Masada Anniversary Edition Volume 2: Voices in the Wilderness is the second album in a series of five releases celebrating the 10th anniversary of 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...

's Masada

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...

 songbook project.

It features 24 Masada compositions performed Pharaoh's Daughter

Pharaoh's Daughter

Pharaoh's Daughter is a world music band from New York City. Their music is a mix of American folk, Jewish klezmer, and Middle Eastern sounds.The bandleader is Basya Schechter...

 (Disc one - 1), Ben Perowsky Trio (Disc one - 2),the Cracow Klezmer Band (Disc one - 3), Rova Saxophone Quartet

Rova Saxophone Quartet

The Rova Saxophone Quartet is a San Francisco-based saxophone quartet formed in October 1977 at the same time as their "less adventurous" but better known colleagues the World Saxophone Quartet. The name "Rova" is an acronym formed from the last initials of the founding members: Jon Raskin, Larry...

 (Disc one 4), Zony Mash

Zony Mash

Zony Mash is an album of vintage rarities and non-album B-sides from funk group The Meters.-Track listing:#"Zony Mash"#"I Need More Time"#"The Look Of Love"#"A Message From The Meters"#"Stretch Your Rubber Band"#"Soul Machine"...

 (Disc one - 5), Naftule's Dream (Disc one - 6), Kramer

Mark Kramer

Mark Kramer , known professionally as Kramer, is a musician, composer, record producer and founder of the New York City record label Shimmy-Disc...

 (Disc one - 7), Satlah (Disc one - 8) Jewlia Eisenberg

Jewlia Eisenberg

Jewlia Eisenberg is an American composer. As founder and bandleader of Charming Hostess she coined the term "Nerdy-Sexy-Commie-Girly" to describe her genre of music which spans an eclectic range of styles....

 (Disc one - 9), Pachora

Pachora

Pachora is a city and a municipal council in Jalgaon district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.-Geography:Pachora is located at . It has an average elevation of 261 metres ....

 (Disc one - 10), Lemon Juice Quartet (Disc one - 11), Steven Bernstein (Disc one - 12), Medeski Martin and Wood (Disc two - 1), Rashanim (Disc two - 2), Davka

Davka

Davka Corporation is a software company specializing in applications related to Jewish history, customs and traditions and the Hebrew language. Founded in 1982, Davka is notable as the publisher of several early games for the Apple II series of computers including The Lion's Share by Robert Aaron...

 (Disc two - 3), Tin Hat Trio

Tin Hat Trio

Tin Hat is an acoustic chamber music group currently based in San Francisco, California. Their music combines many genres of music, including southern blues, bluegrass, neoclassical, eastern European folk music, and avant-garde.Since its formation in 1997, the original Tin Hat Trio has often...

 (Disc two - 4), Peter Apfelbaum

Peter Apfelbaum

Peter Apfelbaum is an American avant-garde jazz pianist, tenor saxophonist, drummer and composer born in Berkeley, California. He first emerged on the jazz scene in the late 1970s, performing with Carla Bley from 1978–1982 and touring with Warren Smith and Karl Berger. Around this time Apfelbaum...

 (Disc two - 5), Mephista (Disc two - 6), Mike Patton

Mike Patton

Michael Allan "Mike" Patton is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor, best known as the lead singer of the metal/experimental rock band Faith No More. He has also sung for Mr...

 (Disc two - 7), Ben Goldberg Trio (Disc two 8), The Wollesens (Disc two - 9), Professionales (Disc two - 10), Jenny Scheinman

Jenny Scheinman

Jenny Scheinman is an accomplished violinist. Renowned as a jazz violinist, she has credits with artists in many genres. She has collaborated and played with Linda Perry, Norah Jones, Nels Cline, Lou Reed, Ani Difranco, Bruce Cockburn, Aretha Franklin, Lucinda Williams, Bono, and Bill Frisell and...

 (Disc two - 11), and Jamie and Vanessa Saft (Disc two - 12).

Track listing

• Disc one

1. "Karaim" - 4:19
2. "Kisofim" - 6:45
3. "Meholalot" - 4:57
4. "Lakom" - 4:07
5. "Tekufah" - 6:23
6. "Paran" - 5:10
7. "Khebar" - 2:20
8. "Nevalah" - 3:39
9. "Abidan" - 3:53
10. "Tirzah" - 5:06
11. "Peliyot" - 5:49
12. "Shebuah" - 8:27
    • Disc two
13. "Ziphim" - 7:16
14. "Avodah" - 5:32
15. "Rokhev" - 3:16
16. "Tannaim" - 3:29
17. "Acharei Mot" - 7:32
18. "Malkut" - 3:30
19. "Kochot" - 3:47
20. "Jair" - 5:22
21. "Ne'eman" - 6:54
22. "Tahah" - 3:45
23. "Tiferet" - 5:02
24. "Kedem" - 7:29

All compositions by John Zorn

Personnel

• Basya Schecter (Disc one - 1) – oud, vocals
• Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz (Disc one - 1, 8, 11, Disc two - 14) – bass
• Daphna Mor (Disc one - 1) – recorder, melodica
• Ben Oir (Disc one - 1) – guitar
• Noah Heoffeld (Disc one - 1) – cello
• Meg Okura
  Meg Okura
  Meg Okura is a jazz violinist, ehru player, composer and leader of the Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble, based in New York City. She is also a member of the band Pharaoh's Daughter, led by Basya Schechter.Okura was born in Tokyo, Japan...
  
   (Disc one - 1) – violin
• Daniel Freedman (Disc one - 1) – percussion, vocal shouts
• Ben Perowsky
  Ben Perowsky
  Ben Perowsky is a New York City based drummer, percussionist, composer, arranger and record producer.-Biography:Exposed early on to jazz from his parents, Frank and Ginger Perowsky, and teacher Bobby Thomas, as well as rock and roll from his older brother Ricky, Ben watched the great musicians...
  
   (Disc one - 2) – drums
• Uri Caine
  Uri Caine
  Uri Caine is an American classical and jazz pianist and composer.-Early years:The son of Burton Caine, a professor at Temple Law School, Caine began playing piano at seven and studied with French jazz pianist Bernard Peiffer at 12. He later studied at the University of Pennsylvania where he came...
  
   (Disc one - 2) – piano
• Drew Gress
  Drew Gress
  Drew Gress is an American jazz double-bassist and composer born in Trenton, New Jersey, raised in the Philadelphia area, and currently based in New York City.-Biography:...
  
   (Disc one - 2) – bass
• Jaroslaw Tyrala (Disc one - 3) – violin
• Jaroslaw Bester (Disc one - 3) – accordion
• Oleg Dyyak (Disc one - 3) – accordion, clarinet, percussion
• Wojciech Front (Disc one - 3) – bass
• Bruce Ackley (Disc one - 4) – soprano
• Larry Ochs
  Larry Ochs (musician)
  Larry Ochs is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.Ochs studied trumpet briefly but concentrated on tenor and sopranino saxophones. He worked as a record producer and founded his own label, Metalanguage Records, in 1978, in addition to operating the Twelve Stars studio in California...
  
   (Disc one - 4) – tenor
• Jon Raskin (Disc one - 4) – baritone saxophone
• Steve Adams (Disc one - 4) – sopranino
• Wayne Horvitz
  Wayne Horvitz
  Wayne Horvitz is an American composer, keyboardist and record producer.-Biography:Horvitz, a "defiant cross-breeder of genres", has led the groups The President, Pigpen, Zony Mash, and the Four Plus One Ensemble...
  
   (Disc one - 5) – Fender Rhodes
• Timothy Young (Disc one - 5) – guitar
• Keith Lowe (Disc one - 5) – bass
• Andy Roth (Disc one - 5) – drums
• Glenn Dickson
  Glenn Dickson
  Glenn Dickson is a rugby union player who represents Otago in the ITM Cup.-Playing career:Noted for his powerful kicking boot, Dickson moved through age group levels for Otago and made the provincial side for the 2009 Air New Zealand Cup, where he made 6 starts and led the team with 72 points.In...
  
   (Disc one - 6) – clarinet
• Gary Bohan (Disc one - 6) – trumpet
• Michael McLaughlin
  Michael McLaughlin
  Michael McLaughlin was, for a time, a leading figure on the British far right.Born in Liverpool, he was the son of an Irish republican and socialist who was a veteran of the International Brigades....
  
   (Disc one - 6) – piano
• Brandon Seabrook (Disc one - 6) – guitar
• James Gray
  James Gray
  James Gray may refer to:* Sir James Gray, 1st Baronet , armiger and merchant-Burgess of Edinburgh* Sir James Gray, 2nd Baronet , diplomat and antiquary* The male pseudonym of Hannah Snell...
  
   (Disc one - 6) – tuba
• Eric Rosenthal
  Eric Rosenthal
  Eric Rosenthal may refer to:*Eric Rosenthal , American human rights supporter and author*Eric Rosenthal , South African historian and author...
  
   (Disc one - 6) – drums
• Kramer
  Mark Kramer
  Mark Kramer , known professionally as Kramer, is a musician, composer, record producer and founder of the New York City record label Shimmy-Disc...
  
   (Disc one - 7) – all instruments, voice
• Daniel Zamir
  Daniel Zamir
  Daniel Zamir is an Israeli religious Jewish saxophonist. Having started on alto saxophone, Zamir is mainly known for his soprano playing.-Background:...
  
   (Disc one - 8) – soprano
• Kevin Zubek (Disc one - 8, 11) – drums
• Jewlia Eisenberg
  Jewlia Eisenberg
  Jewlia Eisenberg is an American composer. As founder and bandleader of Charming Hostess she coined the term "Nerdy-Sexy-Commie-Girly" to describe her genre of music which spans an eclectic range of styles....
  
   (Disc one - 9) – voice
• Wesley Anderson (Disc one - 9) – percussion
• Chris Speed
  Chris Speed
  Chris Speed is an American saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer.He studied classical piano from the age of five, and began clarinet at eleven. In high school he took up the tenor saxophone and began studying jazz...
  
   (Disc one - 10) – clarinet
• Brad Shepik (Disc one - 10) – tamboura, electric saz, guitar
• Skuli Sverrisson
  Skúli Sverrisson
  Skúli Sverrisson is an Icelandic composer and bassist residing in New York City.Over the past two decades, bass guitarist-composer Skuli Sverrisson has worked with a veritable who’s who of the experimental world, from free jazz legends to music icons Skúli Sverrisson (born 23 October 1966) is an...
  
   (Disc one - 10) – bass, baritone guitar drones
• Jim Black
  Jim Black
  Jim Black is a jazz drummer who has performed with Tim Berne and Dave Douglas, among others. He attended Berklee College of Music....
  
   (Disc one - 10) – drums, percussion
• Jamie Saft
  Jamie Saft
  Jamie Saft is a keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound engineer and producer living in upstate NY. Saft was born in Flushing Queens, New York in 1971 and is a graduate of both Tufts University and the New England Conservatory of Music. He has performed and recorded with John Zorn,...
  
   (Disc one – 10, Disc two 12) – organ, keyboards, bass, guitar, programming
• Eyal Maoz (Disc one - 11) – guitar
• Avishai E. Cohen (Disc one - 11) – trumpet
• Steve Bernstein (Disc one - 12) – cornet
• Doug Wieselman (Disc one - 12) – Eb clarinet
• Marty Ehrlich
  Marty Ehrlich
  Marty Ehrlich is a multi-instrumentalist and is considered one of the leading figures in experimental or avant-garde jazz....
  
   (Disc one - 12) – bass clarinet
• Doug Wamble
  Doug Wamble
  Doug Wamble is a North American vocalist, guitarist, and composer.-Biography:...
  
   (Disc one - 12) – vocals, guitar
• Aaron Johnson
  Aaron Johnson
  Aaron Johnson is a professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League .-Playing career:...
  
   (Disc one - 12) – shakers
• John Medeski
  John Medeski
  Anthony John Medeski is an American jazz keyboards player and composer. Medeski is a veteran of New York's 1990s avant-garde jazz scene and is known popularly as a member of Medeski Martin & Wood...
  
   (Disc two - 1) – keyboards
• Billy Martin
  Billy Martin
  Alfred Manuel "Billy" Martin, Jr. was an American Major League Baseball second baseman and manager. He is best known as the manager of the New York Yankees, a position he held five different times...
  
   (Disc two - 1) – percussion
• Chris Wood
  Chris Wood (jazz musician)
  Christopher Barry Wood is an American bass player, best known for playing with the avant-garde jazz-funk trio Medeski Martin & Wood .-Biography:...
  
   (Disc two - 1) – bass
• Jon Madof (Disc two - 2) – guitar
• Mathias Kunzli (Disc two - 2) – drums, percussion
• Daniel Hoffman
  Daniel Hoffman
  Daniel Gerard Hoffman is an American poet, essayist, and academic. He was appointed the twenty-second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1973.-Biography:Hoffman was born in New York City...
  
   (Disc two - 3) – violin
• Moses Sedler (Disc two - 3) – cello
• Paul Hanson
  Paul Hanson
  Paul Hanson is an American jazz bassoonist, saxophonist, and duduk player.He received a bachelor of music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music as a student of San Francisco Symphony Orchestra principal bassoonist Stephen Paulson....
  
   (Disc two - 3) – bassoon
• Kevin Mummey (Disc two - 3) – cajon
• Mark Orton (Disc two - 4) – guitar, dobro, banjo, percussion
• Carla Kihlstedt
  Carla Kihlstedt
  Carla Kihlstedt is an American violinist, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist from Lancaster, Pennsylvania currently living in Oakland, California....
  
   (Disc two - 4) – violin, viola
• Rob Burger (Disc two - 4) – accordion, bass harmonica
• Peter Apfelbaum
  Peter Apfelbaum
  Peter Apfelbaum is an American avant-garde jazz pianist, tenor saxophonist, drummer and composer born in Berkeley, California. He first emerged on the jazz scene in the late 1970s, performing with Carla Bley from 1978–1982 and touring with Warren Smith and Karl Berger. Around this time Apfelbaum...
  
   (Disc two - 5) – organ, tenor, percussion
• Hiawatha Lockport (Disc two - 5) – organ
• Charles Burnham (Disc two - 5) – violin
• David Phelps
  David Phelps
  David Norris Phelps is an American Christian vocalist, songwriter and vocal arranger, who is best known for singing tenor in the Gaither Vocal Band. He has also released several solo albums, including four Christmas collections...
  
   (Disc two - 5) – guitar
• Patrice
  Patrice
  Patrice is a given name meaning noble or patrician, related to the names Patrick and Patricia.In English, Patrice is generally a feminine first name. In French it is used as a masculine first name.-Popularity:...
  
   (Disc two - 5) – bass
• Dafnis Prieto
  Dafnis Prieto
  Dafnis Prieto is a Cuban Drummer, Composer and Educator. He is a 2011 MacArthur Fellow.-Life:"His arrival in the U.S. has been compared by to that of an asteroid hitting New York."...
  
   (Disc two - 5) – drums
• Ikue Mori
  Ikue Mori
  , also known as Ikue Ile, is a drummer, composer, and graphic designer.-Biography:Ikue Mori was born and raised in Japan. She says she had little interest in music before hearing punk rock...
  
   (Disc two - 6) – laptop electronics
• Sylvie Courvoisier
  Sylvie Courvoisier
  Sylvie Courvoisier is a Swiss composer and pianist.Courvoisier was born and raised in Switzerland. In 1998, she moved to Brooklyn, New York, where she currently resides. She co-leads the Sylvie Courvoisier/Mark Feldman Quartet and leads her own quintet, Lonelyville, and the Trio Abaton...
  
   (Disc two - 6) – piano
• Susie Ibarra
  Susie Ibarra
  Susie Ibarra is a Contemporary Composer and Percussionist who has worked and recorded with jazz, classical, world, and Indigenous musicians. She is known for her work as a performer in avant-garde, jazz, world and new music...
  
   (Disc two - 6) – drums
• Mike Patton
  Mike Patton
  Michael Allan "Mike" Patton is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor, best known as the lead singer of the metal/experimental rock band Faith No More. He has also sung for Mr...
  
   (Disc two - 7) – all instruments, voice
• William Winant
  William Winant
  William Winant is an American percussionist.In addition to his work in contemporary classical music -- notably performing Lou Harrison's compositions—Winant has worked in a variety of genres, including noise rock, free improvisation and jazz. Notable collaborators include Glenn Spearman, Thurston...
  
   (Disc two - 7) – percussion
• Ben Goldberg (Disc two - 8) – clarinet
• Devin Hoff
  Devin Hoff
  Devin Hoff is a musician and songwriter born in Colorado whose main instruments are double bass and bass guitar. He has worked in many musical contexts and with a wide array of jazz, free jazz, avant-garde rock, and folk musicians, including Nels Cline, Vijay Iyer, Xiu Xiu, Carla Bozulich, Ben...
  
   (Disc two - 8) – bass
• Ches Smith
  Ches Smith
  Ches Smith is an American musician whose primary instruments are drums, percussion, and vibraphone. He writes and performs music in a wide variety of contexts, including solo percussion, experimental rock bands, and small and large jazz ensembles....
  
   (Disc two - 8) – drums
• Dave Binney (Disc two - 9) – alto
• Steve Cardenas
  Steve Cardenas
  Stephen Antonio Cardenas is a former Mexican-American actor and martial artist, perhaps most noted for playing Rocky DeSantos in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers TV series....
  
   (Disc two - 9) – guitar
• Tony Scherr
  Tony Scherr
  Tony Scherr is an American jazz and folk rock bassist, guitarist, singer-songwriter and record producer.-Biography:Scherr was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He played with Woody Herman as a teenager, and moved to New York City in the late-1980s, where he became a prolific session musician, working...
  
   (Disc two - 9) – guitar
• Jesse Murphy
  Jesse Murphy
  Jesse Murphy is a New York City-based bass player. He played on John Scofield's Überjam album and was a member of Brazilian Girls.-External links:*...
  
   (Disc two - 9) – bass
• Brian Mitchell
  Brian Mitchell
  Brian Keith Mitchell is a former American football running back and return specialist in the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the Washington Redskins in the fifth round of the 1990 NFL Draft...
  
   (Disc two - 9) – organ
• 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...
  
   (Disc two - 9) – drums
• Anthony Coleman
  Anthony Coleman
  Anthony Coleman is an American musician. Coleman is a piano and keys player, trombonist and vocalist mainly working within the free improvised and avant-garde jazz scenes in downtown New York during the late 1970s through to the present day.His greatest impact was during the 80s and 90s when he...
  
   (Disc two - 10) – piano
• Brad Jones
  Brad Jones
  Bradley Jones also known as Brad is a retired Australian racing driver. Jones now acts as team co-principal with his brother Kim in the V8 Supercar racing team, Brad Jones Racing.-Motorsport career:...
  
   (Disc two - 10) – bass
• Roberto Rodriguez
  Roberto Rodríguez
  Roberto Rodríguez Muñoz is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Kansas City Athletics , Oakland Athletics , San Diego Padres and Chicago Cubs ....
  
   (Disc two - 10) – drums
• Jenny Scheinman
  Jenny Scheinman
  Jenny Scheinman is an accomplished violinist. Renowned as a jazz violinist, she has credits with artists in many genres. She has collaborated and played with Linda Perry, Norah Jones, Nels Cline, Lou Reed, Ani Difranco, Bruce Cockburn, Aretha Franklin, Lucinda Williams, Bono, and Bill Frisell and...
  
   (Disc two - 11) – violin
• Nels Cline
  Nels Cline
  Nels Cline is an American guitarist and composer, currently the lead guitarist of alternative rock band Wilco. David Carr of the New York Times describes Cline as "one of the best guitarists in any genre."-Career:...
  
   (Disc two - 11) – guitar
• Todd Sickafoose
  Todd Sickafoose
  Todd Sickafoose is an American jazz and rock bassist originally from the San Francisco Bay Area who now lives in Brooklyn, New York.He is best known for playing bass with Ani DiFranco, but he has also led his own group called, "Todd Sickafoose's Blood Orange".Sickafoose has been a member of the...
  
   (Disc two - 11) – bass
• Scott Amendola
  Scott Amendola
  Scott Amendola is an American jazz drummer from the San Francisco Bay Area. His styles include jazz, blues, groove, rock and new music. He is considered central to the Bay Area music scene....
  
   (Disc two - 11) – drums
• Vanessa Saft (Disc two - 12) – vocals