Filmworks IV: S&M + More explained

Filmworks IV: S&M + More
Type:Soundtrack
Artist:John Zorn
Cover:Filmworks IV.jpg
Released:1997
Genre:Avant-garde, jazz, classical
Length:57:11
Label:Tzadik TZ 7310
Producer:John Zorn
Chronology:Filmworks
Prev Year:1995
Next Year:1996

Filmworks IV: S/M + More features film scores by John Zorn. The album was released in Japan on Eva Records in 1996[1] and on Zorn's own label, Tzadik Records, in 1997.[2] It features the music that Zorn wrote and recorded for Maria Beatty's The Elegant Spanking, Beatty and M.M. Serra's A Lot of Fun for the Evil One, "Credits Included" written for the film of the same name directed by Jalal Toufic and "Maogai," written for a piano scene in a film by Hiroki Ryuichi.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Stacia Proefrock awarded the album 3 stars noting that "While this album may not contain the precise and complex structures of Zorn's other experimental work, one gets the sense that he gave himself free rein to play a little, and came up with something new".[3]

Track listing

All compositions by John Zorn

  1. "Pueblo" - 9:04
  2. "Elegant Spanking" (Suite) - 14:22
  3. "Credits Included" (A Video in Red & Green) a. Politics, b. Asylum - 9:38
  4. "Maogai" (Suite & Variations) - 6:19
  5. "A Lot of Fun for the Evil One" - 17:48

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. http://www.discogs.com/John-Zorn-Filmworks-IV-SM-More/release/333098 Discogs web page, accessed July 04, 2012
  2. http://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=7310 Tzadik catalogue
  3. Proefrock, S. Allmusic Review accessed July 29, 2011.