Torture Garden

Artist: Naked City
Label: Shimmy Disc
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD

UPC: 738641003929
EAN: 0738641003929
ASIN: B0000010M7

Release Date: 1993-08-19

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Tracks:

Blood Is Thin
Demon Sanctuary
Thrash Jazz Assassin
Dead Spot
Bonehead
Speedball
Blood Duster
Pile Driver
Shangkuan Ling-Feng
Numbskull
Perfume of a Critic's Burning Flesh
Jazz Snob Eat Shit
Prestidigitator
No Reason to Believe
Hellraiser
Torture Garden
Slan
Hammerhead
Ways of Pain
Noose
Sack of Shit
Blunt Instrument
Osaka Bondage
Igneous Ejaculation
Shallow Grave
Ujaku
Kaoru
Dead Dread
Billy Liar
Victims of Torture
Speedfreaks
New Jersey Scum Swamp
S&M Sniper
Pig Fucker
Cairo Chop Shop
Fuck the Facts
Obeah Man
Facelifter
N.Y. Flat Top Box
Whiplash
Blade
Gob of Spit

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Customer Reviews:

A staggering display, but somewhat extraneous........2006-01-13

"Torture Garden" is an accurately named and brutal listen-- while the material is stunning in its diversity, direction,and virtuoso performances, its not exactly easy to digest, and it switches directions drastically. The material on "Torture Garden" was also released on two other albums, the self titled debut ("Naked City") and "Grand Guignol". The latter is available as part of the "Black Box".

Within the context of the two albums this material is also present on, it works better. If you've got those two, this is really not of much use to you. If not, this is just amazing-- a song like "Speedfreaks" can cover a genre in two and a half seconds, the album ranges from jazz to blues to neo-classical to pop to rock to death metal, and sometimes in the context of one song under a minute.

Having stated that, it is a rather stunning display, and there is some fantastic material on here, but getting the other two records just makes more sense as they contain material not available elsewhere.

Some of the weirdest music you'll ever hear..........2005-02-15

Imagine Miles Davis collaborating with Napalm Death to make an album. Impossible? Well that's how strange Naked City's music is, and it's definitely not something anyone could listen to and like. Bands such as Cynic and Atheist are labelled jazz-death metal, but this is true jazz-grind, it's like Zorn and his chums want to play grindcore, but they've got a saxophone to do it with, so that's exactly what they do, play grindcore with a saxophone. The shrieks of Yamatsuka Eye of the Boredoms on vocals are simply not human, and they add to the complete freakiness of the whole thing. This just isn't easy-going music, there are time signature changes throughout and really they take every element of catchy easy-listening music and turn it on its head to make this stunning mess.

It's so impossible to describe the style of music on display here, and if you hear a couple of odd tracks off the album, you'll most likely dismiss it as mindless noise. It needs to be listened to in full as a conceptual piece. So who is likely to enjoy this? It isn't something anyone can like, but there are a few groups of people I could recommend this to. If you've heard and liked any sort of experimental jazz in the past you might like this, and coming from the opposite direction, if you like any grindcore such as Napalm Death or Birdflesh, this might be for you. Lastly, if you are a fan of any of Mike Patton's work, especially Fantýmas, then you need to see where some of his inspiration comes from. It's strange, but you've got to try it to love it.

Mosh it up!.......2005-01-18

I remember first hearing about this album back in my "thrash/grind/death metal" days circa '89-'90. I got into John Zorn as well through listening to this, but at the time I was pretty much a metalhead and at the time of this release bands like Sepultura, Slayer, Obituary and Nuclear Assault were among my favs. "Torture Garden" can definitely be categorized as "death metal" but it would also weirdly fit under avant garde, jazz, lounge and hardcore! I loved this album for it's sheer NOISE level, Zorn's horn is the same as a shrieking death metal vocalist, in this outing Boredom's frontman Y. Eye doing the shreds! I can't say I was too thrilled to find out that John Zorn, the man responsible for the madness here, was actually on the downtown avant garde jazz Knitting Factory scene...at that time that was not me att all, those guys were lame! I later expanded my horizens however and "got it" but in 1990 it was metal and this is a piece of work thjat deserves a listen if you at all consider yourself into "metal." Loud music is more like it as any fan of punk or hardcore or grindsore or whatever would raise an eyebrow and take notice. This is certainly an almost parody of bands like Napalm Death who started the whole 40 second blast of noise, but at the same time Zorn and Co. are dead serious with it. Zorn has gone onto to do numerous projects with former Napalm and grind alumni, and it is no secret that Zorn is a huge admirer of those bands and grind in general. For the people that just don't get it...well you probably never got Napalm Death or Slayer or even Miles Davis or Herbie Hancock for that matter. A definite must for purveyors of the strange and loud.

TFS.......2004-07-06

This CD goes in one end of Metal and out the other. It it probably the purest reproduction I have ever heard of the rage-filled aesthetics of Metal, all without words: only Eye's shrieking and Zorn's saxophone.

Weird!.......2001-12-28

For the uninitiated among you I'll say that this is a collection of micro-tracks (there are perhaps 40 of them, if I'm not mistaken, all ranging from 15 sec. to about 50) of noisy, deranged, thrash jazz! Thrash jazz is basically a blend of avant-jazz and grindcore, furious and fast-paced!! A heavy mixture of saxophone, drums, screams and piercing sounds... There are titles such as "smell of a critic's burning flesh" or "gob of spittle" (which reproduces with musical instruments the sound of... well, "spitting"). I've never seen the cover art and I'm not really looking forward to that, it's said to be disgusting! The music is just too weird to allow you to give an opinion on it, depending on your attitude toward experimental stuff you might find this untterly horrible or brilliant, see for yourself! download a couple of tracks for a better evaluation...

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