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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0702397733225 Label: Tzadik Manufacturer: Tzadik MPN: 7332 Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Tzadik Release Date: March 27, 2001 Studio: Tzadik Average Rating:
 Rating: - an awesome album of high prestige!I was expecting a lot more technical playing on this album,and after the first listening session I said to myself"hmm...it's good chill music,but there isn't much substance." After hearing these gentle, flowing tunes a few more times though I realized that this isn't supposed to be a "balls-to-walls" action-packed album;the idea which makes this music amazing is that it's meant to be a mental "seasoning".I use it while doing mellow chores,cooking,etc. and it is a great cognitive comforter which sets ... Read More Rating: - Pleasant, but feels underdevelopedIf you fell in love with the Naked City song "Sunset Surfer" from Radio like I did, this album is for you. An entire album of chilled out, mellow Zorn compositions with beautiful melodies and tasteful arrangements. They cover a multitude of styles other than 'surf', maintaining a fairly constant mood but branching into ethnic harmonic structure and jazzy rhythms. There's a lot of diverse instrumentation here, all sorts of percussion, train bells, hand drums, flutes, synthesizers, trumpets... ... Read More Rating:  - Music is great, Zorn is Sick.I went through a Zorn phase in the early to mid nineties. I thought the Japanese bondage and torture was cool, I thought showing pictures of pre-pubescent Japanese girls urinating was art. I thought seeing severed body parts in a ditch in the ground was neat. Now I realize that all these images paint a picture of a very mentally disturbed man. One can only imagine the activities Zorn has gotten himself into over in Japan. What set me off was buying "The Gift". Having downloaded some tracks and listened to a ... Read More Rating:  - Very prettyAs others have previously (and better!)pointed out, this CD is John Zorn's take (partly) on surf guitar (marc Ribot plays)but it is also much much more. It is on the one hand beautifully played but also very innovating in some ways. OK, the artwork is in questionalble taste. Rating:  - Zorn takes on surf music.One of the more unexpected albums in John Zorn's catalog, "The Gift" finds Zorn exploring primarily surf music. With guitarist Marc Ribot as the primary hero in the preceedings, Zorn creates a swirling, modern take on the genre, with a couple odd tracks thrown in to keep you guessing. The core of the band is a series of Zorn regulars (Ribot, Jamie Saft, Trevor Dunn, Cyro Baptista and Joey Baron), with contributions by Ned Rothenberg, Dave Douglas, Zorn on piano and theramin, Mike Patton and a string quartet. ... Read More |
