Re: RE: For the completists....

I think you're going to see a little more from Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz in some Bill related contexts this year (aside from the just released Mumpbeak album on RareNoise). Great bass player - and also a great command of the gimbri. 

Abraxas opened for Zorn/Laswell/Graves at le Poisson Rouge and they killed it. Great set. Zorn sat watching on the side if the stage and really seemed to be into it. 


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Dave Brunelle
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> On Jan 21, 2014, at 2:34 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Another one mixed by Laswell coming on Tzadik next month:
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> John Zorn: Psychomagia
> Psychomagia is the new album by the fabulous quartet of Abraxas, the acclaimed Moroccan Rock arrangements for the Book of Angels series. Here they perform a complex new suite of music written expressly for them by Downtown alchemist John Zorn. Drawing inspiration from the magical writings of Giordano Bruno and Alejandro Jodorowski and others, Zorn has written a bold collection of compositions that challenge the musicians to the breaking point. With a program ranging from some of the most intense ritualistic sounds you are likely to hear to tender minimalistic odes, this is a surprising new volume in Zorn’s mystic series that matches the intensity and power of Moonchild, PainKiller and Naked City. Recorded at Orange Music and mixed by Bill Laswell. Essential. 
> (Release date: February 2014)
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