alchemical theatre (2025)
Track Listing
1. Phantom Entanglement 4:38
2. Harrahya 7:07
3. The Number Of Apples 3:16
4. Emergency Exit 5:17
5. Five Times the Strife for Double the Price 5:32
6. Consequences of Strategy 5:18
7. Unseen Passengers 5:05
8. Another Delightful Utterance of Painful Misery 5:00
9. Independent Tastes 3:13
Personnel
Ikue Mori: Electronics
Jim Staley: Trombones
John Zorn: Alto Saxophone
Production
All tracks are real time improvisations
Produced by Alchemical Theatre
Executive Producer John Zorn
Associate Producer - Kazunori Sugiyama
Recorded May 12 and mixed July 1 2025 at Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn, NY by Matthew Mehlen
Mastered by Scott Hull
Collages by John Zorn
Flap photo by Erik Friedlander
Design Heung-Heung Chin
Special Thanks to Simon Hanes
TZADIK Blurb
Friends and musical cohorts since the early 1980s, these three master improvisers come together to perform a freewheeling set of outrageous and mind-blowing improvisations. Recorded at Roulette, founded in 1978 and one of New York’s most adventurous venues, the music is full of surprising twists and jumps from one mood to another with mercurial synchronicity. Dedicated to the memory of Downtown theatrical genius Richard Foreman, “Alchemical Theatre” presents nine pieces of tele-pathic, counter-intuitive New York improvisation by three legendary figures of the Downtown scene.
Series: Spectrum Series
Catalogue Number: TZ4058
Release Date: November 14, 2025