New Traditions in East Asian Bar Bands is an album by American composer and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist John Zorn consisting of improvised music from paired instruments and narration in Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese. The pieces are listed individually within Zorn's game pieces and were composed in 1986, 1988 and 1990 respectively.
Reception
Stacia Proefrock of Allmusic stated, "This is one of John Zorn's greatest achievements to date.".
Track listing
"Hu Die" - 25:09
"Hwang Chin-Ee" - 16:41
"Que Tran" - 30:46
All music by John Zorn. Text by Arto Lindsay (Track 1), Myung Mi Kim (Track 2), and Lyn Hejinian (Track 3).
Personnel
On 'Hue Die'
Bill Frisell: Guitar
Fred Frith: Guitar
Zhang Jinglin: Narrator
On 'Hwang Chin-Ee'
Joey Baron: Drums
Samm Bennett: Drums
Jung Hee Shin: Narrator
On 'Que Tran'
Anthony Coleman: Keyboards
Wayne Horvitz: Keyboards; Anh Tranc: Narrator