Released December 2000 Length 65:11 Filmworks IX Trembling Before G-d
(2000) The Gift
(2001) Release date December 2000 Producer John Zorn | Recorded June 2000 Label Tzadik TZ 7331 Artist John Zorn Movie Trembling Before G-d Genres Jazz, Avant-garde | |
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Filmworks IX Trembling Before G-d
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Filmworks IX: Trembling Before G-d is the ninth album of film scores by John Zorn. The album was released on Zorn's label, Tzadik Records, in 2000 and features the music that Zorn wrote and recorded for the documentary Trembling Before G-d which was directed by Sandi Simcha Dubowski.
Contents
Reception
The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars noting that "Trembling Before G-D is a high-water mark. Not for John Zorn, because he sets new ones for himself each and every time he releases something, but for other composers, particularly those of film soundtracks. Without the images, Zorn has given us a work of solemn beauty, a work that uses silence and tradition even as it reinvents the places in which they inhabit. Certainly this is his most "accessible" music, whatever that means, but it is also—simultaneously—sacred music, secular music, and American classical music of the highest order".
Track listing
- "Trembling Before G-D 1" - 2:25
- "Mahshav" - 5:01
- "Tashlikh 1" - 4:26
- "Yechida" - 0:54
- "Idalah-Abal" - 7:49
- "Simen Tov/Mazel Tov" - 1:25
- "Sholom Aleichem" - 1:12
- "Notarikon" - 4:11
- "Maskil" - 3:25
- "Trembling Before G-D" - 2:51
- "Mahshav" - 8:26
- "Desert Montage" - 4:45
- "Kaporeh" - 3:25
- "Tashlikh 2" - 2:18
- "Nigun" - 2:02
- "Trembling Before G-D 2" - 3:13
- "End Titles" - 6:01
- "Kaporeh" - 4:18
Personnel
Songs
1Trembling Before G-d2:27
2Mahshav (solo piano)5:01
3Tashlikh4:26