2008年 Jan 21日 Monday, 7:19

I once came across a CDr titled "John Zorn - Issachar" which contained some of best music I have ever listened to. The disk was a copy of another copy of another copy, had some scanned and cheaply reprinted cover art.

Time passed, last.fm appeared, and more time passed so that I began scrobbling.

Then I once tried to search youtube for videos of performers performing some of this and it appeared that the artist is not John Zorn. I checked with discogs, found that though the 2CD set is filed as John Zorn - The Circle Maker it is performed by Masada String Trio and Bar Kokhba Sextet who are same people + 3 more :)

And, searching youtube for Idalah-Abal I found the Electric Masada's performance which is damn different.

The Idalah-Abal I was searching for is called Meholalot (Masada String Trio) or Meholalot (John Zorn) in some of freedb entries. While discogs call it Idalah-Abal.

Well, tzadik.com says Meholalot. Have to edit that discogs entry.

What is more preferred - tagging by performer or collective artist-composer name stated for the set?

Another option is to just listen without giving a damn to this keeps-stats-clean thing :)

Update

There are two different tracklists over the web. And both discogs and musicbrainz suck at showing the same to what Tzadik says.

Plus, Bikkurim at last.fm is not the Bikkurim I have.

This part differs:

discogs
1-11 Masada String Trio Hodaah (3:49)
1-12 Masada String Trio Elilah (3:21)
1-13 Masada String Trio Idalah-Abal (4:54)

musicbrainz
11 Hodaah
12 Bikkurim
13 Meholalot

Tzadik
11. Hodaah
12. Elijah
13. Meholalot

As we can see, the discogs entry mistakes Meholalot for Idalah-abal and Elijah is written with no j but an l.

The musicbrains entry says there's a Bikkurim at track #12.

Where is the truth? I assume I'm having an Elijah instead of Bikkurim. Then, why don't I have Bikkurim, too?