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RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
Sam Eastmond
The Bagatelles Vol 16
(Tzadik Records)
★★★★★
NEW YORKER John Zorn is an avant-garde musician singularly unconcerned by and working outside the “mainstream,” and yet simultaneously having a profound influence on it.
His Book of (300) Bagatelles (a term used since 1827 for pieces of light music) comprises three-minute-burst micro-collages that are as unexpected as they are fascinating.
Sam Eastmond, a London-based Jewish musical polymath, brings an innate feel for and astonishing invention to his interpretation of Zorn’s soundscapes.
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