New Traditions in East Asian Bar Bands

New Traditions in East Asian Bar Bands is the eighth album by American composer and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist John Zorn consisting of improvised music from paired instruments and narration in Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese. The pieces are listed individually within Zorn's game pieces and were composed in 1986, 1988 and 1990 respectively.

Reception

Stacia Proefrock of Allmusic stated, "This is one of John Zorn's greatest achievements to date.".

Track listing

1. "Hu Die" - 25:09
2. "Hwang Chin-Ee" - 16:41
3. "Que Tran" - 30:46

All music by John Zorn.

Text by Arto Lindsay (Track 1), Myung Mi Kim (Track 2), and Lyn Hejinian (Track 3).

Personnel

On 'Hue Die'

• Bill Frisell: Guitar
• Fred Frith: Guitar
• Zhang Jinglin: Narrator

On 'Hwang Chin-Ee'

• Joey Baron: Drums
• Samm Bennett: Drums
• Jung Hee Shin: Narrator

On 'Que Tran'

• Anthony Coleman: Keyboards
• Wayne Horvitz: Keyboards;
• Anh Tranc: Narrator

References