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Masada
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There are some artists with the name Masada:
1) Masada is not so much a band as a musical project that John Zorn embarked upon in the early ’90s. It is a collection of more than 200 short tunes that have been written in accordance with a number of rules. These include the maximum number of staves, the modes or scales that are used and the fact that they must be playable by any small group of instruments.
Zorn formed the group Masada in order to record and perform this set of tunes. The personnel is John Zorn - alto saxophone, Dave Douglas - trumpet, Greg Cohen - bass, and Joey Baron - drums. A number of different drummers have performed with Masada over the years, most regularly Kenny Wollesen. Masada recorded the music on a series of ten CDs on the Japanese DIW label and a number of live recordings on Zorn’s Tzadik label.
In the last few months of 2004, Zorn wrote over 300 new tunes for the Masada songbook. Some of the new tunes were debuted at Tonic, NYC in December of 2004, as a mini festival.
2) Masada is a two man project oriented in Trance and Goa/Psychedelic Trance music. The band was formed in 1999 when Mathias Westin and Torsten Edwinson decided that they wanted to make music together. They were both students and shared an extreme interest in music and computers. Mathias used to make music at home for a long time but never released any of his work.
1) Masada is not so much a band as a musical project that John Zorn embarked upon in the early ’90s. It is a collection of more than 200 short tunes that have been written in accordance with a number of rules. These include the maximum number of staves, the modes or scales that are used and the fact that they must be playable by any small group of instruments.
Zorn formed the group Masada in order to record and perform this set of tunes. The personnel is John Zorn - alto saxophone, Dave Douglas - trumpet, Greg Cohen - bass, and Joey Baron - drums. A number of different drummers have performed with Masada over the years, most regularly Kenny Wollesen. Masada recorded the music on a series of ten CDs on the Japanese DIW label and a number of live recordings on Zorn’s Tzadik label.
In the last few months of 2004, Zorn wrote over 300 new tunes for the Masada songbook. Some of the new tunes were debuted at Tonic, NYC in December of 2004, as a mini festival.
2) Masada is a two man project oriented in Trance and Goa/Psychedelic Trance music. The band was formed in 1999 when Mathias Westin and Torsten Edwinson decided that they wanted to make music together. They were both students and shared an extreme interest in music and computers. Mathias used to make music at home for a long time but never released any of his work.
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Theelongplayer wrote:
Electric Masada is a joke (like many other Zorn projects), this is the real thing.
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von_baron wrote:
fucking DEATHRASH ASSAULT
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praisingfolly wrote:
I just got Live in Sevilla, and then I died from ecstasy. Seriously, people, that's one of the best live albums EVER.
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username345 wrote:
I prefer Electric Masada, but this is great too.
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praisingfolly wrote:
Thanks Gurthnar
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benderbrau wrote:
Su-pp-ee-r!!!
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SixShooterSam wrote:
wowowow
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gurthnar wrote:
Praisingfolly: If I have to make a choice it would be Zayin and Het
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Manicthrasher wrote:
Death/thrash Masada from the US \m/.
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praisingfolly wrote:
Which one is the best? I have Alef and Bet.
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Ollemann wrote:
It's fucking awesome. :)
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hitzey wrote:
cool band
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madcap44 wrote:
this isn' t exactly fusion. start with live in sevilla
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posthumanson wrote:
i'm completely new to these dudes. i like fusion. a lot. what should i hear first?
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EvilMalware wrote:
Live in Sevilla is *awesome*.
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matetoth wrote:
Greetings! We invite you to our new Lounge Lizards group! Please visit us & join!
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enoly wrote:
wow
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Aman wrote:
Like Masada? Then join group Sophisticated Taste: http://www.last.fm/group/Sophisticated%20Taste
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el_chivo wrote:
you can't be bored with these people
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bigsexyshaq wrote:
I love it a lot too. ;-O
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- gideona and lifelesscloak added Masada to their libraries. 5 hours ago
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- goadelicBG tagged Masada with ‘goa’ and ‘goa trance’. yesterday evening
- BerzergeR, HexApparatus and hashsaky added Masada to their libraries. yesterday evening
- Selenaru_Negrea updated the wiki page for Masada. (diff) Monday morning
- kidindigo tagged Masada with ‘jewish’ and ‘klezmer’. Monday morning
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