Filmworks XIV: Hiding and Seeking features a score for film by John Zorn

John Zorn

John Zorn is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn is a prolific artist: he has hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, or producer...

. The album was released on Zorn's own label, Tzadik Records

Tzadik Records

Tzadik Records is a record label based in New York City specialising in avant-garde and experimental music. The label was established by the eclectic composer and saxophonist John Zorn in 1995; Zorn is the executive producer of all Tzadik releases...

, in 2003 and contains music that Zorn wrote and recorded for, Hiding and Seeking

Hiding and Seeking

Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust is 2004 documentary film about Menachem Daum, an Orthodox Jew and son of German Nazi Holocaust survivors who has spent his life interviewing survivors about the impact of the Holocaust on their lives...

(2003), a documentary directed by Menachem Daum

Menachem Daum

Menachem Daum is an Orthodox Jews and a documentary film-maker. Born in displaced persons camp in Germany, to refugees from Poland who had survied the Holocaust. Being Jewish, many of his relatives perished in Nazi Germany's genocide...

 and Oren Rudavsky

Oren Rudavsky

Oren Rudavsky is an award-winning documentary filmmaker specializing in work on religion outside the mainstream. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1979.- As director :* At the Crossroads: Jewish Life in Eastern Europe Today...

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Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4½ stars noting that "Zorn's score is one of his most beautiful and accessible... This work is beyond folk forms, beyond jazz, and beyond the kitschy sense of humor Zorn often employs (even more so than The Gift

The Gift (John Zorn album)

The Gift is an album by John Zorn released in 2001. It is the third volume of his Music Romance Series and described as an album "for lovers only".-Reception:...

), resulting in a work that is profound, moving, and full of sensual delight".

Track listing

1. "Merkabah" (vocal) - 6:23
2. "Sekhel" - 4:38
3. "Zhakor" (vocal) - 3:43
4. "Muflah" - 5:19
5. "Abulafia" - 2:27
6. "Abulafia" (vocal) - 3:39
7. "Chirik" - 4:26
8. "Moadim" - 3:26
9. "Zhakor" - 4:24
10. "Sekhel" (vocal) - 4:59
11. "Adamah" - 4:27
12. "Merkabah" - 5:31

All music by John Zorn

• Recorded at Frank Booth, Brooklyn (New York) in April 2003.
• Produced by John Zorn.

Personnel

• Marc Ribot
  Marc Ribot
  Marc Ribot born May 21, 1954) is an American guitarist and composer.His own work has touched on many styles, including no wave, free jazz, and Cuban music. Ribot is also known for collaborating with other musicians, most notably Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, and composer John Zorn.-Biography:Ribot was...
  
   – guitar
• Kenny Wollesen
  Kenny Wollesen
  Kenny Wollesen is an American drummer and percussionist.Wollesen lives in New York City. He has recorded and toured with many musicians including Tom Waits, Sean Lennon, Ron Sexsmith, Bill Frisell, Norah Jones, Steven Bernstein and John Zorn. He is a founding member of the New Klezmer Trio and a...
  
   – vibraphone
• Trevor Dunn
  Trevor Dunn
  Trevor Roy Dunn is an American composer, bass guitarist and double bassist.Dunn came to prominence in the 1990s with the experimental band Mr. Bungle. He has since worked in an array of musical styles, notably with singer and Mr...
  
   – bass
• Cyro Baptista
  Cyro Baptista
  Cyro Baptista is a Brazilian musician, teacher, and recording artist specializing in percussion in the genres of jazz and world music....
  
   – percussion
• Ganda Suthivarakom (1, 3, 6, 10): vocals.