Right Where You Are Sitting Now » John Zorn

BehindClosedDoors – Broadcast #020

Ken Eakins — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:01:41 +0000

1.Peanut Butter Wolf – Rock Unorthodox
2.Babe Lincoln – I Synth on Your Grave
3.Magma - Aurae
4.Brain Douche – 14 Space 1
5.The Super Vacations – Ten Second Freak Out
6.RBCP (Phone Losers of America) – Play The Game
7.Set Fire to Flames – Omaha
8.Peaches – Tent In Your Pants
9.Fickle Public – Non-Stop-Hot
10.RTX – Last Ride
11.John Zorn – Ipissimus – Supplicant
12.Mastodon – Trampled Under Hoof
13.Jon Lajoie – Slightly Irresponsible

If you want us to play your band/noise/whatever, drop us a line at behindcloseddoors@sittingnow.co.uk.
Peace

***Signal Ends**

John Zorn: Manic Music!

Ken Eakins — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:22:09 +0000

I was first introduced to John Zorn back in the early nineties after hearing his production work on the first (commercially released) Mr. Bungle album. The first record I picked up was his excellent ambient work ‘Elegy’, which featured several members of Mr. Bungle, including Trey Spruance and Mike Patton. I’d never, at age 15, ever heard anything quite so weird, intense and disjointed in my life; the effect was something that would change my music-listening life forever. Basically, ever since I first ‘got’ Bungle and Zorn, I could never really ‘get’ why pop music was fun to listen to. Not only had ‘what’ I listened to changed, but also’ how’ I listened; it was like my ability to consume music had been totally rewired.

Elegy really was only the tip of the iceberg though, Zorn covers a huge amount of bases musically, from Thrash Jazz, to improv, to Jewish compositions, to pieces for suprano (and many many others). I actually think if you were to sit back and absorb the days worth of music in this mans ouvre, you might possibly go mad:

Zorn very rarely does interviews, which to me, adds even more ‘mystique’ to the mix. The problem with this, however, is the ‘need-to-know-every-detail-about-this-music’ side of me is left vastly unsatisfied. Sure, you could argue that Zorn’s label Tzadik’s recently released ‘A Bookshelf on Top of the Sky’ DVD covers a lot of bases; BUT I NEED MORE.

Thankfully, on one of my trawls of the Internets looking for interesting things, I found this excellent Q&A with the man, which I hope you’ll enjoy as much as I did:

***If this isn’t working in your browser (it’s archive.org, cmon), you can watch it here***

Ken Eakins

EPISODE 03 – Interview with Trey Spruance pt 2

Ken Eakins — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:04:11 +0000

We return with the second part of our interview with Trey Spruance of the Secret Chiefs 3 and ASVA. This week we discuss running Mimicry Records, Mysticism, Internet Piracy and Weird Little Boy. Massive thanks again to Trey for doing the interview!

Background songs taken from Book M and Book of Horizons.

Included songs – Secret Chiefs – Hypostasis of the Archons – Book of Horizons (Mimicry Records), Secret Chiefs 3 – Emir of the Bees – First Grand Constitution and Bylaws (Mimicry Records)