Aaron Novik | |
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Born | July 21, 1974 |
Occupation(s) | Composer |
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Labels | Tzadik |
Website | http://www.aaronnovik.com |
Aaron Novik (born July 21, 1974) is an American composer, clarinetist and bandleader based in San Francisco. He is involved with the Bay Area Improv Scene and is a member of Edmund Welles The Bass Clarinet Quartet [1] which was a 2004 recipient of a New Works Creation and Presentation grant from Chamber Music America. [2] Novik has appeared in San Francisco and New York City [3] with guitarist Fred Frith re-creating his 1980 avant-garde dance album, Gravity .
Novik's most recent album Secrets of Secrets [4] was released on John Zorn's [5] Tzadik Records [6] in February 2012 as part of the Radical Jewish Culture Series. [7] Secrets of Secrets [8] was hailed by The East Bay Express as "enticing" and "ferociously executed" [9] and by The Jewish Week as "richly textured and eclectic avant-klez" for its use of the 13th century sacred Kabbalah texts of Rabbi Eleazar of Worms. [10] His second most recent album, Floating World Vol. 1 [11] was released on the Porto Franco Record label in 2011. [12] [13] Albums The Samuel Suite,Simulacra and Kipple were released on the Evander label. [14]
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