A word from John Zorn

...and a preview of this week's webcast.

From the liner notes to John Zorn's Spillane album.

Top 5 for September 3, 2014

She Cries Your Name by Beth Orton

The majestic opening to the Trailer Park album, the haunting voice and the eerie ominous strings, plus a nice dancy beat.

Don't Ever Let Me Know - Bobby Fuller Four

Super catchy pop song bliss. Tambourines and hand claps, six against four, catchy melodies. Nice.

Top 2 from October 15, 2013

The Hudson River Valley from Albany to NYC 

as seen in full fall color glory from Amtrak's Ethan Allen Express

Erik Friedlander at the Stone NYC

Playing John Zorn's Volac - Book of Angels, Vol. 8, from his seemingly infinite part Masada project. (Upon seeing an album called “the Unknown Masada” my reaction was “there's basically more Masada than any one person could know, that I now know about this one as opposed to about 50 other discs”) Anyway, a great performance in a tiny space at the corner of Avenue C and 2nd street. A diagonal front right on the corner with the name in tiny writing on a glass door with a black curtain on the inside, took me about 15 minutes to figure out that was the place (only when the audience from the first show exited) Rachsiel is the top 1 of the set - some amazing pizzicato playing bringing an unusual dimension to the cello.