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Astronome

John Zorn Format: Audio CD
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Track Listings

1 Act One, Scene 1: A Secluded Clearing in the Woods/Scene 2: A
2 Act Two, Scene 1: A Mediaeval Laboratory/Scene 2: In the Magick Circle
3 Act Three, Scene 1: A Barren Plain at Midnight/Scene 2: An Unnamed

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  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.48 x 0.66 x 5.45 inches; 5.28 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Tzadik
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 2112945
  • Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2006
  • SPARS Code ‏ : ‎ DDD
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ January 29, 2007
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Tzadik
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000GYHRHY
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 12 ratings

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Geoffrey R. Balme
5.0 out of 5 stars DEATH JAZZ anyone?
Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2007
Lyric-less vocalizations (sounding much like a muppet hyped on amphetamines) replace the usual lead horns, or guitar work. The musicianship is first class, wildly sweeping in it's complexities and easily able to keep your attention.

At first, I laughed at the slurping sucking noises the vocalist was making thinking it was much like the embarassing noises section of a Monty Python routine - but, it's easy to forget that it's a human generating those noises and just think of them as instrumentation.

It's certainly genre stretching, and a lot of fun.

I like it best when it mellows out about 15mins into the second track (I'm thinking this is the medieaval laboratory segment)

It's a very warm interlude between exhausting vocalizations that seems much needed!

get ready it's all about to take off again!
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Michael Stack
3.0 out of 5 stars 3 1/2 stars-- an opera in vocalese.
Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2006
"Astronome" is the second album by the band John Zorn assembled to record "Moonchild"-- vocalist Mike Patton, bassist Trevor Dunn and drummer Joey Baron. But this time the concept is slightly different, Zorn was challenged by Richard Foreman to compose an opera in vocalese and came up with something altogether unexpected. Not for the feint of heart, "Astronome" is, even for Zorn, quite a challenge.

As any opera, "Astronome" is apparently designed to tell a story, although you'd be hard pressed without the included libretto (more on that in a minute) to make heads or tails of it, the music is very visual. On first listen, it appears to be pretty much an endlessly aggressive slice of Zorn-avant-hardcore, but the more I've listened to it, the more it's revealed itself to be startlingly diverse. While it is indeed dominated by fierce sections, there's quite a bit of oddly melodic and intriguing portions here-- for example about thirteen minutes into "Act Two", after building to frantic heights, the music settles into a fine groove and maintains a gentle atmosphere pretty much until the end of the track with Dunn's playing both deep in a groove and at times downright pastoral in sound.

This isn't to say, mind you, there isn't a healthy dose of noise and explosiveness-- Dunn's bass is distorted more often than not and Patton's range of vocal textures seem to emphasize a sense of franticness and torment more than anything else.

One thing of note is the packaging of this record-- contained in a small box, the CD is accompanied by two booklets-- one with a set of liner notes by Zorn the other a libretto for the album, with photographs accompanying each "scene" in the opera. It's really quite a fine package.

As a whole, while I found "Astronome" to be an interesting record with a lot of great material to offer, I've found it a bit less intriguing than "Moonchild" and haven't been coming back to it as consistently as I do with a lot of Zorn's other albums. Having said that, it's got a lot to offer and I'm curious whether my opinion of it will change over time-- there's an underpinning of subtlety here that isn't obvious on first dozen listens or so that I've noted as of late that I wonder if it will blossom into something more (as "The Gift" did for me).
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Christian Berti
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Reviewed in Australia on June 19, 2021
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Namor
5.0 out of 5 stars super
Reviewed in Germany on January 31, 2013
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ich habe alles super schnell erhalten, Es war alles bestens. Ich würde es immer wieder machen. kann ich nur empfehlen.
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Michel Fourcade
5.0 out of 5 stars Pas d'accord pour moi, c'est exellent
Reviewed in France on May 23, 2007
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Si vous voulez écouter ce que l'on peut faire avec une guitare, basse, batterie, écoutez ce disque.

John Zorn atteint comme toujours des sommets où se mélange le Free-jazz, le rock et tout ce que vous avez pu entendre de « curieux ». Mélomanes « normaux » s'abstenir. pour écouter ce disque, il faut "rester éveillé".

Comme le disaient Deleuze et Guattari, « l?artiste est celui qui pratique une fente dans l?ombrelle qui nous abrite, pour faire passer un peu du chaos libre et venteux, et cadrer dans une brusque lumière une vision qui apparaît à travers la fente ». Il s?agit de retrouver l?intensité perdue de la perception, « l?incommunicable nouveauté qu?on ne savait plus voir ».

C'et ce que fait john Zorn
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Amazo_Nのお客様
5.0 out of 5 stars 極悪凶暴なトリオ作品
Reviewed in Japan on December 7, 2006
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ジョン・ゾーンの作曲指揮による作品を、ボーカル、ベース、ドラムスのトリオで演奏したライブ音源。歌というよりただただ絶叫したり、嗚咽する声と、ひずんだベース、縦横無尽なドラムで構成されている。前作「moonchild」は小品を並べていたが、今回は全３曲で組曲風になっている。残酷劇の創始者アントナン・アルトーにインスパイアされたという。アルトーは現代思想・哲学にも多大な影響を与えた作家、俳優である。最後は精神を病んで入院した。音楽というより、各演奏者の生み出す圧倒的なパワーが満ちあふれており、独特の場を形成している。
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M. Hutchinson
3.0 out of 5 stars Much Harder Work Than Moonchild...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 22, 2007
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This work is described by Zorn as an attempt at a versatile "pocket opera", equally at home in a classical environment as at a rock venue.

The musical themes lead very directly off from the previous disc, the opening bass-line harking right back to 'Hellfire' and the playing is, again, superb.

However, for my money, this is a much less cohesive and comprehensible affair; trading the concept in many places for the concise and ideas-packed music of Moonchild.

The vocals on this are particularly wearing at times (the slurping and gargling of a glass of water towards the end of track two is just gross and not atmospheric at all).

The music develops slightly slower, and in places is much more sparsh, but the atmosphere is never quite as convincingly captured, and it never gets quite as scary.

I would get Moondchild over this, then return here if you still want more of the same later.
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