-----Original Message----- From: zorn-list-admin@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:zorn-list-admin@mailman.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Andrew Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 9:38 PM
Now, continuing with frustration- was anybody else horribly dissapointed by Zorn's recent "IAO"? I love the "death metal" track with patton and laswell, and I love the female chorus track, but the rest of the album just soudns like Cyro Baptista wanking for eleven minutes at a time while someone adds entirely affected "spooky" atmospherics.
You know, I thought it was fun in the same way "Taboo and Exile" was fun -- some metal here, percussion there, ambient over there, and so on. But the best part of "IAO" is really the gorgeous packaging. (Okay, the "Lucifer Rising" track is great.) It's not bad, but it's stuff that, say, Nurse With Wound, Meshuggah (in particular the last track off the "Chaosphere" album), Igor Wakhevitch, Ligeti -- and Zorn himself -- have done before. And better. Later, Ben nr: j.k. rowling, "harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban" [the semester's finally over!] http://members.tripod.com/~tamad2/ ICQ: thewilyfilipino / Yahoo!: sunny70