Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (01/24/87)
Really-From: Bob Krajewski <lmi-angel!rpk> If you want a strong and entertaining example of this, check out the _Big Gundown_ by John Zorn. I found his earlier albums to be more appealing in theory than in practice, but by using the studio to assemble his collaborations (Toots Thielmans and Diamanda Galas on the same record), he has managed to still go off in *n* interpretative directions at once, but now things are configured so you can hear them all. _The Big Gundown_ is an album of Ennio Morricone covers (and one Zorn tribute/tangent piece, ``Tre Nel 5000''), material that lends itself to a cross-cutting, eclectic approach. In good film music, almost anything can show up and make sense, and the liner notes take pains to point out how this is reflected in the original versions. Zorn et al. do not execute reverent renditions of the Morricone pieces. This is music which is partially about itself and yet still has enough mettle to just plain good (in the old, pre-postmodernist way of being good).