At the Gates of Paradise | |
Type: | Album |
Artist: | John Zorn |
Cover: | At the Gates of Paradise.jpg |
Released: | September 2011 |
Recorded: | May 2011 |
Genre: | Avant-garde, jazz, classical |
Length: | 48:29 |
Label: | Tzadik TZ 7392 |
Producer: | John Zorn |
Chronology: | John Zorn |
Prev Title: | Enigmata |
Prev Year: | 2011 |
Next Title: | A Dreamers Christmas |
Next Year: | 2011 |
At the Gates of Paradise is an album by John Zorn released on Zorn's own label, Tzadik Records, in 2011 and featuring music inspired by William Blake and the Gnostic texts from the Nag Hammadi library.[1]
The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "At the Gates of Paradise is, like its predecessors, among the most enjoyable and illuminating recordings in Zorn's later canon because its lyricism, rhythmic pulses, and grooves are accessible to virtually anyone".[2]
All compositions by John Zorn