Filmworks XVI: Workingman's Death explained

Filmworks XVI: Workingman's Death
Type:	Soundtrack
Artist:	John Zorn
Cover:	Filmworks XVI.jpg
Released:	April 26, 2005
Recorded:	January–March, 2005
Genre:	Avant-garde, jazz, classical
Length:	61:23
Label:	Tzadik
Producer:	John Zorn
Chronology:	Filmworks
Prev Year:	2005
Next Title:	Filmworks Anthology
Next Year:	2005

Filmworks XVI: Workingman's Death features a score by John Zorn for a documentary film by Michael Glawogger. The album was released on Zorn's own label, Tzadik Records, in 2005 and contains music that Zorn wrote and recorded for, Workingman's Death (2005), a documentary detailing hazardous employment undertaken in Ukraine, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, and China.^[1]

Track listing

1. "Gadani Slipway" - 9:01
2. "Juju" - 6:14
3. "Sulphur Mining" - 6:29
4. "Horn Carrier" - 3:16
5. "Atmosphere" - 2:13
6. "The Miners" - 3:05
7. "Steel Factory" - 6:01
8. "Work Trance" - 3:20
9. "Ghost Ship" - 2:51
10. "Dark Caves" - 3:17
11. "Slaughterhouse" - 9:09
12. "Guitar Juju" - 6:20

All music by John Zorn

• Produced by John Zorn.

Personnel

• John Zorn – organ, gamelin
• Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz – bass
• Jamie Saft – electric piano, guitar
• Cyro Baptista – percussion
• Ikue Mori – electronic percussion

Notes and References

1. http://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=7347 Tzadik catalogue