Sordel, very nice review.
June 23. Necrophiliac & Painkiller:The first day was the most extreme and the shortest of all. Necrophiliac with Frith/Zorn/Patton = improvised NoiseJazz in 30 minutes
In the middle of the set was a really cool long arabesque saxsolo by John Zorn, like a little look in the paradise, before it starts again with hellish Noise.
The Painkiller trio with the original drummer Mick Harris was really powerful, but they are playing only 25 minutes. After that Patton comes on stage again for doing some cool tracks with Painkiller in Moonchild style. 2 or 3 songs later comes Fred Frith on stage too!
Really amazing, all 5 together on stage and doing the best in improvisation.
All guys had much fun on stage. Only Bill Laswell was really emotionless and not in the best mood. He was/is very ill and it is a luck the show was happend. In the rehearsel he was falling down on the ground.
June 24. The Dreamers:Superb! The biggest contrast you can have to the first day, haha.
June 25. Electric Masada:The second song "Aleph" was really energetic. Only Wollesen&Baron on endless speed-drumming, Trevor Dunn on Bass and Zorn with his freakout saxplay. WOW. Blown me away.
The third song by Ikue Mori was more meditative. I saw Marc Ribot a few times sleeping away. Funny!
June 26. Masada Night:The best day of all. More than 3 hours Masada, absolutely fantastic. It was the the day of Greg Cohen. I love his hypnotic bass play, no one can beat him, I think. Together with Baron on drums he got much space for playing in Acoustic Masada.
The night ends with an encore by Erik Friedlander solo. He knows what he is doing, I can say this after that performance. Love it!
June 27. Magick:The first time I saw some classical stuff from Zorn.
It starts with the great cello piece "777" by trio Friedlander/Nicolas/Sherry.
Than it was the time for William Winant. Shamanistic percussion on a high level, really good. The track was "Gri-Gri". I had the luck to met him before the show starts (handshaking & talking, yeah) and saw also his soundcheck. It is funny to watch his show, the tongue is always outside. Look older videos from MrBungle and you will see it, hehe.
"Sortilege" was an amazing piece for bass clarinette, played by Lowenstern&Burr. Very difficult to play, they were happy after the song, all was fine.
"fay ce que vouldras", a superb long piano song, played by Steven Drury. Very cool to watch and listen to it. He used metal tubes and glasses, for scarving inside of the piano.
After a pause comes the Necronomicon String Quartet (Jenny Choi, Jesse Mills, Lily Francis, Fred Sherry). After this show I must by some albums. Very emotionful music, well played.
Here are some videos from Paris:
www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=947B91EA871CDC34And by the way, John Zorn is really friendly. I had the chance to speak with him after the Electric Masada show. My french friend asked him for books about Korean culture and he gaves us his eMail adress and phone number. After searching a pen in our bag, books falling on the ground. He helps to keep them up and saw a book from Nietzsche. He said: "Attention, he is a naughty boy." ;D
After he become aware of it, my friend has no tickets for the last two days, he set her on the guestlist. Nice dude!
About Tatsuya Yoshida he said, he is a brilliant musician but really crazy.
To Painkiller he said, the show in Paris was the last one ever. I hope it is not true, because he said the same years before about Masada.
On the last day he let us in backstage, we were the first in the concerthall in the 1. row. Thats cool!
Edit:
On
www.dimeadozen.org you can find the 1. & 2. day til now.