This just in! ZornStock© will be held this year at the Groban Supply Co. lot in leafy downtown Burnside, Chicago!
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| Zorn, left, and Mrs. Myra Nussbaum approve location, yestiddy! |
"It's really the dream ZornStock© venue!" gushed the challenging saxophone stylist yesterday. "The dystopian æsthetic will lend post-holocaust feels to the première of my Missa Novus Ordo Depressivus, which lasts just short of two days if we live that long!"
Longtime collaborator and Event Hostess Mrs. Myra Nussbaum agrees! "I'm cooking some of my world famous Schnitzengrüben Patties whilst doing interpretive dance!"
The Kronos Quartet have been booked as support, and wacky funster Fred Frith will be forcing kids to inflate imaginary balloon animals in the Tots' Tent! Tickets are still available, so pre-order now to avoid disappointment!
THIS JUST IN!!!! It's been a bit of a drought for Zorn fans over the last few days, but at last he has a new album out! SING ME NOW ASLEEP is recommended for everyone suffering with unexpected guests who can't take a hint.
PHEW!!! Another day, another Zorn album! Today's is ALEA ACTA EST, one of the most demanding and compositionally dense works in John Zorn’s
already massive catalog, it
continues his late-career focus on chamber-jazz hybrids that blur the
line between composition and improvisation [IT SAYS HERE].
This post autoclaved in the burning fiery brain fever of hot season Siam!
I view all John Zorn albums as either:
ReplyDelete"This is absolutely sublime!"
Or
"What the actual Farq?"
John Zorn? Come come now . . . surely you mean Pete Zorn?
ReplyDeletePS-- I have his CD "A Dreamer's Christmas" that I enjoy once or twice a year in late December...it's the only one I have & from what else I've heard, it's enough for me.
ReplyDeleteCheck out 'Naked City'
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure you must have it. If you'd be so inclined to share a link, I'd love to check it out. I'll try most anything once...
ReplyDeleteHere's the link
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I wrote about it here:
https://babssez.blogspot.com/2024/05/john-zorn-naked-city.html
Thanks Babs. I'll dip my toe in the Zorn waters with Naked City.
ReplyDeleteOk Farq, I'll bite. Refresh that Spillane dl link and i'll give it a spin!
ReplyDeletePete Zorn? Don't you mean Peter Tork? --Muzak McMusics
ReplyDeleteANON RF: Peter Tork? Don't you mean Torquemada?
ReplyDeleteI didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition ...
DeleteNOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!... Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red uniforms.
DeleteActually, it is possible we are gonna be reduced to The Stone Age . . . or even further back.
DeleteDoubtful.
DeleteShame, I’m having my eyebrows plaited that weekend or I would have booked flights to ZornStock© Chicago. Which weekend is it btw?
ReplyDeleteWhich weekend would you like?
DeleteFred Frith in Tots' Tent?!?! Henry…I mean holy cow! I'm going!
ReplyDeleteThat's "tots", Babs. Not "sots".
DeleteWell in that case, I'm not going!
DeleteChanneling Emily Litella, "Not sots......Nevermind"
DeleteI tried to download this, but the file is empty...
ReplyDeletePerhaps the empty file is some kind of cruel metaphor?
ReplyDeleteI'd like to blame this regrettable lapse on an intern, or Dave in the post room, but the fault was mine own, grappling with technology that is increasingly beyond my reach.
ReplyDeletehttps://workupload.com/file/Yr26RdNkajt
One of my favourite satirical websites produced this twelve years ago. A festival I would like to attend.
ReplyDeletehttps://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2014/06/scarfolk-music-indoctrination-festival.html
If you have the patience and time, I can highly recommend investing some time to explore the world within this site. Unfortunately the last update there was in 2022.
Unremittingly excellent.
DeleteThe Thai equivalent:
Deletehttps://notthenation.com/
Not what it was, but what is?
OMG, I'd completely forgotten about NotTheNation, shame on me...
DeleteI'm amazed it's still up. New posts only very intermittently, but always on the mark. Operated by mystery men behind a bullet-proof firewall (for a reason).
DeleteThanks I had a laugh at NotTheNation. I think the scarfolk.blogspot would appeal to British viewers, not sure about the rest of the world.
DeleteSaw Naked City in Liverpool 1989 with Zorn in his "Hardcore mad" phase. At one point he announced "This next number is dedicated to a great group originating in this city...an act known around the world...(pause for comic effect)...Carcass." The group's guitarist Bill Steer was namechecked, along with Jimmy Page, and the Elvis Presley Murder Files.
ReplyDeleteCarcass is responsible for one of the greatest most OTT-blackpilled-horror-schlock titles ever, 'Excreted Alive'.
Thanks Farq! I knew you'd come through! Now I'll get my Zorn on!
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