Released 1996 Length 60:43 Artists John Zorn, Masada Label DIW Records | Recorded April 16, 1996 Masada Zayin
(1996) Release date 1996 Genre Jazz | |
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Producer John Zorn and Kazunori Sugiyama Masada Zayin
(1996) Similar Masada albums, Jazz albums | ||
Masada: Zayin, also known as Masada 7, is a 1996 album by American composer and saxophonist John Zorn and released on the Japanese DIW label. It is the seventh album of Masada recordings.
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Reception
The Allmusic review by Don Snowden awarded the album 3 stars stating "Masada's seventh volume sounds almost like an odds-and-sods collection. It's a more fragmentary and disparate disc that doesn't have much musical middle ground -- the extremes between the group's atonal free improv bursts and its more melodic or atmospheric pieces are very pronounced... The music flies all over the map and it sounds like Masada is just wrapping up loose ends or spewing out material based on Zorn's concepts that could have stayed out in the woodshed. Although it's good to hear the group taking some different roads, this is a minor entry in its catalog".
Track listing
All compositions by John Zorn.- "Shevet" – 7:58
- "Hath-Arob" – 3:24
- "Mahshav" – 6:16
- "Shamor" – 5:09
- "Bacharach" – 1:24
- "Otiot" – 3:27
- "Nevuah" – 8:22
- "Kedem" – 9:55
- "Zemer" – 2:14
- "Evel" – 5:35
- "Tekufah" – 6:59
Personnel
Songs
1Shevet7:59
2Hath-arob3:25
3Mahshav6:17