Wayne Horvitz (keyboards)
Bill Frisell (guitar)
Fred Frith (bass)
Joey Baron (drums)
John Zorn (saxophone)
Yamatsuka Eye (vocals)
Influences
Ennio Morricone, Napalm Death, Ornette Coleman, John Barry, Henry Mancini, Johnny Mandel, Georges Delerue, Jerry Goldsmith, Charles Mingus, Eric Dolphy, Paul Bley, Bob Demmon + The Astronauts, Little Feat, Ruins, Booker T. and the MGs, Colin Wilson, Albert King, Chuck Brown, Jean-Luc Godard, Orchestra Baobab, Terauchi Takeshi, EM Elanka, The Accused, The Meters, Yakuza Zankoku Hiroku, Mickey Spillane, Tony Williams' Lifetime, Old, Anthony Braxton, Anton Webern's Six Bagatelles, Sammy Cahn's "Guess I'll hang my tears out to dry," Frank Sinatra, Morton Feldman, Jean Genet, Carl Stalling, Igor Stravinsky,The Melvins, Beatmasters, Spetic Death, Hellfire, Leather Folk (the book), Abe Schwarz, Ivo Papasov, Naftule Brandwein, Repulsion, Led Zeppelin, Akemi and Jagatara, Bernard Herrmann, Santana, Edgard Varese, Extreme Noise Terror, Conway Twitty, Agnostic Front, Siege, Corrosion of Conformity, Massacre, Quincy Jones, Sam Fuller, Funkadelic, Carcass, Liberace, Jan Hammer, Eddie Blackwell, Charlie Haden, Mick Harris, Carole King, Red Garland, The Boredoms, Jerry Reed, SPK, Roger Williams
Sounds Like
Wacky, Turn on a Dime, Rock. with jazz, funk, noise, and indie influences.
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-Text taken from www.omnology.com/zorn03.html and www.tzadik.com
This is John Zorn's infamous turn-on-a-dime band. Although they can play any style of music, the majority of their songs are noisy and complex. At any moment, a beautiful melody can degenerate into a hurricane of white noise and then suddenly switch to something else. They've taken everything aggressive about jazz and heavy metal, blended it together, and tightened it. They are disciplined players, but the music is a lot of fun.
They look like a rock band: drums, electric guitar, bass, keyboards, and saxophone. On four of the albums, Yamatsuka Eye adds his unique vocals. He howls and snorts like a maniac instead of singing. It's very entertaining. (He is sometimes credited as "Yamataka Eye.")
The band formed in 1989, playing live before they recorded their first album. They recorded their final album in December of 1992.
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.
The series includes an album of ambient music (Absinthe), the soundtrack for an SM film (Heretic), an album that consists of a single 30-minute track (Leng Tch'e), a live album (Knitting Factory 1989), and four albums of hardcore/jazz/rock fusion (Radio, Naked City, Grand Guignol, Torture Garden).
Every member of the band has released a number of solo albums and played on other Zorn projects.
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