Heretic [Import]

John Zorn, Naked City | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 29, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Avant Japan
• ASIN: B0000058V4
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #410,695 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Main Titles

2. Sex Games

3. The Brood

4. Sweat, Sperm + Blood

5. Vliet

6. Heretic 1

7. Submission

8. Heretic 2

9. Catacombs

10. Heretic 3

11. My Master, My Slave

12. Saint Jude

13. The Conqueror Worm

14. Domintatrix 5b

15. Back Through the Looking Glass

16. Here Come the 7,000 Frogs

17. Slaughterhouse/Chase Sequence

18. Castle Keep

19. Mantra of Resurrected Shit

20. Trypsicore

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Actually, this is a GREAT Zorn release, October 21, 2000

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Allan MacInnis (Vancouver) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heretic (Audio CD)

The person who reads this should be, really, a Zorn fan lost in the maze of his output, scared to invest in a Zorn CD like JUDE that just tortures the listener, or something TRULY strange like ABSINTHE, which is beautiful but really difficult to hook onto. Rest assured -- THIS IS A GOOD ONE. It's the one I'd recommend for anyone considering buying one of the Japanese Zorn releases -- RADIO, somehow, never really appealed to me, GRAND GUIGNOL is a bit too DARK for most folk, and ABSINTHE, like I say, is just STRANGE. Not this disk. It's very varied, at times dark, intense,and violent, and elsewhere playful in bizarre and challenging ways. The "Here Come the 7000 frogs" duet between Zorn on alto and Boredoms weirdo vocalist Y. Eye, gibbering, shrieking, and generally flipping out, is priceless. There's also a surprisingly funky cut here, "Fire and Ice (club scene)." Well worth it. But "Is it safe?", you ask me again, reaching for the dental drill. Yeah, sure, if you're adventurous enough. Heh.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A cruel ladies game, February 20, 2000

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Oscar Huenchunao (Temuco, Chile) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heretic (Audio CD)

This is a very unusual record. The music is raw, is loud, and is really weird. I've only listened a tape-copy because it's hard to find here in Chile, but if you like John Zorn's avant-garde dementia, get this. It has a lot of screams and weird sax music, and also has some very dark, sinister atmospheres. I heard this was the soundtrack for an underground S&M movie. I'd really like to see that. It's uncommercial stuff, very intense, sometimes shocking, sometimes scary. A cool soundtrack for a walk in the night, just you, your walkman and the naked streets of the city.

(p.s.: excuse me if some phrases don't make much sense, spanish is my mother tongue)

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not quite Torture Garden..., November 3, 2001

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"idvego" (Alabama) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heretic (Audio CD)

"Heretic" is definitely a good record. It's represents a big change for Naked City, though, and if you're looking for another "Torture Garden" or even "Naked City" or "Radio", you won't find it here. This is more experimental, (at times) ambient, and definitely less structured and edgy than the previous Naked City releases. It seems to be a lot of lick-based noise where you have drums, keyboards, other percussion coming in and out, keyboards, other percussion, nothing planned out or even, shall we say, MUSICAL. Not to say it's a bad record, though, because it's definitely worth having, but don't go buying it hoping to get another "Torture Garden" fix, you'll only be disapointed in that case. There are absolutely no elements of grindcore, surf, or much of anything that made up Naked City's original mission, but do give it a chance, it will grow on you if nothing else.