Mycale: Book of Angels Volume 13

Mycale: Book of Angels Volume 13
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
Book of Angels chronology
Stolas: Book of Angels Volume 12 (2009) Mycale: Book of Angels Volume 13 (2010) Ipos: Book of Angels Volume 14 (2010)
John Zorn chronology
Femina (2009) Mycale: Book of Angels Volume 13 (2010) In Search of the Miraculous (2010)

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]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
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]

Track listing

All compositions by John Zorn.

1. "Uzziel" - 3:10
2. "Ahaha"- 2:53
3. "El El" - 2:19
4. "Tehom" - 2:26
5. "Moloch" - 2:32
6. "Balam" - 3:12
7. "Melech" - 2:47
8. "Tarshish" - 4:01
9. "Asaph" - 3:18
10. "Rumiel" - 2:55
11. "Natiel" - 4:10

Personnel

• Ayelet Rose Gottlieb - voice
• Sofia Rei Koutsovitis - voice
• Basya Schecter - voice
• Malika Zarra - voice

References

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