Naked City: The Complete Studio Recordings is a five disc box set that contains all of the studio albums released by Naked City

Naked City (band)

Naked City was an avant-garde music group led by saxophonist and composer John Zorn. Active primarily in New York City from 1988 to 1993, Naked City was initiated by Zorn as a "composition workshop" to test the limits of composition in a traditional rock band lineup...

 during their five year history.

The five discs are accompanied by a book, Eight Million Stories: Naked City Ephemera, which contains a wealth of photos and art as well as testimonials from all five band members and numerous acquaintances, friends, fans and contributors such as Mike Patton

Mike Patton

Michael Allan "Mike" Patton is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor, best known as the lead singer of the metal/experimental rock band Faith No More. He has also sung for Mr...

, Yamatsuka Eye, Sean Lennon

Sean Lennon

is an American singer, songwriter, musician, guitarist and actor. He is the only child of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. His godfather is Sir Elton John.-Early life and education:...

, Mick Harris

Mick Harris

Mick Harris commonly known and credited both as Mick Harris or occasionally M.J. Harris, is an English musician....

 and Eyvind Kang

Eyvind Kang

Eyvindur Kang , only child of Charles Shin-Chul Kang and Kristjana Gunnars, is an American composer, violinist, tuba, and erhu player...

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Disc One (Naked City

Naked City (album)

Naked City is an album released on Nonesuch Records in 1990 by John Zorn, featuring the band of the same name. The album was also released as part of Naked City: The Complete Studio Recordings on Tzadik Records in 2005....

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1. "Batman" – 2:04
2. "The Sicilian Clan" (Ennio Morricone
   Ennio Morricone
   Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, , is an Italian composer and conductor, who wrote music to more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces...
   
   ) – 3:32
3. "You Will Be Shot" – 1:31
4. "Latin Quarter" – 4:11
5. "A Shot in the Dark" (Henry Mancini
   Henry Mancini
   Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor and arranger, best remembered for his film and television scores. He won a record number of Grammy Awards , plus a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1995...
   
   ) – 3:13
6. "Reanimator" – 1:43
7. "Snagglepuss" – 2:20
8. "I Want to Live" (Johnny Mandel
   Johnny Mandel
   Johnny Mandel is an American composer and arranger of popular songs, film music and jazz. Among the musicians he has worked with are Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Anita O'Day, Barbra Streisand, and Shirley Horn.-Life:...
   
   ) – 2:12
9. "Lonely Woman" (Ornette Coleman
   Ornette Coleman
   Ornette Coleman is an American saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s....
   
   ) – 2:45
10. "Igneous Ejaculation" – 0:24
11. "Blood Duster" – 0:16
12. "Hammerhead" – 0:11
13. "Demon Sanctuary" – 0:41
14. "Obeah Man" – 0:20
15. "Ujaku" – 0:30
16. "Fuck the Facts" – 0:14
17. "Speedball" – 0:43
18. "Chinatown" (Jerry Goldsmith
    Jerry Goldsmith
    Jerrald King Goldsmith was an American composer and conductor most known for his work in film and television scoring....
    
    ) – 4:28
19. "Punk China Doll" – 3:04
20. "N.Y. Flat Top Box" – 0:45
21. "Saigon Pickup" – 4:50
22. "The James Bond Theme" (John Barry
    John Barry (composer)
    John Barry Prendergast, OBE was an English conductor and composer of film music. He is best known for composing the soundtracks for 12 of the James Bond films between 1962 and 1987...
    
    ) – 3:06
23. "Den of Sins" – 1:15
24. "Contempt" (Georges Delerue
    Georges Delerue
    Georges Delerue , was a French film composer who composed over 350 scores for cinema and television. He won numerous important awards including Rome Prize , Emmy Award , Genie Award , ACE Award and Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1979 for A...
    
    ) – 2:54
25. "Graveyard Shift" – 3:32
26. "Inside Straight" – 4:16

Disc Two (Grand Guignol

Grand Guignol (album)

Grand Guignol is the second full-length studio album released by John Zorn's band Naked City in 1992 on the Japanese Avant label. The album followed Torture Garden, which was a compilation of "hardcore miniatures" from Naked City and Grand Guignol...

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1. "Grand Guignol" – 17:49
2. "Blood Is Thin" – 1:03
3. "Thrash Jazz Assassin" – 0:48
4. "Dead Spot" – 0:35
5. "Bonehead" – 0:56
6. "Piledriver" – 0:37
7. "Shangkuan Ling-Feng" – 1:18
8. "Numbskull" – 0:32
9. "Perfume of a Critic's Burning Flesh" – 0:28
10. "Jazz Snob Eat Shit" – 0:27
11. "The Prestidigitator" – 0:47
12. "No Reason to Believe" – 0:27
13. "Hellraiser" – 0:42
14. "Torture Garden" – 0:39
15. "Slan" – 0:26
16. "The Ways of Pain" – 0:35
17. "The Noose" – 0:12
18. "Sack of Shit" – 0:48
19. "Blunt Instrument" – 0:56
20. "Osaka Bondage" – 1:16
21. "Shallow Grave" – 0:43
22. "Kaoru" – 0:54
23. "Dead Dread" – 0:49
24. "Billy Liar" – 0:15
25. "Victims of Torture" – 0:26
26. "Speedfreaks" – 0:51
27. "New Jersey Scum Swamp" – 0:44
28. "S&M Sniper" – 0:16
29. "Pig Fucker" – 0:27
30. "Cairo Chop Shop" – 0:24
31. "Facelifter" – 0:57
32. "Whiplash" – 0:23
33. "The Blade" – 0:43
34. "Gob of Spit" – 0:28
35. "La Cathedrale Engloutie
    La cathédrale engloutie
    La cathédrale engloutie is a prelude written by the French composer Claude Debussy for solo piano. It was published in 1910 as the tenth prelude in Debussy’s first of two volumes of twelve piano preludes each...
    
    " – 6:24 (Claude Debussy
    Claude Debussy
    Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
    
    )
36. "Three Preludes Op. 74: Douloureux, Déchirant" – 1:17 (Alexander Scriabin
    Alexander Scriabin
    Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin was a Russian composer and pianist who initially developed a lyrical and idiosyncratic tonal language inspired by the music of Frédéric Chopin. Quite independent of the innovations of Arnold Schoenberg, Scriabin developed an increasingly atonal musical system,...
    
    )
37. "Three Preludes Op. 74: Très Lent, Contemplatif
    Prelude Op. 74 No. 2 (Scriabin)
    Alexander Scriabin's Prelude Op. 74 No. 2, entitled Très lent, contemplatif , is one of five preludes in Op. 74, composed in early 1914.His second wife considered it his best piece...
    
    " – 1:43 (Scriabin)
38. "Three Preludes Op. 74: Allegro Drammatico" – 0:49 (Scriabin)
39. "Prophetiae Sybillarum" – 1:46 (Orlande de Lassus
    Orlande de Lassus
    Orlande de Lassus was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance...
    
    )
40. "The Cage" – 2:01 (Charles Ives
    Charles Ives
    Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer. He is one of the first American composers of international renown, though Ives' music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, Ives came to be regarded as an "American Original"...
    
    )
    • Vocals
      Human voice
      The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal folds for talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, etc. Its frequency ranges from about 60 to 7000 Hz. The human voice is specifically that part of human sound production in which the vocal folds are the primary...
      
       by Bob Dorough
      Bob Dorough
      Bob Dorough is an American bebop and cool jazz pianist, composer and vocalese singer.He worked with Miles Davis and Allen Ginsberg, and his adventurous style was an influence on Mose Allison, among other singers...
      
      
41. "Louange Á L'Eternité de Jésus
    Quatuor pour la fin du temps
    Quatuor pour la fin du temps, also known by its English title Quartet for the End of Time, is a piece of chamber music by the French composer Olivier Messiaen. It was premiered in 1941...
    
    " – 7:08 (Olivier Messiaen
    Olivier Messiaen
    Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...
    
    )
42. "Grand Guignol (Version Vocale)" – 17:40
    • Vocals by Mike Patton
      Mike Patton
      Michael Allan "Mike" Patton is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor, best known as the lead singer of the metal/experimental rock band Faith No More. He has also sung for Mr...
      
      

Disc Three (Heretic

Heretic (Naked City album)

Heretic is the third studio album by the band Naked City, used as a soundtrack for the underground S/M film Jeux des Dames Cruelles. The album utilises different combinations of band members in duos and trios with the entire band performing together on only one track "Fire and Ice".According to...

)

All tracks by Naked City.

1. "Main Titles" – 1:28
2. "Sex Games" – 2:23
3. "The Brood" – 2:49
4. "Sweat, Sperm + Blood" – 2:04
5. "Vliet" – 0:50
6. "Heretic 1" – 2:33
7. "Submission" – 4:23
8. "Heretic 2" – 1:46
9. "Catacombs" – 2:46
10. "Heretic 3" – 2:43
11. "My Master, My Slave" – 2:23
12. "Saint Jude" – 2:13
13. "The Conqueror Worm" – 2:32
14. "Dominatrix 2B" – 2:15
15. "Back Through the Looking Glass" – 2:40
16. "Here Come the 7,000 Frogs" – 1:59
17. "Slaughterhouse/Chase Sequence" – 2:19
18. "Castle Keep" – 1:49
19. "Mantra of Resurrected Shit" – 1:43
20. "Trypsicore" – 1:47
21. "Fire and Ice (Club Scene)" – 2:37
22. "Crosstalk" – 1:41
23. "Copraphagist Rituals" – 0:53
24. "Labyrinth" – 5:49

Disc Four (Radio

Radio (Naked City album)

Radio is the fourth studio album by the band Naked City, and their first to be composed entirely by bandleader John Zorn. The album was also released as part of Naked City: The Complete Studio Recordings on Tzadik Records in 2005....

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1. "Asylum" – 1:55
2. "Sunset Surfer" – 3:24
3. "Party Girl" – 2:33
4. "The Outsider" – 2:28
5. "Triggerfingers" – 3:31
6. "Terkmani Teepee" – 3:59
7. "Sex Fiend" – 3:32
8. "Razorwire" – 5:31
9. "The Bitter and the Sweet" – 4:52
10. "Krazy Kat" – 1:54
11. "The Vault" – 4:44
12. "Metal Tov" – 2:07
13. "Poisonhead" – 1:09
14. "Bone Orchard" – 3:54
15. "I Die Screaming" – 2:29
16. "Pistol Whipping" – 0:57
17. "Skatekey" – 1:24
18. "Shock Corridor" – 1:08
19. "American Psycho" – 6:09

Disc Five (Absinthe

Absinthe (album)

Absinthe is the final recording from the band Naked City. Unlike the band's other genre-mixing releases, the music on Absinthe is consistently in an ambient and noise style....

 & Leng Tch'e

Leng Tch'e (album)

Leng Tch'e is the fourth release from John Zorn's band Naked City. It consists of a single track, running at just over half an hour. It was first released on the Japanese Toys Factory label in 1992...

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1. "Val de Travers" – 6:19
2. "Une Correspondance" – 5:09
3. "La Feé Verte" – 5:12
4. "Fleurs du Mal" – 4:08
5. "Artemisia Absinthium" – 4:34
6. "Notre Dame de l'Oubli" (for Oliver Messiaen) – 4:51
7. "Verlaine Part One: Un Midi Moins Dix" – 4:28
8. "Verlaine Part Two: La Bleue" – 6:03
9. "...Rend Fou" – 6:16
10. "Leng Tch'e" – 31:38

Performance

• Joey Baron
  Joey Baron
  Joey Baron is an American avant-garde jazz drummer probably best known for his work with Bill Frisell, Stan Getz, Steve Kuhn, and John Zorn...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  
• Bob Dorough
  Bob Dorough
  Bob Dorough is an American bebop and cool jazz pianist, composer and vocalese singer.He worked with Miles Davis and Allen Ginsberg, and his adventurous style was an influence on Mose Allison, among other singers...
  
   – vocals
  Human voice
  The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal folds for talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, etc. Its frequency ranges from about 60 to 7000 Hz. The human voice is specifically that part of human sound production in which the vocal folds are the primary...
  
  
• Yamataka Eye – vocals
• John Zorn
  John Zorn
  John Zorn is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn is a prolific artist: he has hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, or producer...
  
   – alto saxophone
  Alto saxophone
  The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in 1841. It is smaller than the tenor but larger than the soprano, and is the type most used in classical compositions...
  
  , vocals, arrangement
  Arrangement
  The American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents...
  
  s
• Bill Frisell
  Bill Frisell
  William Richard "Bill" Frisell is an American guitarist and composer.One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late 1980s, Frisell's eclectic music touches on progressive folk, classical music, country music, noise and more...
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Fred Frith
  Fred Frith
  Fred Frith is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer and improvisor.Probably best known for his guitar work, Frith first came to attention as one of the founding members of the English avant-rock group Henry Cow. Frith was also a member of Art Bears, Massacre and Skeleton Crew...
  
   – bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Wayne Horvitz
  Wayne Horvitz
  Wayne Horvitz is an American composer, keyboardist and record producer.-Biography:Horvitz, a "defiant cross-breeder of genres", has led the groups The President, Pigpen, Zony Mash, and the Four Plus One Ensemble...
  
   – keyboards
  Electronic keyboard
  An electronic keyboard is an electronic or digital keyboard instrument.The major components of a typical modern electronic keyboard are:...
  
  
• Mike Patton
  Mike Patton
  Michael Allan "Mike" Patton is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor, best known as the lead singer of the metal/experimental rock band Faith No More. He has also sung for Mr...
  
   – vocals

Production

• Scott Ansell – engineer
  Engineer
  An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical problems. Engineers design materials, structures, machines and systems while considering the limitations imposed by practicality,...
  
  
• Jason Baker
  Jason Baker
  Jason Michael Baker is an American football punter for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League.-High school years:...
  
   – engineer
• Scott Bellmer – mastering
• Martin Bisi
  Martin bisi
  Martin Bisi is an American producer and songwriter.He is known for recording important records by Sonic Youth, Swans, John Zorn, Material, Bill Laswell, Helmet, Unsane, Cop Shoot Cop, White Zombie, Boredoms, Angels of Light and Herbie Hancock's Grammy-winning song Rockit,In 1979, Martin Bisi...
  
   – engineer
• Oliver Di Cicco – engineer
• Alec Head – engineer
• Scott Hull
  Scott Hull
  Scott Hull is an American heavy metal musician, and the current guitarist and producer for Pig Destroyer, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, and Japanese Torture Comedy Hour. He has been part of many other projects including the controversial band Anal Cunt . Aside from his music works, he currently works as a...
  
   – digital editing, mastering
• Bob Hurwitz – executive producer
  Executive producer
  An executive producer is a producer who is not involved in any technical aspects of the film making or music process, but who is still responsible for the overall production...
  
  
• Hoover Le – assistant engineer
• Bob Ludwig
  Bob Ludwig
  Bob Ludwig is an American mastering engineer.He is a well known and respected figure within the music industry. His name is credited on the covers of albums released across the world, and he has won numerous awards....
  
   – mastering

• Man Ray
  Man Ray
  Man Ray , born Emmanuel Radnitzky, was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. Perhaps best described simply as a modernist, he was a significant contributor to both the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal...
  
   – cover photo
• Roger Moutenot – engineer, mixing
• Seigen Ono – engineer
• Mike Patton – author
• Maruo Suehiro
  Suehiro Maruo
  , is a Japanese manga artist, illustrator, and painter.-Biography:Maruo graduated from junior high school in March 1972 but dropped out of senior high school. At the age of 15 he moved to Tokyo and began working for a bookbinder...
  
   – illustrations
• Kazunori Sugiyama – associate producer
• Tanaka Tomoyo – design
• Lisa Wells – typesetting
  Typesetting
  Typesetting is the composition of text by means of types.Typesetting requires the prior process of designing a font and storing it in some manner...
  
  
• Takahashi Yukihiro
  Yukihiro Takahashi
  Yukihiro Takahashi is a Japanese musician, who is best known as the drummer and lead vocalist of the Yellow Magic Orchestra, and as the former drummer of the Sadistic Mika Band.-Biography:...
  
   – photo typesetting
• John Zorn – production
  Record producer
  A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
  
  , liner notes
  Liner notes
  Liner notes are the writings found in booklets which come inserted into the compact disc jewel case or the equivalent packaging for vinyl records and cassettes.-Origin:...