OFF: Zorn (was Re: CYM and SA)

[Christian Mumford]

>> > I agree, the first Naked City album is excellent!  If you like the short
>> > (< 1 minute long) tracks on that album, it's also worth tracking down
>> > either Torture Garden, which is 42 tracks in the same ilk; or their
>> > third album, the name of which escapes me, which includes most of Torture
>> > Garden along with reworkings of some classical stuff.  After that they
>> > get a bit variable.  I have Heretic, which is mainly avant-garde-ish jazz.
>> > I've heard that Radio is along the lines of their first album.
>>
>> I had Torture Garden a few years ago. I thought it was horrible (though
>> my tastes, or lack thereof, have "expanded" quite a bit since then).
>> Anyway, it struck me as just short bursts of noise and screaming. :-)
>
>So how does Painkiller etc fit in ? There's the Buried Secrets album (gross
>sleeve photo of a handcuffed person digging up skulls) & maybe another (with
>the serial killer photo on the insert). Haven't heard any of Zorn's stuff but
>I must admit I'm curious.
>

All I have of Zorn-related stuff is what he did with Mr. Bungle (Mike Patton
of Faith No More's bigtop-circus-industrial-jazz-metal-freak-out-band),
producing, I believe. Recommended if one likes this sort of thing.... Patton
also did guest vocals with Naked City at a Jazz festival in Norway some
years ago.
"I am not as much a vegetable as everything is vegetable soup"

Christian Mumford