| Invisible Design II | ||||
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| Released | March 24, 2009 | |||
| Recorded | Orange Music, West Orange, NJ | |||
| Genre | Ambient | |||
| Length | 49:38 | |||
| Label | Tzadik | |||
| Producer | John Zorn | |||
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| Allmusic |   [1] |
Invisible Design II is the sixteenth solo album by American composer Bill Laswell, released on March 24, 2009 by Tzadik Records. [2]
All music is composed by Bill Laswell.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Xtrak" | 2:59 |
| 2. | "Quartz" | 5:12 |
| 3. | "Aphasia" | 7:15 |
| 4. | "Sub Sonnet" | 7:11 |
| 5. | "Solar Clip" | 3:26 |
| 6. | "Iron Monger" | 1:58 |
| 7. | "Fractal" | 5:08 |
| 8. | "Pillar" | 3:08 |
| 9. | "Gulf of Stars" | 7:08 |
| 10. | "Darkness After" | 6:13 |
Adapted from the Invisible Design II liner notes. [3]
| Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2009 | Tzadik | CD | TZ 8062 |
John Zorn 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 jazz, rock, hardcore, classical, contemporary, surf, metal, soundtrack, ambient, and world music. In 2013, Down Beat described Zorn as "one of our most important composers" and in 2020 Rolling Stone noted "Though Zorn has operated almost entirely outside the mainstream, he's gradually asserted himself as one of the most influential musicians of our time".
Painkiller is a band that formed in 1991, combining avant-garde jazz and grindcore. Later albums incorporated elements of ambient and dub.
Massacre was founded in 1980 in New York City by guitarist Fred Frith, bassist Bill Laswell and drummer Fred Maher as an improvising and experimental rock band. They performed live for just over a year and recorded a studio album, Killing Time (1981). Frith and Laswell reformed Massacre in 1998 with drummer Charles Hayward, and released four more albums, Funny Valentine (1998), Meltdown (2001), Lonely Heart (2007) and Love Me Tender (2013). The last three albums were recorded live, the first in London, and the others at European festivals between 1999 and 2008.
Eyvindur Y. Kang is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist. His primary instrument is viola, but has also performed on violin, tuba, keyboards and others.
Filmworks VII: Cynical Hysterie Hour is a 1989 album by John Zorn featuring music written for a series of Japanese animated shorts that were created by Kiriko Kubo. It features Zorn's first music for cartoons and was originally released on the Japanese Sony label in limited numbers. In late 1996 Zorn finally attained the rights for his music and remastered and re-released the album on his own label, Tzadik, in 1997.
Filmworks 1986–1990 features the first released film scores of John Zorn. The album was originally released on the Japanese labels Wave and Eva in 1990, on the Nonesuch Records label in 1992, and subsequently re-released on Zorn's own label, Tzadik Records, in 1997 after being out of print for several years.
"For Zorn, filmscores have always been a place to experiment, and the FilmWorks Series is in many ways a microcosm of his prodigious output. This original installment of the FilmWorks Series presents three scores ranging from punk-rockabilly ; a jazzy Bernard Herrmann fantasy; to a quirky classical/improv/world music amalgam for Raul Ruiz's bizarre film The Golden Boat. Zorn's infamous one-minute arrangement of Morricone's classic The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, is included as a bonus track. This is the place where it all began."
Archery is an album by John Zorn featuring his early "game piece" composition of the same name. The album was released by Parachute Records in 1982.
Filmworks III: 1990–1995 features the scores for film and advertisements by John Zorn. The album was originally released on the Japanese labels Evva in 1995 and Toys Factory in 1996 and subsequently re-released on Zorn's own label, Tzadik Records, in 1997. It features the music that Zorn wrote and recorded for Thieves Quartet (1993), directed by Joe Chappelle, which was performed by the group that would become Masada; nine cues for Kiriko Kubo's Music For Tsunta (1988); eleven tracks for Hollywood Hotel (1994), directed by Mei-Juin Chen; and thirty-two pieces for advertisements by Wieden & Kennedy.
Talisman: Live in Nagoya is a live album by Painkiller, a band featuring John Zorn, Bill Laswell, and Mick Harris, performing live in Nagoya, Japan.
Enigmata is an album of John Zorn compositions performed by Marc Ribot and Trevor Dunn, conducted by Zorn. It was released by Tzadik Records in 2011.
Lonely Heart is a live album by avant-rock, experimental power trio Massacre. The line-up for this album featured Fred Frith (guitar), Bill Laswell and Charles Hayward (drums). It was recorded live at Festival Sons d'Hiver in Paris on January 25, 2003, and at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark on June 26, 2003.
Invisible Design is the eighth solo album by the American composer Bill Laswell, released on March 23, 1999, by Tzadik Records.
Filmtracks 2000 is the thirteenth album by American composer Bill Laswell, released on September 25, 2001 by Tzadik Records. Despite the title's suggestion, the album is not a collection of Laswell's film scores. Instead it is an assemblage of new compositions which contain the hallmarks of soundtrack music, drawing influences from the music of India, Asia and the Middle East.
Version 2 Version: A Dub Transmission is the fifteenth solo album by American composer Bill Laswell, released on September 21, 2004 by ROIR.
Episome is a collaborative album by Bill Laswell, Otomo Yoshihide and Tatsuya Yoshida. It was released on April 18, 2006 by Tzadik Records.
The Dream Membrane is a collaborative album by Bill Laswell, David Chaim Smith and John Zorn. It was released on September 30, 2014 by Tzadik Records.
The Mesopelagic Waters is the third studio album that J. G. Thirlwell has issued under the pseudonym Manorexia. It was released on March 23, 2010 by Tzadik Records. It comprises music from the previous two Manorexia releases that has been arranged for strings, piano and percussion and re-recorded.
The Greenberg Variations is the fifth solo album by American composer and producer Kramer, released on March 25, 2003 by Tzadik Records.
The Stone: Issue Two is a 2007 live album of improvised experimental music by Fred Frith and Chris Cutler. It was recorded at The Stone in New York City on 15 December 2006 and was one of four CDs released between 2006 and 2010 by Tzadik Records to raise funds for The Stone. It was Frith and Cutler's fourth collaborative album.
The Book Beri'ah is a box set by John Zorn, released on August 17, 2018 by Tzadik Records. The box comprises the final ninety-two compositions that complete the final installment of Zorn's twenty-five year Masada project in limited edition box set of eleven compact discs. All About Jazz commended the compositions for having many levels of meaning and sonic listenability.
