Filmworks XX: Sholem Aleichem

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Filmworks XX: Sholem Aleichem
Soundtrack album by
John Zorn
ReleasedSeptember 16, 2008
Recorded2008
Genreavant-garde, jazz, classical
Length44:32
LabelTzadik TZ 7369
ProducerJohn Zorn
John Zorn chronology
The Art of Memory II
(2008) 		Filmworks XX: Sholem Aleichem
(2008) 		Filmworks XXI: Belle de Nature/The New Rijksmuseum
(2008)
Filmworks chronology
Filmworks XIX: The Rain Horse
(2008) 		Filmworks XX: Sholem Aleichem
(2008) 		Filmworks XXI: Belle de Nature/The New Rijksmuseum
(2008)

Filmworks XX: Sholem Aleichem features a score for film by John Zorn. The album was released on Zorn's own label, Tzadik Records, in 2008 and contains music that Zorn wrote and recorded for a documentary on the 19th century Jewish writer Sholem Aleichem.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "Musically, this project, for being centered on the folk themes from Eastern European Jewry, dating as early as the 18th century, is also wonderfully modern and diverse... The music here is accessible, evocative, and yes, as is almost always the case for Zorn, thoroughly engaging".[2]

Track listing

All compositions by John Zorn

  1. "Shalom, Sholem!" - 2:11
  2. "Luminous Visions" - 4:12
  3. "Mamme Loshen" - 3:18
  4. "Beyond the Pale" - 2:25
  5. "Mekubolim" - 4:36
  6. "Portable Homeland" - 4:06
  7. "Wandering Star" - 3:19
  8. "Jewish Revolutionaries" - 4:59
  9. "Shtetls" - 3:02
  10. "Lucky Me, I'm an Orphan!" - 3:47
  11. "Nicht Gefährlich" - 3:42
  12. "Talking Through Oblivion" - 4:46

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Tzadik catalogue
  2. ^ a b Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed July 18, 2011