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Title: SOUND IN AN AGE OF TERRORISM
Review: Improvisational music's currrent Dark Magus is found herein a amplified trio that includes alto sax, bass and drums. How to describe Zorn's playing here? Imagine if a velociraptor somehow was an alto saxophone virtuoso-and was hunting for his next kill! Bill Laswell's generous use of his weapons of bass destruction create the general mood and space of each piece while Harris's drums serve to raise or lower the general panic level. I'm not put off by noise but I do marvel at how HARD these guys work at it. Someone might compose a piece about BILE,But five BILE(s) in 5 different colors?! These recordings spill the "gutbucket" back into Jazz but in a visceral,FORENSIC sense.The use of dub techniques and echoes remind us that violence (most of which occurs on disc one) may reverberate longer in our lives than we think. P.S. Better than Naked City because more of Zorn's own brilliant playing over extended jams. Six Stars!!!
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