THE CLASSIC GUIDE TO STRATEGY, VOLUME ONE - John Zorn (USA 1983)

The John Zorn Discography no.7

1/ Senki (War Spirit)(Zorn)19:40
2/ The Moon In The Cold Stream Like A Mirror (Zorn)19:43

ecorded at the OAO Studio in Brooklyn, New York on February 27, 1983

John Zorn: alto, soprano, clarinets, game calls.

So This time John goes it alone on this first volume of "The Classic Guide to

Strategy" and if we were expecting anything different from what John had already

been releasing music wise then this is most disappointing. John gives his sax a

very hard time coaxing out of it all sorts of weird sounds the the original designers

probably didn't expect it to make, he even plays it under water at points. All

this weirdness sounds quite pointless and apart from the occasional interesting

sound, this all gets pretty tedious pretty quick. As usual for this stage of His

carreer there is no melody or conventional song structure here just random

sounding noises. I guess John had to go through this stage to prepare him for

all the fabulas music he would go on to make later, but I am glad I am able to

find this stuff on the internet to sample first as I would be most disappointed

to actually buy this and than find out what was actually on the recorded later.I

am also disappointed with this particular record as it has been praised in the

past. I wonder what sort of drugs they were on? Rating 1/5.