| John Zorn will play at MDM on April 29 Despite persistent rumors that have circulated for many years that the main avant-garde artist of America and Europe, John Zorn, once vowed never to come to Russia, he will perform on April 29 at the Moscow Youth Palace. In the Electric Masada program, he will be played by a team of the world musical avant-garde, each member of which is famous, perhaps not as famous as the founder of the Radical Jewish Music movement, but also not a miss. An audience familiar with Zorn's extravagant work or his hoaxes, who have heard the truth or countless legends about him, who imagine him as a high-brow connoisseur of Stockhausen and Cage or a major figure in radical trash, a composer of soundtracks for real and imagined literary and film blockbusters, or a famously unpredictable publisher and producer, will be able to see firsthand the fiercely ironic uncompromisingness of Zorn's Masada project (named after an ancient Jewish fortress, and not the famous Israeli intelligence service), the magnificent skill of the avant-garde guitar idol Marc Ribot, percussionist Jiro Batista, who played with Sting, Byrne, Eno and Sakamoto, engineer and bassist Trevor Dunn, drummer Kenny Wolessen, who worked with Tom Waits, and other experimental gentlemen.
Masada is far from the only and perhaps not even the most sophisticated of John Zorn's projects, but it is certainly the most popular of them. The wide fame of the project, and of Zorn himself in general, is, at first glance, unique for a radical, conceptually independent musician. But the trick is that a specialist in new academic music in his youth and a magnificent free jazzman in his youth already in the eighties turned into the most furious postmodernist of world music. Consequently, I learned to develop both elite and mass themes of world contemporary art. His projects amaze, confound and enchant with an explosive mixture of radical, sophisticated and trashy styles, delightful copies of imagined, cult or forgotten originals, intellectual jokes and explosive pathos. Zorn is the main Kuryokhin of the world, adjusted for the fundamental difference in temperaments. And what will sound in MDM (Zorn is always unpredictable) will definitely not be like the Sparrow Oratorio. Yulia BEDEROVA |
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