ALARM's 50 Favorite Albums of 2012

ALARM’s 50 Favorite Albums of 2012

Another year, another torrential downpour of albums across our desks. As always, we encountered way too much amazing music, from Meshuggah to The Mars Volta, Converge, Killer Mike, P.O.S, and many more.

Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz

Review: Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz’s Abraxas

Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz: AbraxasShanir Ezra Blumenkranz: Abraxas: The Book of Angels Vol. 19 (Tzadik)

“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.