The music on this disc has been taken from the documentary presented Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on Public television. In that program, Gates took the audience on a journey from Zanzibar to Timbuktu; from the Nile River Valley to Great Zimbabwe; from the slave coast of Guinea to the medieval monasteries of Ethiopia in search of the lost wonders of the African world.

"With The Urmuz Epigrams Zorn returns to his roots, using the recording studio as an instrument to create an intensely personal suite of compositions in the style of his legendary File Card compositions and Zoetropes. Dedicated to the visionary Romanian writer Urmuz whose small, scattered body of work predated Dadaism by decades, The Urmuz Epigrams is a suite of surrealistic miniatures more akin to philosophical aphorisms than actual music. The pieces...