Tzadik Records

The music that you hear at the top until the program is titled My Eden.

It's by the very talented Rafi Malkiel from his album Water on the Tzadik label.

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So he took that desire for control and built his own infrastructure.

In 1995, he founded his own record label, Tzadik.

But Tzadik isn't a traditional commercial label looking for the next pop hit, right?

Far from it.

It functions as an archive for experimental art and radical Jewish culture.

And, um, yeah, kind he...

Uh, Zorn has a label called Tzadik.

Uh-huh.

Um, the first like...

Um, so he was on the Jamie Saft record-

Okay

... on Tzadik, so maybe he played with Masada.

Oh, you know what?