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Naked City was an avant-garde music group led by saxophonist and composer John Zorn. Active primarily in New York City from 1988 to 1993, Naked City was initiated by Zorn as a "composition workshop" [1] to test the limits of composition (and improvisation) in a traditional rock band lineup. Their music incorporated elements of jazz, surf ...
Naked City: John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Fred Frith, Wayne Horvitz, Joey Baron, Yamatsuka Eye Naked City (1989) Naked City Live, Volume 1: Knitting Factory 1989 ...
Naked City. This is John Zorn's infamous turn-on-a-dime band. Although they can play any style of music, the majority of their songs are noisy and complex. At any moment, a beautiful melody can degenerate into a hurricane of white noise — and then suddenly switch to something else. They've taken everything aggressive about jazz and heavy ...
Naked City discography and songs: Music profile for Naked City, formed 1988. Genres: Avant-Garde Jazz, Grindcore, Jazz-Rock. Albums include Naked City, Torture Garden, and 凌遲 (Leng tch'e).
On Radio, Naked City revisits the darkened movie theaters that provided spiritual succor for the band’s initial recordings, with a particular spotlight on keyboardist Wayne Horvitz, whose elusive, chattering runs often got short shrift on earlier Naked City releases. Horvitz is pushed even further to the fore on the strictly instrumental Absinthe, which suffers greatly from the absence of ...
Jun 22, 2020 · Zorn invited Eye to perform with Naked City, and his debut with the band came at a 1989-90 New Year’s Eve show at New York’s Puck Building. Within the band’s highly structured sound world ...
⊕ Naked City was an amazing band. Mike Patton's claim that “Naked City makes every other band on the planet sound fat and lazy” is exaggerated of course, but it sounds believable when you're listening to the first album or Grand Guignol. All of their albums are worth a listen — well, except for Heretic maybe. Still, that's four good to ...
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