John Zorn - Moonchild - review
John Zorn - Moonchild - review
Tracklist
01. Hellfire02. Ghosts of Thelema
03. Abraxas
04. Possession
05. Caligula
06. 616
07. Equinox
08. Moonchild
09. Le Part Maudit
10. The Summoning
11. Sorceress
A review by
jupitreas November 24, 2006
John Zorn is not actually a performer on Moonchild. Instead, he is responsible for the whole concept of the project and for guiding the trio of great musicians that he invited to record it. Moonchild is influenced by such things as Alistair Crowley and Artonin Artaud and is supposed to be a hybrid of magickal spontaneity and ritualistic trance, at least according to Zorn's detailed notes. Even if we think of all of this as hogwash, the music on this record truly speaks for itself. This is absolutely brilliant stuff with all the performers going to much further extremes than they ever dared before. Especially Patton is incredible. Adding to his already impressive portfolio of techniques, he now also provides us with a bona-fide black metal screech, as well as some real death metal growls. Trevor Dunn outdoes himself on the bass, providing both a solid rhythm section and quite melodic riffs. The drummer, Joey Byron is a real animal and it really amazes me that he doesn't get lost amongst all the convoluted rhythms.
This is a masterpiece of a record and highly recommended to anyone interested in the more experimental sides of rock music. This might not come as a surprise considering the caliber of the musicians involved in this endeavor but a lot of things could have also gone wrong. They didn't. Get this album!
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Very interesting indeed, I'll to listen to it.
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I've heard some of it. It's hella weird but I need to hear more.
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Moon...child?.. seriously? oh.. you gotta be kidding me, Moonchild? seriously... *gasp* I am SO listening to that album... one day
---- Stick this up your fucking pee-aitch-dee.
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is there anywhere where we can hear some samples or a song or something? i am interested in hearing this... EDIT: i have just found one track here http://www.myspace.com/johnzorn and it was very... interesting.. is there any more anywhere?
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The drummer's name is Joey Baron. He's been a longtime Zorn collaborator, playing in his best-known ensembles: Naked City and Masada.
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Posts: 2955 Written by Alfonso on 27.11.2006 at 20:08 These two projects are among the best on avant-garde extreme. Love those grind/jazz works with ambient escapades, this is extreme music at its charmest level! =)
----  ---- member of the true crusade against old school heavy metal, early 80s thrash, NWOBHM, traditional doom, first and second wave black metal, old school death metal, US power metal, 70s prog rock and atmospheric doomsludgestoner. o/
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