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Kristallnacht is an album by John Zorn first released in 1993 on the Japanese Eva label and subsequently in 1995 on Zorn's own Tzadik Records label.[1]

Kristallnacht
Studio album by
Released1993
RecordedNovember 9 & 10, 1992
GenreAvant-garde
Length42:44
LabelEva, Tzadik
ProducerJohn Zorn
John Zorn chronology
Leng Tch'e
(1992)
Kristallnacht
(1993)
Rituals: Live in Japan
(1993)

Background


Zorn's compositions for the album were based around the events before, during, and following the infamous Night of Broken Glass and represented his first musical exploration of his Jewish cultural heritage.[2]

Zorn has stated:

It’s tied together with passion and research. Every Jew has to come to grips with the holocaust in some kind of way and that was my statement, that’s how I did it. I do not need to do it again (…) it meant a lot to me. It was like a whole lifetime of denying my Jewish heritage coming out in one piece -- "John Zorn on BBC Jazz File," July 2000.

[3]


Reception


Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[5]

The AllMusic review by Joslyn Layne stated: "John Zorn has created a musical work that powerfully represents the different stages of this historical event... Zorn's forceful undertaking is realized through the expert and passionate musicianship".[4]


Track listing


No.TitleLength
1."Shtetl (Ghetto Life)"5:55
2."Never Again"11:46
3."Gahelet (Embers)"3:27
4."Tikkun (Rectification)"3:02
5."Tzfia (Looking Ahead)"8:49
6."Barzel (Iron Fist)"2:02
7."Gariin (Nucleus - The New Settlement)"7:59
All compositions by John Zorn
  • Recorded and mixed on November 9 & 10 1992 at RPM Studio, New York City

Personnel



References


  1. Tzadik catalogue
  2. Cuthbert, M. S. Free Improvisation: John Zorn and the Construction of Jewish Identity Through Music in Studies in Jewish Musical Traditions: Insights from the Harvard Collection of Judacea Sound Recordings, Shelemay, K. K. (ed.), Harvard College Library, 2001
  3. Hosken, Thom. "'Kristallnacht and After': Did John Zorn's Radical Jewish Culture begin life as a postmodernist or modernist project?". academia.org. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  4. Layne, J. AllMusic Review accessed March 16, 2009.
  5. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1543. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.



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