Electric Masada = The New Bitches Brew by John Zorn & co.

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If you've been following my logged outedness, you know that I liked notey music played well, interesting compositions and perfectionist playing. You would also know where to download amazing free music by John Zorn, including great sounding live shows of Electric Masada.

Do you? Have you heard it?

― Electric Stephen Readynote Special, Sunday, 24 July 2005 01:09 (twenty years ago)

no and no!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 24 July 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

I remember going to see Electric Masada some years back, and my friend (after we ditched halfway through) went on a glorious riff about how it sounded like the soundtrack to MIAMI VICE - "Sonny's sitting at the edge of the dock, looking at the water, and man, it's totally a bummer what went down at that warehouse, that the informant got shot ..."

But that was one show, so who knows.

― doug (doug), Sunday, 24 July 2005 06:10 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, who knows. Maybe you were high on crack.

― Haha, Sunday, 24 July 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

I remember reading some review of "At The Mountains of Madness" which made it sound like the ultimate High Rocking Weirdness. But all I could find was their cd from the Zorn 50th birthday set (in the John Zorn ghetto Amoeba weirdly keeps his stuff in, on the floor, under the main browsing racks.)

It's good! I don't know Zorn's stuff at all, but this sounds like what I expected based on what I've read about him and Electric Masada in particular: free jazz rooted in really solid grooves, by an outfit that has clearly spent time in much stranger places.

The group is just so supple, they can clearly do whatever they want, at any time. They can go four different directions at once and still stay together. "Ok, we'll start with a thundering rock groove, blow it apart with noise, restore the groove but double the noise, and bring both halves to a crescendo at the same time. Ready go." Like, you know how Dracula sometimes turns into dozens of bats? and then turns into Dracula again?

― lukas, Thursday, 11 October 2007 00:32 (eighteen years ago)

which amoeba are you talking about? if it's Berkeley, they've got space issues, so that would explain it.

― BATTAGS, Thursday, 11 October 2007 00:35 (eighteen years ago)

LA. No excuse.

― lukas, Thursday, 11 October 2007 00:41 (eighteen years ago)

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