In Lambeth (album)

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In Lambeth
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Studio album by John Zorn / Gnostic Trio
Released December 3, 2013
Recorded April 10 & 11, 2013 at East Side Sound, NYC
Genre Avant-garde, Jazz, Contemporary classical music
Length48:32
Label Tzadik TZ 8309
Producer John Zorn
John Zorn chronology
On the Torment of Saints, the Casting of Spells and the Evocation of Spirits
(2013)
In Lambeth
(2013)
Shir Hashirim
(2013)
The Gnostic Trio chronology
The Mysteries
(2013)
In Lambeth
(2013)
The Testament of Solomon
(2014)

In Lambeth (subtitled Visions from the Walled Garden of William Blake) is an album composed by John Zorn and performed by the Gnostic Trio (Bill Frisell, Carol Emanuel and Kenny Wollesen), recorded in New York City in April 2013 and released on the Tzadik label in December 2013. [1] The album is the third by the trio following The Gnostic Preludes (2012) and The Mysteries (2013). Its title quotes from William Blake's poem Jerusalem (plate 37, line 14 - "There is a Grain of Sand in Lambeth that Satan cannot find").

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".

Bill Frisell American musician

William Richard Frisell is an American guitarist, composer and arranger. One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late 1980s, Frisell came to prominence as a stalwart for ECM Records. He went on to work in a variety of contexts, notably as a member of the New York City Downtown Scene where he formed a long partnership with John Zorn. He was also a longtime member of Paul Motian's groups from the early 1980s until Motian's death in 2011. Since 2000, Frisell's eclectic output as a bandleader has emphasized folk, country music, and Americana.

Kenny Wollesen American musician

Kenny Wollesen is an American drummer and percussionist.

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Martin Schray stated "If you like Zorn’s other works in this field, you won’t go wrong on this one." [2]

Track listing

All compositions by John Zorn

  1. "Tiriel" – 4:58
  2. "A Morning Light" – 4:46
  3. "America, a Prophecy" – 6:17
  4. "Through the Looking Glass" – 3:56
  5. "The Ancient of Days" – 6:55
  6. "Puck" – 3:36
  7. "The Minotaur" – 3:26
  8. "The Night of Enitharmon's Joy" – 4:55
  9. "Walled Garden" – 4:33

Personnel

Harp class of musical instruments

The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps have been known since antiquity in Asia, Africa and Europe, dating back at least as early as 3500 BC. The instrument had great popularity in Europe during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, where it evolved into a wide range of variants with new technologies, and was disseminated to Europe's colonies, finding particular popularity in Latin America. Although some ancient members of the harp family died out in the Near East and South Asia, descendants of early harps are still played in Myanmar and parts of Africa, and other defunct variants in Europe and Asia have been utilized by musicians in the modern era.

Guitar fretted string instrument

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.

Vibraphone musical instrument

The vibraphone is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family. It consists of tuned metal bars, and is usually played by holding two or four soft mallets and striking the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone is called a vibraphonist or vibraharpist.

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In Lambeth may refer to:

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References

  1. Tzadik Catalog, accessed May 22, 2014
  2. 1 2 Schray, M. The Free Jazz Collective Review, Free Jazz Collective, March 3, 2014