Naked City Live Vol 1: Knitting Factory 1989

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Naked City was an avant-garde group led by saxophonist / composer John Zorn. New York based Naked City were primarily active from 1988 to 1993 with a brief reunion in 2003. Genres covered by Naked City include Jazz, Metal, Country, Punk, Surf, Grindcore, Death, Ambient etc etc etc. By all accounts the most popular album released by Naked City was 1990's "Torture Garden", with it's spasmodic bursts of metal, jazz and all other genres in between, after, and before, "Torture Garden" was a big hit with metal fans, which earned the group supports for such groups as Carcass and Napalm Death. Of course you can't discount the vocal stylings of The Boredoms' Yamatsuka Eye on this album, reminiscent of a cat being sucked slowly into a garbage disposal whilst it is on fire and giving birth. Another occasional member of Naked City (I'm thinking when Eye was on holiday's or something) was Mike Patton, of which you can clearly hear the influence on his Fantomas outings. They released 7 albums from 1990-93, Naked City (1990), Torture Garden (1990), Heretic (1991), Grand Guignol (1992), Leng Tch'e (1992), Radio (1993), and Absinthe (1993). The Black Box was released in 1996 which contains the albums Torture Garden and Leng Tch'e, Naked City Live Vol. 1: The Knitting Factory (1989) was released in 2002 (click title for this one) and The Naked City Box Set was released in 2005, which contains all the albums plus a very special version of the Grand Guignol Opus performed by Mike Patton.
NAKED CITY:
John Zorn: saxophone, voice, composer, bandleader
Bill Frisell: guitar
Wayne Horvitz: synthesizer, piano
Fred Frith: bass guitar
Joey Baron: drums
with:
Yamatsuka Eye: voice
Mike Patton: voice (Live & Grand Guignol 2005)