through the looking glass (2025)
Track Listing:
1. Nine Secret Crossings to the Eternal Repetitions of Existence 18:23
2. The Pentacle of Albucius 11:06
3. A Tear in Time 7:00
Personnel :
John Medeski - Organ
Matt Hollenberg - Guitar
Kenny Grohowski - Drums
Brian Marsella - Fender Rhodes Piano
Production:
All music composed and arranged by John Zorn
Produced by John Zorn
Associate Producer - Kazunori Sugiyama
Recorded and mixed December 4-6, 2024 by Duff Harris at EastSide Sound, NYC
Masterered by Scott Hull
Alice Illustrations by John Tenniel
Design by Chippy (Heung - Heung Chin)
Special Thanks to Lou Holzman and Duff Harris
Very special thanks to my friends John, Brian, Matt and Kenny for their supreme musicianship, positive energy, endless support, creativity, understanding, inspiration, wisdom and unfailing loyatly.
TZADIK Blurb
Medeski, Marsella, Hollenberg, and Grohowski are Chaos Magick—a powerful electric quartet formed to perform Zorn’s twisted and challenging compositions. Founded in 2021 as a spinoff of the heavy metal organ trio Simulacrum, they have released no less than five CDS in three years—Chaos Magick, The Ninth Circle, Multiplicities, 444, and Parrhesiastes. Their sixth, Through the Looking Glass, presents three extended works that unfold like a philosophical treatise. Sweet, funky, soulful, imaginative, quirky, and intensely stimulating, this is music that pushes formal musical ideas into fresh new directions. The phrase “Nothing is real—everything is permitted” has never had greater meaning.
Series: Archival Series
By Catalogue Number: TZ9320
Release Date: April 11, 2025