BAR KOKHBA (MASADA CHAMBER ENSEMBLES)

For a man who's got 90% of his reputation through making noisy, abrasive, inaccessible, chaotic music, this sure is serene and pretty. It's also fairly ironic that I feel like it's the best thing he's done. It's not just a jazz record, the incorporation of traditional Jewish music, particularly touches of folk, often make you entirely forget the jazziness, before it comes back in to breathe soul into the compositions. It is very long, but there's something quite relaxing about it that means length isn't as much of a problem. The more I come back to it, the more I find myself enjoying different bits and pieces, and maybe in time I might love the whole thing, length and all.

6.8 (5th listen)

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