Spillane
by John Zorn
- Type: Album
- Released: 17 December 1987
- Label: Nonesuch
- Country: United States
- Length: 35:32
- Community rating: 4.01/5 from 6 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
John Zorn utilizes his radical 'file-card' compositional method to create a jagged, cinematic homage to hardboiled detective fiction. 'Spillane' rapidly jump-cuts between screaming avant-garde jazz, sleazy electric blues, and tense, string-laden chamber music, anchored by the spoken-word narration of John Lurie. The album is an incredibly anxious, eclectic, and nocturnal masterpiece of downtown experimental music.
Genres
Descriptors: avant-garde, improvisation, instrumental, experimental, dissonant, theatrical
Tracklist
Credits
- John Zorn - primary artist, arranged by, producer, liner notes, alto saxophone, clarinet, written-by
- Carin Goldberg - art direction, design
- Robert Hurwitz - executive-producer
- Bob Ludwig - mastered by
- Durward Shigley - photography by [photo of albert collins]
- Don H眉nerberg - recorded by, mixed by
- David Hofstra - bass, tuba, written-by [in collaboration with], arranged by [in collaboration with]
- Bobby Previte - drums, percussion, written-by [in collaboration with], arranged by [in collaboration with]
- Bill Frisell - guitar, written-by [in collaboration with], arranged by [in collaboration with]
- Carol Emanuel - harp, written-by [in collaboration with], arranged by [in collaboration with]
- David Weinstein - keyboards [sampling], celesta, written-by [in collaboration with], arranged by [in collaboration with]
- Arto Lindsay - lyrics by [original texts]
- Anthony Coleman - piano, organ, celesta, written-by [in collaboration with], arranged by [in collaboration with]
- Bob James - tape, performer [compact discs], written-by [in collaboration with], arranged by [in collaboration with]
- Jim Staley - trombone, written-by [in collaboration with], arranged by [in collaboration with]
- Robert Quine - voice [mike hammer's conscience], written-by [in collaboration with], arranged by [in collaboration with]
- John Lurie - voice [mike hammer], written-by [in collaboration with], arranged by [in collaboration with]
- Joan Jeanrenaud - cello [kronos quartet, the], written-by [in collaboration with], arranged by [in collaboration with]
- Reck - lyrics by [original texts]
- Howard Johnston - recorded by [san francisco]
- Seigen Ono - recorded by, mixed by
- Kronos Quartet - strings
- Christian Marclay - turntables, written-by [in collaboration with], arranged by [in collaboration with]
- Hank Dutt - viola [kronos quartet, the], written-by [in collaboration with], arranged by [in collaboration with]
- David Harrington - violin [kronos quartet, the], written-by [in collaboration with], arranged by [in collaboration with]
- John Sherba - violin [kronos quartet, the], written-by [in collaboration with], arranged by [in collaboration with]
- Hiromi Ohta - voice, written-by [in collaboration with], arranged by [in collaboration with]