Naked City

In 1989, the genius saxophonist/composer John Zorn created Naked City, his first real band, surrounded by the best jazzmen of the time: Joey Baron on drums, Bill Frisell on guitar, Fred Frith on bass, Wayne Horvitz on keyboards and later the crazy Yamatsuka Eye (Boredoms) on singing. When one refers to musical violence, one usually thinks of black metal, brutal death or grind. But rarely in jazz... And yet Naked City is indeed a jazz band and incidentally the performer of one of the most aggressive music of its time (and still of ours). This is how the Zorn band will appear on Earache Records compilations with bands like Napalm Death. The band was the leading figure of the underground scene in New York when he released his first eponymous album in 1989 consisting of covers of film music (which inspired Fantomas more than 10 years later) and original compositions navigating between surf-rock, jazz and hardcore. The following year he released Torture Garden, an album that reached the peaks of violence that compiled the titles "jazzcore" of the eponymous and Grand Guignol. 1992 is a prolific year for the band as it releases no less than 3 albums: Grand Guignol , Heretic (BO of a SM film, imaginary but a film will resume this CD like BO) and Leng T In 1993, Naked City released two new albums: Radio , in the vein of the eponymous album, and the confusing Absinthe , ambient album that strangely closed the short but productive career of a major band that influenced many musicians of the experimental scene ( Zu , Ground Zero , Fantomas ...).
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