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MASADA 30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION: THE COMPLETE STUDIO MASTER TAKES

Pre-order: Expected to ship the week of October 30

November new release

Parrhesiastes

This fifth CD by the Chaos Magick band is one of Zorn’s greatest recent achievements. Three extended compositions that run the gamut from Funk, Metal, Contemporary Classical, and more blended into a dramatic narrative that is constantly surprising and yet deeply inevitable. 
 

Featuring four of the most accomplished performers in Zorn’s inner circle, this is a mind blowing document of Zorn’s kaleidoscopic compositional vision. Astonishing and utterly essential!

John Medeski, Brian Marsella, Matt Hollenberg, Kenny Grohowski.

Nov 17th

TZADIK TO MAKE IT'S CATALOGUE AVAILABLE ON Streaming Services

Begins 09/29

september new releasae

Nothing Is As Real As Nothing

A new release by the all-star guitar trio of Frisell-Lage-Riley is always a cause for celebration and this sixth volume in their transcendent legacy completes Zorn’s second trilogy of CDs with a beautiful and intricate suite of music dedicated to one of the 20th century’s greatest literary visionaries—Samuel Beckett. 

Performing this gorgeous book of music with a soulful sensitivity, these three master musicians weave musical magic in this stunning collection of acoustic guitar music. Zorn’s most intimate and ethereal ensemble at its very best!

 

August new release

Featuring four of the most accomplished musicians in the rich firmament of modern jazz, Incerto is one of Zorn’s newest and most exciting projects—a chamber ensemble of striking virtuosity that is capable of covering the full range of Zorn’s deepest passions and wildest fantasies.

Their fourth CD is a touching tribute to the magical surrealist painter Remedios Varo.

Filled with exotic juxtapositions, lush harmonies, lyrical explorations, and fiery solos, this music is a soulful and quirky homage to one of the world’s greatest alchemical artists.

Moved to 09/15

Add a headingTHE LONG AWAITED STUDIO RECORDINGS OF JOHN ZORN’S BAGATELLES (VOL. 13-16)

From March to May 2015, John Zorn composed 300 new tunes that were eventually collected into a book of music he called The Bagatelles.

After 5 years of performances around the world in venues large and small, the choicest ensembles have gone into the studio and the recordings are finally being made available in a series of limited edition 4-CD BOX sets.

Each set will present four ensembles performing a unique program of Zorn’s Bagatelles.

This FOURTH Box set focuses on horns and includes: 
—Speed-Irabagon Quartet with John Zorn—Peter Evans 
—Ben Goldberg 4 
—Sam Eastmond

SET FOUR

VOL 13 
SPEED-IRABAGON 
QUARTET 
Jon Irabagon tenor sax 
Chris Speed tenor sax 
Christian McBride bass 
Ches Smith drums 
John Zorn alto sax

VOL 14 
PETER EVANS 
Peter Evans trumpet, 
piccolo trumpet

VOL 15 
BEN GOLDBERG 4 
Ben Goldberg clarinet 
Craig Taborn piano 
Jorge Roeder bass 
Thomas Morgan bass

Vol 16 
SAM EASTMOND 
Chris Williams alto sax 
Asha Parkinson tenor sax 
Emma Rawicz tenor sax 
Mick Foster baritone sax 
Noel Langley 
trumpet, flugelhorn 
Charlotte Keeffe 
trumpet, flugelhorn

Joel Knee trombone 
Tom Briers tuba 
Moss Freed guitar 
Olly Chalk piano 
Fergus Quill bass 
Alasdair Pennington 
drums 
Sam Eastmond conductor

 

July New Release

Julian Lage and Gyan Riley are two of new music’s most accomplished guitar virtuosos and their duo performances are transcendent experiences filled with meticulous detail and telepathic interplay.

Here they perform a dramatic book of music inspired by the haunting and enigmatic novel A High Wind in Jamaica—the story of a group of children that gets mixed up with pirates—the twist being the children turn out to be even more dangerous than the pirates.

A precursor to The Lord of the Flies, it is considered one of the best English novels ever written. Filled with ominous mystery and a dangerous innocence, Quatrain is another beautiful project from the pen of alchemist John Zorn.

July 21st