Black Box (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Black Box
Type = Album
Artist = Naked City


Released = 1997
Recorded = 1989-1990, 1992
Genre = Avant-garde jazz
Free jazz
Experimental rock
Jazzcore
Length = 58:42
Label = Tzadik
Producer = John Zorn
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hvfexq9hldhe link]
Last album = "Absinthe"
(1993)
This album = "Torture Garden"
(1989)
Next album = ""
(2002)

"Black Box" is a compilation album by John Zorn's band Naked City featuring Yamatsuka Eye on vocals. The album is a collects the "hardcore miniatures" from "Naked City" and "Grand Guignol" that were originally released on Torture Garden in 1990 and the extended piece Leng Tch'e which was only released in Japan in 1992. This compilation was released on Tzadik Records in 1996. [ [http://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=7312-2 Tzadik catalogue] ]

Track listing

Disc 1
# "Blood is Thin" - 1:00
# "Demon Sanctuary" - 0:38
# "Thrash Jazz Assassin" - 0:45
# "Dead Spot" - 0:31
# "Bonehead" - 0:51
# "Speedball" - 0:37
# "Blood Duster" - 0:13
# "Pile Driver" - 0:33
# "Shangkuan Ling-Feng" - 1:14
# "Numbskull" - 0:29
# "Perfume Of A Critic's Burning Flesh" - 0:24
# "Jazz Snob Eat Shit" - 0:24
# "The Prestidigitator" - 0:43
# "No Reason To Believe" - 0:26
# "Hellraiser" - 0:39
# "Torture Garden" - 0:35
# "Slan" - 0:23
# "Hammerhead" - 0:08
# "The Ways Of Pain" - 0:31
# "The Noose" - 0:10
# "Sack Of Shit" - 0:43
# "Blunt Instrument" - 0:53
# "Osaka Bondage" - 1:14
# "Igneous Ejaculation" - 0:20
# "Shallow Grave" - 0:40
# "Ujaku" - 0:27
# "Kaoru" - 0:50
# "Dead Dread" - 0:45
# "Billy Liar" - 0:10
# "Victims Of Torture" - 0:22
# "Speedfreaks" - 0:29
# "New Jersey Scum Swamp" - 0:41
# "S & M Sniper" - 0:14
# "Pigfucker" - 0:23
# "Cairo Chop Shop" - 0:22
# "Fuck The Facts" - 0:11
# "Obeah Man" - 0:17
# "Facelifter" - 0:34
# "N.Y. Flat Top Box" - 0:43
# "Whiplash" - 0:19
# "The Blade" - 0:36
# "Gob Of Spit" - 0:18Disc 2
# "Leng Tch'e" - 31:39

Notes

*Recorded in Brooklyn, New York City and Tokyo 1989-1990 except for 'Leng Tch'e' Recorded on January 11, 1992
*Produced by John Zorn

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