The Parachute Years
The Parachute Years | ||||
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Box set by John Zorn | ||||
Released | 1997 | |||
Recorded | June 1977–September 1981 | |||
Genre | Avant-garde | |||
Length | 366:19 | |||
Label | Tzadik TZ 7316 | |||
Producer | John Zorn | |||
John Zorn chronology | ||||
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The Parachute Years: 1977–1981 is a compilation album 7-CD box set by John Zorn. It features recordings of Zorn's game pieces originally released as self-produced albums on the Parachute label as well as previously unreleased performances.[1] All of the discs in this box set have been subsequently given their own releases on Zorn's Tzadik label.
The first two discs feature Zorn's 1977 composition Lacrosse. The first disc was recorded at WKCR in June 1978 and features Mark Abbott, Polly Bradfield, Eugene Chadbourne, and LaDonna Smith and Zorn on 6 different takes of "Lacrosse". Takes 3, 4 and 6 were originally released on the Parachute Records double LP School (1978). The second disc is the original recording of "Lacrosse" which was made by Eugene Chadbourne, Henry Kaiser, Bruce Ackley, and Zorn (dubbed "Twins") in San Francisco, California in June 1977. The third disc features 17 takes (four electric and thirteen acoustic) of the composition Hockey. Five of these takes were first released on vinyl on Parachute Records in 1980, (tracks 4-9), along with Pool which features on disc four. The final three discs feature Zorn's Archery composition in previously unreleased rehearsal takes and versions released on Parachute Records in 1982.
Reception
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Allmusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The Allmusic review by Joslyn Layne awarded the album 4 stars stating "This box set is for dedicated fans already intrigued by the early annals of Zorn and his musical game theories. However, Zorn skeptics and listeners with less patience for theory (or history) should definitely avoid The Parachute Years. This set will not win anyone over; nor will the theories become more clear upon listening. The recordings in The Parachute Years helped the participants -- inspired and creative musicians, all -- to grow, but they also have more historical value than listening interest.".[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz said "Historically this is arguably as important a set as any Blue Note or Prestige milestone... one can often hear things in this collection which echo more vividly than much of Zorn's more obvious 'outrageous' work".[3]
In Jazziz Bruce Carnevale wrote "This is not "music" in terms of traditional rhythm, tonal centres, or anything of that sort. It's hardly even free jazz. Formed by Zorn's formal instructions or moves chosen by the player, the recordings collected here present a discontinuous world of discrete sounds. Zorn's signature jump-cut aesthetic s on display throughout the box. Here, however, a rawness takes form. This music bristles with energy that turns on and off as easily as a light switch".[4]
Track listing
- Disc one
- "Lacrosse Take 3" – 23:06
- "Lacrosse Take 4" – 19:06
- "Lacrosse Take 6" – 6:20
- "Lacrosse Take 1" – 7:01
- "Lacrosse Take 2" – 8:08
- "Lacrosse Take 5" – 8:16
- Disc two
- "Lacrosse Twins Version" – 29:56
- Disc three
- "Hockey (Electric Version): Take 1" - 1:13
- "Hockey (Electric Version): Take 2" - 3:13
- "Hockey (Electric Version): Take 3" - 11:32
- "Hockey (Electric Version): Take 4" - 11:23
- "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 2" - 3:43
- "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 4" - 2:14
- "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 11" - 0:55
- "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 13" - 1:02
- "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 1" - 3:10
- "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 3" - 3:16
- "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 5" - 1:08
- "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 6" -1:00
- "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 7" - 1:07
- "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 8" - 0:45
- "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 9" - 1:02
- "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 10" - 1:07
- "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 12" - 1:17
- Disc four
- "Pool" - 50:45
- Disc five
- "Archery Rehearsal: Pt. 1" - 32:11
- "Archery Rehearsal: Pt. 2" - 16:14
- "Archery Rehearsal: Pt. 3" - 28:33
- Disc six
- "Archery: A1-D2" - 20:35
- "Archery: D3-G1" - 20:08
- Disc seven
- "Archery: G2-L4" - 23:52
- "Archery: L5-O14" - 23:30
- All compositions by John Zorn
Personnel
- Disc One and Two
- John Zorn – alto saxophone, clarinet, soprano saxophone, liner notes
- Mark Abbott – electronics
- Bruce Ackley – soprano saxophone, liner notes
- Allen Asaf – engineer
- Polly Bradfield – violin, viola, electric violin
- Eugene Chadbourne – acoustic guitar, dobro, electric guitar, twelve string guitar, liner notes, tiple, six string bass, twelve string acoustic guitar
- Henry Kaiser – electric guitar
- LaDonna Smith – violin, viola
- Davey Williams – banjo, electric guitar, hollow body guitar
- Disc One recorded at WKCR in June 1978 and Disc Two recorded in San Francisco, California in June 1977.
- Disc Three
- Polly Bradfield - Violin
- Mark E. Miller - percussion, Contact Microphones, Vibraphone
- Eugene Chadbourne - Electric guitar, Personal Effects
- Wayne Horvitz - Amplified Piano
- Bob Ostertag - Electronics
- John Zorn - Duck, Goose and Crow Calls, Clarinet, Mouthpiece
- Recorded at Sorcerer Sound Studio, New York City on March 1, 1980
- Disc Four
- Polly Bradfield - Violin
- Mark E. Miller - percussion, Contact Microphones, Vibraphone
- Charles K. Noyes - percussion, Saw, Knene
- Bob Ostertag - Electronics
- John Zorn - Alto And Soprano Saxophones, Bb Clarinet, Game Calls, E-flat Clarinet
- Recorded at Sorcerer Sound Studio, New York City on March 1, 1980
- Disc Five, Six and Seven
- Polly Bradfield - Violin
- Eugene Chadbourne - Guitars, Dobro
- Anthony Coleman - keyboards
- Tom Cora - Cello
- Robert Dick - Flute, Bass Flute, Piccolo, Game Calls
- Wayne Horvitz - keyboards, Harmonica, Tape, Electronics
- Bill Horvitz - Electric guitar
- Kramer - keyboards
- Bill Laswell - Electric Bass
- George Lewis - Trombone
- David Moss - drums, Voice, Water, Hammered dulcimer, cymbals, Zither, etc.
- John Zorn - Alto And Soprano Saxophones, Bb Clarinet, Game Calls, E-flat Clarinet
- Recorded at the OAO Studio in Brooklyn, New York on September 12 and 13, 1981
References
- ^ Tzadik catalogue
- ^ a b Layne, J. Allmusic Review accessed March 6, 2012
- ^ a b Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2000). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (5th ed.). Penguin. p. 1612. ISBN 0-14-051452-X.
- ^ Carnevale, B., Jazziz, March 1998, Volume 15 No. 3, p.70
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- 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
Pieces
- Spillane
- The Bribe
- Elegy
- Kristallnacht
- Godard/Spillane
- Femina
- Dictée/Liber Novus
- Interzone
- Mount Analogue
- Voodoo
- The Big Gundown
- News for Lulu
- More News for Lulu
- Spy vs Spy
- 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
- 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
- The Circle Maker
- 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 11
- Lucifer: Book of Angels Volume 10
String Trio
- The Circle Maker
- 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 1
- Azazel: Book of Angels Volume 2
- Haborym: Book of Angels Volume 16
- Music for Children
- Taboo & Exile
- The Gift
- Hemophiliac
- 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 6
Anniversary
Celebration
- Astaroth
- Azazel
- Malphas
- Orobas
- Balan
- Moloch
- Asmodeus
- Volac
- Xaphan
- Lucifer
- Zaebos
- Stolas
- Mycale
- Ipos
- Baal
- Haborym
- Caym
- Pruflas
- Abraxas
- Tap
- Alastor
- Adramelech
- Aguares
- Moonchild: Songs Without Words
- Astronome
- Six Litanies for Heliogabalus
- The Crucible
- Ipsissimus
- Templars: In Sacred Blood
- The Lost Judgment
- The Dreamers
- O'o
- Ipos: Book of Angels Volume 14
- A Dreamers Christmas
- Pellucidar: A Dreamers Fantabula
- Alhambra Love Songs
- In Search of the Miraculous
- The Goddess – Music for the Ancient of Days
- 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
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
- The Gnostic Preludes
- The Mysteries
- In Lambeth
- 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