| | Amazon.com: Orobas: Book of Angels, Vol. 4: Music: Koby Israelite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | The fourth entry into the Masada Book Two series, "Orobas" is the first volume where composer John Zorn reaches outside of his circle of downtown New York musicians, this time to Israeli-born, London-based musician Koby Israelite. |
 | | For anyone unfamiliar with either, I'll provide a bit of background-- in the early 1990s, Zorn wrote a songbook of melodies to serve as springboards for improvisation for a pianoless quartet, the band Masada. |
 | | But it ends up being by and large a frustrating album, a lack of restraint at times is apparent and some pieces feel like they forcefully swap genres just as they start hitting their stride (funky klezmer "Khabiel"). |
| www.amazon.com /Orobas-Book-Angels-Vol-4/dp/B000EBFWR6 (1317 words) |