Discography ================================================================================================================ Country Label Format Catalog Year ================================================================================================================ Japan Avant CD AVAN 003 1993 Russia ArsNova CD, Bootleg, Ltd. PRIVATE ARTA 2000 ================================================================================================================ Track Listing: ================================================================================================================ All music composed and arranged by John Zorn 1. Asylum 01:54 2. Sunset Surfer 03:22 3. Party Girl 02:33 4. The Outsider 02:27 5. Triggerfingers 03:31 6. Terkmani Teepee 03:56 7. Sex Fiend 03:31 8. Razorwire 05:28 9. The Bitter And The Sweet 04:48 10. Krazy Kat 01:51 11. The Vault 04:44 12. Metaltov 02:07 13. Poisonhead 01:09 14. Bone Orchard 03:53 15. I Die Screaming 02:29 16. Pistol Whipping 00:57 17. Skatekey 01:24 18. Shock Corridor 01:05 19. American Psycho 06:09 ================================================================================================================ Yamataka Eye – Guest Vocals (11, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19) John Zorn – Alto Sax, Vocals Bill Frisell – Guitar Fred Frith – Bass Joey Baron – Drums Wayne Horvitz – Keyboards Recorded in April 1992 Mixed in September 1992 Alec Head - Recording Hoover Le - Assistant Engineer Scott Hull - Digital Editing Roger Moutenot - Mixing Bob Ludwig - Mastering Kazunori Sugiyama - Associate Producer Disk Union - Executive Producer John Zorn - Producer Tomoyo T.L. - Cover Design (Karath=Razar) Man Ray - Photography [Cover] Lisa Wells - Typography [Typesetting] (Strong Silent Type) Published by Theatre of Musical Optics, BMI ================================================================================================================ Special thanks to: Wadia F. Moses, Roger Moutenot, Ikue Mori, Kaoru, KimSu Liner Notes: Inspiration/Refer (this list corresponds to the above track listing) 1. Charles Mingus on Candid / Eric Dolphy / Paul Bley 2. Bob Demmon + The Astronauts 3. Little Feat 4. Ruins / Booker T. And The M.G.'s / Colin Wilson 5. Ennio Morricone / Albert King / Chuck Brown 6. Orchestra Baobab / Terauchi Takeshi / E.M. Elanka 7. The Accüsed / The Meters / Yakuza Zankoku Hiroku 8. Tony Williams' Lifetime / OLD 9. Anthony Braxton / Anton Webern's "Six Bagatelles" / Sammy Cahn's "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry" Frank Sinatra / Morton Feldman 10. Carl Stalling / Igor Stravinsky 11. The Melvins / Beatmasters / Septic Death / Hellfire / Leather Folk (the Book) 12. Abe Schwartz / Ivo Papasov / Naftule Brandwein 13. Repulsion 14. Led Zeppelin / Akemi And Jagatara / Bernard Herrmann 15. Santana / Extreme Noise Terror / Conway Twitty 16. Agnostic Front / Siege 17. Ornette Coleman / Corrosion Of Conformity / Massacre / Quincy Jones 18. Sam Fuller / Funkadelic / Carcass 19. Liberace / Jan Hammer / Napalm Death / Eddie Blackwell / Charlie Haden / Mick Harris / Carole King Red Garland / Boredoms / Jerry Reed / SPK / Roger Williams ================================================================================================================ Bootleg edition as jewel case with full color inserts. Limited to 500 copies. ================================================================================================================ Radio is the fourth studio album by the band Naked City, and their first to be composed entirely by band- leader John Zorn. The album was also released as part of Naked City: The Complete Studio Recordings on Tzad- ik Records in 2005. Radio marked a return to the eclectic, "jump cut" style of the band's 1990 debut album. In his review for the Allmusic website, Maurice Rickard states: Several genres and bands are skillfully evoked... and helpfully listed in the liner notes in order of oc- currence. Jazz, surf, R&B, death metal, funk, acid rock, and serialism are grafted together in this collect- ion, often into the same song, and the band shifts genres, tempos, and arrangements on a dime. Supposedly, Radio was conceived as a set for a college radio program, making it a kind of "Young Person's Guide to Naked City," beginning with accessible tunes, gradually building up listener tolerance to dissonan- ce, and finally sandbagging the listener with evil blasts of dissonant metallic noise and convincing perpet- rator-and-victim screaming. ================================================================================================================ Recorded in 1992, Radio has many of Naked City's best songs. The album is worth buying for the first sev- en tracks alone, which are all quite standard in structure compared to other Naked City songs. However, they are also some of Naked City's best, from the rockabilly "Party Girl" to the Far East jazz romp of "Terkmani Teepee." As the album progresses, the songs start to slowly deconstruct into an atonal, genre jumping insan- ity. The album ends with the quietly disturbing "American Pyscho" which features short vignettes of music placed across a silent backdrop. Naked City's Radio album is a great example of Zorn's many influences. On the inside of the CD cover, th- ere is a list titled "Inspirations/Refer" that directly corresponds to each song. As you can see, his influ- ences are many and varied. Perhaps the most bizaare thing is that he throws them together into songs, like building blocks. As the disturbing "American Pyscho" illustrates, with influences ranging from Charlie Haden and Red Garland to Liberace and The Boredoms.