Monday, December 14, 2009

John ZORN - Naked City 1990


John ZORN - Naked City 1990

Jazz

The group's originals range from jump-cut collage to splatter-core noise, but what their aesthetic lacks in coherency it makes up for in imagination and execution. Particularly noteworthy are the band's many covers, which include treatments ...    Full Descriptionof Ennio Morricone, Henry Mancini, Johnny Mandel, John Barry and a mind-blowing cover of Ornette Coleman's "Lonely Woman" (Coleman is an enormous influence on Zorn). Zorn and Naked City take the meaning of punk to a new level: mixing its attitude with intelligence and pan-genre sampling to create music of the highest and most challenging order.

This record is an exercise in beautiful, torturous, perfect anarchy. Naked City, the early '80s project of super-experimentalist John Zorn, was a band that consisted of New York downtown avant giants Bill Frisell, Wayne Horvitz, Fred Frith and Joey Baron. With Zorn's elastic sax blazing the trail, and occasional guest vocals by Yamatsuka Eye (whose style bears no slight resemblance to the Tasmanian Devil of Warner Brothers cartoon fame), Naked City literally seem as if they can do anything. Rock, jazz, heavy metal, film music, swing, country, surf noir and sheer sonic assault are deconstructed, jumbled, spliced and spit back backwards with style, finesse, aggression and virtuosity.
From CD Universe.
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John Zorn- (Alto Sax);
Yamatsuka- Eye (Vocals);
Wayne Horvitz- (Keyboards);
Bill Frisell- (Guitar);
Fred Frith- (Bass);
Joey Baron- (Drums).
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01. Batman 2:04
02. The Sicilian Clan 3:33
03. You Will Be Shot 1:31
04. Latin Quarter 4:11
05. A Shot In The Dark 3:13
06. Reanimator 1:43
07. Snagglepuss 2:20
08. I Want To Live 2:12
09. Lonely Woman 2:45
10. Igneous Ejaculation 0:23
11. Blood Duster 0:16
12. Hammerhead 0:11
13. Demon Sanctuary 0:42
14. Obeah Man 0:20
15. Ujaku 0:30
16. Fuck The Facts 0:14
17. Speedball 0:43
18. Chinatown 4:28
19. Punk China Doll 3:06
20. N.Y. Flat Top Box 0:45
21. Saigon Pickup 4:50
22. The James Bond Theme 3:06
23. Den of Sins 1:14
24. Contempt 2:53
25. Graveyard Shift 3:32
26. Inside Straight 4:17
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