| Filmworks XXI: Belle de Nature/The New Rijksmuseum | |
| Type: | Soundtrack |
| Artist: | John Zorn |
| Cover: | Filmworks XXI.jpg |
| Released: | October 28, 2008 |
| Recorded: | 2008 |
| Genre: | avant-garde, jazz, classical |
| Length: | 60:21 |
| Label: | Tzadik TZ 7370 |
| Producer: | John Zorn |
| Chronology: | John Zorn |
| Prev Year: | 2008 |
| Next Year: | 2008 |
Filmworks XXI: Belle de Nature/Rijksmuseum features a score for film by John Zorn. The album was released on Zorn's own label, Tzadik Records, in 2008 and contains music that Zorn wrote and recorded for film director Maria Beatty's Belle de Nature (2008) and a documentary on the renovation of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.[1]
The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "first seven cues as riveting as they are beautiful. The sheer exotic nature of these strings all played together in woven layers of counterpoint and rhythmic and melodic invention creates a soundscape that sounds much more lush than it actually is. While each cue is a truly expansive small journey in its own right, when taken together they have the capacity to transport the listener to another place" and the Rijksmuseum pieces as "wonderfully strange... the fabric created by specially made glass percussion instruments by Baptista and Wollesen's vibes takes the music into completely different realms".[2]
All compositions by John Zorn