Merging heavy melodic jazz with tinges of heavy metal, John Zorn's Simulacrum trio of John Medeski on organ, Kenny Grohowski on drums, and Matt Hollenberg on guitar perform nine of Zorn's intense compositions in a beautifully recorded concert at the Firehouse 12 studio, the band's consummate playing and passion bringing power to Zorn's darkly exciting music.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2020 Country: USA Packaging: Cardboard Sleeve Sealed Recorded live at Firehouse 12, in New Haven, Conneticut, on July 20th, 2019, by Greg Greg DiCrosta.
"From 2015-2017, in the midst of an historic creative high, Zorn wrote and recorded no less than six CDs of music for Simulacrum, his most powerful and intense 21st century ensemble; the music then became a project for live performance.
This concert from July 2019 finds the band at their blazing best, performing compositions from four different Simulacrum releases. No one blends metal and jazz quite like Zorn (he's been doing it since the late 1980s) and these mind-bendingly intense performances will leave you breathless.
Beautifully recorded at Firehouse 12 in New Haven and lovingly mixed at Bill Laswell's Orange Sound by James Dellatacoma this is a hyper powered stop-on-a-dime live performance by three virtuosic musical maniacs."-Tzadik