Banquet Of The Spirits / Cyro Baptista - The Book Of Angels Vol. 17 (2011)

Brazilian master percussionist Cyro Baptista first encountered composer John Zorn back in the early 1980s. Baptista, who has since gone on to work with everyone from singer Paul Simon to cellist Yo Yo Ma, at the time was only recently arrived in New York from Brazil. He and Zorn evidently recognized some common artistic craziness/genius between themselves, and since then Baptista's wide array of traditional and homemade instruments have been prominently featured in Zorn's own eclectic ensembles. At the same time, Baptista' own wild world music ensembles have had numerous releases on Zorn's Tzadik label.