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Masada
Masada (מצדה metzadá "fortress") is an ancient fortification in the Southern District of Israel situated on top of an isolated rock plateau, akin to a mesa, on the eastern edge of the Judaean Desert, overlooking the Dead Sea 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of Arad.
Herod the Great built palaces for himself on the mountain and fortified Masada between 37 and 31 BCE. According to Josephus, the Siege of Masada by troops of the Roman Empire towards the end of the First Jewish–Roman War ended in the mass suicide of 960 people – the Sicarii rebels and their families hiding there.
Masada is one of Israel's most popular tourist attractions.
Geography
The cliffs on the east edge of Masada are about 400 m (1,300 ft) high and the cliffs on the west are about 90 m (300 ft) high; the natural approaches to the cliff top are very difficult. The top of the plateau is flat and rhomboid-shaped, about 550 m (1,800 ft) by 270 m (890 ft). There was a casemate wall around the top of the plateau totaling 1,300 m (4,300 ft) long and 4 m (13 ft) high, with many towers, and the fortress included storehouses, barracks, an armory, the palace, and cisterns that were refilled by rainwater. Three narrow, winding paths led from below up to fortified gates.
Masada (band)
Masada is a musical group with rotating personnel led by American saxophonist and composer John Zorn since the early 1990s.
Masada is as much a "songbook" as a group, comprising more than 500 relatively brief compositions. Each song is written in accordance with a number of rules, including the maximum number of staves, the modes or scales that are used, and the fact that the songs must be playable by any small group of instruments.
Given the historical associations of the project's name (see Masada), the Hebrew titles of the compositions, and the Jewish imagery on the covers of the associated albums, Zorn was clearly exploring his Jewish roots, stating, "The idea with Masada is to produce a sort of radical Jewish music, a new Jewish music which is not the traditional one in a different arrangement, but music for the Jews of today. The idea is to put Ornette Coleman and the Jewish scales together."
History
Zorn formed the group Masada in order to record and perform this set of tunes. The first group to use the Masada name was Zorn (alto saxophone), Dave Douglas (trumpet), Greg Cohen (double bass), and Joey Baron (drum set). On occasion, different drummers filled in for Baron – most regularly Kenny Wollesen.
Masada (disambiguation)
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ALBUMS
- A Heavy Dose of Lyte Psych released: 1997
A Heavy Dose of Lyte Psych
Released 1997- [unknown]
- It's Love
- Lady Margareth
- Land of Diana
- The Rake
- Flowers
- P.S. (Prognosis Stegnoisis)
- Baby Please Don't Go
- Haight Ashbury
- Evolution
- It Just Won't Be That Way
- Good Good Man
- More Than Me
- This World (Is Closing in on Me)
- Brink of Death
- Fly
- A Hundred Days and Nights
- And Then
- Look Straight Through You
- Thoughts of Yesterday
- Fifth Class Mail
- Waterfalls
- The Far Side of Your Mind
- Mystery Track
- Venus
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ALBUMS
- Sanhedrin released: 2005
- 50th Birthday Celebration, Volume 7 released: 2004
- The Unknown Masada released: 2003
- First Live 1993 released: 2002
- Live at Tonic 2001 released: 2001
- Live in Sevilla 2000 released: 2000
- Live in Middelheim 1999 released: 1999
- Live in Jerusalem 1994 released: 1999
- Yod released: 1998
- Tet released: 1998
- Live in Taipei 1995 released: 1998
- Dalet released: 1997
- Het released: 1997
- Zayin released: 1996
- Beit released: 1995
- Vav released: 1995
- Gimel released: 1995
- Masada Live released: 1995
- Hei released: 1995
- Alef released: 1994
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- Rocket Arena 3 Soundtrack released: 2000
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by Alpha Blondy
Masada
by: Alpha BlondyI'm gonna sleep by the dead sea
And rise up with the birds from the hills
And clean up my sins
While the birds sing
I'm gonna walk up to the top
Of the rock of sacrifice
Cause i know now,that life
Ain`t no dice
Yes i know now,that life is a sacrifice.
I`m gonna withness the rising sun from Masada
Withness jah rising sun from MAsada
Sleep by the dead sea
And rise up with the birds from jah hills
And clean up my sins
When the birds sing
I'm gonna clib to the top
Of the rock of sacrifice
`cause i know now
That the lord had conforted his people
Yes the lord had conforted his people
And the lord had conforted his people.
Elohim YEVARECH ETE MASADA
YEVARECH,ELOHIM ETE MASADA
Withness the rising sun from Masada
Withness JAH rising sun from Masada