Chimeras | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | April 22, 2003 | |||
Recorded | January 3 & 4, 2003, SUNY Purchase, New York "Postlude" recorded July 8, 2009, Jordan Hall, Boston | |||
Genre | Avant-garde, contemporary classical music | |||
Length | 33:44 | |||
Label | Tzadik TZ 7085 | |||
Producer | John Zorn | |||
John Zorn chronology | ||||
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2010 Reissue | ||||
Chimeras (sub-titled A Child’s Adventures in the Realms of the Unreal) is an album of contemporary classical music by American composer John Zorn featuring a 12 part piece inspired by Arnold Schoenberg's atonal composition " Pierrot Lunaire". [1] In 2010 the album was revised and re-recorded, with an additional "Postlude". [2]
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [3] |
Pitchfork Media | [4] |
Free Jazz Collective | [5] |
The Allmusic site awarded the album 3½ stars. [3] Writing for Pitchfork Media, Alexander Lloyd Linhardt stated "the piece itself is thrillingly diverse, suddenly going from luminous to lugubrious and from classical to chaotic. It's a bold, unexpected new chapter in Zorn's corpus, or it would be if we didn't expect that from him". [4] The Free Jazz Collective stated "it can be described as an absolute musical nightmare. It is dark, frightening, with light touches beaming through, like a lullaby arising out of violence, like a tiny light in the darkness giving you false hope of rescue, like friendly faces turning into gargoyles. Human warmth is present, but only as a delusion or deception... The music is as ambitious as it is pretentious, although it will not leave you indifferent". [5]
All compositions by John Zorn
Chimeras | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | April 22, 2003 | |||
Recorded | January 3 & 4, 2003, SUNY Purchase, New York "Postlude" recorded July 8, 2009, Jordan Hall, Boston | |||
Genre | Avant-garde, contemporary classical music | |||
Length | 33:44 | |||
Label | Tzadik TZ 7085 | |||
Producer | John Zorn | |||
John Zorn chronology | ||||
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2010 Reissue | ||||
Chimeras (sub-titled A Child’s Adventures in the Realms of the Unreal) is an album of contemporary classical music by American composer John Zorn featuring a 12 part piece inspired by Arnold Schoenberg's atonal composition " Pierrot Lunaire". [1] In 2010 the album was revised and re-recorded, with an additional "Postlude". [2]
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [3] |
Pitchfork Media | [4] |
Free Jazz Collective | [5] |
The Allmusic site awarded the album 3½ stars. [3] Writing for Pitchfork Media, Alexander Lloyd Linhardt stated "the piece itself is thrillingly diverse, suddenly going from luminous to lugubrious and from classical to chaotic. It's a bold, unexpected new chapter in Zorn's corpus, or it would be if we didn't expect that from him". [4] The Free Jazz Collective stated "it can be described as an absolute musical nightmare. It is dark, frightening, with light touches beaming through, like a lullaby arising out of violence, like a tiny light in the darkness giving you false hope of rescue, like friendly faces turning into gargoyles. Human warmth is present, but only as a delusion or deception... The music is as ambitious as it is pretentious, although it will not leave you indifferent". [5]
All compositions by John Zorn