JOHN ZORN - The Hermetic Organ Vol. 9 CD Dub Sean Hess and Alex Staniloff

Sean Hess and Alex Staniloff – craft their hypnotic sound from a single dropping note that builds into a reverberating roar that crashes over you like a wave

It is also the release that made Pharoah Sanders want to work with him in the first place

It all sounds and feels better than ever

Although only their debut album together

a new music ensemble he founded in 1978 and soon earned international acclaim

JOHN ZORN - The Hermetic Organ Vol. 9 CD Dub Sean Hess and Alex StaniloffFilled with wild sounds, bizarre juxtapositions, soulful melodies, and pulsating drones, this outrageous recital is one of Zorns very best. Inspired by Aleister Crowleys Liber Liberi vel Lapidis Lazuli, and performed in a kind of trance state, this is music beyond thought, beyond beauty, beyond rationality. Recorded at St. Johns Cathedral in Knoxville, Tennessee during the 2022 Big Ears Festival, this is Zorn at his metaphysical zenith. Organ