Transmigration of the Magus

John Zorn’s Tzadik label has long served as a laboratory for compositional extremism, and this collaboration with Gnostic Trio pushes into occult-inflected chamber jazz territory. Zorn’s signature structural chaos meets the trio’s methodical exploration of sacred geometry and mystical systems, creating music that feels simultaneously academic and incantatory. The result is neither pure avant-garde nor traditional jazz, but something deliberately liminal—compositions that dissolve and reform like ritual invocations.