Eugene Chadbourne - John Zorn
School

THE REVIEW

Today ... a succession of events, uncontrollable phenomena linked to one another.

Changing perspective while remaining coherent.

Retracing the life of an artist who dealt with "everyone" and "everything" would deserve weeks of careful socio-cultural analysis, and if they are two ...

Approaching the '60s, Zorn has collaborated with a multitude of historical figures in music, for example, Laurie Anderson, Frank Lowe, Mike Patton, Andrea Centazzo, Lou Reed, spanning every catalogable musical genre. Discussing music in some situations is discrediting, I'm not quite sure whether towards music or Zorn-Chadbourne.

A note for Eugene Chadbourne is necessary.

In '78, Eugene Chadbourne with John Zorn recorded "School", an experimental work in double vinyl (33 rpm).

An improbable duo John Zorn - Eugene Chadbourne, who will continue collaborating on various "little works" even in the subsequent years.

Eugene Chadbourne imposes an acidic country-folk on the free-jazz New York, with no schemes or models, outside of any divine grace (?) that "starts" from Uncle Tom's cabin and reaches the joints of the Woodstock festival (1969 Bethel, a pleasant rural town in the state of New York), then returns to the smoky haunts of the New York suburbs.

Eugene Chadbourne alternates classical with demented country & western, garage rockabilly with heavily politicized works.

There are many aspects that bind the lives of these two great artists, despite Zorn and Eugene Chadbourne having very little in common after the beauty of 33 years, except the desire and willingness to experiment with everything; in short, they have taken completely different paths of experimentation.

"School" is a wall of guitars (acoustic, electric, and various species) bursting with squeals (solos, duets, trios, and quartets and whatever else) with Zorn occasionally emerging with his saxophone.
In the 10 tracks, a kind of drugged, angry, and quickly smiling Kandinsky, who, preying upon vodka, lets himself be carried away by artistic enthusiasm, perhaps excessively abandoning technique and schemes ...

"It seemed to me that the living soul of colors emitted a musical call, when the inflexible will of the brush tore from them a part of life"

Personally, I do not consider myself predisposed to this type of listening ... and perhaps (definitely) there are works by both artists that would deserve more attention. I do not feel capable of influencing opinions and do not associate any rating with the work.
Let's say it is a treat for lovers of the genre (?).

Here's the tracklist:

1. "Solitude"
2. "Duet"
3. "The Return of Romance"
4. "The Shreeve"
5. "The Fling"
6. "Missing Persons"
7. "Welcome West"
8. "Lacrosse (take 3)"
9. "Lacrosse (take 4)"
10. "Lacrosse (take 6)"

A little gift for all the debeserians...