Taboo and Exile

by John Zorn

Taboo and Exile cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: October 1999
  • Label: Tzadik
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:00:42
  • Community rating: 3.82/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Serving as the second volume in his ambitious 'Music Romance' series, the prolific composer blends exotica, surf rock, and traditional Jewish melodies into a highly cinematic instrumental suite. The dense, genre-defying arrangements showcase a remarkably cohesive vision spanning across wildly disparate avant-garde and tribal ambient elements.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, uncommon-time-signatures, avant-garde, improvisation, instrumental, experimental, dissonant, atonal

Tracklist

  1. In The Temple Of Hadjarim (5:12)
  2. Sacrifist (4:50)
  3. Mayim (3:27)
  4. Koryojang (6:21)
  5. Bulls-Eye (1:08)
  6. Zeraim (6:19)
  7. Thaalapalassi (10:21)
  8. Makkot (2:59)
  9. A Tiki For Blue (6:59)
  10. The Possessed (6:17)
  11. Oracle (4:24)
  12. Koryojang (End Credits) (2:25)

Credits

  • F茅licien Rops - illustration
  • Greg Cohen - bass
  • Erik Friedlander - cello
  • Cyro Baptista - percussion
  • Jamie Saft - piano, organ
  • Mark Feldman - violin
  • Bill Laswell - bass
  • Dave Lombardo - drums

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