Sing Me Now Asleep

by John Zorn

Sing Me Now Asleep cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 2026-03-20
  • Label: Tzadik
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 43:31
  • Community rating: 3.36/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Prolific and unclassifiable composer John Zorn presents 'Sing Me Now Asleep', a new work performed by his Chaos Magick ensemble. The album is a dizzying and intricate suite of music that blurs the lines between progressive rock, chamber music, and the avant-garde. Featuring a virtuosic lineup of musicians on guitar, keyboards, bass, and drums, the compositions are complex, dynamic, and unpredictable, showcasing Zorn's unique genius for creating challenging and exhilarating sound worlds.

Genres

Descriptors: complex, instrumental, virtuosic, avant-garde, chamber, vocal, strings, delicate, literary

Tracklist

  1. Such Sweet Sorrow
  2. Nature's Soft Nurse
  3. Soft You Now
  4. He That Thy Knowest Thine
  5. Spirits From the Vasty Deep

Credits

  • John Zorn - primary artist, composed by [all music composed by], arranged by [all music arranged by], conductor [all music conducted by], producer
  • John Simmons - cover [cover painting by], painting [cover painting by; tray painting by]
  • Chippy - design
  • Heung-Heung Chin - design
  • Ikue Mori - electronics
  • The Gnostic Trio - ensemble
  • Kazunori Sugiyama - executive-producer [associate producer]
  • Bill Frisell - guitar
  • Carol Emanuel - harp
  • Scott Hull - mastered by
  • Duff Harris - recorded by, mixed by
  • William Shakespeare - text by [quote on cover (english)]
  • Kenny Wollesen - vibraphone

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