John Zorn / Quatuor Molinari – Cat O’Nine Tails, The Dead Man, Memento Mori, Kol Nidre (2019)

October 28, 2019

Canada’s Quatuor Molinari perform some challenging John Zorn compositions, bringing the terrifying hand that penned such musical atrocities as Naked City’s Torture Garden into the classical world. The menacing soundscapes of freeform jazz translate incredibly well onto the stringed instruments, resulting in a performance that is at times mournful and restrained, and at others, purely fucking unholy in every sense of the word.