Naked City
Complete Studio Recordings
LabelTzadikGenreExperimental
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Naked City was: John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Wayne Horvitz, Fred Frith, Joey Baron, Yamataka Eye & Bob Dorough. "Probably Zorn's most popular and most controversial musical project, the music of Naked City has been debated, analyzed, adored and reviled by fans, critics and academics alike, but nothing can replace the experience of hearing it in all its frightening glory. Most people know this music from the single domestic release on Nonesuch, but the major portion of their studio recordings were issued from 1989-1993 on the hard-to-find Japanese labels Avant and Toy's Factory. This long awaited set pulls together all of their recorded output, all seven albums in beautiful new packaging, with a special 100-page scrapbook of Naked City ephemera, including photos, posters, designs, scores, musical sketches, written tributes by members of the Naked City family and pages from Zorn's original notebooks showing the development of the music that drove so many people out of their minds. Zorn's music at its most brutal and uncompromising best." Features the following seven albums in a 5CD box set: Naked City, Torture Garden, Grand Guignol, Leng Tch'e, Heretic, Radio and Absinthe. Packaged in a heavy duty box, this is one of the most spectacular Tzadik editions to date.
Release notes
Naked City: The Complete Recording Boxset features five discs, packaged in digipak cases, and accompanied by a book, Eight Million Stories: Naked City Ephemera, which contains a wealth of photos and art as well as testimonials from all five band members and numerous acquaintances, friends and fans. Remastered at Hit Factory Mastering, NYC. Original credites & notes: • Naked City: . Front cover photograph "Weegee Corpse with Revolver, 1940" courtesy of the Weegee Collection, curator Wilma…
| Naked City | |||
| 1-1 | Batman | 2:03 | |
| 1-2 | The Sicilian Clan | 3:33 | |
| 1-3 | You Will Be Shot | 1:31 | |
| 1-4 | Latin Quarter | 4:11 | |
| 1-5 | A Shot In The Dark | 3:13 | |
| 1-6 | Reanimator | 1:43 | |
| 1-7 | Snagglepuss | 2:20 | |
| 1-8 | I Want To Live | 2:12 | |
| 1-9 | Lonely Woman | 2:45 | |
| 1-10 | Igneous Ejaculation | 0:23 | |
| 1-11 | Blood Duster | 0:16 | |
| 1-12 | Hammerhead | 0:11 | |
| 1-13 | Demon Sanctuary | 0:41 | |
| 1-14 | Obeah Man | 0:20 | |
| 1-15 | Ujaku | 0:30 | |
| 1-16 | Fuck The Facts | 0:14 | |
| 1-17 | Speedball | 0:43 | |
| 1-18 | Chinatown | 4:28 | |
| 1-19 | Punk China Doll | 3:05 | |
| 1-20 | N.Y. Flat Top Box | 0:45 | |
| 1-21 | Saigon Pickup | 4:50 | |
| 1-22 | The James Bond Theme | 3:06 | |
| 1-23 | Den Of Sins | 1:14 | |
| 1-24 | Contempt | 2:53 | |
| 1-25 | Graveyard Shift | 3:32 | |
| 1-26 | Inside Straight | 4:17 | |
| Grand Guignol | |||
| 2-1 | Grand Guignol | 17:41 | |
| 2-2 | Blood Is Thin | 1:00 | |
| 2-3 | Thrash Jazz Assassin | 0:45 | |
| 2-4 | Dead Spot | 0:31 | |
| 2-5 | Bonehead | 0:51 | |
| 2-6 | Piledriver | 0:33 | |
| 2-7 | Shangkuan Ling-Feng | 1:14 | |
| 2-8 | Numbskull | 0:29 | |
| 2-9 | Perfume Of A Critic's Burning Flesh | 0:24 | |
| 2-10 | Jazz Snob Eat Shit | 0:24 | |
| 2-11 | The Prestidigitator | 0:43 | |
| 2-12 | No Reason To Believe | 0:26 | |
| 2-13 | Hellraiser | 0:39 | |
| 2-14 | Torture Garden | 0:35 | |
| 2-15 | Slan | 0:23 | |
| 2-16 | The Ways Of Pain | 0:31 | |
| 2-17 | The Noose | 0:10 | |
| 2-18 | Sack Of Shit | 0:43 | |
| 2-19 | Blunt Instrument | 0:53 | |
| 2-20 | Osaka Bondage | 1:14 | |
| 2-21 | Shallow Grave | 0:40 | |
| 2-22 | Kaoru | 0:50 | |
| 2-23 | Dead Dread | 0:45 | |
| 2-24 | Billy Liar | 0:10 | |
| 2-25 | Victims Of Torture | 0:20 | |
| 2-26 | Speedfreaks | 0:48 | |
| 2-27 | New Jersey Scum Swamp | 0:41 | |
| 2-28 | S-M Sniper | 0:14 | |
| 2-29 | Pigfucker | 0:23 | |
| 2-30 | Cairo Chop Shop | 0:22 | |
| 2-31 | Facelifter | 0:54 | |
| 2-32 | Whiplash | 0:19 | |
| 2-33 | The Blade | 0:35 | |
| 2-34 | Gob Of Spit | 0:18 | |
| 2-35 | La Cathédrale Engloutie | 6:41 | |
| Three Preludes | |||
| 2-36 | Douloureux, Déchirant | 1:17 | |
| 2-37 | Très Lent, Contemplatif | 1:47 | |
| 2-38 | Allegro Drammatico | 0:49 | |
| 2-39 | Prophetiae Sybillarum | 1:48 | |
| 2-40 | The Cage | 2:07 | |
| 2-41 | Louange A L'Eternité De Jesus | 7:10 | |
| 2-42 | Grand Guignol (Vocal Version) | 17:41 | |
| Heretic: Jeux Des Dames Cruelles | |||
| 3-1 | Main Titles | 1:28 | |
| 3-2 | Sex Games | 2:23 | |
| 3-3 | The Brood | 2:49 | |
| 3-4 | Sweat, Sperm + Blood | 2:05 | |
| 3-5 | Vliet | 0:50 | |
| 3-6 | Heretic 1 | 2:33 | |
| 3-7 | Submission | 4:23 | |
| 3-8 | Heretic 2 | 1:46 | |
| 3-9 | Catacombs | 2:46 | |
| 3-10 | Heretic 3 | 2:43 | |
| 3-11 | My Master, My Slave | 2:23 | |
| 3-12 | Saint Jude | 2:13 | |
| 3-13 | The Conqueror Worm | 2:32 | |
| 3-14 | Dominatrix 2B | 2:16 | |
| 3-15 | Back Through The Looking Glass | 2:39 | |
| 3-16 | Here Come The 7,000 Frogs | 1:59 | |
| 3-17 | Slaughterhouse/Chase Sequence | 2:19 | |
| 3-18 | Castle Keep | 1:49 | |
| 3-19 | Mantra Of Resurrected Shit | 1:43 | |
| 3-20 | Trypsicore | 1:46 | |
| 3-21 | Fire And Ice (Club Scene) | 2:37 | |
| 3-22 | Crosstalk | 1:41 | |
| 3-23 | Copraphagist Rituals | 0:53 | |
| 3-24 | Labyrinth | 5:47 | |
| Radio | |||
| 4-1 | Asylum | 1:56 | |
| 4-2 | Sunset Surfer | 3:23 | |
| 4-3 | Party Girl | 2:34 | |
| 4-4 | The Outsider | 2:27 | |
| 4-5 | Triggerfingers | 3:31 | |
| 4-6 | Terkmani Teepee | 2:27 | |
| 4-7 | Sex Fiend | 3:31 | |
| 4-8 | Razorwire | 5:31 | |
| 4-9 | The Bitter And The Sweet | 4:52 | |
| 4-10 | Krazy Kat | 2:03 | |
| 4-11 | The Vault | 4:44 | |
| 4-12 | Metaltov | 2:07 | |
| 4-13 | Poisonhead | 1:09 | |
| 4-14 | Bone Orchard | 3:55 | |
| 4-15 | I Die Screaming | 2:29 | |
| 4-16 | Pistol Whipping | 0:57 | |
| 4-17 | Skatekey | 1:24 | |
| 4-18 | Shock Corridor | 1:08 | |
| 4-19 | American Psycho | 6:10 | |
| Absinthe | |||
| 5-1 | Val De Travers | 6:13 | |
| 5-2 | Une Correspondance | 5:04 | |
| 5-3 | La Fée Verte | 5:10 | |
| 5-4 | Fleurs Du Mal | 4:06 | |
| 5-5 | Artemisia Absinthium | 4:30 | |
| 5-6 | Notre Dame De L'Oubli (For Olivier Messiaen) | 4:47 | |
| Verlaine | |||
| 5-7 | Part One "Un Midi Moins Dix" | 4:23 | |
| 5-8 | Part Two "La Bleue" | 6:01 | |
| 5-9 | ...Rend Fou | 6:03 | |
| Leng Tch'e | |||
| 5-10 | Leng Tch'e | 31:38 | |
- John Zorn
- Alto Saxophone, Arranged By (1-1 to 1-26, 2-1 to 2-42, 4-1 to 4-19), Composed By (1-1, 1-3, 1-4, 1-6, 1-7, 1-10 to 1-17, 1-19 to 1-21, 1-23, 1-25, 1-25, 2-1 to 2-34, 2-42, 4-1 to 4-19, 5-10), Liner Notes, Music By (5-1 to 5-9), Producer (1-1 to 1-26, 2-1 to 2-42, 3-1 to 3-24, 4-1 to 4-19, 5-1 to 5-10), Reissue Producer, Vocals (2-1 to 2-42, 5-10)
- Naked City
- Arranged By (1-1 to 1-26), Music By (3-1 to 3-24), Producer (1-1 to 1-26)
- Fred Frith
- Bass, Liner Notes
- Tomoyo T.L.
- Design [Grand Guignol / Heretic / Radio / Absinthe], Design [Leng Tch'e], Design [Naked City]
- Chippy
- Design [Reissue]
- Heung-Heung Chin
- Design [Reissue]
- Joey Baron
- Drums, Liner Notes
- Scott Hull
- Edited By [Digital Editing] (3-1 to 3-24, 4-1 to 4-19), Liner Notes, Mastered By (5-1 to 5-9), Remastered By
- Hoover Le
- Engineer [Assistant Engineer] (4-1 to 4-19, 5-1 to 5-9)
- Joe Ferla
- Engineer [Engineered By] (5-1 to 5-9)
- Kazunori Sugiyama
- Executive-Producer [Associate Producer] (2-1 to 2-42, 3-1 to 3-24, 4-1 to 4-19, 5-1 to 5-9), Executive-Producer [Reissue / Associate Producer]
- Disk Union
- Executive-Producer [Grand Guignol / Heretic / Radio / Absinthe]
- Bob Ludwig
- Executive-Producer [Naked City], Mastered By (2-1 to 2-42, 3-1 to 3-24, 4-1 to 4-19, 5-10)
- Bill Frisell
- Guitar, Liner Notes
- Maruo Suehiro
- Illustration [Naked City / Grand Guignol / Heretic]
- Wayne Horvitz
- Keyboards
- Anthony Coleman
- Liner Notes
- Eyvind Kang
- Liner Notes
- Foetus
- Liner Notes
- J.G. Thirlwell
- Liner Notes
- Marc Ribot
- Liner Notes
- Mick Harris
- Liner Notes
- Mike Patton
- Liner Notes
- Otomo Yoshihide
- Liner Notes
- Ruins
- Liner Notes
- Sean Lennon
- Liner Notes
- Yamamoto Seiichi
- Liner Notes
- Steven Bernstein
- Liner Notes
- Yoshida Tatsuya
- Liner Notes
- Eye
- Liner Notes, Vocals (1-1 to 1-26, 2-1 to 2-42, 3-1 to 3-24, 4-1 to 4-19, 5-10)
- Roger Moutenot
- Mixed By (1-1 to 1-26, 2-1 to 2-42, 3-1 to 3-24, 4-1 to 4-19), Recorded By (1-1 to 1-26, 2-1 to 2-42)
- Hans Bellmer
- Photography By [Absinthe: Cover Photo - Les Jeux De La Poupée]
- Man Ray
- Photography By [Radio: Cover Photos]
- Alec Head
- Recorded By (4-1 to 4-19, 5-10)
- Jason Baker
- Recorded By (3-1 to 3-24)
- Martin Bisi
- Recorded By (2-1 to 2-42)
- Oliver DiCicco
- Recorded By (2-1 to 2-42)
- Scott Ansel
- Recorded By (2-1 to 2-42)
- Seigen Ono
- Recorded By (2-1 to 2-42)
- Lisa Wells
- Typography [Grand Guignol / Photo Typesetting], Typography [Photo Typesetting: Absinthe], Typography [Typesetting: Heretic / Radio]
- Takahashi Yukihiru
- Typography [Naked City / Photo Typesetting]
