MIDSUMMER MOONS

I'm not going to say a lot about this album as it was one I picked up without doing my homework. The thing is that I was excited about finding some John Zorn music that I liked back in 2017. And all of it was music he released between 2015 and 2017. Albums like "Inferno", "The Interpretation Of Dreams", The Garden Of Delights" and "The Painted Bird". I was led to these albums after discovering ELECTRIC MASADA, a Zorn led band that blew me away. I was on the search for more like-minded music of his after hearing that one, lets put it that way.

That search led me to that '15- '17 period of his that contained some incredible music. And in my excitement I grabbed this one too called "Midsummer Moons" from 2017, only to find out it's simply two acoustic guitar players, and that's it. For the whole album. Now Gyan Riley and Julian Gage are gifted players or Zorn wouldn't have asked them to play, but I feel this is pretty one dimensional despite them changing things up at times.

This is just not my music to be honest. A beautiful cover art, and I would say the same about a lot of these melodies. The word "moon" is in nine of the ten song titles. An all instrumental album about the moon. This was one of those "oops" moments, but if your into classy, high end, all instrumental music, you need to hear this. Zorn is the composer and producer and I've seen this listed as chamber jazz and contemporary folk.

3 stars, but please read Neu!mann's insightful review.

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