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La Mar Enfortuna
Second album by La Mar Enfortuna on Tzadik, led by guitarist & oud player Oren Bloedow and vocalist Jennifer Charles from Elysian Fields. Featuring downtown jazz players like clarinettist Doug Weiselman and accordeon player Ted Reichman alongside a wealth of other guests, “Conviviencia” is a lyrical tale from the Middle East formed on traditional [...]
Death Ambient
Fred Frith by Benedicte Desrus
One of the maturest albums of this year is by Death Ambient, I’ve checked this album a few times but couldn’t delve into it for some reason. A week or so ago I gave it another spin using headphones and I was freaking enchanted by it. Death Ambient is the laptop [...]
Vacation 2
Marc Ribot by Pennello
Here’s the second post I’ve backed up before I went on vacation, 2 great songs from 2 guitar giants. First Marc Ribot going wild with Yezriel, a bluesy song off his new album on Tzadik with a powerful riff on the wonderful Book of Angels series which previously saw the Jamie Saft [...]
Rashanim
If you’re living in NYC and are into the avant/jazz rock scene chances are you’ve heard of the power trio Rashanim. I’ve mentioned their myspace page before, but their new album Shalosh on Tzadik deserves a dedicated post. Rashanim is guitarist Jon Madof, bassist Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz (who was also playing the upright bass on [...]
Jamie Saft Trio plays Bob Dylan
I’ve been holding my breath for this album since the moment I read about it. First, I really liked the previous Jamie Saft Trio album that played tunes from the Masada Songbook. Then Jamie Saft is one of the best sound engineer/producers/pianists around and Bob Dylan is highly respected here, I wondered what the outcome [...]
John Zorn - Filmworks XVIII
Ustad Zorn has done it again, with the latest installment to his Filmworks series, for Oren Rudavsky’s new romantic comedy “The Treatment”. Ok, I know you’re going “romantic comedy?!?!?”, well yeah it sounds strange yes, but Oren Rudavsky is a Jewish filmmaker, who has directed some nice titles like “Hasidism in America” and “Leopold Kozlowski, [...]
Jamie Saft Trio - Shalmiel
The first time I heard the name of Tzadik label, it’s strange name intrigued me a lot. Later I figured out that, it was a figment of John Zorn’s imagination, and from then on I listened to many Tzadik releases, and I am now confident that I like most of their releases (although some are [...]







