Simulacrum

by John Zorn

Simulacrum cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 17 March 2015
  • Label: Tzadik
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 6:02
  • Community rating: 3.88/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Featuring a virtuosic organ trio, 'Simulacrum' initiates one of the legendary composer's most prolific and heavy ensemble projects. The music is an intense, dizzying collision of brutal progressive metal riffs, frenetic jazz improvisation, and terrifying dissonant noise. Governed by sudden, jarring transitions and uncommon time signatures, the album highlights Zorn's continued mastery of chaotic, boundary-defying avant-garde composition.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, uncommon-time-signatures, technical, noisy, complex, instrumental, dissonant, experimental, distorted, extreme

Tracklist

  1. The Illusionist
  2. Marmarath
  3. Snakes and Ladders
  4. Alterities
  5. Paradigm Shift
  6. The Divine Comedy

Credits

  • Luther Allison - primary artist, written-by
  • Gary Beam - written-by
  • Gene Block - written-by
  • Kenneth Miles - written-by
  • Janie Bradford - written-by
  • Richard "Popcorn" Wylie - written-by

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