Filmworks XIV: Hiding and Seeking explained

Filmworks XIV: Hiding and Seeking
Type:Soundtrack
Artist:John Zorn
Cover:Filmworks XIV.jpg
Released:2003
Recorded:April 2003
Genre:Avant-garde, jazz, classical
Length:53:28
Label:Tzadik
Producer:John Zorn
Chronology:John Zorn's Filmworks
Prev Year:2002
Next Year:2005

Filmworks XIV: Hiding and Seeking features a score for film by John Zorn. The album was released on Zorn's own label, Tzadik Records, in 2003 and contains music that Zorn wrote and recorded for, Hiding and Seeking (2003), a documentary directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky.[1]

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4½ stars noting that "Zorn's score is one of his most beautiful and accessible... This work is beyond folk forms, beyond jazz, and beyond the kitschy sense of humor Zorn often employs (even more so than The Gift), resulting in a work that is profound, moving, and full of sensual delight".[2]

Track listing

  1. "Merkabah" (vocal) - 6:23
  2. "Sekhel" - 4:38
  3. "Zhakor" (vocal) - 3:43
  4. "Muflah" - 5:19
  5. "Abulafia" - 2:27
  6. "Abulafia" (vocal) - 3:39
  7. "Chirik" - 4:26
  8. "Moadim" - 3:26
  9. "Zhakor" - 4:24
  10. "Sekhel" (vocal) - 4:59
  11. "Adamah" - 4:27
  12. "Merkabah" - 5:31

All music by John Zorn

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. http://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=7343 Tzadik catalogue
  2. Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed July 29, 2011.