Weird Little Boy is a one-off album by a band

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 of the same name consisting of 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, keyboards, samplers), Trey Spruance

Trey Spruance

Preston Lea Spruance III or "Trey Spruance" is an American composer, producer, and musician, perhaps best known as the leader of the multi-genre outfit Secret Chiefs 3 and for his work as guitarist and keyboardist with Mr. Bungle...

 (guitar, drums, keyboards), William Winant

William Winant

William Winant is an American percussionist.In addition to his work in contemporary classical music -- notably performing Lou Harrison's compositions—Winant has worked in a variety of genres, including noise rock, free improvisation and jazz. Notable collaborators include Glenn Spearman, Thurston...

 (percussion), 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...

 (drums, vocals) and Chris Cochrane (guitar). It was released in 1998

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 on Zorn's Japanese label Avant.

The group's performance is in a vein of abstract soundscape

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s and avant garde

Experimental music

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 expressionism.

Weird Little Boy is regarded by fans (as well as by the actual performers) as the best/worst thing that could have resulted from the meeting of this eclectic mix of artists. Every performer on the recording has at some point professed their distaste for the project. Most vocal on this subject was Trey Spruance.

Track listing

1. "Two Weeks on a Morphine Drip / New Dirt and New Flies / Lorne Greene" - 10:17
2. "If the Gun has a Mind / Redeye / Worms and Shit" - 8:05
3. "Totally Poobied" - 2:14
4. "Weird Little Boy" - 1:39
5. "Lungfull of Water" - 7:51
6. "Seance" - 3:04
7. "When Blood Fills a Cylinder" - 2:59
8. "Waiting" - 1:46
9. "Blindness" - 4:04

Recorded at Creative Audio, New York City on November 26, 1995

All compositions by Weird Little Boy

Personnel

• Chris Cochrane: guitar
• 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...
  
  : drums, vocals
• Trey Spruance
  Trey Spruance
  Preston Lea Spruance III or "Trey Spruance" is an American composer, producer, and musician, perhaps best known as the leader of the multi-genre outfit Secret Chiefs 3 and for his work as guitarist and keyboardist with Mr. Bungle...
  
  : guitars, keyboards, drums
• William Winant
  William Winant
  William Winant is an American percussionist.In addition to his work in contemporary classical music -- notably performing Lou Harrison's compositions—Winant has worked in a variety of genres, including noise rock, free improvisation and jazz. Notable collaborators include Glenn Spearman, Thurston...
  
  : percussion
• 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, samplers, keyboards
• Nayland Blake
  Nayland Blake
  Nayland Blake is an artist whose mixed-media work has been variously described as disturbing, provocative, elusive, tormented, sinister, hysterical, brutal, and tender....
  
  : graphics
• Dennis Cooper
  Dennis Cooper
  Dennis Cooper is an American novelist, poet, critic, editor and performance artist.-Career:Cooper grew up the son of a wealthy businessman in Arcadia, California. His first forays into literature came early, focusing on imitations of Rimbaud, Verlaine, de Sade, and Baudelaire...
  
  : text