Cobra: John Zorn's Game Pieces Volume 2
Cobra: John Zorn's Game Pieces Volume 2 | ||||
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Studio album by John Zorn | ||||
Released | March 26, 2002 | |||
Genre | Avant-garde | |||
Length | 70:50 | |||
Label | Tzadik TZ 7335 | |||
Producer | John Zorn | |||
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Cobra: John Zorn's Game Pieces Volume 2 is a performance of John Zorn's improvisational game piece, Cobra.[1] The piece had been released in three previous versions on HatHut (Cobra (1985)), Knitting Factory (John Zorn's Cobra: Live at the Knitting Factory (1992)), and Avant (John Zorn's Cobra: Tokyo Operations '94 (1994)) but this is the first release on Zorn's own label Tzadik Records.
Reception
The Allmusic review by Steve Loewy awarded the album 4 stars stating "Cobra is a fun-filled, mystical, blindfolded ride down a dark alley that circles back every few yards... Almost like a Talmudic tapestry, the intricate complexities are in full flower here, with constantly changing snippets, twisted sounds, swirls of ornate and not-so-ornate clusters, and shimmering beauty."[2]
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Track listing
- All compositions by John Zorn
- “Pendet” – 4:49
- “Tabana” – 10:47
- “Uluwati” – 7:27
- “Tamangiri” – 7:50
- “Paras” – 6:07
- “Sangeh” – 11:26
- “Penganggahan” – 10:44
- “Raksasa” – 4:44
- “Goa Gajah” – 6:50
- Recorded at Avatar
Personnel
- Derek Bailey – guitar
- Cyro Baptista – percussion
- Jennifer Choi – violin
- Sylvie Courvoisier – piano
- Mark Dresser – bass
- Trevor Dunn – bass
- Mark Feldman – violin
- Erik Friedlander – cello
- Annie Gosfield – sampler
- Susie Ibarra – drums
- Ikue Mori – laptop computer
- Marcus Rojas – tuba
- Josh Roseman – trombone
- Jamie Saft – keyboards
- John Zorn – prompter
References
- ↑ Tzadik catalogue
- 1 2 Loewy, S. Allmusic Review accessed July 29, 2011.