Naked City – Grand Guignol
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Avant – AVAN 002
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| 1 | Grand Guignol | 17:40 | ||
| 2 |
La Cathédrale Engloutie
Composed By [Original] – Debussy* |
6:24 | ||
| 3 |
Three Preludes Op. 74 (Douloureux, Déchirant)
Composed By [Original] – Scriabine* |
1:17 | ||
| 4 |
Three Preludes Op. 74 (Très Lent, Contemplatif)
Composed By [Original] – Scriabine* |
1:42 | ||
| 5 |
Three Preludes Op. 74 (Allegro Drammatico)
Composed By [Original] – Scriabine* Vocals – Bob Dorough |
0:48 | ||
| 6 |
Prophetiae Sybillarum
Composed By [Original] – Orlando Di Lasso* |
1:46 | ||
| 7 |
The Cage
Composed By [Original] – Ives* |
2:00 | ||
| 8 |
Louange A L'Eternité De Jésus
Composed By [Original] – Messiaen* |
7:07 | ||
| 9 | Blood Is Thin | 1:00 | ||
| 10 | Thrash Jazz Assassin | 0:45 | ||
| 11 | Dead Spot | 0:31 | ||
| 12 | Bonehead | 0:51 | ||
| 13 | Piledriver | 0:33 | ||
| 14 | Shangkuan Ling-Feng | 1:14 | ||
| 15 | Numbskull | 0:29 | ||
| 16 | Perfume Of A Critic's Burning Flesh | 0:24 | ||
| 17 | Jazz Snob: Eat Shit | 0:24 | ||
| 18 | The Prestidigitator | 0:43 | ||
| 19 | No Reason To Believe | 0:26 | ||
| 20 | Hellraiser | 0:39 | ||
| 21 | Torture Garden | 0:35 | ||
| 22 | Slan | 0:23 | ||
| 23 | The Ways Of Pain | 0:31 | ||
| 24 | The Noose | 0:10 | ||
| 25 | Sack Of Shit | 0:43 | ||
| 26 | Blunt Instrument | 0:53 | ||
| 27 | Osaka Bondage | 1:14 | ||
| 28 | Shallow Grave | 0:40 | ||
| 29 | Kaoru | 0:50 | ||
| 30 | Dead Dread | 0:45 | ||
| 31 | Billy Liar | 0:10 | ||
| 32 | Victims Of Torture | 0:20 | ||
| 33 | Speedfreaks | 0:48 | ||
| 34 | New Jersey Scum Swamp | 0:41 | ||
| 35 | S-M Sniper | 0:14 | ||
| 36 | Pigfucker | 0:23 | ||
| 37 | Cairo Chop Shop | 0:22 | ||
| 38 | Facelifter | 0:54 | ||
| 39 | Whiplash | 0:19 | ||
| 40 | The Blade | 0:35 | ||
| 41 | Gob Of Spit | 0:18 |
Companies etc
- Copyright (c) – Disk Union
- Phonographic Copyright (p) – Disk Union
- Distributed By – Disk Union
Credits
- Arranged By, Composed By – John Zorn (tracks: 1, 9 to 41)
- Bass – Fred Frith
- Design – Tomoyo T.L.
- Drums – Joey Baron
- Guitar – Bill Frisell
- Illustration – Maruo Suehiro*
- Keyboards – Wayne Horvitz
- Mastered By – Bob Ludwig
- Mixed By – Roger Moutenot
- Producer [Associate] – Kazunori Sugiyama
- Producer, Alto Saxophone, Vocals – John Zorn
- Recorded By – Martin Bisi, Oliver Dicicco, Roger Moutenot, Scott Ansel*, Seigen Ono
- Typography [Typesetting] – Lisa Wells (2), Strong Silent Type
- Vocals – Yamatsuka Eye
Notes
Executive Producer: Disk Union
Tracks 9-41 are also available on the Naked City 1989 "Torture Garden" album.
This Album is lovingly dedicated to Jack Smith. Legendary Filmmaker. Theatrical Genius. Exotic Art Collector. Father of the New York Underground, who died a victim of the AIDS virus September 18, 1989.
Other Versions (Showing 1 of 1) View All
| Title, Format | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Guignol (CD, Album, Ltd) | ArsNova | VK-226 | Russia | 2000 |
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[r504853]
Grand Guignol Consists of eight newer works, varying from calming ambience to peculiar avant-garde / noise as Zorn & co. try their hand at compositions by the likes of Claude Debussy and Alexander Scriabine - the results on the title track and "La Cathédrale Engloutie" in particular are startling and sublime.
Tracks 9-41 are taken from the Torture Garden album and with an average length of forty seconds these tracks consist of odd grindcore experiments; imagine early Napalm Death with a Jazz twist - you will either love or hate it.