John Zorn Resource

Track Listing 

1.  Sigil Magick  6:34
2.  Prolegomena To Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able To Present Itself As Science  20:23
 

Personnel 

Jay Campbell - Cello
Yura Lee -  Viola
Michael Nicolas -  Cello
Chris Otto - Violin
John Pickford Richards - Viola
Austin Wulliman - Violin
 
Production 

Line Producer - Ryan Streber
Executive Producer -  John Zorn
Associate Producer - Kazunori Sugiyama 
Sigil by John Zorn
Portrait Of Immanuel Kant circa 1790
Recorded and mixed May 3 2025 by Ryan Streber at Oktaven, Mount Vernon, NY
Mastered by Scott Hull 
Obi photo and design by Chippy (Heung-Heung Chin) 
Special Thanks to Dr. Jeremy Fogel

TZADIK Blurb 
This CD is about quality not quantity—less than thirty minutes in total, but absolutely some of the most incredible music Zorn has ever composed. Dramatic, intense, mercurial, challenging, and endlessly virtuosic, Zorn’s writing for strings is amongst the most exciting ever achieved in the classical world. 

Here he expands the fabulous JACK Quartet to a quintet and sextet with the addition of two of the most accomplished musicians in the New York scene: Yura Lee and Michael Nicolas. 

Composed in 2020, during the initial months of the COVID-19 lockdown, these are two of Zorn’s greatest masterpieces, beautifully recorded at Oktaven by Ryan Streber, and passionately performed by six members of Zorn’s inner circle. ESSENTIAL!
 
Series:  Archival Series 

Catalogue Number:  TZ9325 

Release Date:  September 19, 2025