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Absinthe (Naked City Album)
''Absinthe'' is the fifth and final studio album by the band Naked City (band), Naked City. Unlike the band's other genre-mixing releases, the music on ''Absinthe'' is consistently in an ambient music, ambient and noise music, noise style. The titles of many of its tracks refer to the works of Paul Verlaine, Charles Baudelaire and other figures in the fin de siècle Decadent movement, and to the absinthe, drink after which the album is named. The album's cover and liner notes feature photographs by the German Surrealism, Surrealist Hans Bellmer. From the official description on the now defunct Avant website: "Joey Baron plays bags of dry leaves, fishing reels and buckshot. Bill Frisell solos on a Microtonal music, microtonal guitar. Wayne Horvitz samples everything from crickets to Giacinto Scelsi. Fred Frith does what he does best. Zorn doesn't even touch the saxophone." The final track, "...Rend Fou", is a six-minute recording of Frisell and Frith running their guitar jacks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naked City (band)
Naked City was an avant-garde music, avant-garde music group led by saxophonist and composer John Zorn. Active primarily in New York City from 1988 to 1993, Naked City was initiated by Zorn as a "composition workshop" to test the limits of composition (and improvisation) in a traditional rock music, rock band lineup. Their music incorporated elements of jazz, surf music, surf, progressive rock, classical music, classical, heavy metal music, heavy metal, grindcore, country music, country, punk rock, and other music genre, genres. History Named after a 1945 book of graphic black and white photographs by Weegee, the band performed an aggressive mix of "soundtrack themes, bluesy hard bop, speedy hardcore rock, squealing free jazz [and] heavy metal music, metallic funk". In Naked City's characteristic early style, songs were often performed at astonishingly fast tempos, drawing on thrash metal and hardcore punk's emphasis on extreme speed. Many songs were quite brief, and typically swi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |