Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz

Review: Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz’s Abraxas

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“Tse’an”

Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz: “Tse’an”

The 19th installment in John Zorn’s Masada Book 2: The Book of Angels is a doozy. As with the rest of the series, these are Zorn pieces given to an extraordinary talent (or set of talents) to perform, re-imagine, or demolish, and acoustic/electric bassist and oudist Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz has done all three with his batch of songs.