John Zorn Filmworks

John Zorn somehow manages to run the non-profit label Tzadik which releases a huge amount of music, including a lot of his own.

A lot of the releases fall under a particular series, and Zorn releases music he's written for films under the "Filmworks" tag.

I ended up buying number VII, Cynical Hysterie Hour the other day as I read it was music written for a set of Japanese cartoons by Kiriko Kubo.

The music is played by an extremely tight band, here are some tracks:

Hysteric Logo

Walk To Park

Fighting Pirates

Filmworks XXII, The Last Supper is extremely different, being written for voices and drums.

It's more typical "soundtrack music" in a way. Here are three tracks:

Opening Invocation

Dance For The Vernal Equinox

Le Diable

I'm not sure which I prefer, but it's impressive as these releases are kind of a sideline to his main stuff.