Filmworks XI: Secret Lives

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Filmworks XI: Secret Lives
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Soundtrack album by John Zorn
Released 2002
Recorded 2002
Genre Avant-garde, jazz, classical
Length54:18
Label Tzadik TZ 7339
Producer John Zorn
Filmworks chronology
Filmworks X: In the Mirror of Maya Deren
(2001)		Filmworks XI: Secret Lives
(2002)		 Filmworks XII: Three Documentaries
(2002)
John Zorn chronology
Hemophiliac
(2002)		Filmworks XI: Secret Lives
(2002)		 Filmworks XII: Three Documentaries
(2002)

Filmworks XI: Secret Lives features a score for film by John Zorn performed by the Masada String Trio with guest appearances from Vanessa Saft on vocals and Jamie Saft on piano. [1] The album was released on Zorn's own label, Tzadik Records, in 2002 and contains music that Zorn wrote and recorded for Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII , a documentary on Jewish children hidden during the Second World War directed by Aviva Slesin. The documentary was originally to be titled Under the Wing and several sources still refer to the soundtrack under this name.

John Zorn American composer, saxophonist and bandleader

John Zorn is an American composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist, and multi-instrumentalist with hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, and producer across a variety of genres including jazz, rock, hardcore, classical, surf, metal, soundtrack, ambient, and improvised music. He incorporates diverse styles in his compositions, which he identifies as avant-garde or experimental. Zorn was described by Down Beat as "one of our most important composers".

Masada (band) band

Masada is a musical group with rotating personnel led by American saxophonist and composer John Zorn since the early 1990s.

Jamie Saft is a keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound engineer and producer living in Upstate New York. Saft was born in New York City, New York in 1971 and is a graduate of both Tufts University and the New England Conservatory of Music. He has performed and recorded with an eclectic variety of notable artists including John Zorn, Wadada Leo Smith, Roswell Rudd, Iggy Pop, Bad Brains, B-52s, Beastie Boys, Donovan, Steve Swallow, Bobby Previte, Marc Ribot, Marshall Allen, Bernard Purdie, Joe Morris, Derek Bailey, Dave Lombardo, Bill Laswell, Cyro Baptista, Chuck Hammer, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Dave Douglas & Merzbow. He has also written several original film scores including Murderball and God Grew Tired of Us.

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The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars noting that "Simply put, this volume of John Zorn's ongoing series of recordings documenting his soundtrack work is stunning. Lyrical, haunting, and exquisitely composed... That a score can reflect a film's intentions so directly and remain its own entity is a testament to the strength of its composer, that a score can, outside the context of the film it was composed for, reflect a kind of nearly mythical beauty is an achievement that is virtually indescribable in its triumph". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by John Zorn

  1. "Yesoma" (vocal) - 3:07
  2. "Shabbes Noir" (pizz, arco) - 3:37
  3. "Tension" - 0:56
  4. "Hatzalah" - 4:44
  5. "Brachas" (edit) - 3:16
  6. "Chazal" - 1:03
  7. "Ba'adinot" (pizz) - 1:22
  8. "Drama" - 3:02
  9. "Yesoma" (vibe) - 3:26
  10. "Darkly" - 1:40
  11. "Kavana" - 4:01
  12. "The Trap" - 2:14
  13. "Ba'adinot" (arco) - 1:05
  14. "Armistice Swing" - 4:18
  15. "Shabbes Noir" - 3:00
  16. "Motzee" - 2:30
  17. "Interlude" - 2:06
  18. "Yesoma" (pizz) - 1:33
  19. "Ba'adinot" (solo) - 2:28
  20. "Shabbes Noir" (fast) - 2:11
  21. "Yesoma" (cello) - 2:35

Personnel

Erik Friedlander American musician

Erik Friedlander is an American cellist and composer based in New York City.

Cello musical instrument

The cello ( CHEL-oh; plural cellos or celli) or violoncello ( VY-ə-lən-CHEL-oh; Italian pronunciation: [vjolonˈtʃɛllo]) is a string instrument. It is played by bowing or plucking its four strings, which are usually tuned in perfect fifths an octave lower than the viola: from low to high, C2, G2, D3 and A3. It is the bass member of the violin family, which also includes the violin, viola and the double bass, which doubles the bass line an octave lower than the cello in much of the orchestral repertoire. After the double bass, it is the second-largest and second lowest (in pitch) bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra. The cello is used as a solo instrument, as well as in chamber music ensembles (e.g., string quartet), string orchestras, as a member of the string section of symphony orchestras, most modern Chinese orchestras, and some types of rock bands.

Mark Feldman American violinist

Mark Feldman is an American jazz violinist.

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References

  1. ↑ Tzadik catalogue
  2. 1 2 Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed July 29, 2011.
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