John Zorn's Masada - Tekufah

[kuposzczaq]

this music would stop the holocaust...

[mohomoho1]

Check out "Lawrence of Newark" 1974 by Larry Young if you like this.

[Vitruvian42]

Listening to this is like being caught in a fever dream that I don't want to wake up from.

[spastic017]

John Zorn is a fucking trademark! How does he do it!

[sanan22]

which album is this from?

[uncasist]

What a totalitarian. No trust in his musicians. I could never work for such control freak.It IS great music. One wonders what would happen if Zorn stopped the iron fisty action.

[seriousnews2]

@polyhydrant it needs to be said however, that Israel is an expansionist power, and is thus, to that extent, immoral. I have no idea of zorn's views on this.

[Yitzhakhazak]

@seriousnews2

Really? What a political genius you are. And a philosopher too. Why shouldn´t Jews live in Judea and Samaria when 1.7 million Arabs live in Israel. Do the names of Hebron, Jericho, Bethlehem, Yerushalayim, Schechem sound Arabic to you? It is pure Hebrew. Why should I, a person with a 4000 year history, listen to somebody like you who is not even part in the conflict. Your horizon is too narrow, if any. Clean your own treshhold.

[Serpchit]

@polyhydrant Guess you know him personally, eh? Fuck off back to StormFront

[McLeod54]

Is he gesturing 'da capo?'

[TechnicallyDevious]

@McLeod54 Are you referring to when he taps on his head. That means 'lets play the head of the song after the resolution'. Head of the song is (usually) the beginning melody.

[disgraziaamelia]

@polyhydrant zitto idiota

[shitnrun]

@polyhydrant lay off the sauce bro

[shitnrun]

@polyhydrant lmao what a lame fucking comment

[delbertboese]

whenever I do listen to him I do get excited

[vanderbiltsax]

he's circular breathing. cool.

[rickypoveri]

Yes !

John Zorn famous for mingling punk with jewish music and jazz (and almost anything else).

[danlovesnan]

these people were born rich and didn't have anything better to do than pretending of being cool and "ahead"...or maybe they are amazing and are my new religion...can't decide.

[gregwallsax]

@danlovesnan Bah! Bien qu'ils soient nés riches ca veut rien dire. Y a trop de gens riches qui rien ne savent faire. Au moins ils ont bien profit de sa vie. J'adore.

[dressedtosmellgood]

@pgonzo98 i dont know. what about it?

[channelofmac]

man, i would love to be in a group like this. music every age can get something out of

[BuyBenco]

yeaahhh......

[aghammer99]

This is awesome... thanks so much for posting. I love Zorn's worth... and the 50th electric masada CD is excellent and includes a longer version of this song... check it out.

[aghammer99]

Sorry, not worth... I meant work... although it's worth a lot as he drives so much of the Jazz improv/experimental scene :)

[MusicJew158]

I am kinda shocked that so many people dig this music I mean it's awesome but its out thier

[Mentox2]

why the lives from Masadasounds best than the studion versions?

anyway, this is a FUCKING GREAT band.

=)

[audiophage]

The magic of improv.

[Nkobaia]

So great !!!

[donnynips]

love his music

[ADURG1]

ELECTRIC MASADA.

thanks for posting another JZ led-gem!!!!!!!!

[Robusto103]

is this on DVD or something??? this video lacks the introduction, which is just amazing!!!!!!! there used to be the complete version on youtube, but that user (HolgerregloH) is no more signed up, apparently. Please come back!!!!!!!!!

[bedtime4bonzo]

@Robusto103 i think mezzo is an italian television station... i see that logo on a lot of awesome live music on youtube...

[MiguelDeCorella]

@bedtime4bonzo Mezzo is actually a French channel... and a very good one indeed ;)

[Knoxoleum]

5 stars dedicated to JOHN ZORN genius

[Mentox2]

Genius!

[gtralisfr69]

Marcs played with Tom Waits, Trever Dunn with Bungle, Cyro with Herbie Hancock, and Zorn with countless musicians, this is ridiculous how many different backgrounds these musicians come from

[musicman9897]

@gtralisfr69 and they all jam together regularly. this isn't anything special, how awesome.

[MK88Ultra]

trivial distinction

[MK88Ultra]

b9 and #5

[nazarato]

b9 and b6 (not #5 because you need your natural 5)

[dressedtosmellgood]

those jews can jam!

[OrdbogDK]

..anyone knows what Zorn tries to tell when pointing at his own head..? Perhaps fokus or something with the memory..?

He does it 1:16.

[heikosucks]

just everybody to play the theme melody!

[dressedtosmellgood]

in jazz, the main theme is called the "head"

[pgonzo98]

@dressedtosmellgood what about modalism?

[vanderbiltsax]

@dressedtosmellgood yes, this is true... but why are you sharing.

[rodrigoaragon]

Pointing the head ussualy means "da capo" in music it means: from the beginning of the song or certain passage.

[saemj]

In Zorn's case it means refrain though.

[rodrigoaragon]

Thanx :)

[trulifusaflor]

XP***

[Missbunglee]

OH! AMAZIN ZORN!

[mikezzzmike]

whoever asked about the scale - it's a mode of the harmonic minor scale - use the notes of f minor - instead of f as the tonic - c is the tonic. mess around with d/dflat and e/eflat. each one adds a different color to the scale.

[timothypetergreen]

what intrvals are they useing to get that harmony part in the main theme?

[cleomagoolando]

Jewish or Spanish Scale, or 5th mode of Harmonic Minor:

R - m2 - M3 - P4 - P5 - m6 - m7 - R

Almost all of the Masada songs are based off that scale once you decipher the root notes.

[raekpenis]

Yea, it's a jewish scale called Ahava Raba!

Trevor Dunn made an awesome article about this song in Bass guitar magazine!

[octavarium23]

do you remember whcih one? I'm writing a paper on John Zorn, and I want to use this as an example for his radical jewish music era

[trojanlol]

does anyone knows about jewish scales and jewish music ? How do you find this out ? in this article ? How could I get this ? thank you

[chrfarley0808]

check out klezmer music its the earliest jewish music i know of

[trojanlol]

thank you so much for the mode, it sounds really good :)

[tyhaddow]

Sometimes he uses a natural 7 instead though.

[takauya]

ribot is so cool

[rhythmking10]

Now thats what I call Dance Music ! groovy theme with some noisy raving in the middle, nice to see Cyro baptista also

[deliman]

*orders 'mountains of madness' off amazon*

[rhythmking10]

hey nice hand signals, a catchy groove with some chaos thrown in , sweet !

[kokopeli27]

Tight groove, kicking band. Some parts a little too experimental for my taste, but overall, a phenomenal performance. Props to John Zorn for his musical insight.

[agreymonkeynamedasa]

I want John Zorn to be the fauther of my child!

[karlmarxlenin]

dont say jesus! ;-)

[thedragonzord]

jesus christ.

[raekpenis]

Don't you mean JEWsus Christ?

HIHIHIHIHIIHIHIHIHIHIHIIIIIIII

[thedragonzord]

hahahahahhahaha

[strokeroll]

Hermoso Tema!!

la cagó

[rayroy3]

genius (award)

[Heberto]

zorn es la jodienda mayor

[JC085]

The song is called Tekufah.

[wrnqzx]

Very impressive, JC085. You can read!

[JC085]

If you don't know, ketahoer changed the name of the video because I posted the name right here.

[wrnqzx]

Ah, ok. In that case, I apologize.

[JC085]

Much better.

[tonyfreejazz20]

Wow. This is cool. Thanks for sharing with us.

[maskake]

sweet :)

[Charles0907]

dont know abouts his tours, but he participates in lots of jazz festivals...

[vcavallo]

goddamn that was great

[piker277]

Thank u soooo much... top stuff

[Incongruent]

More from this show! Please!

[knucmo]

Does he ever announce when he's gonna tour?

[DynaDash]

Wow, thanks for sharing this.

[sargebaker]

I've been watching this for a long time and now when i try to watch it, it stops at 1:36, is anyone else experiencing this? It sucks cause this is one of my favourite vids.

[whereareyoucazzfrom]

no...I suggest format C:\

:D

[monkeykingrecords]

beautiful. nice to see Zorn interactive signs to the band. come to SF damnit!!!

[Schmaddio]

Awesome! I hope to one day have an opportunity to see John Zorn live.

[JC085]

Amazing.

[HagiaSophia]

Beautiful! Thank you!!

[musichuqui]

increible

[derrenleepoole]

Hell ya! Goddamn this is good!

[Casanovabob]

Electric Masada ! thats all i can say!

[regloH]

Best Klezmer Jazz ever! This memberlist, WOW.

[pmcd]

Thanks for posting this! Very nice clip.

[sieon]

jesus, it's electric masada!!!

thank you very much