Cargo Records

Complete Studio Recordings

"I have radically remastered this music with exacting and loving attention to every last detail. Mistakes have been corrected, balances adjusted and thanks to the latest in digital technology the music is louder, clearer, more in your face and exploding with more energy than ever before. Even if you already own all of the original discs, I strongly urge you to pick this set up and experience Naked City as it always should have sounded. " --John Zorn

Probably Zorn's most popular and most controversial musical project, the music of Naked City has been debated, analyzed, adored and reviled by fans, critics and academics alike, but nothing can replace the experience of hearing it in all its frightening glory. Most people know this music from the single domestic release on Nonesuch, but the major portion of their studio recordings were issued from 1989 - 1993 on the hard to find Japanese labels Avant and Toy's Factory. This long awaited set pulls together all of their recorded output - seven studio albums ( including five released only in Japan ) - on 5 CDs in beautiful new packaging, with a special 100 page scrapbook of Naked City ephemera, including photos, posters, designs, scores, musical sketches, written tributes by members of the Naked City family and pages from Zorn's original notebooks showing the development of the music that drove so many people out of their minds. Zorn's music at its most brutal and uncompromising best.

BONUS TRACK CREATED EXCLUSIVELY FOR THIS SET: A spectacular new vocal version of the 18' composition Grand Guignol featuring the charismatic singer from Fantomas, Mr. Bungle and Faith No More, Naked City Alumni Mike Patton. A tour de force concerto for voice and ensemble, finally realizing Zorn's long form composition as it was originally conceived.


Personnel:
Joey Baron: Drums
Yamataka Eye: Vocals
Bill Frisell: Guitar
Fred Frith: Bass
Wayne Horvitz: Keyboards
Mike Patton: Vocals
John Zorn: Alto Sax, Vocals

Track Listing

Disc: 1
1. Batman
2. Sicilian Clan
3. You Will Be Shot
4. Latin Quarter
5. Shot in the Dark
6. Reanimator
7. Snagglepuss
8. I Want to Live
9. Lonely Woman
10. Igneous Ejaculation
11. Blood Duster
12. Hammerhead
13. Demon Sanctuary
14. Obeah Man
15. Ujaku
16. Fuck the Facts
17. Speedball
18. Chinatown
19. Punk China Doll
20. N.Y. Flat Top Box
21. Saigon Pickup
22. James Bond Theme
23. Den of Sins
24. Contempt
25. Graveyard Shift
26. Inside Straight

Disc: 2
1. Grand Guignol
2. Blood Is Thin
3. Thrash Jazz Assassin
4. Dead Spot
5. Bonehead
6. Piledriver
7. Shangkuan Ling-Feng
8. Numbskull
9. Perfume of a Critic's Burning Flesh
10. Jazz Snob: Eat Shit
11. Prestidigitator
12. No Reason to Believe
13. Hellraiser
14. Torture Garden
15. Slan
16. Ways of Pain
17. Noose
18. Sack of Shit
19. Blunt Instrument
20. Osaka Bondage
21. Shallow Grave
22. Kaoru
23. Dead Dread
24. Billy Liar
25. Victims of Torture
26. Speedfreaks
27. New Jersey Scum Swamp
28. S&M Sniper
29. Pigfucker
30. Cairo Chop Shop
31. Facelifter
32. Whiplash
33. Blade
34. Gob of Spit
35. Cathédrale Engloutie
36. Douloureux, Déchirant
37. Très Lent, Contemplatif
38. Allegro Drammatico
39. Prophetiae Sybillarum
40. Cage
41. Louange Á l'Ã"�ternité de Jésus
42. Grand Guignol [Version Vocale] [#]

Disc: 3
1. Main Titles
2. Sex Games
3. Brood
4. Sweat, Sperm + Blood
5. Vliet
6. Heretic 1
7. Submission
8. Heretic 2
9. Catacombs
10. Heretic 3
11. My Master, My Slave
12. Saint Jude
13. Conqueror Worm
14. Dominatrix 2B
15. Back Through the Looking Glass
16. Here Come the 7,000 Frogs
17. Slaughterhouse/Chase Sequence
18. Castle Keep
19. Mantra of Resurrected Shit
20. Trypsicore
21. Fire and Ice (Club Scene)
22. Crosstalk
23. Copraphagist Rituals
24. Labyrinth

Disc: 4
1. Asylum
2. Sunset Surfer
3. Party Girl
4. Outsider
5. Triggerfingers
6. Terkmani Teepee
7. Sex Fiend
8. Razorwire
9. Bitter and the Sweet
10. Krazy Kat
11. Vault
12. Metaltov
13. Poisonhead
14. Bone Orchard
15. I Die Screaming
16. Pistol Whipping
17. Skatekey
18. Shock Corridor
19. American Psycho

Disc: 5
1. Val de Travers
2. Correspondance
3. Feé Verte
4. Fleurs du Mal
5. Artemisia Absinthium
6. Notre Dame de l'Oubli
7. Verlaine, Pt. 1: Un MIDI Moins Dix
8. Verlaine Pt. 2: La Bleue
9. ...Rend Fou
10. Leng Tch'e