baphomet (2020)
Track Listing:
1. Baphomet 39:07
Personnel:
Matt Hollenberg - Guitar
John Medeski - Organ, Clavinet
Kenny Grohowski - Drums
Production:
All music composed, arranged and conducted by John Zorn
Produced by John Zorn
Associate Producer - Kazunori Sugiyama
Recording, Mixing 02/22 -24, 2020 by Marc Urselli at EastSide Sound, NYC
Mastering - Scott Hull
Design - Chippy (HHC)
Baphomet Engraving - Eliphas Levi
Collages - John Zorn
TZADIK Blurb
Baphomet is a masterpiece! One epic 40-minute long-form composition touching upon all of Zorn’s musical obsessions from classical atonality, minimalism, jazz, metal, punk, funk, improvisation, exotica and more. Passionately performed by Simulacrum, his most powerful 20th century ensemble, the music has a dramatic cinematic expanse and is filled with new sounds, unexpected directions, virtuosic solos, bizarre structural complexities and ever surprising melodic and harmonic twists and turns. Baphomet is a courageous new step for Zorn, and a spectacular culmination to his 30-year exploration of the nexus that connects hardcore punk, progressive metal and jazz. Essential!
Series: Archival Series
Catalogue Number: TZ8372
Release Date: June 26, 2020