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John Zorn - Elegy
(1992)
This is Zorn's musical tribute to the work of Jean Genet. There are four tracks: blue, yellow, pink, and black. The songs are spare — passages of music drift back and forth, intercut with sound effects and human voices.
Jean Genet was a French writer, born in 1910. He wrote The Thief's Journal, based on his early twenties when he lived on the streets as a beggar and prostitute. Un Chant D'Amour is a 28-minute film written and directed by Genet in 1950.
Zorn: The impressionability of children carries an erotic danger, childhood epiphanies often leading beyond the grave. One of my critical moments occurred at a small movie theater in the West Village around 1965. I was eleven or twelve years old and in the absence of our parents my older brother transported me to a rare screening of two films that were to astound, perplex, frighten and change my life forever — Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures and Jean Genet's Chant D'Amour.
The beauty of these images burned into my brain, branding my thought processes with an intensity that has scented much of my creative output, altering me forever. Elegy is a fragile world of shadows, an underground where erotic perversion, flowers, and crime co-exist — a tribute to one of my seminal heroes and one of the world's greatest writers.
The compositional approach is more subtle, impressionistic, and intuitive than my previous file card pieces, very in keeping with the moods and flavor of Genet's world of mystery and subversion. Mirroring pitch matrices, chords, melody fragments and of course the exotic instrumentation, there is a mysterious relationship between Elegy and Pierre Boulez's Le Marteau Sans Maitre — but it was painted in the colors of pornography.
1 Blue (7:09)
2 Yellow (2:48)
3 Pink (15:47)
4 Black (3:42)
Effects [Sound] - David Slusser
Flute [Bass, Alto] - Barbara Chaffe
Guitar - Trey Spruance
Percussion - William Winant
Producer, Written-By - John Zorn
Turntables - David Shea
Viola - David Abel
Vocals - Mike Patton
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