Mycale: Book of Angels Volume 13 is an album by the vocal group Mycale performing compositions from John Zorn's second Masada book, "The Book of Angels".Tzadik Catalogue: Mycale: Book of Angels Volume 13Masada World - Mycale: The Book of Angels, Volume 13 accessed 25 January 2021 Ayelet Rose Gottlieb stated "We've been told that we have managed to create our own "language" within this a cappella quartet ... the foundation is our music are the compositions of John Zorn, which in this case are melodic tunes, based on the "jewish scale" ... but always with a twist that sends the pieces off to another place, beyond straight klezmer ... on top of that are our arrangements, and text choices."Preview: A Cappella Group Mycale in the ReVoice! Festival , London Jazz News, September 26, 2012
Reception
Ian Flick awarded the album 3½ stars stating, "Overall, this is a very strange album and although it's not a hard or really taxing listen, it's just so off the wall I'm not sure I get it. There's just this atmosphere of pure strangeness that I just can't put my finger on whether this is good, bad, or just decent. If you want something totally avant-garde by one it's key players, check this out."Don't Count On It Review accessed October 10, 2013.
Track listing All compositions by John Zorn. "Uzziel" - 3:10 "Ahaha"- 2:53 "El El" - 2:19 "Tehom" - 2:26 "Moloch" - 2:32 "Balam" - 3:12 "Melech" - 2:47 "Tarshish" - 4:01 "Asaph" - 3:18 "Rumiel" - 2:55 "Natiel" - 4:10
Personnel Ayelet Rose Gottlieb - voice Sofia Rei Koutsovitis - voice Basya Schecter - voice Malika Zarra - voice
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