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The Best Of Filmworks: 20 Years Of Soundtrack Music (Import) (CD)

By: John Zorn (Artist)

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John Zorn Artist Snapshot:

Native New Yorker John Zorn is one of the most important, influential figures in avant-garde jazz, particularly the downtown NYC improv scene. Zorn started out in the 1970s, forging a new template for jazz-based improvisation, drawing inspiration from both '60s free jazz and experimental New Music composition. Over the years, he's led numerous groups (Naked City, Masada, Painkiller, and others) and incorporated everything from Klezmer and classical to punk and heavy metal in his genre-defying music, working with the world's finest musicians along the way. Zorn's own label, Tzadik, has become a key source of inventive unconventional music by other artists, not to mention his own voluminous discography.

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DISC 1 for The Best Of Filmworks: 20 Years Of Soundtrack Music (Import) (CD) Album By John Zorn (Artist)
1   Main Title - (from "She Must Be Seeing Things")
2   End Titles - (from "White And Lazy")
3   Yakisoba - (from "Cynical Hysterie Hour")
4   Punk Rock Hero
5   Trough The Night
6   Surfing Samba - (from "The Golden Boat")
7   Fanfare/Theme - (from "Weiden And Kennedy")
8   France
9   Sweden - (dance remix, from "Looters (Trespass)")
10   Arsenal Dance Mix - (from "Thieves' Quartet")
11   Main Title - (from "Trembling Before G-d")
12   Wheelchair Racers - (from "Weiden And Kennedy")
13   Pueblo - (from "Rose Hobart")
14   Lituus - (from "Tears Of Ecstacy")
15   Fireworks - (from "Mechanics Of The Brain")
16   End Titles - (from "Anton, Mailman")
17   Deseo - (from "Latin Boys Go To Hell")
18   Shanghai - (from "Port Of Last Resort")
19   Trembling Before G-d
20   Filming - (from "In The Mirror Of Maya Deren")
21   Shabbos Noir
22   Chippy Charm
23   Vocal Phase
24   Shaolin Spirit - (from "Shaolin Ulysses")
25   Main Title - (from "Invitation To A Suicide")
26   Sekhel - (from "Hiding And Seeking")
27   Protocols Of Zion
28   Indonesia - (from "Workingman's Death")
 

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Personnel: John Zorn; Erik Friedlander, Greg Cohen, Jamie Saft, Kenny Wollesen, Marc Ribot, Mark Feldman, Peter Scherer, Anthony Coleman, Joey Baron, Wayne Horvitz, Cyro Baptista, Arto Lindsay, Bill Frisell, Bill Laswell, Bobby Previte.

Recording information: 1986 - 2005.

John Zorn's history with film music has been a long and frequently difficult one. While the New York City-based avant-garde composer/saxophonist has created a number of cinematic scores, his artistic vision has often differed from that of the filmmakers, sometimes resulting in abandoned or rejected projects. Regardless of its actual use in finished movies, music that Zorn intended for the silver screen has reliably found its way onto his FILMWORKS series, and this excellent set cherry-picks from those collections. Although the compositions here lack the context of the full soundtracks, they are fascinating in their variety. Styles shift from Jewish klezmer tunes to percussion-based Latin pieces to delicate Eastern-inflected songs, with many of downtown NYC's finest musicians on hand, including guitarist Marc Ribot, drummer Joey Baron, and countless others. While this compilation serves as a best-of disc for Zorn's cinematic work, it also makes an excellent introduction to the renegade artist's own wildly diverse and inventive aesthetic.

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