Duras:Duchamp

by John Zorn

Duras:Duchamp cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 19 August 1997
  • Label: Tzadik
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 47:09
  • Community rating: 3.8/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

John Zorn provides two extended, deeply avant-garde modern classical compositions paying tribute to Marguerite Duras and Marcel Duchamp. The album is incredibly sparse and surreal, utilizing indeterminacy to create a dark, hazy, and profoundly sombre chamber music atmosphere.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, atmospheric, experimental, through-composed, chamber, literary, piano, minimal, quiet, unaccompanied-solo

Tracklist

  1. Premiere Livre (14:42)
  2. Deuxième Livre (0:51)
  3. Troisième Livre (16:47)
  4. Epilogue (1:32)
  5. 1—43 (8:00)
  6. 44—57 (3:15)
  7. 58—69 (2:02)

Credits

  • Erik Friedlander - cello
  • John Medeski - organ
  • Christine Bard - percussion
  • Jim Pugliese - percussion
  • Anthony Coleman - piano
  • Marguerite Duras - text by [quotes in booklet (english)]
  • Cenovia Cummins - violin
  • Mark Feldman - violin

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