Mycale: Book of Angels Volume 13

Mycale: Book of Angels Volume 13 is an album by the vocal group Mycale performing compositions from John Zorn's second Masada book, "The Book of Angels".[1] Ayelet Rose Gottlieb stated "We've been told that we have managed to create our own "language" within this a cappella quartet ... the foundation is our music are the compositions of John Zorn, which in this case are melodic tunes, based on the "jewish scale" ... but always with a twist that sends the pieces off to another place, beyond straight klezmer ... on top of that are our arrangements, and text choices."[2]

Mycale: Book of Angels Volume 13
Studio album by
Mycale
ReleasedJanuary 2010
RecordedOctober 1-5, 2009
GenreAvant-garde, contemporary classical music, choral music
Length33:51
LabelTzadik
ProducerJohn Zorn
Book of Angels chronology
Stolas: Book of Angels Volume 12
(2009)		 Mycale: Book of Angels Volume 13
(2010)		 Ipos: Book of Angels Volume 14
(2010)
John Zorn chronology
Femina
(2009)		 Mycale: Book of Angels Volume 13
(2010)		 In Search of the Miraculous
(2010)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Don't Count On It[3]

Ian Flick awarded the album 3½ stars stating "Overall, this is a very strange album and although it's not a hard or really taxing listen, it's just so off the wall I'm not sure I get it. There's just this atmosphere of pure strangeness that I just can't put my finger on whether this is good, bad, or just decent. If you want something totally avant-garde by one it's key players, check this out."[3]

Track listing

All compositions by John Zorn.

  1. "Uzziel" - 3:10
  2. "Ahaha"- 2:53
  3. "El El" - 2:19
  4. "Tehom" - 2:26
  5. "Moloch" - 2:32
  6. "Balam" - 3:12
  7. "Melech" - 2:47
  8. "Tarshish" - 4:01
  9. "Asaph" - 3:18
  10. "Rumiel" - 2:55
  11. "Natiel" - 4:10

Personnel
  • Ayelet Rose Gottlieb - voice
  • Sofia Rei Koutsovitis - voice
  • Basya Schecter - voice
  • Malika Zarra - voice

References
  1. Tzadik Catalogue: Mycale: Book of Angels Volume 13
  2. Preview: A Cappella Group Mycale in the ReVoice! Festival Archived 2017-06-29 at the Wayback Machine, London Jazz News, September 26, 2012
  3. Don't Count On It Review accessed October 10, 2013.
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