Filmworks XXV: City of Slaughter/Schmatta/Beyond the Infinite

Filmworks XXV: City of Slaughter/Schmatta/Beyond the Infinite
Soundtrack album by John Zorn
Released January 29, 2013
Recorded June 15 & December 2009 and May 11, 2012
Genre Avant-garde, Jazz, Contemporary classical music
Length 55:35
Label Tzadik TZ 8305
Producer John Zorn
John Zorn chronology
The Concealed
(2012)		 Filmworks XXV: City of Slaughter/Schmatta/Beyond the Infinite
(2013)		 Lemma
(2013)
Filmworks chronology
Filmworks XXIV: The Nobel Prizewinner
(2012)		 Filmworks XXV: City of Slaughter/Schmatta/Beyond the Infinite
(2013)

Filmworks XXV: City of Slaughter/Schmatta/Beyond the Infinite is an album of solo piano pieces composed by John Zorn and performed by Zorn, Omri Mor and Rob Burger which was recorded in New York City in 2009 and 2012 and released on the Tzadik label in January 2013.[1] The album is rumoured to be the last in Zorn's Filmworks series.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
Free Jazz Collective[3]

Allmusic said "This is a beautiful recording by virtually any standard".[2] Martin Schray stated "All in all these are typical Zorn compositions presented in an unusual context".[3]

Track listing

All compositions by John Zorn

  1. "The End of Tradition" - 3:40
  2. "The Oath" - 2:13
  3. "Modernity" - 1:27
  4. "Island/Ghetto" - 2:34
  5. "New Choices" - 2:10
  6. "Revolution" - 3:32
  7. "New Currents" - 2:43
  8. "Loss" - 1:53
  9. "Hopes and Dreams" - 1:33
  10. "The Bund" - 2:32
  11. "City of Slaughter" - 4:44
  12. "Anti-Semitism/Pogrom" - 1:24
  13. "Pale of Settlement" - 3:03
  14. "Requiem" - 2:52
  15. "Schmatta" - 1:40
  16. "Pins and Needles" - 3:12
  17. "Collapse" - 3:06
  18. "Hanging by a Thread" - 2:58
  19. "Beyond the Infinite" - 8:19

Personnel

Production

References

  1. ↑ Tzadik Catalog, accessed October 20, 2013
  2. 1 2 Jurek, T. Allmusic Review, accessed October 20, 2013
  3. 1 2 Schray, M. The Free Jazz Collective Review, Free Jazz Collective, September 3, 2013
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