Ce n'est qu'une sélection d'un artiste largemment (trop) apprécié et écouté... On peut s'intéresser en premier lieu à Naked City, une étrange formation jazz-trash, aux mutilples références citées dans les livrets (de Charles Mingus/Eric Dolphy à Ruins/Boredoms) et aux ambiances empruntées aux films noirs...

JOHN ZORN: POOL (1980)

JOHN ZORN: ARCHERY (1981)

VA: DESTINATION... NATO (?)
-Flying Fortress (Hymas)
-Surfing sausage (Beresford, Coe, Coxhill: The melody four)
-Our red sea (Hymas, Bozzio, Burns, Coe: The lonely bears)
-Petite fleur (Coxhill, Thomas)
-Left for dead (Hymas, Bush)
-Hasta siempre (Coe)
-The avengers (The melody four)
-You really got me (British summer ends)
-Chest (Arto Lindsay, Hamilton, Ruin, Mosiman)
-King kill rat (The lonely bears)
-Captain Jack (Hymas, Bush)
-Guipago (Hymas)
-Le ciré de Madame Hu (Kazuko Hohki)
-Double vol (Pauvros)
-Everybody's gone Christmas (Beresford, Tavernier)
-Jayne Mansfield (Beresford, John Zorn, Marshall, Toop)
-Zombie bloodbath on the isle of dogs (The Recedents: Coxhill, Cooper, Turner)
-Tangelien (Coe)
-Music hall (Hacker)

THE GOLDEN PALOMINOS (1982)
Anton Fier: drums, percu, DMX
Arto Lindsay: guit, voc
M.E. Miller: voc, turntables
Bill Laswell: 4 & 8 string basses, shortwave, Steinberger bass, slide bass, fretless bass, piano strings, turntable
Michael Bienhorn: treatments, DMX, bass drum, piano
John Zorn: alto sax, clarinets, games calls
Fred Frith: guit, violin
David Moss: bertola sound sculpture, percu
Nicky Skopelitis: guit
Thi-linh Le: voc
Roger Trilling: records

JOHN ZORN: LOCUS SOLUS (1983)

JOHN ZORN PLAYS THE MUSIC OF ENNIO MORRICONE: THE BIG GUNDOWN (1986)
-The big gundown
-Peur sur la ville
-Poverty
-Milano odea
-Erotico
-Battle of Agiers
-Giu La Testa
-Metamorfosi
-Tre Nel 5000
-Once upon a time in the west

Fred Frith, Anton Fier, Jody Harris, Robert Quine, Bill Frisell, Toots Thielman, Big John Patton, Diamanda Galas, Christian Marclay, Michihiro Sato, Jim Staley, Bobby Previte, Tim Berne, Guy Klucevsek, Melvin Gibbs, Shelley Hirsch, Arto Lindsay, Wayne Horvitz, Ned Rothenberg, David Weinstein, Vernon Reid

V.A. : THE 20th ANNIVERSARY OF THE SUMMER OF LOVE 1987-1967 (1987?)
-HALF JAPANESE: Should i tell her?
-FRED FRITH: True love
-SHOCKABILLY: Nobody's place
-SHARKY'S MACHINE: Collide, collide
-SHAVED PIGS: 2 car garage
-BONGWATER: Birth
-THE WORKDOGS: Jane gone (excerpt)
-MISSING FOUNDATION: Backbreaker
-KING MISSILE: Fluting on the hump
-ARTLESS: Vegetable rights
-KRACKHOUSE: My revolution
-BONGWATER: His new look
-TULI KUPFERBERG: M-o-t-h-e-r
-CARNEY/HILD/KRAMER: Telephone
-FISH AND ROSES: The letter
-NA SAFETY: I sleep
-MEN AND VOLTS: Healing hands
-SAMM AND DAVE: Chunk lbj
-SPONGEHEAD: Love or confusion
-ALLEN GINSBERG AND STEVE TAYLOR: Dear m
-GEORGE CARTWRIGHT: I remember it all
-SCOTT WILIIAMS: I pledge allegiance to you
-OTTO KENTROL: She's working days, i'm working nights
-LARAAJI: Bring forth

Jad Fair, Mark Jickling, Don Flemming, Scott Jarvis, Steve Johnson, Rob Kennedy, Kramer, John Zorn, Fred Frith, Sheena Dupuis, Eugene Chadbourne, David Licht, Clay Gomez, Mike Edison, Mr Brown,Tonia Ostrow, Ron Papka, Brendan Tween, Roy Edroso, ANdy Mandel, Mike Berger, Lucinda Davenport, Coby Batty, Don Cherry, Mikel Board, Stephen Dansiger, Otto Kentrol, Gavin McNett, Mike Sappol, Ann Magnuson, Samm and dave, Lee Lead, Ralph Carney, David Hild, Rick Brown, Sue Garner, David Sutter, Chris Cochrane, Zeena Parkins, David Greenberger, Phil Kaplan, Sean Slade, Jon Proudman, Paul Kolderie, Jeff Cronenberg, Martha Finley, Samm Bennett, Dave Henderson, Doug Henderson, Mark Kirby, Allen Ginsberg, Steve Taylor, George Cartwright, Tim Lee, Randy Everett, Bruce Golden, Scott Williams, Jennifer Rivera, J Maciel

V.A. : LA NUIT DES SOLOS (LP, Vand'oeuvre, 1987)
John Zorn, Elliot Sharp, David Moss, Jil Jaffee, Anthony Coleman, Jean Francois Pauvros, Jagger Naut, Christian Marclay, Carol Emmanuel, Tom Cora, Guigou Chenevier, Louis Sclavis, Wayne Horvitz, Jon Rose

JOHN ZORN: COBRA -studio version (1987)
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JOHN ZORN: COBRA -live version (1987)
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JOHN ZORN: NEWS FROM LULLU (1987?)
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JOHN ZORN: SPY VS SPY (1988?)
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FRED FRITH: THE TECHNOLOGY OF TEARS and other music for dance (1988)
THE TECHNOLOGY OF TEARS:
-Sadness, its bones bleached behind us
-You are what you eat
-The Palace of laughter, the technology of tears
(enregistré en nov 86-jan 87, avec l'aide de Henri Kaiser pour la programmation du synclavier
+ John Zorn: alto sax
Tenko: voice
Christian Marclay: turntables )

JIGSAW:
-Jigsaw
-Jigsaw coda
(enregistré en oct 86
+ Jim Staley: trombone )

Fred Frith: all other instruments and voices

Les rythmes imposés par la danse sont d'une extrême richesse et ont donné lieu à de superbes compositions dans le monde des musiques nouvelles. " The technology of tears " fait partie des expériences les plus troublantes: compositions très complexes, rappellant à certains moments la musique d'Art Zoyd mais dans un registre sonore plus vaste. Certains " collages " d'échantillons sont intriguants, testant ainsi notre tolérance mais l'ensemble forme une oeuvre passionante à dévorer des oreilles: un passage obligé parmi les musiques les plus aventureuses !

JOHN ZORN: MORE NEWS FROM LULLU (1989?)
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BILL FRISELL: BEFORE WE WERE BORN (1989)
-Before we were born: Some song and dance
-Freddy's step
-Love motel
-Pip, squeak
-Goodbye
-Hard plains drifter or: as I take my last breath and the noose grows tight, the incredible events of the past three days flash before my eyes.
-The lone ranger
-Steady, girl

Bill Frisell: elec and ac guit, banjo, compo
Arto Lindsay: elec guit, voc
Peter Scherer: keyb, drum programming
Joey Baron: drums, percu, electronics
Hank Roberts: cello, voice
Kermit Driscoll: elec bass
Julius Hemphill: alto sax
Billy Drewes: alto sax
Doug Wieselman: baritone sax
Cyro Baptista: shaker
John Zorn, Arto Lindsay, Peter Scherer: arrangements

FRED FRITH: STEP ACROSS THE BORDER (1990)
-Sparrow song
-Voice of America part3 /Legs
-Selluloid restaurant/ The old man puts out the fire
-After dinner
-Houston st
-Drum factory
-Regardless of rain
-Candy machine
-Romanisches cafe
-The border
-Nirvana again
-Scottish roppongi
-Norrgarden nyvla
-Birds
-The as usual dance towards the other flight to what is not part3
-Williamsburg bridge
-Same old me / Williamsburg bridge reprise
-The as usual dance...part5
Lost and found
-Nine by nine
-Evolution
-Union square
-Morning song
-Voice of America part4
Too much too little
-Too late

Avec Iva Bittova, Hans Bruniusson, Tom Cora, Tina Curran, Jean Derome, Pavel Fajt, Eino Haapala, Haco, Eitetsu Hayashi, Tim Hodgkinson, Lasse Hollmer, Bill Laswell, René Lussier, Fred Maher, Kevin Norton, Bob Ostertag, Zeena Parkins, John Zorn

PAINKILLER: EXECUTION GROUND (2CD, Subharmonic, ?)
-Parish of Tama (Ossuary dub)
-Morning of Balachaturdasi
-Pashupatinah
-Pashupatinah (Ambient)
-Parih of Tama (Ambient)

John Zorn: sax, voc
Bill Laswell: basses, samples
Mick Harris: drums, samples, voc

NAKED CITY: NAKED CITY (1990)
-Batman
-The sicilian clan
-You will be shot
-Latin quarter
-A shot in the dark
-Reanimator
-Snagglepuss
-I want to live
-Lonely woman
-Igneous ejaculation
-Bloo dduster
-Hammerhead
-Demon sanctuary
-Obeah man
-Ujaku
-Fuck the facts
-Speedball
-Chinatown
-Punk China doll
-NY flat top box
-Saigon pickup
-The James Bond theme
-Den of sins
-Contempt
-Graveyard shift
-Inside straight

John Zorn: Alto sax
Bill Frisell: guitar
Wayne Horvitz: keyb
Fred Frith: bass
Joey Baron: drums
+
Yamatsuka Eye: voc

NAKED CITY: GRAND GUIGNOL (1992)
-Grand guignol
-La cathédrale engloutie (Debussy)
-Three preludes (Scriabin)
-Prophetiae Sybillarum (Orlando Di Lassus)
-The cage (ves)
-Louange à l'éternité de Jésus (Messiaen)
--Blood is thin
-Thrash jazz assassin
-Dead spot
-Bonehead
-Piledriver
-Shangkuan ling-feng
-Numbskull
-Perfume of a critic's burning flesh
-Jazz snob: eat shit
-The prestidigitator
-No reason to believe
-Hellraser
-Torture garden
-Slan
-The ways of pain
-The noose
-Sack of shit
-Blunt instrument
-Osaka Bondage
-Shallow grave
-Kaoru
-Dead dread
-Billy Liar
-Victims of torture
-Speedfreaks
-New Jersey scum swamp
-SM Sniper
-Pigfucker
-Whiplash
-The blade
-Gob of spit

John Zorn: alto sax, voc
Bill Frisell: guit
Wayne Horvitz: keyb
Fred Frith: bass
Joey Baron: drums
Yamatsuka Eye: voc

NAKED CITY: RADIO (1993)
-Asylum
-Sunset surfer
-Party girl
-The outsider
-Triggerfingers
-Terkami Teepee
-ex fiend
-Razorwire
-The bitter and the sweet
-Krazy kat
-The vault
-Metaltov
-Poisonhead
-Bone orchard
-I die screaming
-Pistol whipping
-Skatekey
-Shock corridor
-American psycho

John Zorn: alto sax, voc
Bill Frisell: guit
Wayne Horvitz: keyb
Fred Frith: bass
Joey Baron: drums
Yamatsuka Eye: voc

NAKED CITY: HERETIC (?)

NAKED CITY: BLACK BOX (?)

GROUND ZERO: GROUND ZERO (1993)
-Ground Zero 890604
-China White
-Lam Cheng-Ying / Yuen-Wah
-Wjaz-1
-Chronicle-1
-Eclipse
-Massacring
-M-projetc
-Ground-Zero
-G-project
-Wjaz-2
Chronicle-2
-Euthanasia drive
-Topography of the balck lungs
-Sniper XR
-I X love II B.S. M-Projetc 2
-Silanganan ingay G-project-2
-Stranger than Tokyo
-Ground-ero presents Ground-Zero
-Ground-Zero (Hong Kong-Tokyo, June 91)

Otomo, Chino, Kato, Eye, Hirose, Uemura, Buck, Zorn, Takara, Shu-kei
Kondo Yoshiaki: mix
Hoppy Kamiyama: exec productor

V.A.: MABOROSHI NO SEKAI SAMPLES (1995)
-BAZOOKA JOE: Jesus vs
-P.O.N.: Petenshi #7
-MELT BANANA: Scissor quiz
-AUSIA: Idiot's delight
-BLACK STAGE: Onomonoki
-SAGA YUKI: Fairy's fable
-HOURAKU-YA: Mt,Kairas
-FUKUOKA YUTAKA and KIDO NATSUKI: Take one
-IXA-WUD: Complex
-BONDAGE FRUIT: Octopus-command-LIVE
-PAINKILLER: Ayurveda
-YOSHIDA TATSUYA and KATSUI YUJI: Byzantine
-ISODA OSAMU: Techno Jerky karaoke version
-ZZZ: Swain
-20FINGERS: Welcome to the zoo
-HARPY: Havana
-LIVE UNDER THE SKY with UCHIHASHI, HIROSE and KATSUI: France
-KATSUI YUJI and PONCHI KYOUDAI: Paku chon 3

BAZOOKA JOE=
Harada Jin: bass, voc
Soh Syuji: drums, voc
P.O.N.=
Hirose Junji: sax
Kido Natsuki: guit
Shimizu Masaki: bass
Takara Kumiko: vibraphone
Uemura Masahiro: drums
MELT BANANA=
YaSuKo: voc
Agata: guit
Rika mm': bass
Sudoh Toshiaki: drums
AUDIA=
Adachi Ryusuke: guit
Adachi Sohsuke: guit
Isso Yukihiro: wood winds
Yoshimi Masaki: tabla
Ota Keisuke: violin
BLACK STAGE=
Haino Keiji: voc, hurdy gurdy
Katsui Yuji: violin
Kido Natsuki: guit
SAGA YUKI=
Saga Yuki: voc, percu
Kido Natsuki: guit
HOURAKU-YA=
Motoki Yshinori: instrumental, voc
Yoshigaki Yasuhiro: instrumental, voc
Katsui Yuji: instrumental, voc
FUKUOKA YUTAKA and KIDO NATSUKI=
Fukuoka Yutaka: voc
Kido Natsuki :guit
IXA-WUD=
Hiruma: voc
Yokota: guit
Kuroiwa: bass
Ito: drums
BONDAGE FRUIT=
Kido Natsuki: guit
Katsui Yuji: violin
Ohtsubo Hirohiko: bass
Takara Kumiko: vibraphone
Okabe Youichi: percu
Saga Yuki: voc
Aki: voc
PAINKILLER=
John Zorn: alto sax
Bill Laswell: bass
Mick Harris: drums
YOSHIDA TATSUYA and KATSUI YUJI=
Yoshida Tatsuya: keyb, drums
Katsui Yuji:violin
ISODA OSAMU=
Isoda Osamu: guit, computer
Hasebe Nobuko: voc
ZZZ=
Ito Kenji: percu, guit, violin
Kido Natsuki: guit
20FINGERS=
Dennis Gunn: voc, guit
Kido Natsuki: guit
HARPY=
Kyoko: voc
Toshiei: stcik bass
Ito: drums
LIVE UNDER THE SKY with UCHIHASHI, HIROSE and KATSUI=
Yamamoto Seichi: guit
Fujiwara Hiroaki: bass
Okano Futoshi: drums
Uchihashi Kazuhisa: guit
Hirose Junji: sax
Katsui Yuji: violin
KATSUI YUJI and PONCHI KYOUDAI=
Katsui Yuji: violin
Yoshigaki Yasuhiro: percu
Ohtsubo Hirohiko: bass
Kido Natsuki: guit
Hirose Junji: sax

KATO HIDEKI: HOPE AND DESPAIR (1996)
-Hope and despair
-Your angry face
-Tolerance
-Double dream
-Fatigue
-Song for a scavenger
-Watching the sleeping lover
-Savage
-Tale of a snake
-Against the sky

Kato Hideki: bass, bowed and slide guit, angklung (bamboo percu)
Kono Masahiko: trombone
Zeena Parkins: harp
Douglas Bowne: drums
Ogimi Gen: peruc
Tanaka Michiaki: percu
Tada Makio: sampler on #1
Terasaki Keitaro: piano on #3
John Zorn: piano on #4

ZORN, HORVITZ, SHARP, PREVITE: DOWNTOWN LULLABY (1997)
-484 Broome
-500 West 52nd
-Eight between B & C
-77 White
-228 West Broadway
-Bleeker & bowery
-1 Morton st (Downtown Lullaby)

Elliot Sharp: elec guit
Wayne Horvitz: keyb, Hammond organ, piano
John Zorn: alto sax
Bobby Previte: drums

MASADA: 2 (1995?)
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Des tas d'autres albums de Masada existent...pour les amateurs de jazz.

V.A.: HALLELUJAH ANYWAY...REMEMBERING TOM CORA (1999)
2CD compilé et édité par Fred Frith, à la suite de la disparition de Tom Cora.
Superbe et étrangement émouvant.