1977 1981

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Album Info

Release Date: 1998

Label: Materiali Sonori

Track 1 - Recorded at KVDS Radio, Davis, California, winter 1977/78
Track 2 - Recorded at WKCR, NY, March 20, 1978
Track 3 - Recorded at Pangea Club, winter 1977/78
Track 4.1 - Recorded at Dick Charles Recording, New York, June 1979, and Eugene Chadbourne at Aycock Auditorium, Greensboro, April 1987. Tape editing and remix at Psychad, Greensboro, Spring 1997
Track 4.2 - Recorded in Kent State, Ohio, 1981. Plus additional Zorn recordings from Chadbourne's collection. Tape editing and remix at Psychad, Greensboro, Spring 1997

Track 1. Taken from E. Chadbourne & J. Zorn: "The Great Duo Live" (cassette Parachute/Chadbourne mail order, c. 1984)
Track 2. Taken from School (2xLP Parachute 004/6, 1978)
Tracks 3 to 4.2 previously unreleased

Cd in carboard cover included with "Sonora: John Zorn", a special edition book, dedicated to John Zorn.
The 144-page digest-size magazine includes articles on films, interviews, essays, photos, scores, and listings of Zorn's recorded works up to 1998. Text is both in Italian and English.

Book Contents:
"Zorn Tribute" - by Eugene Chadbourne
"John Zorn" - by Carla Chiti
"Velocità e citazione" - by Alberto Pezzotta
"Musica, cinema, letteratura e altro" - by Franco Minganti
"Shpil, Klezmer, Shpil" - by Claudio Canal
"The Ear of the Beholder" - by Walter Rovere
"Private Collection" - by John Zorn (photo section)
"Sound directions in Fuller's Shock Corridor" - by John Zorn
"L'Atalante" - by John Zorn
"Jack Smith and Flaming Creatures" - by John Zorn
"John Zorn's Theatre of Musical Optics" - by Ela Troyano
"Incontro con John Zorn, New York, 19 marzo 1979" - by Ruggero Bianchi
"Music Scores" - by John Zorn (scores section)
"Works" - by Walter Rovere

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