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Description Black Box is a compilation album by John Zorn's band Naked City featuring Yamatsuka Eye on vocals. The album is a collection of the "hardcore miniatures" from Naked City and Grand Guignol that were originally released on Torture Garden in 1990 and the extended piece Leng Tch'e which was only released in Japan in 1992. This compilation was released on Tzadik Records in 1996. Disc One: "Blood is Thin" - 1:00 "Demon Sanctuary" - 0:38 "Thrash Jazz Assassin" - 0:45 "Dead Spot" - 0:31 "Bonehead" - 0:51 "Speedball" - 0:37 "Blood Duster" - 0:13 "Pile Driver" - 0:33 "Shangkuan Ling-Feng" - 1:14 "Numbskull" - 0:29 "Perfume Of A Critic's Burning Flesh" - 0:24 "Jazz Snob Eat Shit" - 0:24 "The Prestidigitator" - 0:43 "No Reason To Believe" - 0:26 "Hellraiser" - 0:39 "Torture Garden" - 0:35 "Slan" - 0:23 "Hammerhead" - 0:08 "The Ways Of Pain" - 0:31 "The Noose" - 0:10 "Sack Of Shit" - 0:43 "Blunt Instrument" - 0:53 "Osaka Bondage" - 1:14 "Igneous Ejaculation" - 0:20 "Shallow Grave" - 0:40 "Ujaku" - 0:27 "Kaoru" - 0:50 "Dead Dread" - 0:45 "Billy Liar" - 0:10 "Victims Of Torture" - 0:22 "Speedfreaks" - 0:29 "New Jersey Scum Swamp" - 0:41 "S & M Sniper" - 0:14 "Pigfucker" - 0:23 "Cairo Chop Shop" - 0:22 "Fuck The Facts" - 0:11 "Obeah Man" - 0:17 "Facelifter" - 0:34 "N.Y. Flat Top Box" - 0:43 "Whiplash" - 0:19 "The Blade" - 0:36 "Gob Of Spit" - 0:18 From the violent cover art to the Japanese text inside the album, at first glance one might mistake Torture Garden for a fetishist soundtrack. But jazz madman John Zorn and Boredoms frontman Yamatsuka Eye assembled another group of open-minded musicians to carry on their vision of grindcore and jazz uniting. Distinguished 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 ambient collaborations. This would make a great introduction to the noise/jazz efforts that this group of musicians pioneered in the early '90s.  Disc Two: "Leng Tch'e" - 31:39 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. Unlike Naked City's previously material, which was known for its fast tempo and rapid transitions between a variety of heterogeneous styles, Leng Tch'e is a more avant-garde take on sludge metal. It was issued along with Torture Garden, a collection of grindcore pieces, in the double-disc collection Black Box. The single song was written in five bars; and then stretched out and played as a 32 minute dirge. All compositions by Naked City Recorded in Brooklyn, New York City, and Tokyo 1989-1990 except for 'Leng Tch'e' Recorded on January 11, 1992 Personnel Joey Baron – Drums Yamatsuka Eye – Vocals Bill Frisell – Guitar Fred Frith – Bass Wayne Horvitz – Keyboards John Zorn – Alto saxophone, Vocals, Producer, Executive Producer Disc Three: 01. osaka bondage 2.38 02. torture garden 1.23 03. shangkuan ling-feng 1.26 04. ujaku 1.18 05. blunt instrument 2.00 06. demon sanctuary 1.36 07. no reason to believe 1.06 08. shock corridor 1.44 09. dead spot 1.14 10. hellraiser 1.04 11. numbskull 1.16 12. thrash jazz assassin 1.20 13. bonehead 1.50 14. jazz snob eat shit 1.00 15. the ways of pain 0.55 16. piledriver 1.40 17. shallow grave 1.07 18. gob of spit/pistol whipping 1.50 19. victims of torture 0.34 20. victims of torture "again" 1.24 21. igneous ejaculation 0.49 22. speedball 1.18 23. slan 1.01 24. kaoru 1.13 25. the blade 1.26 26. facelifter 1.42 27. whiplash false start 0.18 28. whiplash 1.20 29. sack of shit 1.01 30. blood is thin 1.49 This is the original Japanese version of Naked City. Torture Garden, which consists of John Zorn, Yamatsuka Eye, Tatsuya Yoshida, Kimoto & Ema Hori. They're playing live at Knitting Factory, NYC, October 6 1990 Research into the relationship between violence and the sacred led Zorn to the writings of Georges Bataille. The historical photographs used in Leng Tch'e (found in Tears of Eros) were taken circa 1905 in Beijing to document the last public execution utilizing leng tch'e (hundred pieces) which dates from the Manchu dynasty. Given opium to extend the victim's life during the arduous process, the look of ecstasy on the man's face haunted Bataille: "This photograph had a decisive role in my life. I have never stopped being obsessed by this image of pain, at once ecstatic and intolerable. I wonder what the Marquis de Sade would have thought of this image, Sade who dreamed of torture, (which was inaccessible to him) but who never witnessed an actual torture session. In one way or another this image was incessantly before his eyes. But Sade would have wanted to see it in solitude, at least in relative solitude, without which the ecstatic and voluptuous effect is inconceivable. What I suddenly saw, and what imprisoned me in anguish — but which at the same time delivered me from it — was the identity of these perfect contraries, divine ecstasy and its opposite, extreme horror. And this is my inevitable conclusion to a history of eroticism." — Georges Bataille File information: Disc 1 is one long .flac file. You'll need to split the tracks. I use recommend xACT, but use what you like. Disc 2 is also one long .flac file... however, it's one long song. No track splitting necessary. Disc 3 already has the tracks split. No work necessary. The reason they vary this way is because I obtained them from different sources. Additionally, Disc 3 is an audience recording which sounds really good to my ears. It's historically important because it features the earliest incarnation of what eventually became Naked City. 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