Grand Guignol

by Naked City

Grand Guignol cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1992
  • Label: Avant
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 54:44
  • Community rating: 4.11/5 from 9 ratings

Artists on this release: Yamatsuka Eye, Joey Baron, Alexander Scriabin, Wayne Horvitz, Fred Frith, Bill Frisell

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Continuing John Zorn's chaotic exploration of extreme music, 'Grand Guignol' violently collides avant-garde jazz with blistering grindcore and avant-garde metal. The album features manic, complex performances that flip between dark classical covers, including Claude Debussy, and intensely aggressive, disturbing original compositions.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, complex, dissonant, erratic, theatrical, experimental, technical, fast, diverse

Tracklist

  1. Grand Guignol (17:40)
  2. La Cath茅drale Engloutie (6:24)
  3. Prophetiae Sybillarum (1:46)
  4. The Cage (2:00)
  5. Louange A L'Eternit茅 De J茅sus (7:07)
  6. Blood Is Thin (1:00)
  7. Thrash Jazz Assassin (0:45)
  8. Dead Spot (0:31)
  9. Bonehead (0:51)
  10. Piledriver (0:33)
  11. Shangkuan Ling-Feng (1:14)
  12. Numbskull (0:29)
  13. Perfume Of A Critic's Burning Flesh (0:24)
  14. Jazz Snob: Eat Shit (0:24)
  15. The Prestidigitator (0:43)
  16. No Reason To Believe (0:26)
  17. Hellraiser (0:39)
  18. Torture Garden (0:35)
  19. Slan (0:23)
  20. The Ways Of Pain (0:31)
  21. The Noose (0:10)
  22. Sack Of Shit (0:43)
  23. Blunt Instrument (0:53)
  24. Osaka Bondage (1:14)
  25. Shallow Grave (0:40)
  26. Kaoru (0:50)
  27. Dead Dread (0:45)
  28. Billy Liar (0:10)
  29. Victims Of Torture (0:20)
  30. Speedfreaks (0:48)
  31. New Jersey Scum Swamp (0:41)
  32. S-M Sniper (0:14)
  33. Pigfucker (0:23)
  34. Cairo Chop Shop (0:22)
  35. Facelifter (0:54)
  36. Whiplash (0:19)
  37. The Blade (0:35)
  38. Gob Of Spit (0:18)

Credits

  • John Zorn - primary artist, alto saxophone [alto sax], vocals, composed by, arranged by, producer [produced by]
  • Naked City - primary artist
  • Fred Frith - bass
  • Tomoyo T.L. - design
  • Joey Baron - drums
  • Disk Union - executive-producer
  • Bill Frisell - guitar
  • Suehiro Maruo - illustration
  • Wayne Horvitz - keyboards
  • Bob Ludwig - mastered by
  • Roger Moutenot - mixed by, recorded by
  • Kazunori Sugiyama - producer [associate]
  • Martin Bisi - recorded by
  • Oliver Dicicco - recorded by
  • Scott Ansell - recorded by
  • Seigen Ono - recorded by
  • Lisa Wells - typography [photo typesetting by]
  • Strong Silent Type - typography [photo typesetting by]
  • Yamatsuka Eye - vocals
  • Claude Debussy - composed by [original]
  • Alexander Scriabin - composed by
  • Roland de Lassus - composed by [original]
  • Charles Ives - composed by [original]
  • Bob Dorough - vocals [special guest vocalist]
  • Olivier Messiaen - composed by [original]

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