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Masada: Het
File:Masada Het.jpg
Studio album by John Zorn
Released 1997
Recorded August 1, 1996
Genre Jazz
Length 60:17
Label DIW
Producer John Zorn and Kazunori Sugiyama
Masada chronology
Masada: Zayin
(1996)
Masada: Het
(1997)
Masada: Tet
(1997)
John Zorn chronology
Filmworks VI: 1996
(1996)
Masada: Het
(1997)
Masada: Tet
(1997)

Masada: Het, also known as Masada 8, is a 1997 album by American composer and saxophonist John Zorn released on the Japanese DIW label. It is the eighth album of Masada recordings.

Contents

Reception [link]

The Allmusic review by Don Snowden awarded the album 4 stars stating "Het isn't spectacular Masada full of fireworks, but there's plenty of that around -- this is just a very good, solid disc packed with strong performances and material".[1]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars[1]

Track listing [link]

All compositions by John Zorn.
  1. "Schechem" - 11:25
  2. "Elilah" - 4:38
  3. "Kodashim" - 4:40
  4. "Halom" - 2:00
  5. "Ne'eman" - 9:56
  6. "Abed-Nego" - 7:14
  7. "Tohorot" - 4:39
  8. "Mochin" - 6:37
  9. "Amarim" - 4:28
  10. "Khebar" - 4:40
  • Recorded at Avatar, New York City on August 1, 1996

Personnel [link]

References [link]

  1. ^ a b Snowden, D. Allmusic Review accessed July 26, 2011

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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)

Masada may refer to:

Israel

  • Masada, a Judean fortress, the site of a famous siege and mass suicide
  • Masada (kibbutz), a kibbutz in Israel near the Sea of Galilee
  • Mas'ade, a Druze village in the Golan Heights
  • Other

  • Masada College, a Jewish primary and secondary school in St Ives, New South Wales, Australia
  • Masada (band), a jazz quartet fronted by avant-garde composer John Zorn
  • Massada (band), a Dutch-Moluccan band from the Republic of South Maluku
  • Masada, a piece of music by Ralph Hultgren
  • Masada (miniseries) (1981), an American television miniseries
  • Masada (comics) is a superheroine in Youngblood
  • Masada (Honorverse), a fictional planet and state in the Honorverse series by David Weber
  • Masada (wrestler), a professional wrestler
  • Kazuhiko Masada, Japanese professional wrestler
  • Masada (rifle), a rifle designed by Magpul, renamed as the Bushmaster ACR
  • Masada2000, a radical-Zionist website
  • Masada Action and Defense Movement, a false flag terrorist organisation in France established by white supremacists
  • Podcasts:

    Masada

    ALBUMS

    Masada

    ALBUMS

    Masada

    ALBUMS

    Dalet

    Released 1997

    Masada

    ALBUMS

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Missed You

    by: Rod Stewart

    (stewart)
    Hey pal, let me lean on you and talk awhile
    Your planes been delayed by the rain
    Or something
    I wouldn’t even fly away
    If I had one good reason to stay
    But you said
    If you don’t need my love
    I’m gonna find someone who does
    And I’m not hanging around
    This old heart is far to proud
    She got tired of me
    Staying out late everynight
    I’d fall up the stair
    Thought she’d always be there
    But suddenly I’m alone
    And I’m not accustomed to sleeping alone
    She said if you don’t need my love
    I’m gonna find someone who does
    You’ve stripped me of everything
    And you’ve torn down all my dreams
    Its been two long weeks
    Since she’s been gone
    Thought I had her in the palm of my hands
    She said I’m through, don’t try to call me
    Cause you won’t even find me
    Cause if you don’t need my love
    I’m going to find someone who does
    And the heartache you’ve give me
    You’ll get it back just wait and see
    Well, well, well, well
    I’d give anything to hold her in my bed again
    I just wanna feel her breath on my back
    She said my blood can’t give her love
    No way
    She said if you don’t need my love
    I’m gonna find someone who does
    And I’m gonna take our child
    Cause I don’t want him running wild
    Hey pal, I think they just called out your flight
    Put down your glass don’t forget your boarding pass
    And if your looking or you found love
    Or sunshine thats enough
    Don’t play hard to get
    Cause that ain’t where it’s at
    Give her all your love
    Place her high above
    I missed you baby
    I missed you baby
    Yea I missed




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