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Adding to the list:

There are two well-known Avishai Cohens, both jazz musicians (so you can't disambiguate on the broader genre), both from Israel (so you can't disambiguate on country of origin), but luckily they do play different instruments (bass and trumpet).

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The Australian post-rock/shoegazeish band The Dead Sea https://www.discogs.com/artist/1450625-The-Dead-Sea released a self-titled EP with 3 tracks in 2006.

2009 they released a full self-titled album (only 1 song from the EP featured on it).

I can't even find the "second" release on discogs.

Both were self-released, so no way to disambiguate on ISMN or record label/publisher.

So you'd have to disambiguate only on the year of release, or define what demarcates an EP from a full album and mark them as such (there are some competing definitions out there, since it became less clear after the introduction of the CD, and now digital, but even back then you had complections like maxi singles and mini-LPs, IIRC).

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Many of John Zorn's releases tend to be headaches:

"Tap"

Composed and produced by: John Zorn

Performed by: Pat Metheny

Subtitle "Book of Angels, vol. 20"

Overarching series "Masada Book 2"

Released on Tzadik (Zorn's personal label) as a John Zorn/Pat Metheny output.

Licensed to Nonesuch (Metheny's label) as a Pat Metheny release with different cover.



> There are two well-known Avishai Cohens, both jazz musicians (so you can't disambiguate on the broader genre), both from Israel (so you can't disambiguate on country of origin), but luckily they do play different instruments (bass and trumpet).

Along very similar lines, there are also famously two musicians named Bill Evans. Both play jazz (genre) and both are from the US (country). As a bonus, both have been members of bands led by Miles Davis. And again you can differentiate them by instrument (piano and saxophone).

Which is sort of what Wikipedia article titles do to differentiate them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Evans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Evans_%28saxophonist%29

I guess Wikipedia also differentiates by level of fame, since the pianist article title doesn't have a qualifier.


You also can't find Zorn's music streaming anywhere. I've heard of one store that offered digital purchases, but not for the whole discography.

You can fill a large closet collecting just his stuff so I'm not sure why digital is off the table.




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