Discography ================================================================================================================ Country Label Format Catalog Year ================================================================================================================ USA Shimmy Disc Cassette shimmy 039 CS 1989 USA Shimmy Disc Vinyl, LP, 45 RPM shimmy 039 1989 Canada Shimmy Disc CD shimmy 039 1989 UK Earache Records Vinyl, LP, Gatefold, 45 RPM MOSH 28 1991 UK Earache Records CD MOSH 28 CD 1991 Japan Toy's Factory CD TFCK-88557 1991, September, 21 USA Tzadik Records 2xCD, Archival Series TZ 7312-2 1997, April, 22 USA Tzadik Records CD, Archival Series TZ 7312 2010, October ================================================================================================================ Track Listing: ================================================================================================================ All compositions written by John Zorn and Yamatsuka Eye 1. Blood Is Thin 01:00 2. Demon Sanctuary 00:38 3. Thrash Jazz Assassin 00:45 4. Dead Spot 00:31 5. Bonehead 00:51 6. Speedball 00:37 7. Blood Duster 00:13 8. Pile Driver 00:33 9. Shangkuan Ling-Feng 01:14 10. Numbskull 00:29 11. Perfume Of A Critic's Burning Flesh 00:24 12. Jazz Snot Eat Shit 00:24 13. The Prestigitator 00:43 14. No Reason To Believe 00:26 15. Hellraiser 00:39 16. Torture Garden 00:35 17. Slan 00:23 18. Hammerhead 00:08 19. The Ways Of Pain 00:31 20. The Noose 00:10 21. Sack Of Shit 00:43 22. Blunt Instrument 00:53 23. Osaka Bondage 01:14 24. Igneous Ejaculation 00:20 25. Shallow Grave 00:40 26. Ujaku 00:27 27. Kaoru 00:50 28. Dead Dread 00:45 29. Billy Liar 00:10 30. Victims Of Torture 00:22 31. Speedfreaks 00:29 32. New Jersey Scum Swamp 00:41 33. S & M Sniper 00:14 34. Pigfucker 00:23 35. Cairo Chop Shop 00:22 36. Fuck The Facts 00:11 37. Obeah Man 00:17 38. Facelifter 00:34 39. N.Y. Flat Top Box 00:43 40. Whiplash 00:19 41. The Blade 00:36 42. Gob Of Spit 00:18 Tracks 2, 6, 7, 18, 24, 26, 36, 37, 39 taken fron Naked City, 1989 Tracks 1, 3-5, 8-17, 19-23, 25, 27-35, 38, 40-42 presents on Grand Guignol, 1992 Tzadik Edition as: Black Box: Torture Garden / Leng Tch'e CD1: Torture Garden CD2: Leng Tch'e ================================================================================================================ Yamatsuka Eye – Vocals (Special Guest) John Zorn – Alto Saxophone Bill Frisell – Guitar Fred Frith – Bass Joey Baron – Drums Wayne Horvitz – Keyboards Recorded in Brooklyn, New York City, Tokyo, 1989-1990 Martin Bisi - Recording (Brooklyn) Seigen Ono - Recording (Tokyo) Roger Moutenot - Recording (NYC), Mixing Bob Ludwig - Mastering John Zorn – Producer Maruo Suehiro - Artwork [Illustrations] Maciocie - Rephotography (Original from JZ's collection) Anthony Lee - Design (Karath=Razar) Tanaka Tomoyo - Design (Karath=Razar) Special thanks to RUINS, LIP CREAM, SOB, BOREDOMS, UFO OR DIE, RISE FROM THE DEAD, IMAHORI-KUN, KAORU-CHAN, DIRTY KUDO, TOMOYO-SAN, NY ANTIKNOVK, 20,000 VOLT, LA MAMA, BILL (CARCASS), MICK AND SHANE (NAPALM DEATH), LEE DORRIAN, KEVIN (GOD), GODFLESH, DIE KREUZEN, THE ACCUSED, HUSKER DU, DRI, SIM CAIN, BLIND IDIOT GOD, MARTIN AND DIG, KAROL ARMITAGE, BOB HURWITZ, DAVID BITCHER, MACIOCE, KRAMER, MIKE AND BOB (KNIT. FAC.) and CBGB. ================================================================================================================ Test pressing comes in Earache plain sleeve, only hand-written John Zorn. The name of the tracks are not mentionned anywhere. Etching show same catalog # as the release itself: MOSH 28 Torture Garden is an album by John Zorn's band Naked City featuring Yamatsuka Eye on vocals. The album is a compilation of the "hardcore miniatures" that were also be released on Naked City and Grand Guignol. Unli- ke other Naked City albums, there are no breaks between the screaming, the seemingly random saxophone blasts and grindcore. The album was originally released on Shimmy Disc in 1989. Following controversy over Naked City's album covers it was re-released in 1996 on Tzadik Records with Leng Tch'e simply as Black Box. The tracks were also released as part of Naked City: The Complete Studio Recordings in 2005. The name for the collection comes from Le Jardin des supplices, an 1899 Decadent novel by Octave Mirbeau. ================================================================================================================ From the violent cover art to the Japanese text inside the album, at first glance one might mistake Tort- ure Garden for a fetishist soundtrack. But jazz madman John Zorn and Boredoms frontman Yamatsuka Eye assemb- led another group of open-minded musicians to carry on their vision of grindcore and jazz uniting. Distingu- ished musicians Wayne Horovitz and Bill Frisell help Zorn and Eye take this from a curious side project to a fantastic metal band. Songs blur together but never get boring, no lyrics are actually sung, and few songs last longer than a minute. It also never takes itself seriously, a nice relief from Zorn's heavy-handed amb- ient collaborations. This would make a great introduction to the noise/jazz efforts that this group of musi- cians pioneered in the early '90s.