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Release Date
March 17, 1998
Duration
02:03:53
Genre
Avant-Garde
,
International
,
Jazz
Styles
Global Jazz
,
Jewish Music
,
Post-Bop
,
Chamber Jazz
Recording Date
December 6, 1997 - December 7, 1997
Recording Location
Avatar Studio, New York, NY
Discography Timeline
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The New York Tapes
(1978)
Pool
(1980)
Archery
(1981)
Yankees
(1982)
Locus Solus
(1983)
Ganryu Island
(1984)
The Classic Guide to Strategy
(1985)
The Big Gundown: John Zorn Plays the Music of Ennio Mor…
(1985)
Voodoo
(1986)
News for Lulu
(1987)
Spillane
(1988)
Spy vs. Spy: The Music of Ornette Coleman
(1989)
Naked City
(1989)
More News for Lulu
(1989)
Torture Garden
(1990)
Grand Guignol
(1991)
Cobra
(1991)
FilmWorks: 1986-1990
(1992)
Live at the Knitting Factory
(1992)
Absinthe
(1993)
Kristallnacht
(1993)
Execution Ground
(1994)
Masada, Vol. 1: Alef
(1994)
John Zorn's Cobra: Tokyo Operations '94
(1994)
The Art of Memory
(1994)
Masada, Vol. 2: Beit
(1995)
Masada, Vol. 3: Gimel
(1995)
Redbird
(1995)
Nani Nani
(1995)
First Recordings 1973
(1995)
Elegy
(1995)
Book of Heads
(1995)
Masada, Vol. 5: Hei
(1995)
New Traditions in East Asian Bar Bands
(1995)
Masada, Vol. 6: Vav
(1995)
John Zorn's Masada: Live in New York City, 1994
(1995)
Harras
(1996)
FilmWorks II: Music for an Untitled Film by Walter Hill
(1996)
Bar Kokhba
(1996)
FilmWorks V: Tears of Ecstasy
(1996)
FilmWorks VI
(1996)
Euclid's Nightmare
(1997)
FilmWorks VII: Cynical Hysterie Hour
(1997)
Duras, Duchamp
(1997)
Great Jewish Music: Serge Gainsbourg
(1997)
FilmWorks IV: S&M
(1997)
Angelus Novus
(1998)
Masada, Vol. 9: Tet
(1998)
FilmWorks VIII: 1997
(1998)
The Circle Maker
(1998)
Masada, Vol. 8: Het
(1998)
Downtown Lullaby
(1998)
Masada, Vol. 10: Yod
(1998)
The Bribe
(1998)
Aporias: Requia for Piano & Orchestra
(1998)
Music Romance, Vol. 1: Music for Children
(1998)
Masada, Vol. 7: Zayin
(1999)
Masada, Vol. 4: Dalet
(1999)
Masada: Live in Jerusalem
(1999)
Masada: Live in Taipei
(1999)
String Quartets
(1999)
Music Romance, Vol. 2: Taboo & Exile
(1999)
Masada: Live in Middelheim
(1999)
Environment for Sextet
(2000)
Lacrosse
(2000)
Masada: Live in Sevilla 2000
(2000)
Xu Feng
(2000)
Cartoon S&M
(2000)
FilmWorks IX: Trembling Before G-D
(2000)
The Gift
(2001)
Madness, Love and Mysticism
(2001)
Songs from the Hermetic Theatre
(2001)
FilmWorks X: In the Mirror of Maya Deren
(2001)
Masada: Live at Tonic, 2001
(2001)
Hockey
(2002)
Cobra: John Zorn's Game Pieces, Vol. 2 [Tzadik]
(2002)
Masada First Live 1993
(2002)
I.A.O.
(2002)
Hemophiliac
(2002)
FilmWorks XI - 2002, Vol. 1: Secret Lives
(2002)
FilmWorks XII - 2002, Vol. 2: Three Documentaries
(2002)
FilmWorks XIII - 2002, Vol. 3: Invitation to a Suicide
(2002)
Masada Guitars
(2003)
Voices in the Wilderness
(2003)
Unknown Masada
(2003)
FilmWorks XIV: Hiding and Seeking
(2003)
Locus Solus: 50th Birthday Celebration
(2004)
Masada Anniversary Edition, Vol. 4: Masada Recital
(2004)
Magick
(2004)
The Classic Guide to Strategy, Vol. 3: The Fire Book
(2004)
Rituals
(2005)
FilmWorks XV: Protocols of Zion
(2005)
Sanhedrin: 1994-1997 [Unreleased Studio Recordings]
(2005)
FilmWorks XVI: Workingman's Death
(2005)
Mysterium
(2005)
Azazel - Book of Angels, Vol. 2
(2005)
FilmWorks XXVII: Notes on Marie Menken/Ray Bandar: A Li…
(2006)
FilmWorks XVIII: The Treatment
(2006)
Moonchild
(2006)
Astronome
(2006)
Six Litanies for Heliogabalus
(2007)
From Silence to Sorcery
(2007)
FilmWorks XIX: The Rain Horse
(2008)
The Dreamers
(2008)
Art of Memory II
(2008)
FilmWorks XX: Sholem Aleichem
(2008)
FilmWorks XXI: Belle de Nature/Rijksmuseum
(2008)
The Last Supper - Film Works XXII
(2008)
The Crucible
(2008)
FilmWorks XXIII: El General
(2009)
Alhambra Love Songs
(2009)
Stolas: The Book of Angels, Vol. 12
(2009)
O'o
(2009)
Femina
(2009)
In Search of the Miraculous
(2010)
Masada Book 2: The Book of Angels, Vol. 14: Ipos
(2010)
Late Works
(2010)
Dictée/Liber Novus
(2010)
The Goddess: Music for the Ancient of Days
(2010)
FilmWorks XXIV: The Nobel Prize Winner
(2010)
John Zorn: Interzone
(2010)
John Zorn: What Thou Wilt
(2010)
Ipsissimus
(2010)
Astronome: A Night at the Opera
(2010)
Nova Express
(2011)
At the Gates of Paradise
(2011)
A Dreamers Christmas
(2011)
Enigmata
(2011)
Mount Analogue
(2012)
The Gnostic Preludes: Music of Splendor
(2012)
Nosferatu
(2012)
Templars: In Sacred Blood
(2012)
The Hermetic Organ
(2012)
Abraxas: The Book of Angels, Vol. 19
(2012)
John Zorn: Rimbaud
(2012)
A Vision in Blakelight
(2012)
John Zorn: Music and Its Double
(2012)
The Concealed
(2012)
John Zorn: The Mysteries
(2013)
Dreamachines
(2013)
@
(2013)
In Lambeth: Visions from the Walled Garden of William B…
(2013)
The Hermetic Organ, Vol. 2
(2014)
Psychomagia
(2014)
In the Hall of Mirrors
(2014)
Sonic Rivers
(2014)
On Leaves of Grass
(2014)
Adramelech: The Book of Angels, Vol. 22
(2014)
Transmigration of the Magus
(2014)
The Song Project
(2014)
The Last Judgment
(2014)
The Testament of Solomon
(2014)
The Alchemist
(2014)
The Hermetic Organ, Vol. 3: St. Paul's Hall, Huddersfie…
(2015)
John Zorn: Hen to Pan
(2015)
Simulacrum
(2015)
The Song Project: Live at Le Poisson Rouge
(2015)
Pellucidar: A Dreamers Fantabula
(2015)
Forro Zinho: Forro in the Dark Plays Zorn
(2015)
The True Discoveries of Witches and Demons
(2015)
Inferno
(2015)
Cerberus: The Book of Angels, Vol. 26
(2015)
Madrigals
(2016)
The Hermetic Organ, Vol. 4: St. Bartholomew's
(2016)
Flaga: The Book of Angels, Vol. 27
(2016)
The Painted Bird
(2016)
The Mockingbird
(2016)
John Zorn: Sacred Visions
(2016)
Flauros: The Book of Angels, Vol. 29
(2016)
John Zorn: Commedia dell'Arte
(2016)
49 Acts of Unspeakable Depravity in the Abominable Life…
(2016)
Blink
(2016)
The Classic Guide to Strategy, Vol. 4
(2016)
The Garden of Earthly Delights
(2017)
There Is No Firmament
(2017)
Midsummer Moons
(2017)
The Interpretation of Dreams
(2017)
Hermetic Organ: Philharmonie de Paris
(2017)
Urmuz Epigrams
(2018)
Insurrection
(2018)
In a Convex Mirror
(2018)
Salem, 1692
(2018)
The Hermetic Organ, Vol. 6: For Edgar Allan Poe
(2019)
Tractatus Musico-Philosophicus
(2019)
Nove Cantici per Francesco d'Assisi
(2019)
Encomia
(2019)
Hermetic Organ, Vol. 7: St. John the Divine
(2019)
Hermetic Organ, Vol. 8: Gallus Hall, Ljubljana
(2019)
Beyond Good and Evil
(2020)
Heaven and Earth Magick
(2020)
Virtue
(2020)
Calculus
(2020)
Les Maudits
(2020)
Songs for Petra: Petra Haden Sings the Zorn/Harris Song…
(2020)
Azoth
(2020)
John Zorn: The Turner Etudes
(2020)
Songs for Petra
(2021)
Gnosis: The Inner Light
(2021)
Teresa De Avila
(2021)
Chaos Magick
(2021)
Parables
(2021)
Nostradamus: The Death of Satan
(2021)
Meditations on the Tarot
(2021)
New Masada Quartet
(2021)
The Ninth Circle
(2021)
A Garden of Forking Paths
(2021)
The Cleansing
(2022)
Perchance to Dream
(2022)
Spinoza
(2022)
Suite for Piano
(2022)
Incerto
(2022)
Multiplicities: A Repository of Non-Existent Objects
(2022)
New Masada Quartet, Vol. 2
(2023)
The Fourth Way
(2023)
444
(2023)
Multiplicities II: A Repository of Non-Existent Objects
(2023)
Memoria
(2023)
Quatrain
(2023)
New Masada Quartet Benefit
(2024)
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