Naked City: Black Box (1992)

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Naked City: Black Box (1992)

CD1: Torture Garden (1989)
1 Blood Is Thin
2 Demon Sanctuary
3 Thrash Jazz Assassin
4 Dead Spot
5 Bonehead
6 Speedball
7 Blood Duster
8 Pile Driver
9 Shangkuan Ling-Feng
10 Numbskull
11 Perfume Of A Critic's Burning Flesh
12 Jazz Snob Eat Shit
13 The Prestidigitator
14 No Reason To Believe
15 Hellraiser
16 Torture Garden
17 Slan
18 Hammerhead
19 The Ways Of Pain
20 The Noose
21 Sack Of Shit
22 Blunt Instrument
23 Osaka Bondage
24 Igneous Ejaculation
25 Shallow Grave
26 Ujaku
27 Kaoru
28 Dead Dread
29 Billy Liar
30 Victims Of Torture
31 Speedfreaks
32 New Jersey Scum Swamp
33 S & M Sniper
34 Pigfucker
35 Cairo Chop Shop
36 Fuck The Facts
37 Obeah Man
38 Facelifter
39 N.Y. Flat Top Box
40 Whiplash
41 The Blade
42 Gob Of Spit

CD2: Leng Tch'e (1992)
1 Leng Tch'e (31:37)

Allmusic Review:
Both Torture Garden and Leng Tch'e are from Zorn's work with Naked City, a collective of avant luminaries including Joey Baron, Bill Frisell, Fred Frith, and Wayne Horvitz. (Yamataka Eye provides vocals on Torture Garden.) Originally released on a small Japanese label, the two-CD set was subsequently issued on Zorn's Tzadik imprint. For its U.S. re-release, the set was dubbed the Black Box, with no cover art or discerning characteristics other than the list of musicians and album title. The reason for the Black Box assignation is the unprintable nature of the artwork (banned in the U.S.) accompanying the album in its Japanese pressing. Upon opening the album, one is greeted by scenes from various Japanese pornographic films and shots of the final public execution to take place in Japan. These rather forbidding pictures set the tone for the music, inspired by Zorn's increasing fascination with the darker side of Japanese culture. Leng Tch'e, translated as "thousand pieces," is a ritual torture (involving administration of large doses of opium to a victim during the course of slow dismemberment) practiced in Japan until the early 20th century; Zorn's musical piece of the same name is a slow, abrasive, 30-minute exploration of the emotions behind this torture. Torture Garden is based on the maniacal anguish presented in the S&M film underground of late-'80s Japan. With its series of 42 pieces ranging in length from eight seconds to one minute, the Torture Garden CD reflects Zorn's infatuation with this element of the Japanese psyche. The complex arrangements span jazz, metal, rock, fusion, and cacophonous noise. With their opposing tempos, the two discs complement each other well. Providing a sense of Zorn's diverse capabilities for expression, this is perhaps the most intense work done by Naked City, and certainly the most ominous.

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