Filmworks IX: Trembling Before G-d

Filmworks IX: Trembling Before G-d is the ninth album of film scores by John Zorn.[1] The album was released on Zorn's label, Tzadik Records, in 2000 and features the music that Zorn wrote and recorded for the documentary Trembling Before G-d which was directed by Sandi Simcha Dubowski. Five of the tracks are pieces from Zorn's Masada songbook.[2]

Filmworks IX: Trembling Before G-d
Soundtrack album by
John Zorn
ReleasedDecember 2000
RecordedJune 2000
GenreAvant-garde, jazz, classical
Length65:11
LabelTzadik TZ 7331
ProducerJohn Zorn
Filmworks chronology
Filmworks VIII: 1997
(1998)		 Filmworks IX: Trembling Before G-d
(2000)		 Filmworks X: In the Mirror of Maya Deren
(2001)
John Zorn chronology
Cartoon S/M
(2000)		 Filmworks IX: Trembling Before G-d
(2000)		 The Gift
(2001)

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars noting that "Trembling Before G-D is a high-water mark. Not for John Zorn, because he sets new ones for himself each and every time he releases something, but for other composers, particularly those of film soundtracks. Without the images, Zorn has given us a work of solemn beauty, a work that uses silence and tradition even as it reinvents the places in which they inhabit. Certainly this is his most "accessible" music, whatever that means, but it is also—simultaneously—sacred music, secular music, and American classical music of the highest order".[3]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[3]

Track listing
  1. "Trembling Before G-D 1" - 2:25
  2. "Mahshav" - 5:01
  3. "Tashlikh 1" - 4:26
  4. "Yechida" - 0:54
  5. "Idalah-Abal" - 7:49
  6. "Simen Tov/Mazel Tov" - 1:25
  7. "Sholom Aleichem" - 1:12
  8. "Notarikon" - 4:11
  9. "Maskil" - 3:25
  10. "Trembling Before G-D" - 2:51
  11. "Mahshav" - 8:26
  12. "Desert Montage" - 4:45
  13. "Kaporeh" - 3:25
  14. "Tashlikh 2" - 2:18
  15. "Nigun" - 2:02
  16. "Trembling Before G-D 2" - 3:13
  17. "End Titles" - 6:01
  18. "Kaporeh" - 4:18
All Music by John Zorn
  • Recorded June 2000 at Frank Booth, Brooklyn
  • Produced by John Zorn

Personnel

References
  1. Tzadik catalogue
  2. Masada World: Filmworks IX, accessed January 6, 2020]
  3. Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed July 26, 2011.
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