NAKED CITY Torture Garden 12"EP EARACHE 1991 UK orig+foc MOSH 28 JOHN ZORN
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NAKED CITY
Naked City was something of an avant-rock/free jazz New York supergroup in the late '80s and early '90s, featuring an
all-star cast of New York jazz experimentalists and led by the most-famous downtown musician of them all, John Zorn.
Comprised of Zorn on alto sax, Wayne Horvitz on keyboards, Bill Frisell on guitar, Fred Frith on bass, and Joey Baron on drums
(and occasionally vocalist Yamatsuka Eye), Naked City, more than any other Zorn-led group, established him with a rock audience.
The band had an enormous repertoire and its sets were famously unpredictable. Zorn says that he conceived the band
as a compositional workshop; the challenge was to write as much as possible within the limited format.
Once he stopped "hearing and writing for the band," it disbanded.
"TORTURE GARDEN"
<originally published in the U.S.A. on Shimmy Disc in 1990>
Produced by John Zorn
1991 12"EP EARACHE RECORDS MOSH 28
MADE IN ENGLAND UK ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING
GATEFOLD COVER
[Issued in gatefold jacket, matte externally and glossy inside,
with new coverart, compared to 1990 US Original Pressing]
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: 5 018615 102816
LABEL: EARACHE - BLACK LABEL w/ARTWORK on SIDE A- WHITE TEXT
Label Code: none
Distribution Code: none
Catalog on cover: (spine) mosh 28
Catalog on labels: none
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): MPO MOSH 28 A1
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): MPO MOSH 28 B2
On labels (Side B only): Tracklist
On Spine: torture garden / naked city mosh 28
On Back Cover: All songs by John Zorn published by Theatre of Musical Optics (BMI)........Produced by John Zorn
Distributed by Revolver (UK)........
tracklisting
Side A: (please, see label picture)
Side B: (please, see label picture)
grading
RECORD EX but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE NEAR EX but (please, see pictures and read above description)
From the violent cover art to the Japanese text inside the album, at first glance one might mistake Torture Garden for a fetishist soundtrack. But jazz madman John Zorn and Boredoms frontman Yamatsuka Eye assembled another group of open-minded musicians to carry on their vision of grindcore and jazz uniting. Distinguished musicians Wayne Horovitz and Bill Frisell help Zorn and Eye take this from a curious side project to a fantastic metal band. Songs blur together but never get boring, no lyrics are actually sung, and few songs last longer than a minute. It also never takes itself seriously, a nice relief from Zorn's heavy-handed ambient collaborations. This would make a great introduction to the noise/jazz efforts that this group of musicians pioneered in the early '90s...(AllMusic)
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