Kristallnacht | ||||
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Released | 1993 | |||
Recorded | November 9 & 10, 1992 | |||
Genre | Avant-garde | |||
Length | 42:44 | |||
Label | Eva, Tzadik | |||
Producer | John Zorn | |||
John Zorn chronology | ||||
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Kristallnacht is the seventh studio album by John Zorn first released in 1993 on the Japanese Eva label and subsequently in 1995 on Zorn's own Tzadik Records label. [1]
Zorn's compositions for the album were based around the events before, during, and following the infamous Night of Broken Glass and represented his first musical exploration of his Jewish cultural heritage. [2]
Zorn has stated:
It’s tied together with passion and research. Every Jew has to come to grips with the holocaust in some kind of way and that was my statement, that’s how I did it. I do not need to do it again (…) it meant a lot to me. It was like a whole lifetime of denying my Jewish heritage coming out in one piece -- "John Zorn on BBC Jazz File," July 2000.
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Source | Rating |
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The Penguin Guide to Jazz | (![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The AllMusic review by Joslyn Layne stated: "John Zorn has created a musical work that powerfully represents the different stages of this historical event... Zorn's forceful undertaking is realized through the expert and passionate musicianship". [4] The Penguin Guide to Jazz said "Here are the seeds of what was to be a wholesale engagement - or re-engagement - with Jewish musical culture, most clearly represented in the Masada project of future years, but retroactively evident throughout the work of the previous decade and more. A key moment, even if the man himself wasn't playing". [5]
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Shtetl (Ghetto Life)" | 5:55 |
2. | "Never Again" | 11:46 |
3. | "Gahelet (Embers)" | 3:27 |
4. | "Tikkun (Rectification)" | 3:02 |
5. | "Tzfia (Looking Ahead)" | 8:49 |
6. | "Barzel (Iron Fist)" | 2:02 |
7. | "Gariin (Nucleus - The New Settlement)" | 7:59 |