Archery

Sobre Archery

Archery é um álbum de John Zorn que apresenta sua composição inicial "game piece" de mesmo nome. O álbum foi lançado pela Parachute Records em 1982.

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Archery é um álbum de John Zorn que apresenta sua composição inicial "game piece" de mesmo nome. O álbum foi lançado pela Parachute Records em 1982. Recepção A resenha do AllMusic por Thom Jurek deu ao álbum quatro estrelas, afirmando: "O pacote, como em todos os lançamentos da Tzadik, é estelar, repleto de três encartes, notas de produção e uma réplica da partitura original. Se você permitir, ele mudará a maneira como você ouve música — e talvez também como assiste à TV." Lista de faixas Pessoal John Zorn – alto and soprano saxophone, B♭ clarinet, game calls, E♭ clarinet Robert Dick – flute, bass flute, piccolo, game calls George Lewis – trombone Anthony Coleman – keyboards Wayne Horvitz – keyboards, harmonica, tape, electronics Mark Kramer – keyboards Eugene Chadbourne – guitar, Dobro Bill Horvitz – guitar Bill Laswell – bass guitar Polly Bradfield – violin Tom Cora – cello David Moss – drums, voice, hammered dulcimer, zither

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Notable quotes

“This is how the bow wounds! To death, to havoc, to ruin!”
— Giacomo Badoaro, Venetian nobleman and playwright, Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria (libretto)
“[He] made ready for combat; and he took forth the arrow that was given to him of the Simurgh, and he let it fly towards his enemy.”
— Ferdowsi, Shahnameh
“[W]hen he had shot his bolt and had smitten one in the throng, then would that man fall where he was and give up his life...”
— Homer, The Iliad (trans Murray)
“If the hawk is flying to his nest, we two will shoot down the fledgeling with our gilded arrows.”
— The Tale of Igor's Campaign
“[An arbalest] is not drawn with the right hand, ... but by placing the feet upon the weapon itself, and pulling with the whole force of the body; and it despatches arrows called bolts, of hard wood pointed with iron, which the strength of the bow can send through the strongest breastplates, and even through stone walls, where not of uncommon thickness.”
— Walter Scott, Count Robert of Paris, Ch 5
“Black arrow! I have saved you to the last. You have never failed me and always I have recovered you.”
— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, The Hobbit

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