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Naked City (CD)

By: John Zorn (Artist) and Naked City (Artist)
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DISC 1 for Naked City (CD) Album By John Zorn (Artist) and Naked C...
1   Batman - (with John Zorn/Naked City)
2   Sicilian Clan, The - (with John Zorn/Naked City)
3   You Will Be Shot - (with John Zorn/Naked City)
4   Latin Quarter - (with John Zorn/Naked City)
5   Shot In The Dark, A - (with John Zorn/Naked City)
6   Reanimator - (with John Zorn/Naked City)
7   Snagglepuss - (with John Zorn/Naked City)
8   I Want To Live - (with John Zorn/Naked City)
9   Lonely Woman - (with John Zorn/Naked City)
10   Igneous Ejeculation - (with John Zorn/Naked City)  
11   Blood Duster - (with John Zorn/Naked City)  
12   Hammerhead - (with John Zorn/Naked City)  
13   Demon Sanctuary - (with John Zorn/Naked City)  
14   Obeah Man - (with John Zorn/Naked City)  
15   Ujaku - (with John Zorn/Naked City)  
16   Fuck The Facts - (with John Zorn/Naked City)  
17   Speedball - (with John Zorn/Naked City)  
18   Chinatown - (with John Zorn/Naked City)
19   Punk China Doll - (with John Zorn/Naked City)
20   N.Y. Flat Top Box - (with John Zorn/Naked City)  
21   Saigon Pickup - (with John Zorn/Naked City)
22   James Bond Theme, The - (with John Zorn/Naked City)
23   Den Of Sins - (with John Zorn/Naked City)
24   Contempt - (with John Zorn/Naked City)
25   Graveyard Shift - (with John Zorn/Naked City)
26   Inside Straight - (with John Zorn/Naked City)
 
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Rolling Stone (6/28/90) - 3.5 Stars - Very Good "Catch your breath when you can."
Option - "...a dream band of jazz and new music luminaries."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.48) - Ranked #45 in Mojo's "The 50 Most Out There Albums Of All Time" - "NAKED CITY's debut saw him squeeze jazz, country, film music and eight under-50-second blasts of Jap-noise into his musical meat grinder."

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Personnel: John Zorn (alto saxophone); Yamatsuka Eye (vocals); Wayne Horvitz (keyboards); Bill Frisell (guitar); Fred Frith (bass); Joey Baron (drums).

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.

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 of 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.

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