A Vision in Blakelight

A Vision in Blakelight is an album by John Zorn recorded in New York City in December 2011 and released on the Tzadik label in 2012.[1] The album is inspired by the works of William Blake.

A Vision in Blakelight
Studio album by
John Zorn
ReleasedSeptember 25, 2012
RecordedDecember 2011 at EastSide Sound, NYC
GenreAvant-garde, jazz, Contemporary classical music
Length50:20
LabelTzadik
TZ 8303
ProducerJohn Zorn
John Zorn chronology
Rimbaud
(2012)		 A Vision in Blakelight
(2012)		 Music and Its Double
(2012)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Free Jazz Collective[2]

Martin Schray stated "The album is a wonderfully varied suite reflecting Blake’s vision and eventually one of his most famous quotations (“if the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite“) is turned into music by the works of John Zorn".[2]

Track listing

All compositions by John Zorn except as indicated

  1. "When the Morning Stars Sang Together" - 5:28
  2. "The Hammer of Los" - 3:58
  3. "Jerusalem" - 5:15
  4. "Prophecy" - 3:10
  5. "And He Rode Upon the Cherubim" - 5:09
  6. "Marriage of Heaven and Hell" - 4:18
  7. "Woman Clothed with the Sun" - 5:20
  8. "Shadows in Ancient Time" (Zorn, William Blake) – 5:40
  9. "Island in the Moon" - 7:06
  10. "Night Thoughts" - 4:55

Personnel
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gollark: But the brain runs on not-very-persistent storage, and if you're "dead" too long some kind of cascade failure thing means you're stuck that way.
gollark: Biology: it's very weird and extremely complex.
gollark: Medicine is just very bodgey and unreliable hacky patches to the spaghetti code of life.
gollark: > as bad as it is to say, most of the deaths are people that are only alive from medicine artificially inflating life spans well beyond the designed parameters... is wanting to live longer a bad thing now? There are no "designed parameters" with humans, what with us being weird evolved systems, only "mostly works" ones, and we've been continually pushing those with stuff like, well, medicine.

References
  1. Tzadik Catalogue: A Vision in Blakelight
  2. Schray, M. The Free Jazz Collective Review, Free Jazz Collective, March 6, 2013
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