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You Will Be Shot |
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Latin Quarter |
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A Shot In The Dark |
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I Want To Live |
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Lonely Woman |
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Fuck The Facts |
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Punk China Doll |
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Den Of Sins |
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Contempt |
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Inside Straight |
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John Zorn - Naked City
Member: KidAmadeus - 7/13/03
Recipe for Naked City Stew:
Take John Zorn, an avant-jazz saxophonist with a taste for improvisation, Yiddish music, spy films, and hardcore punk.
Add one jazz rock/experimentalist drummer named Joey Baron.
Blend one part bass virtuoso Fred Frith with one part guitar virtuoso Bill Frisell.
Stir in the creative keyboard playing of Wayne Horvitz.
Add a pinch of screams and gurgles, courtesy of Yamatsuka Eye.
Pour into a crust of Ornette Coleman, Henry Mancini, Ennio Morricone, with some nails, tacks, bullets, and evil thoughts.
Serve Cold.
What you wind up eating is a slice of avant acid noise jazz that is a wonderful meal, if you have the stomach for it. One minute this recording will have you nearly in tears for its sheer beauty, and literally seconds later you will cringe in fear at its sheer ferocity. Not only is this a group of extraordinary talent, but of extraordinary tightness...you have never heard a band stop on a dime, change styles, and triple tempo (!) like this group does.
There is some fantastic experimental jazz here, and some musical passages which rival (surpass?) Zappa's finest work. Naked City is beautiful, rich, challenging, and a recording of opposites...it is also brutal, harsh, and at times atonal. There is a dark beast that lurks here--it is the beastly side of this recording that scares the hell out of me. It could be Yamatsuka Eye's vocal presentation (no words, just screams of agony) or Zorn's screaming sax. But there is darkness here that is absolutely grotesque in it's beauty--or would that be beautiful in it's grotesqueness? It can sound like a nightmare, far surpassing Crimson, Balletto Di Bronzo, or Goblin in its darkness. It can be noisy darkness, but it only serves to heighten the intensity (or beauty) of whatever follows.
Very palatable indeed, if you have the taste for it.
As of this writing, there is a thread discussing the color of music. If music does have color, then Naked City is the cleanest of whites, the most beautiful of blues, the bloodiest of reds, and the darkest of blacks.
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