''Zohar'' is an album by the Mystic Fugu Orchestra (
John Zorn
John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer, conductor, saxophonist, arranger and producer who "deliberately resists category". Zorn's avant-garde and experimental approaches to composition and improvisation are inclusive of jaz ...
(as Rav Tzizit) and
Yamataka Eye
(born , 13 February 1964) is a Japanese vocalist and visual artist, best known as a member of Boredoms and Naked City. He has changed his stage name three times, from Yamatsuka Eye, to Yamantaka Eye, to Yamataka Eye, and sometimes calls himse ...
(as Rav Yechida) who perform a range of music inspired by historical recordings of ancient Judaica.
Tzadik catalogue
/ref> To simulate the "antiquity" of these recordings, a heavy layer of surface noise was overlaid on the music to represent the playing quality of a 78 rpm gramophone record.
Reception
The Allmusic
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review by Joslyn Layne awarded the album 1.5 stars stating "Just under half an hour's worth of old record spin-and-crackle sounds in the foreground, with a faint background of John Zorn adding small amounts of harmonium and Yamantaka Eye voicing occasional hums and tones. Most of what you hear, however, is record surface static and the revolutions of the vinyl. Zohar could only be of use to completists, or as a layer for mixing".[Layne, J.]
Allmusic Review
accessed June 6, 2011
Track listing
# "Alef" – 0:40
# "Book Of Splendors" – 3:48
# "Frog Doina" – 2:02
# "The Dybbuk" – 2:28
# "2000 Years" – 0:59
# "Goniff Dance" – 2:17
# "Rav Nova" – 7:44
# "Zayin" – 3:37
*All compositions by John Zorn/Yamataka Eye
Personnel
*Rav Tzizit (John Zorn
John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer, conductor, saxophonist, arranger and producer who "deliberately resists category". Zorn's avant-garde and experimental approaches to composition and improvisation are inclusive of jaz ...
) – harmonium
*Rav Yechida (Yamataka Eye
(born , 13 February 1964) is a Japanese vocalist and visual artist, best known as a member of Boredoms and Naked City. He has changed his stage name three times, from Yamatsuka Eye, to Yamantaka Eye, to Yamataka Eye, and sometimes calls himse ...
) – voice
References
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1995 albums
Albums produced by John Zorn
John Zorn albums
Tzadik Records albums