Advantages: A great CD start to finish Disadvantages: There's no volume two!
I just got this CD after downloading tunes from Rashanim's website. It's been on constant play in my car and on the ipod. Highlights include "Ahavah," which could be a weird Twin Peaks soundtrack tune, and the all-out rocker "Zemanim." Master gunslinger Marc Ribot sits in for a few tracks. It would have been great to hear him on the whole record, but the trio proves to be a powerhouse with or without other musicians.
I've recommended Masada Rock to several friends, and everyone who got it loves it. I haven't seen Rashanim live, but word from a friend in NYC is that they out-rock the CD many times over.
Whether you're into rock, surf music, jam music, jazz, Jewish music, whatever-- 'Masada Rock' has it all. ...
Advantages: A good mix of songs Disadvantages: Doesnt help you get through the housework
A cd thats a couple of years old now but still fun to listen to.
I mean this cd says its meant to help you through the housework but I personally dont think it really does,if anything it distracts you,because you just start singing along to all the great tracks this album has to offer, you get caught up in the music and completely lose track of what you were doing - maybe a good thing in a way :-)
Housework vol1 is a double album that has some cracking songs that you just dont seem to hear on the radio anymore such as The Beach Boys - Help Me Rhonda and Don McLeans - American Pie.
The songs on this album just make you feel good and really help to lift your spirits,but I honestly think its marketed wrong,this is a feel good album for anyone just not people doing the housework.I dont think the title of the album really represents ...
Advantages: Excellent screenplay, high quality acting and brilliant visual effects! Disadvantages: The only disadvantage is that it has taken too long for Kill Bill VOL.2 to be released. Also concentration must be kept to keep up with the fast paced action.
Kill Bill VOL.1 is and exciting, high paced, gory killing spree. After recovering from being shot in the head at her own wedding, Black Mamba (Uma Thurman) is intent on revenge and that means killing eveyone in her path who wronged her.
Vivid colour and amazing martial arts are used ingeniously in the action packed fighting scenes along with cartoon like deaths. Includes blood baths, limb amputation and good old fashioned rioting, However, this masterpiece also excells in the serious areas too, such as the hospital scene with Black Mamba.
A brilliant start to a two part film, with such great charcters and interesting and hillarious storyline, it leaves you asking the question, when will the next one be here? ...
Masada: John Zorn (alto saxophone); Dave Douglas (trumpet); Greg Cohen (bass); Joey Baron (drums). Recorded at RPM Studios, New York, New York on February 20, 1994. Masada is often referred to as super-experimentalist John Zorn's klezmer group. While Zorn composes all of Masada's music in one of two "Jewish scales" (either a major scale with a second note flat or a minor scale with the fourth note sharp), it otherwise becomes difficult to categorize this unique ensemble. Saxophonist Zorn, trumpeter Dave Douglas, bassist Greg Cohen, and drummer Joey Baron fuse traditional hard bop, noir-ish atmospherics, Ornette Coleman-style free-improv, beautiful, ghostly melodies, and even Latin rhythmic elements while disguising the whole in klezmer's clothes. Those who know Zorn merely as an avant-noisemaker may be surprised at Masada's accessibility. ALEF, the first in the group's rapidly expanding catalogue of albums, is one of the group's friendlier entry points. Tracks as wonderfully infectious as "Tzofeh," as hauntingly lovely as "Ashnah," and as slyly groovy as "Tahah" will appeal to straight-ahead jazz fans as well as enthusiasts of Zorn's other work. As always, Zorn has surrounded himself with masterful and remarkably inventive players, and the superior musicianship and excellent compositions mark this unique musical experience.
Album Reviews
JazzTimes (6/95, pp.98-99) - "...Zorn opts for deliberately paced readings of new compositions....Zorn's most satisfying recording to date..."
