''Hockey'' is an album by

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featuring his early " game piece" composition of the same name which first appeared on the Parachute Records edition of ''

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'' in 1980. The full recordings of the piece were first released on CD on

Tzadik Records Tzadik Records is a record label in New York City that specializes in avant-garde and experimental music. The label was established by composer and saxophonist John Zorn in 1995. He is the executive producer of all Tzadik releases. Tzadik is a n ...

as part of ''

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'' Box Set in 1997 and as a single CD in 2002.Tzadik catalogue
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Reception

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review by François Couture awarded the album 2½ stars stating "''Hockey'' belongs to John Zorn's early works. The piece dates from 1978 and is shorter (in principle) than ''

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'', also from the same period... The inner workings of the piece are left to the listener's imagination, but the composer suggests a likeness to entertainer

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(and to a lesser extent

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Track listing

# "Hockey (Electric Version): Take 1" – 1.13 # "Hockey (Electric Version): Take 2" – 3.13 # "Hockey (Electric Version): Take 3" – 11.32 # "Hockey (Electric Version): Take 4" – 11.23 originally released on ''Pool'' # "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 2" – 3.43 originally released on ''Pool'' # "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 4" – 2.14 originally released on ''Pool'' # "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 11" – 0.55 originally released on ''Pool'' # "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 13" – 1.02 originally released on ''Pool'' # "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 1" – 3.10 originally released on ''Pool'' # "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 3" – 3.16 # "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 5" – 1.08 # "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 6" –1.00 # "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 7" – 1.07 # "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 8" – 0.45 # "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 9" – 1.02 # "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 10" – 1.07 # "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 12" – 1.17 :''All compositions by John Zorn'' :*Recorded at Sorcerer Sound, New York on March 1, 1980

Personnel

Polly Bradfield Polly Bradfield is an American violinist from the New York City free improvisation scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Her closest musical associates were Eugene Chadbourne and John Zorn. She also played on records by William Parker and F ...

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violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

*Mark E. Miller –

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

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vibraphone The vibraphone is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family. It consists of tuned metal bars and is typically played by using mallets to strike the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone is called a ''vibraphonist,'' ''vibraharpist,' ...

Eugene Chadbourne Eugene Chadbourne (born January 4, 1954) is an American banjoist, guitarist and music critic. Life and career Chadbourne was born in Mount Vernon, New York, but grew up in Boulder, Colorado. He started playing guitar when he was eleven or twel ...

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, personal effects *

Wayne Horvitz Wayne Horvitz (born 1955) is an American composer, keyboardist and record producer. He came to prominence in the Downtown scene of 1980s and '90s New York City, where he met his future wife, the singer, songwriter and pianist Robin Holcomb. He ...

– amplified

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

Bob Ostertag Robert "Bob" Ostertag (born April 19, 1957) is a musician, writer, and political activist based in San Francisco. He has published seven books, one feature film, a DVD, twenty-six albums, and collaborated with numerous musicians. Musically, he ...

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– duck, goose and crow calls,

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, mouthpiece

References

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