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Title: Live in Middelheim
Condition: New
Format: CD
EAN: 0702397732624
Genre: Classic Rock
Release Date: 12/08/2006
Description: EDITORIAL REVIEWS
Crossing the Atlantic to meet in Belgium for the first time in almost six months, and going their separate ways less than twenty hours later, Masada's concert in Middleheim was under pressure from the beginning. Reaching full-out intensity in the first thirty seconds of their very first piece, this is Masada at their wildest simultaneously out of control and yet intensely focused like a laser beam. 'I felt like a squirrel being dragged behind a Mack truck.' Greg Cohen. Beautifully recorded by the Belgian radio.

AMAZON
Based on their numerous studio recordings, it was all too easy to earmark John Zorn's Masada as an Ornette Coleman-inspired recipe with a dash of Middle Eastern spice. But hearing this powerful live recording from the quartet's 1999 gig in the Netherlands, there's no denying the saxophonist is onto something. Here, Zorn, trumpeter Dave Douglas, drummer Joey Baron, and bassist Greg Cohen don't just use Masada's infectious melodies as launch pads for solos. Just the opposite--they fly from the start and somehow keep looking back to the original tunes along the way. Opening with "Nevuah," the quartet set a relentless pace; "Sippur" is Masada at it's most sly and soulful; and as "Ne'eman" slowly unfolds, the brass just gets wilder. On "Kedushah" and "Kochot," we finally get to hear Cohen, somehow keeping up with these gale force lungs. At times--thanks to Baron--they swing, but mostly this is a no-holds-barred assault of great, energized playing. Intense, solid, and one of the group's best efforts to date. --Jason Verlinde
Country/Region of Manufacture: USA
Language: English
No Of Discs: 1
Artist: John Zorn
Record Label: Tzadik
Release Year: 2006

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