improvisations with Satoh Michihiro. The album was first released on vinyl LP on Yukon Records in 1984 and later re-released on Tzadik Records as a CD with five additional tracks in 1998.
The Allmusic...
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Archery
Archery is an album by John Zorn featuring his early "game piece" composition of the same name. The album was first released on Parachute Records in 1982 and later released on Tzadik Records with additional rehearsal takes, (tracks 1-3), as a part...
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Pool
Pool is an album by John Zorn featuring his early "game piece" composition of the same name. The album, first released on vinyl on Parachute Records in 1980, and later released on CD on Tzadik Records with an additional bonus track featuring a test...
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The Bribe
The Bribe: variations and extensions on Spillane is an album by American composer and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist John Zorn, consisting of music created for three half-hour radio plays produced by Mabou Mines theater company in 1986. It...
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- 1998
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Filmworks III: 1990-1995
Filmworks III: 1990-1995 features the scores for film and advertisements by John Zorn. The album was originally eleased on the Japanese Toys Factory and Evva labels in 1996 and subsequently re-released on Zorn's own label, Tzadik Records, in 1997....
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Godard/Spillane
Godard/Spillane is a compilation album by American composer and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist John Zorn consisting of music created through Zorn's file-card compositional process. "Godard' was first released on the French tribute album The...
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- 1999
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Live in Taipei 1995
Live in Taipei is a double live album by John Zorn's Masada recorded at the Crown Theatre in Taiwan's capital city Taipei.
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- Oct 1998
Filmworks V: Tears of Ecstasy
Filmworks V: Tears of Ecstasy is a film score by John Zorn. The album was released on Zorn's own label, Tzadik Records, in 1997. It features the music that Zorn wrote and recorded for the movie "Tears Of Ecstasy" (1995) by director Oki Hiroyuki.
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- 1996
Filmworks VIII: 1997
Filmworks VIII: 1997 features two scores for film by John Zorn. The album was released on Zorn's own label, Tzadik Records, in 1998. It features the music that Zorn wrote and recorded for The Port of Last Resort (1998), a documentary directed by...
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- 1998
50th Birthday Celebration Volume 1
50th Birthday Celebration Volume 1 is a live album by the Masada String Trio documenting their performance at Tonic in September, 2003 as part of John Zorn's month-long 50th Birthday Celebration concert series.
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- Feb 24, 2004
