First Recordings 1973

First Recordings 1973
Studio album by John Zorn
Released 1995
Recorded 1973
Genre Avant-Garde
Length 77:41
Label Tzadik TZ 7304
Producer John Zorn
John Zorn chronology
Zohar
(1995)		 First Recordings 1973
(1995)		 Redbird
(1995)

First Recordings 1973 is an album by John Zorn featuring recordings that he made while still a student between 1973 and 1974 which was released on the Tzadik label in 1995.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
Guy's Music Review[3]

The Allmusic review by Stacia Proefrock awarded the album 3½ stars noting that "Zorn calls this collection "the craziest stuff I've ever done" and he could be right, with the possible exception of the Painkiller albums, which are perhaps just louder rather than crazier. That said, this work is, predictably, not Zorn's best, but it holds value for fans as an embryonic example of his innovation and style".[2] Guy Peters stated "It's occasionally interesting to hear Zorn the adolescent at work, while some of the pieces show that his more fleshed-out efforts from a decade later were already waiting to pop up from below the surface. However, more than anything else, the album contains almost 80 minutes of half-assed experiments by a young artist playing with radical ideas and struggling to find an identity, yet failing to make a lasting impression. As such, the release of First Recordings 1973 is a vanity project, unless you're willing to go along, in which case it might be good for a few laughs (as Zorn suggests). File under "sounds for people that are fed up with music"".[3]

Track listing

  1. "Mikhail Zoetrope" (1974): Act I - 22:13
  2. "Mikhail Zoetrope" (1974): Act II - 13:30
  3. "Mikhail Zoetrope" (1974): Act III - 11:00
  4. "Conquest of Mexico" (1973): Part 1 Warning Signs - 7:45
  5. "Conquest of Mexico (1973): Part 2 Confession - 3:39
  6. "Conquest of Mexico" (1973): Part 3 Convulsions/Abdication - 3:56
  7. "Wind Ko/La" (1973) - 3:04
  8. "Automata of Al-Jazari" (1974) - 1:16
  9. "Variations on a Theme by Albert Ayler" (1973) - 11:14

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Tzadik catalogue
  2. 1 2 Proefrock, S. Allmusic Review accessed March 10, 2009.
  3. 1 2 Peters, G. Guy's Music Review, accessed October 24, 2013
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