John Zorn – Flatlands (CD)
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John Zorn has spent decades building an ecosystem of downtown New York collaborators who can execute the impossible at tempo, and Flatlands draws from the deepest end of that pool. Hollenberg, Hanes, and Smith each carry serious credentials across experimental metal, avant-jazz, and noise rock, making this trio less a side project than a convergence of exactly the right players for Zorn's most uncompromising compositional instincts.
A new music super-group featuring Matt Hollenberg (Simulacrum, Shardik, Secret Chiefs 3) on electric guitar, Simon Hanes (Gargantua, Tredici Bacci, Tsons of Tsunami) on electric bass, and Ches Smith (Clone Row, We All Break, Laugh Ash) on drums, Flatlands is a dynamic rock power trio in the Simulacrum/Naked City/ Insurrection mold. The music is intense, quirky, and wildly ecstatic-twelve com-pact stop-on-a-dime kaleidoscopic miniatures that astonishingly defy musical logic and reveal a deep philosophical edge. Filled with infectious riffs, atonal melodies, complex rhythms, virtuosic solos, and ever-surprising structural innovations Flatlands is one of the most mind-bendingly extreme guitar trios ever created.
Tracklist:
- 69-68
- Into the Dreamverse
- Mabinogion
- Wait Until Yesterday
- Priapus
- Erotic Hyperbola
- Almas Perdidas
- Diabola
- The Blue Circle
- Slipped Disk
- Foul Deeds Rise
- Greywacke
UPC: 702397933229
Label: Tzadik
Release Date: 10.16.26
Format: CD