| Mycale: Book of Angels Volume 13 | ||||
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| Studio album by Mycale | ||||
| Released | January 2010 | |||
| Recorded | October 1–5, 2009 | |||
| Genre | Avant-garde, contemporary classical music, choral music | |||
| Length | 33:51 | |||
| Label | Tzadik | |||
| Producer | John Zorn | |||
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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".[1][2] 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."[3]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Don't Count On It |    [4] |
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."[4]
All compositions by John Zorn.
