Zohar (album)

1995 studio album by Mystic Fugu Orchestra (John Zorn & Yamantaka Eye)

Zohar

Studio album by

Mystic Fugu Orchestra (John Zorn & Yamantaka Eye)

Released| 1995
Genre| Avant-garde
Length| 23:38
Label| Tzadik TZ 7106
Producer| John Zorn
John Zorn chronology
| John Zorn's Cobra: Live at the Knitting Factory
(1995)  | Zohar
(1995)  | First Recordings 1973
(1995)

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John Zorn and Yamataka Eye chronology
| Nani Nani
(1994)  | Zohar
(1995)  | Naninani II
(2004)

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Zohar is an album by the Mystic Fugu Orchestra (John Zorn (as Rav Tzizit) and Yamataka Eye (as Rav Yechida) who perform a range of music inspired by historical recordings of ancient Judaica.[1] To simulate the "antiquity" of these recordings, a heavy layer of surface noise was overlaid on the music to represent the playing quality of a 78 rpm gramophone record.

## Reception

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The Allmusic review by Joslyn Layne awarded the album 1.5 stars stating "Just under half an hour's worth of old record spin-and-crackle sounds in the foreground, with a faint background of John Zorn adding small amounts of harmonium and Yamantaka Eye voicing occasional hums and tones. Most of what you hear, however, is record surface static and the revolutions of the vinyl. Zohar could only be of use to completists, or as a layer for mixing".[2]

Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
Allmusic| [2]

## Track listing

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1. "Alef" – 0:40
2. "Book Of Splendors" – 3:48
3. "Frog Doina" – 2:02
4. "The Dybbuk" – 2:28
5. "2000 Years" – 0:59
6. "Goniff Dance" – 2:17
7. "Rav Nova" – 7:44
8. "Zayin" – 3:37

* All compositions by John Zorn/Yamataka Eye

## Personnel

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* Rav Tzizit (John Zorn) – harmonium
* Rav Yechida (Yamataka Eye) – voice

## References

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1. ^ Tzadik catalogue
2. ^ a b Layne, J. Allmusic Review accessed June 6, 2011

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John Zorn

Discography

Solo albums|

* The Classic Guide to Strategy
* First Recordings 1973
* 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 9
* The Hermetic Organ
* The Hermetic Organ Vol. 2

Game Pieces|

* Lacrosse
* Pool
* Hockey
* Archery
* Cobra
* John Zorn's Cobra: Live at the Knitting Factory
* John Zorn's Cobra: Tokyo Operations '94
* New Traditions in East Asian Bar Bands
* Xu Feng
* Cobra: John Zorn's Game Pieces Volume 2

File Card
Pieces|

* Spillane
* The Bribe
* Elegy
* Kristallnacht
* Godard/Spillane
* Femina
* Dictée/Liber Novus
* Interzone
* Mount Analogue

Cover albums|

* Voodoo
* The Big Gundown
* News for Lulu
* More News for Lulu
* Spy vs Spy

Classical|

* Redbird
* The Book of Heads
* Duras: Duchamp
* Angelus Novus
* Aporias: Requia for Piano and Orchestra
* The String Quartets
* Cartoon S/M
* Madness, Love and Mysticism
* Songs from the Hermetic Theatre
* Chimeras
* Magick
* Mysterium
* Rituals
* From Silence to Sorcery
* The Satyr's Play / Cerberus
* What Thou Wilt
* Lemma
* On the Torment of Saints, the Casting of Spells and the Evocation of Spirits
* The Alchemist
* Fragmentations, Prayers and Interjections
* In the Hall of Mirrors
* Myth and Mythopoeia

Filmworks|

* 1986-1990
* Music for an Untitled Film by Walter Hill
* 1990–1995
* S&M + More
* Tears of Ecstasy
* 1996
* Cynical Hysterie Hour
* 1997
* Trembling Before G-d
* In the Mirror of Maya Deren
* Secret Lives
* Three Documentaries
* Invitation to a Suicide
* Hiding and Seeking
* Protocols of Zion
* Workingman's Death
* Notes on Marie Menken/Ray Bandar: A Life with Skulls
* The Treatment
* The Rain Horse
* Sholem Aleichem
* Belle de Nature/The New Rijksmuseum
* The Last Supper
* El General
* The Nobel Prizewinner
* City of Slaughter/Schmatta/Beyond the Infinite

Bar Kokhba|

* Bar Kokhba
* The Circle Maker
* 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 11
* Lucifer: Book of Angels Volume 10

Masada
String Trio|

* The Circle Maker
* 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 1
* Azazel: Book of Angels Volume 2
* Haborym: Book of Angels Volume 16

Music Romance|

* Music for Children
* Taboo & Exile
* The Gift

Hemophiliac|

* Hemophiliac
* 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 6

Masada
Anniversary|

* Masada Guitars
* Voices in the Wilderness
* The Unknown Masada
* Masada Recital
* Masada Rock

50th Birthday
Celebration|

* Volume 1
* Volume 2
* Volume 3
* Volume 4
* Volume 5
* Volume 6
* Volume 7
* Volume 8
* Volume 9
* Volume 10
* Volume 11
* Volume 12

Book of Angels|

* Astaroth
* Azazel
* Malphas
* Orobas
* Balan
* Moloch
* Asmodeus
* Volac
* Xaphan
* Lucifer
* Zaebos
* Stolas
* Mycale
* Ipos
* Baal
* Haborym
* Caym
* Pruflas
* Abraxas
* Tap
* Alastor
* Adramelech
* Aguares

Moonchild|

* Moonchild: Songs Without Words
* Astronome
* Six Litanies for Heliogabalus
* The Crucible
* Ipsissimus
* Templars: In Sacred Blood
* The Lost Judgment

The Dreamers|

* The Dreamers
* O'o
* Ipos: Book of Angels Volume 14
* A Dreamers Christmas
* Pellucidar: A Dreamers Fantabula

Alhambra|

* Alhambra Love Songs
* In Search of the Miraculous
* The Goddess – Music for the Ancient of Days

Simulacrum|

* Simulacrum
* The True Discoveries of Witches and Demons
* Inferno
* The Painted Bird
* 49 Acts Of Unspeakable Depravity In The Abominable Life And Times Of Gilles De Rais
* The Garden Of Earthly Delights
* Baphomet
* Chaos Magick
* Nostradamus: The Death of Satan

Tributes and
Inspirations|

* IAO
* Enigmata
* Nova Express
* At the Gates of Paradise
* Nosferatu
* Rimbaud
* A Vision in Blakelight
* The Concealed
* Dreamachines
* Shir Hashirim
* Psychomagia
* On Leaves of Grass

Gnostic Trio|

* The Gnostic Preludes
* The Mysteries
* In Lambeth

Collaborations|

* In Memory of Nikki Arane with Eugene Chadbourne
* Locus Solus
* Yankees with Derek Bailey & George E. Lewis
* Deadly Weapons with Steve Beresford, Tonie Marshall & David Toop
* Ganryu Island with Sato Michihiro
* The Art of Memory with Fred Frith
* Zohar with Yamantaka Eye
* Nani Nani with Yamantaka Eye
* Harras with Derek Bailey & William Parker
* Euclid's Nightmare with Bobby Previte
* Weird Little Boy with Trey Spruance, Mike Patton, William Winant & Chris Cochrane
* Downtown Lullaby with Wayne Horvitz, Elliott Sharp and Bobby Previte
* Prelapse with Prelapse
* Buck Jam Tonic with Bill Laswell & Tatsuya Nakamura
* Naninani II with Yamantaka Eye
* The Stone: Issue One with Dave Douglas, Rob Burger, Bill Laswell, Mike Patton & Ben Perowsky
* The Stone: Issue Three with Lou Reed & Laurie Anderson
* The Art of Memory II with Fred Frith
* Late Works with Fred Frith
* @ with Thurston Moore
* Sonic Rivers with George E. Lewis & Wadada Leo Smith

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Yamantaka Eye

Albums|

* Nani Nani (with John Zorn)
* Zohar (with John Zorn)
* Naninani II (with John Zorn)
* 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 10 (with John Zorn)

Related|

* Destroy 2
* Hanatarash

Authority control databases |

* MusicBrainz release group

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