Torture Garden

by Naked City

Torture Garden cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 November 1990
  • Label: Shimmy Disc
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 25:53
  • Community rating: 4.22/5 from 11 ratings

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

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Comprising "hardcore miniatures" that were also included in their eponymous debut, 'Torture Garden' is John Zorn's wildly aggressive tribute to grindcore. The album is an overwhelmingly chaotic and manic collection of extremely brief, violently energetic tracks that seamlessly bridge avant-garde jazz and brutal noise rock.

Genres

Descriptors: complex, avant-garde, brutal, abrasive, violent, experimental, dissonant, noisy, extreme

Tracklist

  1. Blood Is Thin (1:03)
  2. Demon Sanctuary (0:42)
  3. Thrash Jazz Assassin (0:48)
  4. Dead Spot (0:35)
  5. Bonehead (0:56)
  6. Speedball (0:39)
  7. Blood Duster (0:17)
  8. Pile Driver (0:37)
  9. Shangkuan Ling-Feng (1:18)
  10. Numbskull (0:31)
  11. Perfume Of A Critic's Burning Flesh (0:28)
  12. Jazz Snob Eat Shit (0:27)
  13. The Prestidigitator (0:48)
  14. No Reason To Believe (0:27)
  15. Hellraiser (0:42)
  16. Torture Garden (0:39)
  17. Slan (0:26)
  18. Hammerhead (0:12)
  19. The Ways Of Pain (0:36)
  20. The Noose (0:12)
  21. Sack Of Shit (0:48)
  22. Blunt Instrument (0:56)
  23. Osaka Bondage (1:17)
  24. Igneous Ejaculation (0:24)
  25. Shallow Grave (0:43)
  26. Ujaku (0:31)
  27. Kaoru (0:54)
  28. Dead Dread (0:49)
  29. Billy Liar (0:15)
  30. Victims Of Torture (0:26)
  31. Speedfreaks (0:52)
  32. New Jersey Scum Swamp (0:43)
  33. S & M Sniper (0:16)
  34. Pigfucker (0:27)
  35. Cairo Chop Shop (0:26)
  36. Fuck The Facts (0:14)
  37. Obeah Man (0:20)
  38. Facelifter (0:59)
  39. N.Y. Flat Top Box (0:45)
  40. Whiplash (0:23)
  41. The Blade (0:42)
  42. Gob Of Spit (0:20)

Credits

  • Naked City - primary artist
  • John Zorn - alto saxophone, vocals, producer, written-by
  • Fred Frith - bass
  • Tomoyo T.L. - design
  • Tony Lee - design
  • Joey Baron - drums
  • Yamatsuka Eye - guest, vocals
  • Bill Frisell - guitar
  • Suehiro Maruo - illustration
  • Wayne Horvitz - keyboards
  • Bob Ludwig - lacquer cut by, mastered by
  • Roger Moutenot - mixed by, recorded by
  • Macioce - photography by [rephotography]
  • Martin Bisi - recorded by
  • Seigen Ono - recorded by

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