Speedfreaks - Naked City (1990) What it would be like to be trapped in a room adjacent to John Zorn, Yamatsuka Eye and a transistor radio while the two fight over the dial. Naked City are avant-jazz short song heroes if you have the stomach for them. Their aptly named Torture Garden album from which this is taken, has songs as short as 8 seconds, with the longest song topping out at one minute fourteen seconds. A compilation of hardcore miniatures, as Zorn calls it. John Zorn is the project’s ringleader, a man with such a checkered and impossibly strange musical career that I can’t even begin to summarize it. Shortsongs guest performer Fred Frith played bass for them. Overall, most of Naked City’s output is too stomach-churning for my tastes, but then I like shit like this. Look them up. If you want. Make your own decisions. Live your own lives.
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